Suzie Idiens

Basel Series

07 - 30 May 2026

Exhibitions

BLACK.2 | 2025

Spring1883 Art fair | 2025

The Warriors and The Missing | 2024

Sydney Contemporary | 2024

Black | 2023

Basel Series originates from a set of small sketches made in Basel after a visit to the Kunstmuseum - investigations into the formal consequences of a single intervention of a geometric form. One corner removed. A slice, a soft incision, cutting away at the edge. Each painting pursues this singular idea with precision and conviction: a dominant field of thinly veiled colour, held against a restrained incursion of a second colour at the margin. The exacting line where the two colours meet marks a clear delineation of territory on the canvas. Paint continues around the exposed cotton canvas edges, the work asserting itself as an object as much as an image.

At the core of Idiens’ practice is a phenomenological enquiry into how material, form and colour can generate an emotive response when distilled into a simple object. She is interested in the subjective nature of perception and the paradox that arises when viewing minimal reductive art - work that is selfreferential and rational in its construction, while simultaneously capable of producing a resonant experience. Colour is understood as form in itself: structural and emotionally subjective - as much a physical presence as the geometry it inhabits. The sliver of a second colour is a counterforce - pressed into the margin or accentuating the larger dominant shape, encroaching on it. The surface becomes a site of transferal, where material presence and felt experience coincide.

Basel Series is a rigorous study in singular focus. Precise and committed, the paintings offer clarity, calm, a space to think. It is along the edge, where two colours collide and hold, that something crystallises. Across the larger fields, the paintings quietly pulse.

Suzie Idiens is a British Australian Artist who lives and works on Gadigal land/Sydney. She completed a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Furniture Design with Honours in 1997 at Middlesex University, and studied Master of Arts in Furniture and Industrial Design in 1998 at the Royal College of Art, London. She has exhibited in national and international exhibitions including “Black.2” (2025) and “Black” (2023) Void_Melbourne, Melbourne; “ANU Art Collection: Conjunction” (2025), Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, “Text Re-read” (2023) Deakin University Gallery, Melbourne; “Diadikasia” (2021) Galerie Pompom, Sydney; “Visions of Utopia” (2017) Penrith Regional Gallery. Her work is held in public collections in Australia including the ANU Art collection, Artbank Australia and Wollongong Regional Gallery, as well as private collections in Australia, Europe, Hong Kong, United Kingdom and United States..