Susan Day “Electric Storm” September 19 – October 31

Artist Talk & Tour on Thursday, September 24 from 6:30-7:30pm

In our middle gallery we are pleased to be feature new drawings, tile paintings and sculptures by Susan Day.  Interested in the human form and exploring identity and memory, Day’s new artworks are inspired by her own personal history and meaningful daily experiences.  Her daily drawings are an important part of her practice and feed this new body of work.  The images are developed instinctively, influenced by dreams and moments from her everyday life where fiction, memory and reality merge.

“I access creative thoughts while in motion. I walk and swim a lot. This is a time when I can drop the day to day business of living and indulge in looking, feeling the air (or water) and dream a bit.  Drawing is definitely part of my process but it is often on scraps of paper to start with. So after a long walk or a swim I might sketch something while I am getting ready to head to the studio. These scraps of paper accumulate on my desk and are used as material when I start a mosaic panel or an incised drawing on a vessel.

My language of images has developed naturally and is influenced by my dreams, and by my life – I love to garden and I might make images of large fictional plants and flowers. I am not concerned at all with reality in these image forms. I make the work for my own pleasure and to come to an understanding of myself.”  Susan Day 2026

(Artwork photos courtesy of Jackie Noble)

London artist Susan Day studied at H.B. Beal Secondary School followed by studies at Sheridan College School of Craft and Design, ARTsake in Toronto and NSCAD in Halifax.  Working with ceramic for over 40 years, Day has an extensive exhibition and installation history, using the material qualities of clay to expose the vulnerabilities of the body.  Her ceramic works range in scale from objects that can be held in the hand to monumentally-scaled collaborative public murals.

Through her public work, she has experienced the power of public (or public facing) art to create meeting places and instil pride and ownership in neighbourhoods and places where communities meet.  Recent public projects include Mosaic House (2021), Legacy Park in Lethbridge, AB (2022), Care Point Safe Consumption Site (2023), London Children’s Museum (2024), 103A Ave Pedway in Edmonton, AB (2026) and a large upcoming project in Vancouver, BC to be completed in 2027.  These public projects feed her personal practice and reflect Day’s interest in storytelling, collaboration and community.

Her artworks are in the permanent public collections of the Bronfman Foundation, Museum London and McIntosh Gallery and countless private collections.

Link to Susan Day’s Artist Page HERE