Sue Gollifer (born December 1944) is a British artist and academic. She uses

silkscreen Screen printing is a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink (or dye) onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil. A blade or squeegee is moved across the screen in a "flood stroke" ...

printing as well as digital techniques to produce her artworks. She is based in

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, southern England. Gollifer received her master's degree in

printmaking Printmaking is the process of creating work of art, artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand proces ...

from the

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, United Kingdom, in 1969. Early in her career, she taught at the

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Art College and exhibited at the

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in London. Later, Gollifer was a

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(later an

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) in Fine Art/Printmaking within the School of Arts and Communication in the Faculty of Arts and Architecture at the

. She was the Course Leader for the PG Dip course in Digital Media Arts. Her research has been based on the impact of new technology on the practice of fine art. Sue Gollifer is also a professional artist/printmaker, with regular exhibitions internationally, and her artworks are held in international public collections, including the

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and the

Victoria & Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (abbreviated V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and named after Queen ...

. She was the curator of the first five United Kingdom international exhibitions of electronic prints (ArCade I, II, III, IV, and V during 1995 to 2007 – "Computers in Art and Design Education"). She was also the

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Art Gallery Chair during 2004, in Los Angeles, United States. In 2006, Gollifer was awarded an International Digital Media Arts Award for her "exceptional services to the international new media community". She was an executive director of ISEA International from 2011 to 2021. Gollifer is a member of the Printmakers Council. She has been an active member of the

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(CAS). In 2024–25, a retrospective exhibition of her work was held at the BCS London office, organised by CAS.

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PMC Talk: Sue Gollifer talks about her Digital & Screen Print Practice
on YouTube (2023) 1944 births Living people Alumni of the University of Brighton 20th-century English women painters 20th-century English painters 21st-century English women painters 20th-century English printmakers English printmakers British digital artists Women digital artists Academics of the University of Brighton {{UK-artist-stub