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.MY ART:
Loved art of many kinds as long as I can remember (see my heros) but didn't get serious about my own practice until a friend comissioned me to do a painting for her. This led to a kind of addiction with paint and photography that has held me in thrall ever since.
MY MUSIC:
Desperation got me singing. I was living in Kings Cross, Sydney at the time, renting a room in an old boarding house. One day I came home to find everything gone. Nothing left but the old guitar I had with me and the clothes I was wearing. Everyone else in the boarding house had been ripped off too. We stood around wondering what to do and then someone asked, “Can you play that guitar and sing?†I’d been teaching myself The House of the Rising Sun and could sort of play it. Seems there was a talent contest at a pub that night with a cash prize. I had nothing left to lose and desperate people do desperate things and I won that competition with my one song. Got to admit it was probably because I was the only female in the contest. So I did the pub competition rounds for a while, and only got beaten by a blind man occasionally. There were not many female folk singers around back then. There was the odd coffee bar that might pay you a bit extra on top of the meal they provided, then there was busking, which was hard work, but good money ....if you were lucky.
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