Born in Bulawayo, Bickle attended the Chisipite Senior School in Harare.
[3] She divides her time between Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and her work explores the region's history of colonialism.
Berry Bickle is a multimedia artist who works in installation, video, photography, and ceramics.
The exhibition and the publication Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art[8] highlight the presence of texts in Bickle's work and the importance of the act of writing and of collecting words; in this frame, the artist labels her work "Re-Writes".
In 2011, Bickle represented Zimbabwe at the Venice Biennale, at the time a rare appearance for an African nation.