SUSAN NORRIE

“Forecast,” a recent body of work by Susan Norrie, continues the artist’s environmental investigations, especially those events and circumstances that remind us of delicate and, at times, precariously balanced ecologies.
Inspired by meteorology and as the title suggests, our reliance on “prediction,” the two series of paintings and two large-scale super-scans that make up this exhibition relate to Norrie’s installation projects, “ERR” at the Melbourne International Biennial 1999 and Liverpool Biennial 1999 and “Thermostat” at Kiasma, Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki 2001.

Like these preceding projects, the exhibition title has extended references. “Forecast” is obviously based on weather conditions, long-range climatic predictions and cyclical patterns, but as with the installations “ERR” and “Thermostat,” there is a reminder of industrial pollution and global warming. While the word “forecast” may focus on prediction and an everyday activity we take for granted, equally it implies uncertainty…the unpredictability of natural (and man-made) forces.