Sue Pillans
Biography
Dr Sue Pillans is a marine scientist, visual artist, children’s author/illustrator and graphic recorder specialising in creative and visual communications to help “Picture your ideas”. As an experienced graphic recorder Sue ‘draws upon’ her skills as a marine scientist and artist and combines them with her active listening skills to picture your ideas, information and concepts in real-time. Due to her scientific and research experience Sue is able to quickly synthesise and translate complex issues and information into words and...
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https://drsuepillans.comYears of experience
8-10 yearsServices provided
- Analogue
- Illustrations
- Videos
- Training
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Dr Sue Pillans helped us to put our words and ideas together, to visually represent the many conversations we have had about what we do, how we do it, and most importantly, WHY. Working with Sue was a great experience – she was quickly able to get to know our organisation and the final result is a picture that really shows CentacareCQ at its best.
- Carmel Marshall, General Manager, CentacareCQ
Sue, you captured the ideas so well and made the complex simple and the simple compelling.
- Dr John Griffiths, CEO, Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre
I had the pleasure of having Sue Pillans draw out my presentation. We live in the age of information, which means we are constantly switched on and constantly bombarded with new information. This makes it very hard to absorb all of the messages we need. What struck me most about Sue’s work, apart from her extraordinary talent as an illustrator, is her ability to quickly take complex verbal information and break it down in real time to pictorially represent it in an easily digestible and visually compelling way.