Exuberance Exhibition Catalogue

Suzie Vickery
ARTIST STATEMENT
Susie Vickery began this series with the title, Exuberance,
and the themes of Stitch, Colour and the Environment,
and then did a mind map to inspire some ideas. She had
already been making cockatoos, as part of a fundraiser
for the campaign to stop the logging and mining of
cockatoo habitat in Western Australia so she expanded
on that, trying different materials, types of embroidery and
ways to mount them.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Susie Vickery’s career centres on embroidery and textiles,
both practical and academic and her core skills were
developed over twenty years as a costumier for theatre
and film. Over the last twenty years she has built expertise
in two further areas: development work and fine art
embroidery. Her awards include a finalist in the
Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize, Cinefest Oz: Cinewest
Best Short Film - Peregrinations of a Citizen Botanist
(People’s choice favourite film), WAFTA Professional
Textile Prize and Christine Risley Award, Goldsmiths,
University of London. Group exhibitions include Influence -
Lost Eden Gallery, Dwellingup, Twenty Five Plus - Holmes à
Court Gallery, Perth, The Curious Five go Surfing - Indian
Ocean Craft Triennial, Peregrinations of a Citizen Botanist -
Art on the Move tour of Western Australia and Another
View - Royal Birmingham Society of Arts, Birmingham, UK.