Steve Cussons Greater London, United Kingdom

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Steve Cussons is a London-based artist who explores process and materiality through printmaking, drawing and digital media. Finding inspiration from her background in mathematics and physics, she seeks to convey the excitement of the enquiry into the nature of matter and energy. She has been nominated for the New Blood Art Emerging Artist prize, 2023.

Steve Cussons is a London-based artist who explores process and materiality through printmaking, drawing and digital media. Finding inspiration from her background in mathematics and physics, she seeks to convey the excitement of the enquiry into the nature of matter and energy. Steve works in collaboration with her media to capture its inherent performative qualities.

The work is rarely representational; rather it seeks to capture a dynamic moment of interaction between the artist and the materials as co-actants. Her photographic works often play with scale, paying attention to minute details which can also reflect the action of matter at the largest scale of the cosmos. Traces of the hand often appear in works, the hand acting as a tool, a biometric and as a signifier of human connection and curiosity.

Previous and current projects include 'Active Matter' inspired by Barad's philosophy of Agential Realism and quantum mechanics, 'Spectra' inspired by the researches of James Clerk Maxwell and the magnetic spectrum, 'The Old Stones' inspired by neolithic remains in the landscape and 'Watching the Sun' arising out an artists' residency considering the solar cycle.

I am always seeking opportunities for collaboration with artists, scientists or others in areas of practice different to my own.