We are very pleased to introduce Susie Clark as the co-curator for the next Od Arts Festival 2027. Susie will be working alongside curator and founder Simon lee Dicker.
About Susie
Susie Clark is a curator and creative producer with 25 years’ experience spanning the non-profit, artist-led and commercial art worlds.
Based in Somerset, Susie supports artists to realise and present their work to new audiences in unconventional, non-gallery spaces: sites with historic resonance that bring new layers of meaning to the artwork. She’s particularly interested in conceptually driven, yet materially grounded artwork, and her curatorial practice draws on her own background as a maker and working in gallery education, helping bridge the gap between artist and audience.
Susie is committed to working with underrepresented artists, helping them to connect with ambitious spaces to amplify their work. Recent projects include ‘Uncertain Objects: part 1’, an exhibition of new work by eighteen artists staged in a derelict Georgian shop in Frome, and ‘boxwalking’, which brought together the work of nine artists across a disused stable and a beer hall in rural Westcombe, Somerset. In autumn 2024, Susie joined OSR Projects CIC as a non-executive Director.
Earlier in her career, Susie worked in London’s commercial gallery sector, where she supported artists including Goshka Macuga, Ben Rivers, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard and Francis Upritchard at Kate MacGarry, and presented exhibitions by Jenny Holzer, Cindy
Sherman, Robert Morris and Fischli & Weiss at Sprueth Magers. Prior to this, Susie curated a private art collection, managing acquisitions and installations across London, Amsterdam, Brussels and New York.
Susie studied at Norwich School of Art, where her first curatorial projects were shaped by summers spent working on EASTinternational: a pioneering annual open-submission exhibition conceived by curator Linda Morris, that took over the art school buildings and helped launch the careers of artists including Jeremy Deller and Tomoko Takahashi. From there Susie joined the team at Aspex Gallery in Portsmouth, leading the Education & Outreach programme before becoming Exhibitions & Marketing Coordinator – a role that moved her to pursue an MA in Curating at Goldsmiths.
