1945:
Born Hobart, Tasmania, August 19th
1950-63:
Educated to Matriculation at The Friends School, Hobart.
1956:
Got my first camera - a Kodak Box
Brownie.
1964:
Worked for twelve months as a medical clerk in the Repatriation Dept.
and began part-time study for a B. A. at the University of Tasmania.
Bought my first 35mm camera (a new Minolta SR1) as well as a secondhand
120 size Yashica D twin lens.
1966-8:
Took over management of The Wild Goose Folk Club and ran it as the
Five Believers. Also worked in various government departments as a
clerk while studying part-time.
1970-3:
Clerk in the Sales Office of Telecom (now Telstra) dealing with public
enquiries.
1971-2:
Two volumes of my poetry published
by Fullers Bookshop in Hobart.
1974:
Graduated Bachelor of Arts, University of Tasmania, majoring
in English and Ancient Civilizations.
1975-6:
(Feb) Taught English and Social Science at Devonport and Wynyard
High Schools. Radio play The Tunnel accepted and recorded
in stereo by the ABC for FM radio .February 1976 I was busted for
growing dope and sacked from the state education department.
1976-80:
Appointed Media Officer at the TCAE, Mt. Nelson, Hobart. As part of
my duties I took over the editorship of The Feral Gazette.
Feral was the relatively new student magazine of the TCAE Student
Association on Mt Nelson and in those days the Editor was a professional
position, and student magazines saw themselves as THE alternative
media in dealing with social issues and the environment.
1977-
81: I was a volunteer presenter on 7CAE FM, Hobart's first
FM station, presenting the State's first rock music program (wittily
entitled "The Other Program")..
1983:
Received a Diploma in Fine Art at the University of Tasmania majoring
in photography, design, layout and drawing. Also trained as a photography
lab technician at Q Photographics, Hobart.
1984-6:
Edited the student magazine of the University of Tasmania, Togatus
as a professional editor and pioneered the use of the Macintosh computer
to lay out the magazine in 1986.
1984-5:
Trained in the use of the University Union's Multilith printing press
and process camera, being employed casually as a printer.
1985:
In partnership with a Deloraine collective I helped establish the
environmental quarterly Larrikin which later became Edgeways.
1986-93:
Founded, edited and published the arts quarterly Press Press Magazine
(wound up October 1993).
1987-9:
Employed casually by Roger Lupton Public Relations to produce various
newsletters for such clients as LBS Bank and the Tasmanian Development
Authority.
1988:
Included in Sue Backhouses' book Tasmanian Artists of the 20th
Century
1989:
(late) Employed by Mary Brownell of MBA Publishing as a sub- contractor
on the magazine Youth Studies for the National Clearing House
for Youth Studies, University of Tasmania, producing two publications.
