Sue has been practising as an artist, engaging the community in environmentally inspired projects, since 1996 when she began to focus on her own projects alongside her regular teaching commitments. Annual Tree Dressing projects for Cheshire County Council became a spring board for other projects with Cheshire Wildlife Trust and the Countryside Commission on the Wirral. She contributed to the Unilever Environmental Art project in 1998 which culminated in an exhibition at the Williamson Art Gallery. In 1999 she was commissioned to provide a temporary site specific public artwork alongside the new cycle path through the Weaver Park Way. For the millennium, as well as leading the design and construction of a Community Quilt with the residents from the village of Sutton Weaver, she took part in a year round series of school residencies for the ‘Cheshire Millennium Pilgrimage’. The following year saw another large project – ‘Entitlement’ with Cheshire Schools.  Also in 2001 Sue was selected for ‘Recreating Cheshire’ for a residency at the silk Museum.

Since moving to North Yorksire in 2002, Sue has undertaken a residency at Thurstaton Country Park creating a temporary outdoor work with over 600 local children.  She then became more involved locally, assisting with the Landmark Art Project with Nidderdale Visual Arts in an attempt to develop the potential for creative inspiration from the local landscape. Indeed, this became the focus of a second degree which Sue has undertaken as personal development.  Throughout this period she has continued to work in partnership with various other local agencies as well as Nidderdale Visual Arts delivering a variety of projects and workshops. She has also continued to be involved with exhibiting her own work when appropriate opportunities for working outside have arisen, such as the ‘Healing’ project at Norton Priory 2008.

Sue spent 2009 developing a project on behalf of the Landscape and Arts Network for a weekend of discussions, engagements and responses in the setting of Nidderdale. Working in collaboration with local groups such as the Friends of Nidderdale AONB, Yorkshire Quarry Arts and Nidderdale Visual Arts,  the final event entitled ‘Layers of Response’ allowed for a lively dialogue between both local and visiting participants and was accompanied by a week long exhibition of Sue’s work, ‘Lifelines’ and also of Paul Harris’s work, ‘Crossings’.

Sue continues to seek opportunities to site work site specifically where the context of the location is able to inform the work. She aims to make work which encourages engagement and participation with an emphasis on and opportunity to be involved in the process.