Born September 17, 1943, Pru Ingham was a designer maker and teacher of woodworking who sadly passed away last year. She died as she wished, on the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 2022.
Pru was born in Sydney at the height of World War II and spent her childhood in the Blue Mountains. She learned violin from an early age and always had ‘clever hands’ for crafts and making things. She went on to study music at Sydney University as part of an Arts degree, but left before completing her degree.
In the early years of her first marriage Pru lived in Alice Springs – her children Cate, Peter and Rachel Shaw were born during that time. ‘We lived in a creek bed in a tent near Tennant Creek’, said Cate. ‘Pru was a great problem solver and we were all very in tune with the land.’
In 1981 Pru enrolled in
