Susie ran and walked from Darlington to Southampton and cycled across South America, having secured support Creative Darlington support in addition to sponsorship to progress her Retracing Routledge project, which culminated in an exhibition and associated events in the Art Gallery at Darlington Library.
The project was inspired by Katherine Routledge, one of the first anthropologists to visit and document Rapa Nui’s (Easter Island’s) culture. Susie retraced sections of the 1914 Mana Expedition to Easter Island involving Katherine Routledge, to study environmental change and to raise funds to support Rapa Nui students access to higher education.
