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DIRECTOR: DAVIDA ALLENDavida Allen was born in Charleville, Queensland, and attended school in Brisbane.
She showed artistic promise at high school where she received encouragement from her then art teacher Betty Churcher.
In 1973 she began showing paintings with the Ray Hughes Gallery in Brisbane. She was invited to exhibit with major National exhibitions including the Australian Perspecta and the Biennale of Sydney. In 1986 she won the prestigious Archibald Prize for Portraiture with her painting "My father-in-law watering his garden". Allen has published two books, "What Is A Portrait - Images of Vicki Myers" and "Close To The Bone - The Autobiography of Vicki Myers".
Her paintings, are usually of her immediate environment and family: an ordinary woman and wife constantly struggling to retain her artist's imagination while all around her ceaseless domestic demands are made of her heart, her mind and her body. The content of her new film continues these themes.
This is what the press has said about her paintings:
"She explores female sexuality with a combination of innocence and honesty that is devastating to behold. Ms Allen paints the unmentionable."Candida Baker, Sydney Morning Herald
"She speaks with a colloquial directness and holds nothing back. By being true to herself she's defied the elitism of modern art."Ciaran Carty, The Sunday Tribune (Dublin)
In 1990 Davida Allen met Film Producer Glenys Rowe.Glenys kept on saying to me "WHAT is it you want to say?" and for the next eight years, she relentlessly kept on asking this same core question, and now at the end of the eight years and having made the film, I know that if you know what you want to say, everything else somehow does fall into place."
Producer: Glenys Rowe
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