Edward
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Book conservator |
| Location | Launceston, Australia |
| Introduction | I spent my childhood on a dairy farm on the North West Coast of Tasmania in the early 1940s and 1950s. I attended Art School and University in Hobart in the early 1960s and initially qualified as an art teacher. My first posting was to King Island, situated off the NW coast of Tasmania in Bass Strait. I married in 1966, and my wife and I spent a year working in Papua New Guinea with Australian Volunteers Abroad in 1967. After spending 3 years back in Tasmania,in 1971 we returned to Papua New Guinea with our first 3 children, where I lectured in art education at Madang Teacher’s College. Three years later it was back to Tasmania where I lectured in Art Education at the University of Tasmania. During my time there from 1974-1996,I was introduced to the art and craft of hand papermaking and bookbinding. From 1999 until May 2006 I served in the Conservation Office at the Baha’i World Centre in Haifa, Israel. I devoted my time to working with the preservation, conservation and binding of books – both old and new. In May 2006 we returned to live in Tasmania. |
| Interests | books, paper arts, music, travel Baha'i Faith, theatre, movies, photography, collecting old postcards, textile arts, ceramics, family history |
| Favorite Movies | The Long Day Closes, Don't Look Now, On the Town, A Night at the Opera, All About My Mother, Interiors, In the Mood for Love, Blow Up, Casablanca, Some like it Hot, East of Eden, Spirited Away, Le Bal, Grey Gardens, Dersu Uzala, La Dolce Vita, Distant Voices Still Lives, Magnolia, Wild Srawberries |
| Favorite Music | De Phazz, Kruder Dorfmeister, Goldfrapp, Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service, Frou Frou, The Divine Comedy, Ella Fitzgerald, Belle and Sebastian, Elvis Costello, Rufus Wainwright, Black Box Recorder, Blossom Dearie, Lamb, Morcheeba, Everything but the Girl, Radiohead, Coldplay, Ron Sexsmith, Bjork, Thievery Corporation, Sufjan Stevens, Tosca |
| Favorite Books | The Little prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery, Maus by Art Spiegelman, Persepolis and Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi, Flood and Blood Song by Eric Drooker, W.G. Sebald, Alexander McCall Smith, Wanting by Richard Flanagan, Gervaise Phinn, Robert Sabuda, Nick Bantock, Breath by Tim Winton, People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks, Writings of Baha'u'llah, The Bab and 'Abdu'l-Baha |