Suki Jobson

Biography

Suki Jobson previously worked in the field of Public International Law as a geographer/lawyer, researching and writing on geopolitics, and working for the resolution of international boundary and territorial conflicts. Subsequently she studied circus and the art of clown in London and Paris. This exploration of the physical was the beginning of a transition to a full-time visual arts practice. Before receiving a scholarship to the Royal Drawing School in 2014 she was a self-taught artist, assembling a body of work in London and Ireland, working as a potter’s assistant in Marseille, and as a shepherd in the Alps. Her work aims to connect the external and internal, repositioning observed reality in relation to the imagination with the intention of connecting the individual and collective unconscious. Using a bold expressive line to define form and emphasize the spaces in between, the work is balanced between the figurative and the abstract, and seeks to both honestly and playfully evoke the primordial, universal and mystical.