Fireweed
In 2010, Susanna took part in the Super Estate artists’ residency project at EXHIBIT Gallery, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Golden Lane Estate, an award-winning modernist housing estate in the City of London.
The estate was built on a site destroyed by firebombing in the Second World War. Fireweed is a popular name for epilobium angustifolium, a plant that thrived in the burnt ruins left by the Blitz. It was adopted as the title of a group show by Susanna and fellow artists Liz Davis and Clare Gerrard.
For the show, Susanna created a series of drawings and paintings, extending into the third dimension with a peep box, and into the fourth with animation. Her work made an imaginative descent into the history and prehistory buried under Golden Lane Estate.
During the residency, Susanna held an animation workshop with local children where they imagined the area’s prehistoric residents returning to explore the estate.
Photographs by Justin Piperger.
Fireweed, 2010.
Then You Were Gone, 2010 — A children’s animation workshop organised as part of the Fireweed residency.