1992 - 1996 MA (Visual Art) Queensland University of Technology.

1979 - 1982 BA (Philosophy & Fine Art) - University of Sydney.

July 1990 Lecturer, Fine Art - Queensland College of Art.

1996 Generic Objects, Palace Gallery, Brisbane.

1994 Curated exhibition Place Product, Ipswich Regional Gallery, Queensland.

1992 art, object and domestic signs, Savode Gallery, Brisbane.

1991 Materielle Kultur, Savode Gallery, Brisbane.

1989 Mind, Matter and Nature, Savode Gallery, Brisbane.

1998 Writing + Voice as Sculpture: the book symphony, curated by Franz Ehmann, Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane

1997 Homebrand, curated by Mitsuo Shoji, Casula Power House, Sydney.

Objects of Ideas, curated by Jacqueline Murphy, Toowoomba Regional Gallery, to travel to Stanthorpe, Noosa, Emerald, Alpha, Dalby, Townsville, Grafton, Cairns, Customs House University of Queensland, Bathurst, Centre for Contemporary Craft Sydney, Geelong, (mange.

Australische Ceramic, curated by Renate Wunderle, Galerie Handwerk, Munich, to travel to Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden.

1996 Diverse Alliances, Ecole d'art, Noumea, New Caledonia.

Artists' Books, Brisbane City Hall Gallery, Queensland.

Integrasi: Artists for East Timor, Metro Arts, Brisbane.

1995 Being with Objects, curated by Helen Stephens, Orange Regional Gallery to travel 1995 to Lismore, Wagga, Wollongong, Shepparton, Townsville Regional Galleries.

Combust, International Women's Day exhibition, QCA Gallery, Griffith University, Brisbane.

1994 Australian Universities Exhibition of Visual Art, Australian High Commission, Singapore.

Hanoi/BrisbanelBrisbane/Hanoi. Exchange exhibition between QCA and the Hanoi College of Fine Art, Vietnam.

1993 Happenstance, Royal Institue of Architects, Brisbane.

The Nature of Space, I.M.A. Brisbane.

Fresh Clay: Australia, Meat Market Craft Centre, Melbourne.

1992 Curated Exhibition Tableware Towards 2000, held at Queensland Potters Gallery, Brisbane.

Pez Fresco e Special, Carseldine Campus, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.

1991 At Least Its Gone to a Good Home: Women Producing and Collecting Art at the University of Sydney

1977 - l991: Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney.

Memory and Meaning, Jam Factory, Adelaide.

Gold Coast Ceramic Award, Gold Coast Regional Gallery, Queensland.

1988 Vessel as Metaphor, Macquarie Gallery, Sydney.

National Ceramic Award Exhlbition, Canberra School of Art, Canberra.

1987 Mayfair Award Exhibition, Meat Market, Melbourne.

Peter Anderson Brisbane Review, 10 December 1992.

Scott Avery ‘Mind, Matter and Nature', Craft/Arts, October/December 1990.

Anne Brennan 'Being with Objects', Object, No.l,l996.

Margo McClintock 'Susan Ostling: Materielle Kultur', Eyeline, No. 16, Spring 1991.

Sally Cox 'Generic Objects', Object, No.4, 1996.

Victoria Hammond 'Just for Show', Exhibition Catalogue, Shepparton Art Gallery, 19X5

Joan Hoare(ed.)(1987) Clay Statements: Australian Contemporary Ceramics, Darling Downs Institute Press, Toowoomba.

Mary Horton 'Place.Product', Eyeline, No. 27, Autumn/Winter 1995.

Susie Lee 'Three Women Ceramic Artists', Woman's Affair, May 1991 .

Stephanie Linquist 'When History and Art Practice Collide', Ceramics Art and Perception No22 December 1995

Janet Mansfield 'Inner City Clayworks', Craft N.S.W, November 1980.

'Inner City Clayworkers Cooperative', Pottery in Australia, Vol. 20, No. 1, May/June 1981.

Janet Mansfield Modem Australian Ceramics, Craftsman House, Seaforth, N.S.W.

Janet Mansfield Contemporary Ceramics Art in Australia and New Zealand, Craftsman House, Roseville, N.S.W. 1994.

Bernadette Mollison 'Susan Ostling: art, object and domestic signs' Eyeline, 21 Autumn 1993.

Kate Ravenswood "'mmm nice bowl" comparative inscriptions upon contemporary ceramics', Eyeline, No.30,Autumn/Winter 1966.

Sue Smith Courier Mail, 1Q December 1992.

Barbara Poulsen 'Susan Ostling', Pottery in Australia, Vol. 29, No. 1, February/April 1990.

Shirley Powell 'Art and Industry: The Innovative Tableware Project', Eyeline, No. 26, Summer 1994.

Toni Warburton 'Susan Ostling painted terracottas at the Mori Gallery', Pottery in Australia, Vol. 24, No. 2, May 1985.