ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Sue Fusco is originally from Canada where she studied jewellery making. She moved to Kenya with her young daughter about 30 years ago, and immediately had to harness her design skills and put them to use on a much grander scale, as she arrived with very few personal belongings. With a welder and scrap metal off cuts she set about creating furniture and interior objects for her home. Friends and visitors couldn’t get enough of her designs asking for similar objects to fill their homes too, so she quickly found a creative livelihood that has supported her ever since.

Sue designs a large range of wrought iron furniture and other useful, beautiful household items, as well as jewellery and clothing collections. She uses new, found and recycled items, scrap metal and second-hand cloth, creating desirable and dynamic items from thrift. She usually sells out at East African fairs, and is regularly commissioned to create interiors for private houses and safari lodges throughout the region. Sue has always worked with a small team of “fundis” (the Swahili term for artisans and tradesman), who now do the hard work of realising her designs.