Sue Codee is based in Albany on the south coast of Western Australia 400kms from Perth, and is a visual artist and community cultural development practitioner who works across a wide artistic spectrum including roles such as curator, arts consultant, designer, and project co-ordinator.

In 1988 she completed a degree in Fine Arts from Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia, and has been working professionally in the arts since then.

Sue has widely exhibited in solo and group exhibitions including Abney Gallery, New York; Fremantle Arts Centre; Gunyulgup galleries in Yallingup; Elements Art Gallery in Perth; Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts; and Ayala Museum in Manilla, The Philippines. Her work is included in both public and private collections.

She has worked nationally and internationally as a community arts worker and artist-in-residence, on a range of projects which include with economically disadvantaged groups in the Philippines; the multicultural community of Christmas Island; numerous remote central desert Aboriginal communities including Balgo, Warburton, and Looma, in Western Australia, and Alpurrurulam community in the NorthernTerritory; the Hidden Valley Community in Alice Springs (with InCite Youth Arts); and a remote Tibetan community in Qinghai Province, China. She has also worked in numerous regional communities throughout Western Australia in both consultative and community artist roles.

In 2003 she was awarded the Australia Councils’ Camden Head Residency for Community Cultural Development.

She has also been involved in various public art projects and is highly skilled in the medium of mosaic design and application.

Sue initiated “Open Access” which is an innovative youth arts studio in Albany for young people experiencing hardship, which has become a thriving arts space in the community. She works across the Albany community as the City of Albany’s Cultural Planning Co-ordinator, and as a freelance curator, curates exhibitions, which to date have included two Retrospective’s as a part of the Albany Vancouver Arts Centres Exhibition Program.