CinefestOZ acknowledges the Wardandi, Piblemen, Menang and Yawuru people, the spiritual and cultural custodians of this land on which we live and work. We honour and respect the significant role First Nations people play in our community and in guiding us and allowing our festival to flourish.
Susie Vickery – Peregrinations of a Citizen Botanist
Susie Vickery
Producer
(she/her)
Susie worked for two decades as a costumier for theatre in Australia and the UK. She moved to Nepal in the 1990s, working as a craft consultant with income-generation projects in India, Nepal, Tibet, Myanmar, and Turkey. She has run workshops for USAID in Tibet, the Smithsonian Museum in China, and the British Council in Nepal and facilitated workshops in informal settlements in Mumbai, and with women’s groups in rural Nepal and Mexico. In 2016, after 20 years in South Asia, Susie returned to Australia and continues to make embroidered animations, automata and textile pieces.