painter and cartoonist, was born in Sydney, daughter of the cartoonist and cartoon historian David Swain . She studied psychology and held various jobs, but always drew. In 1988 she published the bestselling Great Housewives of Art (London/ Sydney, Grafton Books) and a sequel, Great Housewives of Art Revisited . Oh My Goddess! was published by Bantam in Sydney, and Penguin in New York, in 1994. She was then running 'art experience workshops’.
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Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1996
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2007
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