Sue Coe

Sue Coe (born 1951) is a British artist and illustrator whose graphic work combines political satire, social critique and documentary imagery in a tradition that draws on Goya, Daumier and George Grosz. Working primarily in printmaking, painting and drawing, she has produced sustained bodies of work on factory farming, war, capital punishment and corporate power. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

  • Joyce Agee, Catherine Elwes, Jacqueline Morreau, Pat Whiteread — Women's Images of Men, front cover, 1980 Joyce Agee, Catherine Elwes, Jacqueline Morreau, Pat Whiteread — Women's Images of Men, interior colour plates

    Women's Images of Men — ICA, London, 1980

    Women's Images of Men — ICA, London, 1980

  • KATHY ACKER — Great Expectations, Grove Press, New York, 1983 KATHY ACKER — Great Expectations, Grove Press, New York, 1983

    KATHY ACKER — Great Expectations, Grove Press, New York, 1983

    KATHY ACKER — Great Expectations, Grove Press, New York, 1983

  • Kathy Acker — Blood and Guts in High School, Grove Press, New York, 1984. Front cover. Black ground with red border. Large red and white hand-lettered title: "BLOOD AND GUTS IN HIGH SCHOOL". Author name "KATHY ACKER" in white at top. Centre: oil painting illustration by Sue Coe — a dense, dark scene of figures, a cat-like creature in a suit, playing cards, a coffee cup, industrial machinery, and a crescent moon. Grove Press Evergreen logo upper right, price $7.95. Kathy Acker — Blood and Guts in High School, Grove Press, 1984 — interior page. Full-page line drawing of a multi-armed deity figure in the style of Indian iconography — Kali-like, with multiple heads arranged in a crown, necklace of skulls, weapons and objects in each hand, standing over a prone figure. Small figures and animals at the margins. Caption in a ruled box at base: "The Devil is an image. Imagine Hell. We grab the book, and run." Cream paper, black ink.

    Kathy Acker — Blood and Guts in High School, Grove Press, New York, 1984

    Kathy Acker — Blood and Guts in High School, Grove Press, New York, 1984