Born Dublin, Ireland, Susan Buttner currently lives and works in Dublin and Meath, Ireland.

 

​Working across sculpture, performance, film, and installation, Buttner’s practice considers the body as a site of relation rather than fixed image, examining how interior forces, psychological, social, and spatial, encounter the structures that contain, shape, or resist them. Collaboration is central to her methodology. She often works in sustained dialogue with individuals and communities, creating conditions in which lived experience, often unspoken or unrecognised, becomes the generative material of the work.  
 

In 2021 Buttner presented the solo exhibition Orphaned From Belonging at the Luan Gallery Athlone, a multidisciplinary project incorporating sculpture, performance, and film. Her work has been exhibited widely in Ireland and internationally at institutions including the Royal Hibernian Academy, Draíocht Gallery, Highlanes Gallery, Solstice Arts Centre, and The Model, Royal Academy of Arts, among others. 'Buttner trusts her material to have meaning and potential at every level, before and after the studio. This allows the deeper reality of materiality and language to take centre stage. In this, her work finds its destination within each viewer.' Exhibition text by curator Sara Muthi, Draíocht Gallery, 2021.

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Her work is included in numerous public and private collections nationally and internationally, including the Arts Council Collection, Visual Artists Ireland, Department of Defence, and The Hungarian Gallery, Glasgow. Buttner received an MFA Fine Art Sculpture (Distinction) from the National College of Art and Design 2018. She has received numerous bursary and residency awards.

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