Susan Fereday (born 1959) is an Australian artist, writer, curator and educator.
Since the 1980s Fereday has exhibited artworks in various media, including objets trouvés, installation art, photography, and video.
Penny Webb places her "Ilsley Green Road" series by an unknown photographer at Sutton Gallery in "country lanes in England in the 1950s,"[3] while her series Under a Steel Sky, at West Space in 2008[4] used similar material, as critic, Robert Nelson notes; "From unrelated sources in the United States [.
Both commentators understand that the sequencing is intended to create a narrative, as Nelson reports;They are printed to a large scale, which the original photographers would never have contemplated; but the resolution is consistent.
"[5]Fereday's doctoral thesis, Light Out of Darkness: the origin of photography in mystery and melancholy,[6] was a study of the work of pioneer photographers Nicéphore Niépce and William Henry Fox Talbot.