Sue Platt BA(Hons) Fine Art

Senior Lecturer
Graphic Design

Susan Platt is Senior Lecturer in BA(Hons) Graphic Design.

In addition to her role as Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design, Susan Platt is a Manchester based artist, illustrator, and occasional writer.

She is part of the creative collaborative research group The Society of The Spectacles with Robert Hamilton. In September 2017 Susan Platt curated the exhibition Strelnikov's Glasses and Other Stories at HOME Manchester.



She worked extensively within gallery education at Cornerhouse, The Whitworth Art Gallery and Manchester Art Gallery before joining the university full time in 2002. Susan worked for Manchester's City Life magazine in its heyday in the Visual Arts team, she also produced cartoons for the magazine.
Susan worked at the artist lead Castlefield Gallery in Manchester during the late 1980's (curating exhibitions of work by Albert Irvin, Craigie Aitchison, Howard Hodgkin, and Gillian Ayres), under the Direction of the fabulous Celia Cross.

Susan is keen to say she not to be mistaken for the other Sue Platt who is also an artist based in Greater Manchester.

Autobiographical and often cathartic narratives form the basis of Platt’s work. She is interested in the impact cinematic narratives and imagery have on female perspectives. The misuse of language, and appropriation of text and image form much of her current work. Susan often likes to be the star of her own work!

She has recently been interested in presenting biographical photographic presentations of herself or her image. The image or performance we present or create can be protective, manufactured, illusionary or purely documentary.

Susan is a keen birdwatcher and finds great joy in painting Chiffchaffs!

A little bit more if you are interested….
From 2002 to 2009 Platt worked with the Righton Press Research group at the University producing artist’s books, and producing her range of “Gulp Fiction” publications. She has exhibited work nationally, and internationally, and her work is held in both private and public collections. In 2009 she contributed to Jonathan Carson and Rosie Miller’s “Stilled Lives” a limited edition artist book responding to work in “Special Collections” at the University Library.

In 2007 Platt produced an experimental “Schiffli Poem”: “The Lost Thread” for Melanie Miller’s touring Schiffli Project, the stitched text piece is featured in Alice Kettle and Jane McKeating’s 2010 book Machine Stitch: Perspectives.

Most recently Platt has written for Ultrabold -The Journal of St. Bride Library and contributed to the OWT 13 "Remix" collaborative project.

In June 2012 she contributed, to "CAMPUS' an event based project in collaboration with Manchester Modernist Society. Campus was part of RIBA's "love architecture" festival and was funded by Cornerhouse and Miriad.

Susan Platt has most recently exhibited in "UDKANT: on the margins" at the Doverodde Book Arts Exhibition in Denmark (2012), and at the Tokyo Artist Book Fair in 2013.