SUE PEDLEY

Sue Pedley is experimenting with ‘art walking’ as a way of exploring issues of racism. She will interpret the experiences of Vietnamese Australians known as ‘foot people’ or ‘land people’ who escaped from Vietnam by foot through Cambodia to Thailand after 1975.  She intends to transcribe interviews from digital recordings made with five to ten Vietnamese Australians describing their experiences and create a visual account based off of their narratives.  She would like to form a focus group that conducts discourse regarding issues of empathy, racism and war and would like to conclude the residency with an empathetic walk.

Artist biography: Sue Pedley received a Bachelor of Fine Art degree from the Tasmanian School of the Art in 1984 and completed a Postgraduate Diploma of Fine Art from the Sydney College of the Arts in 1989.  Ms. Pedley obtained her Master of Fine Art from the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales in 1997 and is a PHD candidate at the College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales.  She is currently employed as professor in drawing and image at the School of Architecture and in Visual Communication at the School of Design and University of Technology.  Ms. Pedley has participated in a number of residencies and exhibitions in London, France, Germany, Sri Lanka and Japan.  She had recently engaged in the Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial 2006 in Japan and is currently exhibiting an installation Blue Jay Way at the Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne.