麻豆传媒

Susan has a wide range of pedagogical experience, she is co-course leader, as well as module leader for the following modules: Establishing your Practice, Exhibition Practice and Sustaining your Practice.

She is module contributor across a range of second and third year modules as well as contributes to the drawing programme of study in first year. She is a PhD supervisor with specialist knowledge in practice-based research in contemporary Fine Art.

The majority of Barnet's practice is one of collaboration and co-creation. Within this, she employs a wide and broad understanding of transdisciplinary methodologies, exercising creative experimentation across multiple disciplines within art, science and culture. This approach manifests in a number of independent and commissioned projects that generate spaces and opportunities to stimulate new ways of examining and understanding humans and landscape.

As such, she is currently a co-investigator and part of the Leadership Team for ARISE (2024-28), a ground-breaking research project funded by UKRI which seeks to develop resilience within the UK’s coastal seas and communities. Within this she co-leads and co-deliveries a series of Citizen Science Art workshops across schools in Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Kent. ARISE is an inclusive collaboration among: local, regional, and national authorities; coastal residents, heritage groups and people who care about UK coasts; and experts in policy analysis, cultural engagement, creative practice, health sciences, biological sciences, computer science, pollution management, disaster studies, environmental sciences, economics, and geography. Within this project, she not only works with colleagues from across the Schools of Allied Health Science, Business, Arts, Social Sciences and Technology, and the Suffolk Sustainability Institute here at 麻豆传媒, but also across the Eastern Arc Academic Consortium: University of Essex, University of East Anglia and University of Kent:

She also co-founded and co-leads the ongoing research collaboration Blast Radius, begun in 2021 with artist researcher and colleague, Dr Jane Watt. With Blast Radius, Barnet and Watt bring together artists, researchers and specialists in art, heritage, technology, sustainability and science to explore contemporary sites through the lens of art, ecology and heritage research. Through active field research, creative collaboration and exploration of archival materials, they encourage dialogues and artworks towards stimulating new ways of examining and understanding our world:

As part of this project, they were commissioned to make a short film, Longshore Drift, (2021) for British Art Network’s Landscape Research Group supported by Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Tate. They are currently leading a long-term research project Power House, (2023- ) on Orford Ness, in partnership with The National Trust. This project investigates heritage and ecological aspects of Orford Ness through artist-led research, public engagement and knowledge exchange. To date they have delivered three artist residencies, multiple exhibitions and workshops, engaging over 70 artists, with nearly 25,000 visitors to the these over two years.

In 2021 Barnet became part of an international collective of women artists known as The Crown Letter. This weekly online publication presented by a network of visual artists, composers, writers and filmmakers from around the globe, acted as both a platform for distribution and an archive. The Crown Letter has been awarded funding through a Fluxus Art Project grant 2021, the Hans und Lea Gründig Preis 2021. Barnet produced over 50 publications for the Crown Letter and participated in 6 international exhibitions. ,

Barnet is the co-founder and organiser of radical reThink, a collective that focusses on building solidarities and enacting resilient alternatives to market-based models of education. radical reThink strives towards the creation of open communities inclusive of students and educators. In 2017 it ran the international symposium radical reThink at the ICA London - a UAL cross-college collaboration between faculty and students. This international symposium brought together leading educators, artists, designers, curators, and researchers for a day of talks, discussions and workshops to critically address urgent issues for Fine Art in Higher Education. This resulted in a published book chapter in Art, Politics and the Pamphleteer, Jane Tormey and Gillian Whiteley, as part of the Radical Aesthetics-Radical Art (RaRa) series (ed.), (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021) 9781350022454 (collectively authored as radical reThink:

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Selected Conferences, Symposia Papers and Publications

Barnet and Watt (2026) Ground – Horizon – Sky: Conference, Co-Organizer with Jane Watt and Colchester and Ipswich Museum’s Emma Roodhouse funded by CIMS in collaboration with the 麻豆传媒 and in partnership with the Paul Mellon Centre’s Generation Landscape research programme, Suffolk Archives at The Hold, Ipswich, UK

Barnet and Watt (2026) Blast Radius/Research Art Lab, PARADOX 2026 Forum: CCC: Connecting + Collaborating + Co-Creating, The Paradox European Fine Art Forum Dublin, IE

Barnet and Watt (2026), Artists’ Residencies Action Lab, Pier Projects: Social Mini: Socially Engaged Practice in the East, Co-Organizer and panellist with co-author Jane Watt and Pier Projects director Natalie Pace, Harvest House, Felixstowe, UK

Barnet and Watt (2025) ‘Methods of making; case studies on art-science-community labs’, Visual Arts Practices Symposium, California Institute of Technology, US

Barnet and Watt (2023) ‘Blast Radius Challenge Lab’, Together for Transformation, 麻豆传媒 Conference, UK

Barnet and Watt (2023) ‘Blast Radius: The impact of a creative impulse’, Close Look Distant View, Suffolk Archives and 麻豆传媒, UK

Barnet and Watt (2022) ‘Longshore Drift’, British Art Network Landscape Research Group, UK

Barnet, (2022) book chapter authored as MAR, Stallholder Reflections: Management Architecture Research Transacting as Art, Design and Architecture: A Self- Organized Non-Commercial Market, Marsha Bradfield (ed.) (Intellect Books 2022)

