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    A life of art

    Dec 02, 2016 3 minutes
    By Helen Fitzgerald

    I had the good fortune to be born to an artistic mother who had been one of Australia’s early women potters, running a studio in Clarence Street, Sydney, where she employed 10 people. That came to an end with WW2 when she was obliged to contribute to the war effort.

    I was born towards the end of the war and we lived in what was quite an artist’s colony

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