Susanne Foster

Sue Foster lived all her life in Murray Bridge, on the Murray River in South Australia where she is presently chair of the Murray Bridge Regional Art Gallery and an inaugural member of the Community Cultural Advisory Committee to the Murray Bridge Rural City. As a mature student she completed a BA in Politics and Anthropology at the University of Adelaide.

Through her involvement in community regional arts she has a close relationship to Country Arts SA and completed a Graduate Diploma in Community Cultural Development with CAN. After the development of the Murray Bridge Regional Gallery she embarked on the Graduate Program in Art History at the University of Adelaide and completed units in Australian Art, Indigenous Art, Contemporary Art and European Art before completing her thesis.

As well as continuing with the Murray Bridge Gallery and local council involvement she is presently working on community art projects involving public art and an Indigenous project involving meeting, storytelling places for a local Indigenous grandmothers group. She is currently developing a project involving documenting the continual history of Ngarrindjeri weaving which she plans to build into an exhibition. Through her interests in Murray Bridge she also has a close association with the emerging Pomberuk Cultural Centre.

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