By choosing to study scenography at an art academy instead of a theatre school Suzanne Groothuis found herself in a on a crossroad between theatre, installation and visual arts. Her theatrical background is manifested in her interest in storytelling and creating experiences and images that are always in movement, evolve with time and that are in need of human interaction. It also makes that she sees great value in collaborating with artists and non artists from all disciplines and is experienced to work with a wide range of different materials.

Suzanne believes that the power of art is to use artistic forms to give a platform to unheard or unpopular stories. Therefor her preferred art-form is community art where she accompanies groups of non-artists to find the message or story they want to share and and guides them in creating an artistic form to express their message in the public space.

Living in Brussels and working in Gaza she takes inspiration from challenges and wonderment arising from close interactions with a multitude of different social groups, cultures, conflicts and ways of life, as well as by encounters when teaching the young generation who are constantly readapting themselves to the fast social changes of this decade.