LocationWingecarribee Southern Highlands
Artist TypeProfessional
Sue Wallace is a professional puppetry artist, co-artistic director of the Sydney Puppet Theatre and director of ImaginArta – the Australian Puppet Centre. She engages in all aspects of puppetry including designing workshops.
- About
Puppetry has been my portal into a magical world of animating the inanimate. Simple or complicated, at its heart puppetry mirrors the human condition and helps me respect the world around me.
Immersion in puppetry has encouraged me to learn more and more skills – writing and designing for puppet theatre, learning many construction methods, studying manipulation and all this to reach the goal - performance. The audience then becomes part of the creative process enabling the work to stay dynamic. I specialise in puppet theatre for the family audience and get great joy from this shared experience.
I am also adept at and enjoy designing and facilitating puppetry workshops.
- Biography
Sue Wallace is one of Australia’s leading puppeteers and has been investigating puppetry for 35 years through performance, puppet construction, writing, directing and devising workshops. As co-artistic director of the Sydney Puppet Theatre she has directed numerous long term projects including the One Van International Festival of Puppetry and The Rock’s Puppet Cottage.
In 2014 the Sydney Puppet Theatre moved its operations to the Southern Highlands in regional NSW. In 2015, following her Churchill Fellowship research, she and colleagues opened ImaginArta – the Australian Puppet Centre in Sutton Forest. ImaginArta is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to promoting puppetry.
- Awards & Career highlights
2017 - Award for excellence in puppetry, Subotica International Children’s Festival, Serbia
2016 - Received Veolia Creative Arts Scholarship for Arts Recognition
2015 - Opened ImaginArta – the Australian Puppet Centre as a permanent venue in Sutton Forest.
2015 - Awarded Best Artistic Creation at World Rainforest Puppet Carnival, Malaysia
2005 - Awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study Puppet Centres around the world
- Studio Address
Sutton Forest Village Hall7414 Illawarra Highway
Sutton Forest NSW 2577Please contact the artist to arrange your visit.
Featured Works
"Albert the Magic Pudding" commissioned by Marian Street Theatre for Young People 2010
Large shadow work "Moon Shadow" for One Van International Festival of Puppetry2005
"The Nian Story" show commissioned by City of Sydney for Chinese New Year2013
Sue Wallace with Julia Feeney, Ambassador to Serbia after a performance in Serbia2017
