2017 Working with science & art projects Susan Priestly

Slides and pdf from the PlantNetwork Annual Conference 26th and 27th April 2017 ‘Connecting gardens; engaging people’ Held at The Botanic Cottage, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

Susan Priestley, Freelance arts project and development manager

Susan Priestley graduated with BA (Hons) in Fine Art (Printmaking) and has worked in a variety of roles, including

Exhibitions Officer at a gallery, an Arts Development post for a local authority, and as Director of an independent visual arts

agency. She has been a freelance arts, heritage and learning consultant and project manager since 2001 and works on a

range of arts-based projects and contracts with and for galleries, museums, organisations and individuals. Susan has long had an interest in the links between art and horticulture, both in a visual sense and in terms of the crossover between art and science.

She has initiated and managed a number of projects in this vein, including: public art commissions linking art and landscape; an arts engagement programme for Kielder Water & Forest Park; and Ten Plants, Ten Printmakers – a collaboration with Moorbank Botanic Garden in Newcastle linking ten printmakers with ten research scientists. She lives in Northumberland.