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Description: Sydney-based writer & editor in the fields of architecture, art and design. Editorial Director of Indesign Publishing, editor of Habitus and Indesign magazines.
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Looking back, I realise I’ve always followed my nose. No Plan. I must have a very good guardian angel because somehow it’s always turned for the best.
After a stint of school teaching, I ran the Institute of Contemporary Art in Sydney in the mid-1970s. Then I returned to academe, teaching in the post-graduate English as a Foreign Language Programme at Sydney University , running it for some years and hauling in a Master in Applied Linguistics along the way.
All the while – nearly 20 years – I lived a double life. From 1985 to 2002 I was Visual and Performing Arts Critic for the Australian Financial Review . In the mid-1990s I was a producer and presenter on SBS TV’s arts show, Imagine as well as writing books and essays on the visual arts and the theatre. I managed to fit in a PhD on ritual in 20th Century theatre, focussing on the work of Australian playwright, Jack Hibberd. Post-Sydney University I taught in undergraduate and post-graduate visual arts and de
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