BRONWYN OLIVER : A LIFE IN ART
Nov 09, 2016
4 minutes
ESSAY IAN HOWARD
I FIRST MET BRONWYN OLIVER
when she was 10 years old. It was 1969. She was Bronwyn Gooda then and her family lived in northern NSW, in the cattle and wheat town of Inverell. I was in my first year of teaching art at the local high school and for good measure I ran a Saturday morning art class for younger children at the Inverell TAFE.
Nineteen Sixty Nine was also an “exciting time to be alive”. Being considered the local art expert, I was summoned to attend the bowling club (the real meeting point for the town) in mid-November, to explain to a considerable audience what a foreign artist named Christo was doing at
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