Suzzan Blac

Suzzan Blac painting “Your suffering is real”

Suzzan Blac (born Birmingham, UK, 1960[1]) is an English surreal painter whose work depicts physical, mental and sexual abuse based on personal experience.[2]

Profile

Artwork

In 2009, Blac exhibited at Resistance Gallery in London, a show entitled "A Basement of Dolls". The exhibition focused on pornography and the body images of girls and women.[3][4][5] Her art has also been shown in Berlin.[3]

Her visual art was included in Metamorphosis 2: 50 Contemporary Surreal, Fantastic and Visionary Artists by Jon Beinart, Meg Woodsworth, and Hilary Simmons.[6]

Blac's work is being used in social worker training, and to help abuse-victims in group therapy.[1]

Writing

An autobiography entitled The Rebirth of Suzzan Blac (Bettie Youngs Books, 2012) tells of the writer's troubled childhood of poverty and sexual abuse and her use of her artwork to heal herself.[7]

Blac contributed "My canvas, my pain, my healing" to Prostitution Narratives: Stories of Survival in the Sex Trade by Melinda Tankard Reist and Caroline Norma.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b Marc Boisclair, "Trauma Oculaire : Suzzan Blac", Sinistre magazine, January 25, 2011, "Sinistre Magazine". Archived from the original on 2 February 2013. Retrieved 27 April 2012. (Accessed April 26, 2012)
  2. ^ Story, Rae (7 June 2017). "Suzzan Blac on art, trauma, and child exploitation". Feminist Current. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
  3. ^ a b Osburn, Chris (13 February 2009). "Preview: Suzzan Blac's A Basement of Dolls at Resistance Gallery". Londonist. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 24 May 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. ^ "A Basement of Dolls – Suzzan Blac", Kultur Kurier, 2009, http://www.kulturkurier.de/veranstaltung_165492.html (Accessed April 26, 2012)
  5. ^ "A Basement of Dolls - Resistance Gallery", 2009, "IndieLondon: A Basement of Dolls - Resistance Gallery - Your London Reviews". Archived from the original on 23 June 2012. Retrieved 27 April 2012. (Accessed April 26, 2012)
  6. ^ Beinart, Jon; Woodsworth, Meg; Simmons, Hilary (2008). Metamorphosis 2: 50 Contemporary Surreal, Fantastic and Visionary Artists. Brunswick North: BeinArt Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9803231-1-5. OCLC 300288421.
  7. ^ Blac, Suzzan (2012). The rebirth of Suzzan Blac. ISBN 978-1-4596-7022-8. OCLC 1086142893.
  8. ^ Tankard Reist, Melinda; Norma, Caroline (2016). Prostitution Narratives: Stories of Survival in the Sex Trade. ISBN 978-1-74219-986-3. OCLC 936544641.