“I’d go out several nights a week and then go into work, even if I felt dreadful. Sue was working in a London job-centre after she went into one to sign on after college and they offered her a job, but she’d always turn up for work after her big nights out. “Lots of people living there went to the Blitz club (from where the New Romantic movement, Culture Club and Spandau Ballet sprang) and that’s when I started clubbing. I liked boys with long hair, though.”Īfter training to be an art teacher, she moved to London with a friend, into a housing association flat that cost £6 a week. “I wasn’t interested in the music, I just wanted to go out and meet boys. Sue’s fame as a model came from being at the heart of the stylish and arty London club scene of the 1980s.Īs a teenager in St Albans, Hertfordshire, she’d go to see prog rock bands at the Civic Hall. The new owner has kept the studio floor just as it was, with his paint splatters and marks all over it.” “I have been back to his fl at and the studio after his death. I’d think about how if Lucian’s fl at was mine, how I’d do it up. But when I was in the studio I’d think about problems at work and how to sort them out, and daydream. You never get time to do that ordinarily as when you’re at home you’re lying around and thinking you should be doing this or that. ![]() It was luxurious to pose and have time to think. ![]() “I would just sit there and enjoy the experience. I don’t think I paid as much attention as I should have done – maybe I should have kept a diary. I got a bit of money, had a kip and Lucian was interesting. Sixty-year-old Sue’s generous curves (she once joked that as a painter Freud got “value for money – he got a lot of flesh”) mean that she’s one of the few models in contemporary art who could be recognised by many and her work with the artist has made her a public figure.ĭid she think that modelling for Freud would make her famous? “Nooo!” she exclaims. Sue was also the subject of Benefits Supervisor Resting, which sold for £35.2million at auction in New York in 2015, after Freud’s death in 2011.
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