This recent series of paintings explores the historical face of Sydney Harbour and the remnants of its life a working harbour. These enigmatic sites capture the changing nature of Sydney’s maritime heritage.

Suzanne Alexander has lived the region since her childhood and has been a resident of Mosman for over thirty five years. She is one of the suburb’s most active and accomplished artists today, and has pursued her art practice for over thirty years.

Harbour Remnants is a recent body of work examining a subject which is a source of long held fascination for the artist – the historical face of Sydney Harbour and the remnants of its life as a working harbour. As the central theme in Suzanne Alexander’s work over many years the artist has become well known for her evocative drawings and expressive paintings of harbour, capturing in fleeting impressions, its changing moods and its extraordinary energy.

The geography of the harbour and its rich visual landscape provide the artist with an abundance of inspiring sites to document. Her subjects including the architecture of ageing infrastructure such as docks, wharfs, cranes, barges, maritime machinery and of course its tug boats, ships, heritage vessels and other water craft.

In pursuing her subjects Suzanne Alexander has worked on many maritime harbour sites including Blackwattle Bay, Mort Bay, Garden Island, Cockatoo Island and The Rocks. Recently she was part of the artist in residence program with the Australian Society of Marine Artists, working at Darling Harbour and Rozelle Bay on the Sydney Heritage Fleet.