Susan Hockaday

Susan Hockaday’s current photographs address our experience of nature as we witness its decline through Climate Change. Over time she has worked in several mediums, including etching, handmade paper, collage construction, and for the last 25 years, photography.
She brings together in one photograph the hostile elements of Climate Change- plastic trash, material from nature, industry, and oil byproducts. They tell the stories of climate change, and are portraits of us at this time.
Ms Hockaday grew up in the countryside near St Louis, Missouri, in a family of architects, painters, sculptors, photographers and designers. The connections between nature and design were part of the family conversations and became the foundation of her art practice.
After graduating from Vassar College with a double major in Art and Human Physiology, she continued her studies at Pratt Graphics in New York, Princeton University, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She received the WK Rose Fellowship from Vassar, and two grants from the NJ Council on the Arts. Her work is in many public and private collections.
She has lived and worked in Holland and England, and toured China in 1983, giving lectures on ‘Art in New York’. She is represented online by SOHO20 Gallery, and Soho Photo Gallery in New York.
For more than 50 years her family has spent the summer on a farm in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Much of her artwork reflects that rugged countryside.
She lived with her family in Princeton for many years where she was active in community planning, arts organizations, adult education, and politics.
In 2007 she moved to Hopewell NJ with her husband, Maitland Jones Jr.
Email: shonck.nj@gmail.com
Cell: 609 548 0957
Website: www.SusanHockaday.com

Submitted by Soho Photo Gallery