Since 1976. A typical seventies woman.

In Australia a Labor Government introduced a scheme which enabled women like me to return or begin study. Study for girls of our generation was a privilege. My parents were typical of the era who did not deem it necessary to educate girls.

I loved it. I think I represent the thousands of countless young women who enrolled to study. We wanted to learn. Worked in a Bank in Melbourne 8 years and had to leave a good job on marriage. I had started part time night study at RMIT in Melbourne. I had to resign after 8 years in a bank, upon marriage. Then the joy of three daughters.

I completed Dip. Fine Art at Warrnambool CAE, changed location and did an Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974 movie) when I moved to Adelaide where fortune favoured me with a new husband.

After the traditional art school studies on the seventies, I was open to other studies. I was interested in creative techniques but my subjects were mostly always about women, their life, my life, goals and aspirations and social restrictions. I wrote my BA final paper on the things I was not told, as a girl. I was always kept safe and am lucky but I was always curious about why? Why not!!

It took 17 years of intermittent study in all to finish my BA (Magill CAE). Wonderful! With the my second husband my family relocated for 5 years to Vienna, during which time I did two summer courses at Salzburg Festival of Art. Further ongoing study included time as a member of pottery club and digital technology. 

People ask what am I doing now. I explain I just try out available techniques, acquired during workshops. But I don’t change much in themes.

On returning to Australia, the computer days began. I soon discovered the fun of a computer which culminated in a digital technology course with Di Longley. Today many established senior women artists have similar stories.

Prints

The digital days began in 2000. I am presenting a review of digital art at Gallery M on October 16th 2020. This show my travel from solarplates to smart phone, and manipulated imagery. Usually based on my drawings.

We had our first home computer. I loved this wonderful gadget and went to a course where I understood nothing. Then Diane Longley, printmaker from Central School of Art ran a weekend workshop Introduction to Digital Techniques. I learned how to make a film, make a photopolymer plate, and manipulate imagery on photoshop which I loved. My first image was my dog Harry. Results in 2020 area commercially printed digital prints, smartphone sketches converted to poster type images.