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Murmuration, Gareth Evans
Utopia on the Horizon, Tinype Gallery publication, 2010
"So it is that the pattern is a solace to the heart in exile - from the wellsprings of its faith, its will, its love. The heart will follow a starling or a seam, a rail-track or a shadow. Without a pattern it cannot find its way back, or forward into a return."

Sleep Walk Sleep Talk, 198 Gallery by Paul O'Kane
Third Text 107, Vol. 24, Issue no.5, October 2010
"..the present time which, by opening unknown spaces of freedom, makes us responsible for new relationships, always threatened, always hoped for, between what we call work, oeuvre, and what we call unworking, désoeuvrement."

Space Between, Pamela Kember
Third Text 106, Vol. 24, Issue no.5, September 2010
"Somewhere every culture has an imaginary zone for what it excludes, and it is that zone we must try to remember today."

Interview with Steven Bode, director of Film and Video Umbrella
A Buletin, Issue four, Autumn 2009
"It’s noticeable, in your piece, that the passive, hazy quality of sleepwalking shifts towards something more like a state of trance – a more active, heightened perception."

Interview with artist and curator Graham Gussin
 2009
"I was thinking about your film work. The architecture featured in this is quite particular, the pier and the circular dwelling, how important or how central do you think this is to the piece?"

Suki Chan's Interval II, by Robert Clark
 2009
"Chan’s art touches on recurrences of ephemeral wonders. It is lyrical and evocative. It points at experiential possibilities beyond the workaday world of consumerist capitalism.."

Exhibitions preview by Robert Clark
The Guardian Guide, 11-17 October 2009
"The pier stands on the weather-beaten interface of industry and nature, of manmade structures and the oceanic wildness."

Artists Talking: Suki Chan, Sonya Dyer
an Magazine, 2007
"Suki Chan’s life and practice could be described as a dictionary ‘peripatetic.’"

Black Skin, White Space, Raimi Gbadamosi
Axis Dialogue, 2006
Raimi Gbadamosi has invited two Axis artists Suki Chan and Harold Offeh...

Fascinations, Pamela Kember
Hanart TZ Gallery, 2005
"Uprootedness and dislocation also comes closer to the memories of Suki Chan..."

Little Rituals, Jacqui Poncelet
Turnpike Gallery exhibition catalogue, 2002
"A lover of narrative, she takes pleasure in momentary realities, fleeting events, dreams, shadows, flocks of birds and teeming ants..."

Seeing: Out of time, MIke Dawson & Jane Griffiths
CVA (Contemporary), Issue 29, 2000
"Chan has cleverly placed a subtle yet complex scenario before us, its cryptic guise allowing for endless interpretation."

Seeing: Out of time, Michael Stanley
an Magazine, May 2000
"Each grain follows intricate patterns, the internal structure of abstract shapes resembling stretched torsos, migrating birds, the outlines of shifting continents."

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