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Creative central

BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE

From her earliest memories, Sandie Wilson was a relentless creative. She doodled in the margins of her school books, sketched on any available scrap of blank paper and loved nothing better than cutting up curtains from her mother’s ragbag to make her own clothes. She studied art and home economics at boarding school in Rockhampton in central Queensland and went on to become a nurse where she kept herself

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