{{short description|Irish botanical artist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox artist | honorific_prefix = | name = Susan Sex | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different than name --> | birth_date = 1947 | birth_place = Dublin, Ireland | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | death_place = | education = | alma_mater = | known_for = Botanical artist | notable_works = }} '''Susan Sex''' (born 1947) is an Irish botanical artist known for her paintings of orchids.
==Life== Susan Sex was born in Dublin in 1947. She is a self-taught artist who was interested in wild flowers. She has close ties with the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin. She has painted a number of their tropical orchids.<ref name="Collins">{{cite web|url=http://www.collinspress.ie/brendan-sayers-and-susan-sex.html|publisher=Collins Press Ireland|title=Brendan Sayers & Susan Sex}}</ref><ref name="Orchid">{{cite web|url=http://www.irishorchidsociety.org/artists.php|title=Botanical Artists|publisher=Irish Orchid Society}}</ref><ref name="Burren">{{cite web|url=https://www.burrencollege.ie/summerworkshops/botanical-painting|publisher=Burren College|title=Botanical Painting: Susan Sex}}</ref>
She had a solo exhibition in the National Botanic Gardens which sold out in 1996. Sex has an interest in Irish orchids. She has won Gold Medals from the Royal Horticultural Society, London in 2000, 2001 and 2002 for her work on these<ref>{{cite web |title=Category: Ireland |url=https://www.botanicalartandartists.com/news/category/ireland |website=BOTANICAL ART & ARTISTS |language=en}}</ref> and also the Jill Smythies Award from the Linnean Society of London in 2010. She has also published a book with Brendan Sayer on Wild Irish Orchids.<ref name="SayersSex2009">{{cite book|author1=Brendan Sayers|author2=Susan Sex|title=Ireland's Wild Orchids: A Field Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rJ-2QwAACAAJ|year=2009|publisher=Unknown Publisher|isbn=978-0-9564182-0-3}}</ref> Sex also designed the postage stamp collection of the ''Wild Flowers Of Ireland'' and four native trees for the ''Flora and Fauna'' series in 2006 for An Post.<ref name="Orchid"/><ref name="Burren"/><ref name="UL">{{cite web|url=http://www2.ul.ie/web/WWW/Services/Library/Special_Collections/2009|title=Special Collections|publisher=University of Limerick}}</ref>
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