SHIRLEY Susan

SHIRLEY Susan Thurston

Born in Detroit, U.S.A.

She studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn New York and received a Bachelor of Science in Art Education. She continued further studies in Fine Art at Brooklyn College. For seven years she taught art in New York City’s public school system, then immigrated to Canada.

She has since lived in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut for 27 years painting on site, the artic barrens and Hudson Bay region from ice break up into the first snowfall. In a method similar to the Group of Seven, she paints watercolour sketches as a basis for more developed oil paintings.

During this time, she came into contact with Nick Burns and Michael Kusugak . Her partnership with Michael produced “On Waiting” a graphic version of his poem. As far as is known, this is her only entry into sequential art.

ILLUSTRATOR:

BOOK GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY

Content poem:

Arctic Comics. Renegade Arts Entertainment, 2016: “On Waiting”. Writ., Michael Kusugak: 22-35.

SOURCE:

Article book:

Arctic Comics. Canmore: Ed., Nicholas Burns. Renegade Arts Entertainment. 2016: Susan Shirly, 1.

Internet:

“Susan Shirley”. https://polarartists.com/artists/SShirley/SSbio.html Accessed 15 May 2022.

 

GALLERY:

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Description automatically generated with medium confidence Arctic Comics.2016: “On Waiting”. Writ., Michael Kusugak. Illus., Susan Shirley.