solo exhibitions
collaborative projects
2012 Featured Artworks in ‘Wakey Wakey’ by Adrian Goodman, VCA Masters Film 2010 Collaboration With Director Adena Jacobs And Company Fraught Outfit, Recording The Process And Performance Through Drawing, Painting & Printmaking. ‘PAINTINGS & WORKS ON PAPER’ Exhibited In Conjunction With Performance Of ‘Elektra’ By Sophocles, Footscray. 1994 Anthill Theatre, Director Jean Pierre Mignon, Recording The Process And Performance Through Drawing, Painting And Printmaking. ‘PAINTINGS AND WORKS ON PAPER’ Exhibited In Conjunction With Performance Of ‘Strategy For Two Hams’ By Ionesco, Gasworks, Albert Park. 1992 Anthill Theatre, Director Jean Pierre Mignon, Recording The Process And Performance Through Drawing, Painting And Printmaking. ‘PAINTINGS AND WORKS ON PAPER’ Exhibited In Conjunction With Performance Of ‘The Chairs’, By Ionesco, South Melbourne. 1992 Gilgul Theatre, Director Barrie Kosky, Recording The Process And Performance Through Drawing, Painting And Printmaking Of ‘The Dybuk’, ‘Es Brent’ And ‘Levad’ – Gilgul’s Exile Trilogy By Barrie Kosky. ‘PAINTINGS AND WORKS ON PAPER’ Exhibited In Conjunction With Performance Of ‘Es Brent’, Town Hall Motors, Balaclava. 1991 Anthill Theatre, Director Jean Pierre Mignon, Recording The Process And Performance Through Drawing, Painting and Printmaking. ‘PAINTINGS AND WORKS ON PAPER’, Exhibited In Conjunction With Performance Of ‘Endgame’ By Samuel Beckett.
Publications
AND Reviews
2014
BOOK - THEATRE MONOPRINTS 2012-14, Metasenta Publications.
2013
ART. BASE THEATRE PAINTINGS & MONOPRINTS.
2012
JOURNEYS INTO DRAWING IN CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN DRAWING #1, Dr. Christopher Heathcote By Janet Mckenzie.
2011
SINGING FOR ALL HE’S WORTH, Book Cover Portrait Of Jacob Rosenberg. Essays In Honour Of Jacob G. Rosenberg, Edited By Alex Skovron, Raimond Gaita And Alex Miller, Picador.
2008
AROUND THE GALLERIES, Ashley Crawford, 'The Age', October 11.
SLOW ART FEEDS HUNGER FOR THE BODY, Jeff Makin, 'Herald Sun', October 10.
THE FIGURE WORK IN PROGRESS, Dr. Christopher Heathcote - Catalogue Essay.
'Because you also need an understanding of what your drawing instrument and brushes are capable of, as well as an ability to look closely and precisely at things, an understanding of shade, a grasp of human anatomy perhaps, and of course, a mixture of graphic and painterly inventiveness...'
2007
SUSAN WALD (MITTELMAN) IN UNTITLED, PORTRAITS OF AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS, Dr. Christopher Heathcote, (Macmillan Art Publication).
"Expression is a recklessly overused word. ‘I was being expressive’ has become the flimsy excuse of the untrained or inept, the public having made the term synonymous with the muddled composition usually seen in an amateur art show. This is why professional artists will hesitate before describing a colleague as an expressionist. How then to do justice to the oeuvre of Susan Wald? Her paintings and drawings are the real thing. They express. There is no way to discuss them without confronting a genuine psychological weight. Some inner truth is externalised, is being pressed out."
UNTITLED, PORTRAITS OF AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS, Sonia Payes, (Macmillan Art Publication).
2006
BLOODY BATTLE, SIGHTLINES CRITICAL GUIDE, Penny Webb 'The Age', April 7.
CLEAN KILL, OPENING SPEECH V. Majzner
MELBOURNE MAGAZINE ISSUE, Meagan Backhouse 'The Age', 18 April.
2005
CLEAN KILL, CATALOGUE ESSAY Dr. Christopher Heathcote.
2001
AUSTRALIAN PAINTING, 1788-2000, Bernard Smith With Terry Smith And Christopher Heathcote.
“The waning of conventional expressionism was highlighted by the efforts of the few expressive artists who squarely faced those dark, irrational moments in human behaviour. Susan Mittelman, for instance, honed an art of quiet agony with the simplest of means: emotive brushwork and a monochrome palette. Her oil studies, which have us gaze down upon a nude woman lying awkwardly at the foot of a stairwell, succinctly evoke the distress of the wounded and vulnerable, of those who feel flung down a well of misery by an uncaring world.”
1998
SUSAN MITTELMAN: PAINTINGS & MONOPRINTS Chris Boyd, 'The Big Issue', May-June Issue.
acquisitions
and accolades
AWARDS
2019
Print Commission, Print Council of Australia
2018
Finalist, Australian Print Award, Australian Print Triennial, Mildura
2013
Semi-Finalist, Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
1992
Mornington Peninsula Prints, Acquisitive Award Collection
1991
Dean’s Acquisitive Award, Victoria College, Prahran
1990
David Rosenthal Acquisitive Award
1989
Nexus Design Award
COLLECTIONS
Australian National Gallery
Australian Catholic University
Australian Print Workshop
BHP Collection
Charles Sturt University
Gippsland Art Gallery
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Print Council Of Australia Archive
State Library Of Victoria
The Art Vault, Mildura
Tweed Regional Gallery, New South Wales
Toowoomba Regional Gallery, Queensland
University Of Wollongong, New South Wales
Victorian College Of The Arts
Private Collections