Sue Arrowsmith
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{{Short description|British artist (1950–2014)}}
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| birth_date = 1950
| birth_place = Lancashire, England
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| education = {{ubl|University of Nottingham|Slade School of Fine Art}}
| field = Mixed media artworks
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Sue Arrowsmith (1950–2014) was a British artist notable for her experimental photographic and mixed media compositions.
Biography
Born in Lancashire, Arrowsmith graduated from the University of Nottingham in 1971 before studying at the Slade School of Fine Art in London from 1973 to 1975.{{cite book|author=David Buckman|publisher=Art Dictionaries Ltd|year=1989|title=Artists in Britain Since 1945 |isbn=0953260909}} Her first solo show was in London in 1982,{{cite book|author=Frances Spalding|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1990|title=20th Century Painters and Sculptors |isbn=1-85149-106-6}} and in 1985 she had a solo exhibition, which included a series of self-portraits, at the Serpentine Galleries in London's Kensington Gardens.{{cite web |author=|url=http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/sue-arrowsmith|title=Sue Arrowsmith|year=1985|accessdate=31 January 2017|work=Serpentine Galleries}} During 1986 and 1987 Arrowsmith was the 'artist in residence' at Wolfson College and at the Kettle's Yard Gallery in Cambridge. From 1987, works by Arrowsmith featured on several occasions in the John Moores Painting Prize exhibition in Liverpool. Examples of her work were also included in the 1988 Excavations group show in Vienna and Southampton and in Photography Now at Tate Liverpool and the Victoria & Albert Museum during 1988 and 1989. Her photographs also featured in the Whitechapel Gallery's 2000 review show of experimental British art, Live in Your Head:Concept and Experiment in Britain 1965-1975. Arrowsmith was a regular exhibitor with the Anthony Reynolds Gallery and after her death the Gallery donated a small number of her works to the Tate.{{cite web |author=|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sue-arrowsmith-23687|title=Sue Arrowsmith 1950-2014 Artworks|year=2016|accessdate=31 January 2017|work=Tate}}
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Category:20th-century English women artists
Category:21st-century English women artists
Category:20th-century British women photographers
Category:21st-century British women photographers
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Category:Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art
Category:Alumni of the University of Nottingham
Category:Artists from Lancashire
Category:British contemporary artists