SUSAN TE KAHURANGI KING

Although Susan doesn’t speak with words, much of her world is shared through extraordinary drawings.

Born in New Zealand in 1951, by the time she was five, King had already shown signs of talent as a young artist. At around that time her ability to speak was in decline and soon to be lost. Over the years she drew prolifically until the early 1990s, when in a depressed state, she left drawing completely. In 2008, almost twenty years later, she miraculously resumed her work, picking up where she left off. Since then, King has continued her remarkable output of drawings in graphite, pencil, crayon, ink, and pens of various types. Intense, whimsical, wide-ranging, and haunting, her references and subjects dare us to interpret them in any logical way.