Susannah Fiennes

After graduating from the Slade in 1983, where she was taught by Euan Uglow, Fiennes won the Boise Travel Scholarship (Italy), the Royal Academy British Institution Fund Award, and the BP Travel Award (China). She has taught at Dulwich College, the National Portrait Gallery, and The Royal Drawing School, London. 

Since the 1990s, Fiennes’ work has been included in group exhibitions at various museums, including at the National Portrait Gallery and the National Museum of Wales. Solo shows have been staged at the National Portrait Gallery, the Grosvenor Gallery and Rafael Valls Gallery, London and at The Redfern Gallery in 2019. As a portraitist, Fiennes rose to prominence when she became the Royal Tour Artist for HM King Charles III, then HRH The Prince of Wales, travelling to Oman, South America and of particular note, to Hong Kong for the Handover in 1997.  Fiennes has completed commissions for the Royal College of Psychiatrists and Hertford College, Oxford and her work can be found in the collections of HM King Charles III, the National Portrait Gallery and the Parliamentary Art Collection. 

Fiennes’ first Redfern solo exhibition at The Redfern Gallery in 2019 titled Reaching Out, explored the geometry of gesture and the tenderness and intimacy of everyday subjects - placing flowers into a vase or lighting a candle - in settings only hinted at but which for the artist, have resonance.