Suzanne McGilloway is a painter and fine artist, born in Derry, in the North West of Ireland. She obtained a B.A. Honours degree in Social Anthropology and Sociology from Queen’s University, Belfast. Suzanne is self taught and works primarily in oil paints, pencil drawings and photography. With a sense of curiosity and a sensitivity, Suzanne is moved to record and explore the contemporary urban landscape, particularly that of Spitalfields and the East End of London. Suzanne is drawn by the distinctive quality of the place, its continuity and ever-changing landscape. “I walk the streets with the ghosts of “Spitalfields Nippers” in tow, and work to capture a contemporary interpretation of the streets and their inhabitants. Spitalfields has provided sanctuary for me and for centuries of immigrants.” Home to waves of human stories, facing conflict and oppression, the French Huguenots, the Jews and Irish fleeing famine and persecution, the Bangladeshi community who followed.