Sue Codee

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Based in Albany on the south coast of Western Australia, Sue is an artist and designer who has worked in the arts for over 37 years, since completing a Fine Arts degree at Curtin University in Perth in 1988. With a deep passion for travel and cross-cultural exchange, her creative life has included community arts projects in remote rural Tibetan communities; Quezon City in the Philippines; the Australian territory of Christmas Island; and numerous remote First Nations communities across the Western Australian and Northern Territory deserts. Her practice has also encompassed exhibition curation, public art projects, public commissions, and artist residencies. Sue’s work is held in many private and public collections.

These days, her focus is This Papercut Life—her studio practice—where she designs and creates distinctive papercuts, woodcuts, jewellery, bowls, and coasters. Alongside hand-cutting large-scale paper artworks, she also uses laser-cutting technology to cut and etch her designs in paper, perspex, and wood. Her detailed and often complex imagery is playful and figurative, with a strong storytelling sensibility that explores themes of community, environment, family, and place.

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