Sue de Vanny
Sue is a Melbourne, Australia-based award-winning artist whose practice spans textiles, mixed media, and painting. Best known for innovative textile art, she blends fabric collage, thread, and stitch with painterly
techniques to create works that are vibrant, layered, and full of narrative.
Her pieces often explore themes of nature, conservation, and human connection, drawing on her own photography and travels for inspiration.
With a background in both design and art, Sue's work moves seamlessly between canvas and cloth, pushing boundaries and inviting viewers to see textiles as a powerful contemporary art form.
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Changes Diamond Dogs II
Size: 39'' x 72''
Diamond Dog Two speaks to survival under pressure.
Two African wild dogs meet in profile, their faces stitched in semi-realistic thread sketched as witnesses to a species on the edge. In contrast, their bodies fragment into polygon forms, echoing the breaking apart of habitat and the increasing instability of their world. Set against a fading sunset, the work reflects both beauty and loss.
The collision of delicate line and fractured geometry becomes a quiet warning — that without change, what is whole may continue to disappear.