Susan Fereday
Australian photographer (born 1959)
Susan Fereday (born 1959) is an Australian artist, writer, curator and educator. She holds a doctorate from Monash University, Melbourne. She was born in Adelaide, South Australia.
Biography
Fereday studied to be a photographic technician in Adelaide. She attended Prahran College in Melbourne to study photographic art, obtaining her Bachelor of Arts in 1986 and her Master of Arts (Fine Art) in 1992. She performed research Paris in 1996–1997 on a scholarship from Samstag. She received her doctorate from Monash University in 2010.
Fereday has been a lecturer in art theory and studio practice at the Victorian College of the Arts (1990–93), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (1998-2000), and Monash University (2005–08).
Artist
Since the 1980s Fereday has exhibited artworks in various media, including objets trouvés, installation art, photography, and video. She has collected and displayed found photographs taken by anonymous amateurs in the 1950s.
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