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Meet a Member Gerry Bobsien MRAG Director since May 2020 Lives in Newcastle
Please tell us a bit about yourself and your family I was brought up in Blacktown in the Western suburbs of Sydney and then moved all over the place for study, work and adventure. I now live with my two daughters, Pollyanna (17) and Skip (24), Skip’s partner Anthony, and two dogs, all of us crammed into a little old timber terrace in a chaotic mess of fun. Despite my yearning to be a sideline mother (preferably AFL), my kids just wanted to dance and paint. Skip (Willcox) is a dance artist and, after working for a few years in a contemporary dance company in Germany, is now home juggling University study with independent dance projects. Pollyanna loves art and right now she is fangirling hard over Italian artist Nicola Samori. She also loves surfing (like her mother).
Gerry with daughters Polly and Skip.
What have been some of your career highlights so far? I have an eclectic work history and that makes this question really hard! This list may seem odd: working as a blacksmith in an industrial forge in Melbourne; getting my first book published; taking
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