Desire & Longing 10. RA Summer Exhibition Illustrated 2015. Photograph by John Bodkin. With David Renfry RA.

Desire & Longing 10. RA Summer Exhibition Illustrated 2015. Photograph by John Bodkin. With David Renfry RA.

“Although Sue Williams A’Court’s paintings are ostensibly landscape paintings, they are paintings of landscape paintings. This means that they are, by definition, second order objects. This is appropriation, and appropriationist paintings embrace and celebrate their borrowing from other paintings. Appropriationist paintings also involve an acknowledgement of, if not an acceptance of, conceptual and post modern theory. This can often become meretricious and didactic, but the paintings of Sue Williams A’Court’s manage to achieve this synthesis in an understated and succinct manner. These paintings are clearly intended to be ‘their own objects’.”
(Graham Crowley)