about the artist

Su Sheedy, based in Kingston, Ontario, has been a full-time encaustic artist since 2001. She is a material based artist: combining encaustic with mediums such as pressed tin, carded wool, corrugated steel and birch bark. Texture is her subject matter, and the form results from pouring, routering, or persistent scraping gestures. “My love of wax comes from its ability to conceal. After building layers I can then excavate down to quietly reveal its own history of colour or embedded objects.”