Genevieve Berry b. 1937

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Berry (nee McCann) began her studies in 1975 when she studied part-time for a Diploma in Arts Studies at Balga Technical College, Perth (now North Metropolitan TAFE). She was active in watercolour, usually working from nature.
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Genevieve Berry (nee McCann) was born in Sandy Bay in Hobart, Tasmania on the 25th of November 1937 to a musician and music retailer father (Leonard McCann) and homemaker mother (Winnifred Deegan). She married in London to a hydrologist engineer Brendan Berry and between 1963 and 1964 lived in Jordan and Saudi Arabia. They moved to Perth in the early 1970s. Her artistic journey started in 1975 when she studied part-time for a Diploma in Arts Studies at Balga Technical College, Perth (now North Metropolitan TAFE). [...] Significant art influences have been Sieglinde Battley, Trish Austin and Michelle Everest. She won First Prize in the Trigg Art Club watercolour exhibition award in 1993. [...] She also exhibited in the “Nine to Five” exhibition held by the Contemporary Art Society of WA at Atwell House in April 1983 and “The Reunion Exhibition – Art of Perth Technical College: A Decade at St Brigid’s Annexe 1978 – 1988”.

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