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Susan Collins (b. 1964, London) has been recognised as a leader in the field of artists working with computers and electronic media in the UK, working with transmission, networks and time as her primary materials and exhibiting widely internationally.

Awards for her work have included a Royal Society for the Arts Art for Architecture award for her collaboration with architect Sarah Wigglesworth on a Classroom of the Future; a BAFTA nomination for her Tate commission, Tate in Space, and a Society for Photographic Education (SPE) Garry B Fritz Imagemaker Award for her networked landscape works, Fenlandia and Glenlandia.

Public artworks have included In Conversation (1997-2001), shown in Brighton, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Cardiff, and Berlin, which linked viewers on the internet with pedestrians on the street; Underglow (2005-6), a network of illuminated drains for the Corporation of London and Brighter Later (2013), a site-specific light installation for the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford driven by live weather data.

Since 2002 she has investigated the relationship of time to place and landscape through a series of lens-based year-long live internet transmissions from remote locations including Seascape (2009) a solo show for the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea; LAND (2017), a live transmission from Jerusalem looking across the West Bank towards the Jordanian mountains, and Five Hours Later (2019) a simultaneous exchange between Sheffield, UK and Boston USA.

The latest in the series, Dell Quay (2022-23) was commissioned by Pallant House Gallery for the exhibition Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood and Water, and is currently transmitting live from Dell Quay on the Sussex Coast.

Susan Collins is Emeritus Professor of Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London where she was the first female Slade Professor and Director (2010-18), Head of Research (2019-23) and where she established the Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art (SCEMFA) in 1995.

Selected prints are available through Edgework, London

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