Susan Adams studied painting at Norwich School of Art and the Slade, going on to study Electronic Arts at Middlesex University. She uses a range of media including drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture and video. She has lectured widely and held a number of Artist in Residency positions including those at Gloucester Cathedral, Millay Colony for the Arts New York, Welsh National Opera, Bardsey Island and Shaftesbury Abbey. Adams is interested in exploring the relationship between fantasy and reality and the locations in which these two worlds collide. She is drawn to effigies of the living, uncanny, half-alive objects such as puppets, automata, figures that were made with a specific purpose in mind such as to embody religious beliefs, entertain a child or tell a story. Creative exchanges with writers continue to provide a source of imagery, worlding a third space created through collaboration.