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Art has the capacity to speak to us across time and space. In these eleven letters the writer sets out to reply. Some of the artists she addresses lived long ago and far away, others overlapped her own lifetime and experience. Remembering encounters with their work, her unguarded thoughts lead her back through childhood in Melbourne, art training in the Northern Territory, research trips to Europe, Japan and Mexico and arts practice in Tasmania. The letters, which began as an exercise, become a valuable means of self-reflection and creative development.

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Faridah Cameron is a painter whose art has evolved from her experiences in many different cultural environments in Australia and overseas. In 1991, after completing her BA (Fine Art) in the Northern Territory, she co-founded visual theatre company Neil Cameron Productions as co-director and principal artist. She has taught in schools, universities and communities Australia-wide. In 2004 she gained a Master of Fine Art degree from Queensland University of Technology and moved to Hobart where she altered the focus of her work to full time studio practice. Her work is held in private and public collections including Artbank, the Tasmanian Arts and Heritage Office and the Holmes à Court Collection. She has been short-listed and highly commended in art prizes here and overseas. She is mother, grandmother and great-grandmother to an ever expanding family and long ago lost the ability to distinguish between art and life.

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