hello.
I'm a Liverpool (Lancashire) born scouser, transmogrified into an Aussie. I have always loved art, dance, music and photography. I have always been fascinated by the body - how it moves, expresses, enfolds who we are. I love how art, particularly contemporary art, includes performance, photography, drawing, painting and video, can talk to us, inform us, teach us, communicate to us visually. Art is a conversation and I love to indulge in all the forms it takes.
I hope you like my conversations.
Anita x
about.
Anita was born in Liverpool, England. At the age of 12 when she moved to Twickenham, South West London when her Mother re-married.
English and Art were her favourite subjects at high school, and she also continually wrote volumes of poetry. She always had a camera in her hand from as long as she can remember. Then at 14 while doing a still life exercise at school one day she discovered that she could also draw!
Anita gained her Advanced Level in fine art at sixth form college. She then trained as a teacher gaining a Bachelor of Education. Her main subject was Fine Art and her artwork over the three years consisted of drawing, painting and sculpture. It was wanting to perfect her drawings and sculptures of the body that lead Anita into a more serious study of photography, using her own photographs to draw from.
In the early 80s she decided to visit Australia where she already had friends. In 1982 she arrived in Sydney on a 12-month working holiday visa and fell in love with Australia, making her home here.
Anita lived in Melbourne for a couple of years and studied at the Photography Studies College gaining a Diploma in Photography. She always had a home darkroom and carried her camera everywhere.
Moving back to Sydney she studied Desktop Publishing and became a digital artist in a photographic lab providing retouching and composite images for advertising agencies such as George Patterson, Kennedy Rea, Mojo, Saatchi & Saatchi, Channel 7, Channel 9, David Jones, and Grace Bros. Photoshop was just beginning to become the industry standard tool and Anita began using it for fashion magazines such as Australian Vogue, Elle and Dolly.
Following her heart down yet another track; in 2000 she became a full-time yoga teacher! She always taught yoga in her spare time but then she decided to leave the world of advertising for the life of a yogi. She worked in several yoga studios prior to opening her own studio in Leichhardt. But art called her back and she finally got to go to art school and completed her Bachelor of Visual Arts degree in Photomedia at Sydney University.
She worked at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney before moving back to the UK for a couple of years where she worked at her favourite London galleries - Tate Britain and Tate Modern. Anita is now back in Australia living on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. She is a practising photographic and video artist, and (can't help herself!) teaching QiGong, Yoga and Mindfulness Meditation (see the link 'yoga/qigong' in the menu).