printmaker, illustrator, poet, writer and teacher, was born in Perth, WA. While studying for her BA (English) at Queensland University in the late 1950s she drew many illustrations for university newspapers, walls, etc. Married 1) Rodriguez, 4 children, lived in Melbourne and taught English at Latrobe Uni; 2) Tom Shapcott, lived in Sydney and for a time edited the poetry section of the Saturday SMH . Since 1961 she has published poems, stories and review articles, some illustrated with her own linocuts, e.g. Hecate , e.g. 2/2 (July 1976), 5, Buses pass here daily 1974, edn 12/12; 3/2 (July 1977), 8, Japanese influenced entwined couple (also in her collected verse); 5/2 (1979) 31-33, three woodcuts: The cow goes up no.42 1975, edn 2/20, The burning globe no.44 1975, edn 3/20, and Piano lesson no.9 1977 edn 1/20. Was the chief illustrator for Hecate , along with Rosemary MacLennan.
Rodriguez held an exhibition of her linocuts at the Bookshelf Gallery, Melbourne, in 1978, the year she also won the SA biennial prize for literature at the Adelaide Festival of Arts. Was series editor of modern Australian poetry at Penguin Books for eight years in the 1990s. In the early 1990s she was commissioned by the Australian Opera to write a libretto for Sydney composer Moya Henderson’s Lindy : an opera in three parts , on the subject of Lindy Chamberlain, produced in 2002.
- Writers:
- Kerr, Joan
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
