Overview
In 1980, shortly after returning to art classes at the John Ogburn Studio, I was overjoyed to find a studio space in an old building awaiting demolition at Sydney’s Circular Quay. I painted here for nine years. It was a short, wonderfully picturesque walk to the Harrington Street bond store in The Rocks, to the John Ogburn Studio and the Harrington Street Artists’ Co-operative Gallery.
Regular group and special theme exhibitions at the Gallery provided all students with a unique opportunity to exhibit and contribute to the running of exhibitions from the beginning of one’s drawing and painting life.
With my late husband Phil I enjoyed weekends at a vineyard in the Hunter Valley.
In Sydney at least three big marches were held in the mid-1980s to protest against the ugliness and questionable economics of the proposed Monorail. Then 1988 saw celebrations for 200 years of European settlement in Australia and to my enormous joy and relief the renovated and vastly expanded State Library opened to the public.
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