Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

Home is where our art is

She was raised in Ballarat with a rural Victorian childhood and “a great interest in the natural world”. But Robyn Lea always dreamed of living overseas and at the age of 15 started plotting her future. “I had these plans of understanding the world through the eyes of artists and writers and I thought photography would be a wonderful way to take me there,” she tells The Weekly . Those dreams come to life in Robyn’s stunning and intriguing new book A Room of Her Own .

The starting point for the work was Robyn’s concept of the 21st

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