BIOGRAPHY
1946 Born Budapest, Hungary
1957 Arrived in New Zealand
1960-1964 Auckland Girls’ Grammar School
1968 Graduated DFA (Hons) Senior Scholar, University of Auckland, Elam School of Fine Arts
1969 Dip. Teaching, Auckland College of Education
QUALIFICATIONS:
1969 Dip.Teaching, Auckland College of Education
1968 Graduated DFA (Hons) University of Auckland, Elam School of Fine Arts, Senior Scholar Fine Arts(Sculpture)
1960-64 Auckland Girls’ Grammar School
LECTURING/TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
2011 Retired from teaching
2009-2010 Part time Art & Art history teacher Epsom Girls' Grammar School, Auckland, NZ
2003-2008 Art Department Director, Auckland Girl’s Grammar School, NZ
2001-2002 Lecturer of Visual Arts, Post Grad. Diploma & Bachelor of Education programs, University of Auckland, NZ
1995-2003 Principal Lecturer, School of Visual Arts, Manukua Institute of Technology, Auckland, NZ
1994 Programme Leader Visual Arts, Manukua Institute of Technology, Auckland, NZ
1989-93 HOD Art Epsom Girls' Grammar School, Auckland, NZ
1986-88 HOD Art Glendowie College, Auckland, NZ
1984-85 Community Education programmes 'Outreach', Auckland City Council, NZ
1983 Visiting artist, Governors State University, Illinois, USA
1982 Visiting artist, Johnson Atelier, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
1976-82 HOD Art Epsom Girls' Grammar School, Auckland, NZ
1974-75 Assistant art teacher Otahuhu College, Auckland, NZ
Visiting artist Elam School of Art, University of Auckland, NZ
1973 Assistant art teacher Hamilton Girls' High School, Hamilton, NZ
1970 Assistant art teacher Kelston Girl's High School, Auckland, NZ
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE – EXAMINER/ MODERATOR:
2002 External examiner MFA Post Graduate Sculpture, Otago Polytechnic School of Art, Dunedin, NZ
1998 External Moderator, Dip.Visual Arts, Hutt Valley Polytechnic, Wellington, NZ
1995-97 External Examiner, BFA, AIT, Auckland, NZ
1995-97 External Moderator Dip. Applied Arts, Northland Polytechnic, Whangarei, NZ
1991-97 UB/ Schol. National Assessor for sculpture
1988-91 External Examiner, University of Auckland, BFA, MFA sculpture
1981 UE/Bursary National Assessor
1978-80 SC art Regional Assessor, Auckland
CONSULTANCIES/PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
2001-2002 External Advisory group member, Otago Polytechnic School of Art, Dunedin
2001 Aotearoa Art Educators’ Conference, Hamilton, paper presented ‘Planning and implementing a visual arts curriculum’
Ministry Of Education Prof. Dev. Directors and facilitators hui at ACE
‘Growing the arts-how do we nurture arts education in NZ’, one of 6 speakers
1998-2001 Writer of NZQA accreditation documents for MIT School of Visual Arts Certificate Programmes: Photography, Production Graphics, Jewellery Techniques, L4 Visual Arts, L3 Foundation in Visual Arts
Member of joint Board of Studies Manukau School of Visual Arts and University of Auckland @Manukau
1998 Curriculum consultant to the Curriculum writing team of The ARTS, Ministry of Education
Member of Degree Advisory Committee Manukau Institute of Technology
1995-6 Co-writer of Bachelor of Visual Arts NZQA accreditation document, Manukau Institute of Technology
1995 Setting up of new School of Visual Arts and implementing Dip.VA, Manukau Institute of Technology
1994 Writer: Diploma in Visual Arts NZQA accreditation document, Manukau Institute of Technology
up to-1991
Curriculum "Framework"/National Certificate review committees.
Advisory service liaison for Sec.Teachers' Prof. Dev.
Curriculum: “Framework" committee.
NZQA National Unit standards writer Levels 2 & 3
ABA assessment trainer for Secondary School Art
ACE Middle Management course presenter for HOD's of Art
Art Educators' Conference-sculpture workshop presenter
Adviser to ASA Diploma programme accreditation
Waikato Teacher's College-Prof. Dev. work on ABA Assessment & Bursary sculpture
J1-F7 Art syllabus tutor/support to teachers
Advisory Service liaison for Sec.Teachers' Prof. Dev.; ACE. students.
NZQA (Industry) standards monitoring committee
NZQA (Industry) steering committee for accreditation, monitoring
NZQA (Industry) gen. education liaison person
PPTA suffrage committee Aotea Centre celebrations
Principals' Committee invited speaker: "Creativity in the new Curriculum"
Co-organise/lead students' travel to Italy, Greece. Art History/ Classical Studies (EGGS & Dio.)