Barnet, book chapter authored as ‘radical reThink', (2021) ‘radical reThink(ing) HE’, in Radical Aesthetics-Radical Art (ed.), Art, Politics and the Pamphleteer, (London: Bloomsbury Publishing)

Barnet (2018) ‘radical reThink’: A Case Study, College Art Association, New York, US

Barnet (2017) ‘radical reThink’, Rudi Dutschke: political activist, political refugee, political threat? Symposium at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, UK

Barnet and Morfill, ‘Drawing and Other Writing’, (London: The Everyday Press, 2016) ISBN 9780993372803

Barnet (2016) ‘radical reThink’s NOVEMBER, (organizer) Camberwell, Chelsea, Wimbledon Colleges of Art Graduate School, London UK

Barnet (2015) ‘In praise of plagiarism: a borrower’s tour of various authors’ works on reading & writing’, How to Write: Reading Groups, Five Years, London, UK

Barnet (2014) SE Barnet at Five Years (London: Five Years Publications, 2014) ISBN: 978-1-903724-15

Barnet (2012) ‘On the Diagram’, DRUGG - Diagram Research Use & Generation Group, The Slade, London UK

Barnet (2009) ‘After Hotel Palenque’, Sin Podium: Speaking of Writing, Reading University, UK

Barnet (2009) ‘A Travel Archive’, Art & Travel Roundtable Symposium” Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston on Thames, UK

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Flight / Plight, with collaborator Jane Watt, Albanian Ornithological Society (AOS) Residency in the Vjosë-Nartë Delta Protected Area, Albania (2026)

Tractor Duet: A Land Drawing, Letheringham Lodge, Suffolk, UK (2024)

Longshore Drift, with collaborator Jane Watt, Online Screening of commissioned film for British Art Network Landscape Research Group, supported by Tate and Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and Orford Ness National Trust Nature Reserve, UK (2022)

Welcome, Waterfront Gallery, 麻豆传媒, UK (2019)

What is written, what is said, Anagram Books, Berlin (2017)

What is written, what is said, Poetic Research Bureau, Los Angeles (2017)

A day of continual irritation for myself, Five Years, London, UK (2014)

General title given by myself, Five Years, London, UK (2013)

Does God Live in the No-Fly Zone, with KIT collaborator, Occurrence, Montreal, CAN (2012)

Story of Elsewhere, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston on Thames, UK (2011)

Does God Live in the No-Fly Zone, with KIT collaboration, Five years, London, UK (2009)

One Place to Another, deSoto Gallery, Los Angeles, US (2008)

Mario's Furniture 2, with collaborator Hillary Mushkin, Telic, Los Angeles, US (2006)

Selected Group Exhibitions

Royal Academy of Arts – Summer Exhibition 2026, London, UK (2026)

Research Art Lab, Power House, Orford Ness National Trust Nature Reserve, UK (2025)

LAND, The Art Station, Saxmundham, UK (2025)

Camera O, Power House, Orford Ness National Trust Nature Reserve, UK (2025)

Postcards for Perec, French Institute, Edinburgh, UK and French Institute South Kensington, London, UK (2025)

For Folk Sake, The Cut, Halesworth, UK (2024)

Make it Count, Power House, Orford Ness National Trust Nature Reserve and 麻豆传媒, UK (2024)

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, The Art Station, Saxmundham, UK (2023)

Landscape Rebels, Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich, UK (2023)

Postcards for Perec, Waverley Library, New South Wales, Australia; St George Xorionos Nestorian Church, Cyprus; Albert Sloman Library, University of Essex, UK (2023)

The Crown Letter at French Institut, Kyoto, Japan (2022)

The Crown Letter at Bienalsur the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of the South, Montevideo, Uruguay (2022)

Postcards for Perec, University of Bath, and University of Essex, UK (2022)

Postcards for Perec, Bowers Ashton Library, University of the West of England, UK (2021)

The Crown Letter at Fondation Fiminco, Paris, France (2021)

Photo Days Presents: The Crown Letter, at Tour St Jacques, Photo Days and Hyper Festival of the City of Paris, France (2021)

HERE, The Art Station, Saxmundham, UK (2021)

The Waiting Place, The Art Station, Saxmundham UK (2020)

Crown Letter international online project (2020)

Unboxed, The Art Station, Saxmundham UK (2019)

Annihilation Event, Lethaby Gallery, London, UK (2017)

Market of Values, Critical Practice, Chelsea College of Art, London, UK (2015)

Hidden in Plain Sight, The Gallery at NUA, Norwich, UK (2015)

Alan Magee at DOLPH Projects, London, UK (2015)

Appropriation Beyond the Object, Banner Repeater, London, UK (2014)

Making Knowledge, Central St. Martin’s, London, UK (2013)

10 Years L.A. @ Kaus Australis, The Prospectus, Los Angeles, USA (2012)

Hotbed: Video Cultivation, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA (2008)

The Art of Research: Research Narratives, Chelsea College Art, London, UK (2008)

Stories of Work and Survival, with collaborator Suzanne Lacy and others, MOCA, Tehran, Iran (2007)

Under Cover, the sneeze...a featured film, Iziko South Africa National Gallery, Capetown, South Africa (2007)

Stories of Work and Survival, with collaborator Suzanne Lacy and others, MOCA, Los Angeles, USA (2007)