Susan Te Kahurangi King

Susan Te Kahurangi King (1951–present), is a New Zealand artist who found international fame in 2009.[1][2] She was born in Te Aroha in 1951.

King is a self taught artist who stopped speaking at around the age of five.[1] She uses her artwork to communicate her thoughts and feelings through drawings made from pen, graphite, coloured pencil, crayon, and ink.[3]

King renewed drawing in 2008 when documentary film maker Dan Salmon began filming her and her art.[2] Art collector and curator Peter Fay discovered her work and curated a solo show for her in Sydney in 2009.[2] In 2013 King showed at the prestigious Paris Outsider Art Fair.[1] In 2015 she had her first solo US show Drawings from Many Worlds at the Andrew Edlin Gallery in New York.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Susan Te Kahurangi King and Shannon Te Ao: From the One I Call My Own". Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 "Pictures of Susan". Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  3. 1 2 "This Outsider Artist Stopped Speaking As A Child, Communicates Solely Through Her Work". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
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