Susan Low-Beer

Susan Low-Beer is a Canadian ceramic artist whose figurative work explores psychology, domesticity and women's experience.

Career Low-Beer has created several notable bodies of work. Still Dances, created in 1991, combines several historical references to female forms, including Greek Cycladic sculpture and Romanesque figures, in a series of nine clay sculptures. Mutable Selves, is a series of eight clay and steel sculptures created from 1994-1995. Two of the figures were subsequently shown in a 2013 retrospective at the Gardiner Museum. This was followed by Tools for Daily Living (2003), a series of paper hangings incorporating clay figures reflecting her Rocksbreath work.

Critical reviews of Low-Beer's work have been positive throughout her career, but biases against ceramic-based work, often considered a craft material, have affected her inclusion in discussions of fine art practices.