[6] Her career in the arts from the 1980s onwards encompasses participating in Identity Writers Workshop and being a co-founder of BlackScribe, the North West's first Black women's writing collective.

She has also developed performance works with a sustained structure and visual component to them, including This is All I've Got to Say (1993) and The Story of M, commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1994.

[12] While sitting in a white-screened hospital ward, visual projections of family photographs accompany the performer's memories of her mother's life and death.

[13] The Story of M is included on the A-level English Literature syllabus offered by EdExcel Examination Board (2017), introduced by Deirdre Osborne.

[14] SuAndi has written two librettos: Mary Seacole had a West End opening and toured Britain in 2000,[15] and The Calling was performed by the BBC Philharmonic in 2005.