Pictures of Susan

Auckland artist Susan King has not talked since 1955, when she was four years old. Expressing herself with over 10,000 drawings since then, her work has recently received the attention of the international art world. Documentarian Dan Salmon captures her late rebirth over a three year period.

"King described her world in thousands of drawings, pages filled with delight, playfulness, curiosity and terror. Then she stopped. Her family sadly packed her pictures into boxes and stored them under beds and in the attic. There were 20 years of silence before she drew again. Of late, Susan’s art brut has been discovered by the dealer world. A 2009 show in Sydney garnered further international demand and compounded an ethical quandary for the family who can only guess at the artist’s wishes." (New Zealand International Film Festival 2012)

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