Suzy O’Rourke has made a career out of her obsession with cultivating the beauty of the natural world and the art of living. An accomplished milliner and interior designer, Suzy is now focusing her attention on creating original artworks, ceramics, sculpture and bespoke furniture.
Suzy’s art and design approach is rooted in simplicity and her overlapping passions of architecture, design and nature. Suzy’s pieces are an expression of what she is inspired by and are created with the intention to add an element of beauty to elevate the everyday.
Suzy’s passion for art and design was influenced by her parents love of architecture, along with the muted colour palette and wild texture of her artist mother’s large scale abstract oil paintings.
Creating art from her studio on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, Suzy continues to be inspired by nature, travel, music, books, sculpture and many artists and designers from the mid 20th century.
Established in 2021, the National Emerging Art Prize was created to provide an annual, highly visible national platform to identify, promote and support the most promising emerging visual and ceramic artists in Australia.