Brief CV for those doing introductions for lectures or radio talks
Although ‘de Vries’ is a Dutch name Susanna is of Irish extraction with some Scots ancestors. Educated at boarding school in England she studied visual arts and history at the Sorbonne in Paris and in Madrid and was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to study Renaissance art in Florence and has worked as an art historian and arts journalist in London and Spain. Susanna arrived in Queensland in 1975 and became fascinated by Australian art and history and in consequence wrote 15 books including several on Australian artists, eight biographies of Australian women and illustrated histories of Brisbane and Sydney. She became one of ADFAS’s first local lecturers. In 1996 she was awarded an Order of Australia for ‘services to Australian art and literature’ both for her books and the quality and originality of her lectures to mature age audiences in continuing education programmes and to various outback organisations.
In 1980 Susanna married Dutch architect and professional photographer Jake de Vries in what has been a long and happy creative partnership. They lived in Brisbane and Jake de Vries’s photographs and hand-drawn maps illustrating Susanna’s lectures and her books.
Details of other lectures and Susanna’s publications can be found online at www.susannadevries.com
Available to lecture:
All months except August.
Travel:
No problems now I have curtailed my writing output. Husband and self can drive to venues within easy reach of Brisbane. Mini tours welcome.
For details about available lecture and radio talk topics, please see:
Lectures & Talks.
Go to: Frequently Asked Questions
Go to: Pirgos Press - A Queensland Publishing House
Go to: Miss Marple of Australian Art
