BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES:

My interest in art, especially ceramic sculpture, developed during my high school years. In 1971, having majored in ceramics, I graduated from Melbourne Teachers’ College as an art teacher. Since my marriage in 1972, my family has led a global nomadic life, experiencing both rural and city lifestyles. I have lived in small mining towns in Tasmania, Western Australia and Queensland as well as in Geelong, Melbourne, Perth, Pittsburgh, New York and Sydney.

I have worked as an art teacher in various High Schools, set up many private studios and moved house 27 times. I have been involved with community art groups at both participatory and administrative levels and have been both a teacher and student in many workshops. I have regularly exhibited and sold my work in group exhibitions over the past ten years

In 2000, my husband and I moved to the United States, spending our first year in Pittsburgh followed by four years in New York. During that time, I worked in studios at the “Old Firehouse Studios” in Pittsburgh, “Tribeca Potters” in lower Manhattan, and, after September 2001, with the “Clay Art Guild of the Hamptons” in Sag Harbor, Long Island. The warmth and generosity of those art communities has a very special place in my heart and provided me with a wide range of learning opportunities.

On returning to Perth in 2005, I shared space with Maree Mack at Fleur Schell’s wonderful “Soda Studios” in North Fremantle. This was an exciting, fulfilling and thoroughly wonderful time and it was with great sadness that the decision was made to leave to Perth.

With a desire to be closer to family in the eastern states and a hope for more domestic stability, we have relocated to Melbourne and Sydney where I am currently setting up workspaces.