Suzanne Caines

Suzanne Caines is a Canadian Artist, researcher, curator & arts educator from Nova Scotia, Canada and holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Art from Goldsmiths, University of London (2015), MFA from Chelsea College of Art (2004) and BFA from NSCAD University (1993). Caines has taught courses at NSCAD University (2004-2012), Goldsmiths, University of London (2012-2013) and adult education at City Literary College, London UK (2016-2022). She has participated in several international residencies and exhibitions.

Describe your approach to teaching
My approach to teaching a fine arts course is that they should allow for the analysis and appraisal of visual information and therefore become a great medium for diversity and inclusion.  I believe that students should learn how to make relationships and meanings to the information they are exposed to, which allows students to develop their own voices.

What inspires your own work?
Demonstrating proficiency in and sensitivity to material choices, methods, techniques, technologies, and tools within both contemporary painting and drawing, I have researched thematics explored through inclusive perspectives. Working within the intersection of painting, drawing, art writing, and video art I raise questions about cultural heritage & cultural genocide, suppressed histories, collective forgetfulness, and identity in the form of muted/mutated witness and reconciliation & repossession as opposed to dispossession.