Sue Gascoyne

Sue Gascoyne is a Colchester-based socially-engaged artist working across textiles and stitch, sculpture, painting and mark-making, ceramics and mixed media. Her work asks what it means to be human — turning over questions of identity, agency, trauma, safety and connection through sensory-rich, often participatory pieces. Sustainability is a constant: the hand of the maker is visible throughout her practice, and discarded, salvaged and biological materials feed the work as both medium and subject.

Recent projects include ‘We’re ALL Meat’, installed in the Old Debenhams windows in Colchester, a piece she describes as a reminder of “the commonalities which unite us…we are all cut from the same cloth.” Her January 2025 solo ‘for all the people that Ate for me’ at Patch Gallery, Colchester, sat alongside the playful waste-sculpture series ‘Accumulations’ at the Reading Room Gallery, Colchester Library, and ‘Sanctuary — Reject, Reflect, Reclaim’ at the Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend. Earlier work has shown at the Granary Gallery at Flatford Mill (‘Carry On Constable’) and the Beecroft (‘Catch of the Day’).

In 2025 she undertook residencies at TOMA in Tomar, Portugal, and a Creative Break Time residency at Hadleigh Country Park in Essex, and was selected for the 61st Essex Open (‘Disembodied’) at the Beecroft and ‘Held — The F Word’ at the Firepit Gallery, London. Her work has appeared in Sluice Magazine (November 2024) and t’ART Magazine, Issue Nine (May 2025). Alongside the studio practice, she runs hands-on workshops and co-creation activities, building safe spaces for reflection and connection.