Spotlight on Suzy O'Rouke
Suzy O’Rourke is a multidisciplinary artist and ceramicist based on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. With a background in millinery and interior design, Suzy’s creative practice explores the intersection of nature, form, and simplicity—expressed through both handcrafted ceramics and original artworks.
In 2025, Suzy opened the Suzy O’Rourke Gallery + Studio in Mona Vale—a dedicated space to create, exhibit, and share her evolving collections. The gallery reflects her philosophy of considered living and serves as a space for collaboration, exploration, and meaningful connection with the creative community. We interviewed her about her creative processes and goals for her future practice.
Our Local Creatives
Each month we showcase some of the talented people who live and work in our community, exploring the diversity of artistic and creative practices on the Northern Beaches.
Our creative community
The Northern Beaches is home to a higher than average percentage of artists, creatives and cultural workers.
Our local creative community generated $915 million in value added for the Northern Beaches in 2022/23. This is 6.1% of total Gross Value Added, above the Greater Sydney average (5.1%). Our artists and creatives are the drivers of a vibrant local economy.
Architectural Services was the top employing Creative and Cultural industry in the Northern Beaches, and Advertising Services was the top industry for employed residents living in the Northern Beaches. Book and magazine wholesaling employed 2.8 times more people than the Greater Sydney average, and photography was the largest specialised occupation with 2 times more people employed than the Greater Sydney average.
Our creative economy supported 6,992 local jobs (6% of total jobs in the LGA) and provided employment for 11,832 residents (7.4% of all employed residents) in 2022/23.
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