IRENA DOBRIJEVICH-HATFIELD
From a background predominantly in the visual arts, which included establishing an Aboriginal art and craft centre on Elcho Island in Arnhem Land, Irena's experience of writing a substantial piece commenced with her thesis for her Master’s Degree (Art Administration COFA UNSW) and reached its zenith with her book WHITE WOMAN BLACK ART, My Year on Elcho Island
During her seven years as the Director of the Lismore Regional Gallery she wrote a weekly Art Review column for The Northern Rivers Echo, a regional newspaper, as well as a variety of short essays for art catalogues and publications as well as producing a quarterly gallery newsletter and so forth.
Following a high profile murder trial in 2000, where Irena was acquitted and completely exonerated, she wrote her biography with Mark Amdur, IRENA, The Irena Hatfield Story, which was published by Harper Collins in 2001.
As a personal legacy for her family, in 2012, Irena wrote Memories of my Childhood, a candid journey through the innocence of her childhood whilst growing up in Mount Druitt during the 1950s. Situated 43 kilometres west of Sydney, at this time, Mount Druitt was a sleepy, working-class, rural hamlet. Born, Irena Dobrijevich, daughter of WWII refugee migrants, she shares the delights and adventures of her day to day life as well as intimate experiences of time spent at Dalwood Home, a Sydney government run orphanage, and Haddon Hall, a small Presbyterian children's home in the Blue Mountains.
During her seven years as the Director of the Lismore Regional Gallery she wrote a weekly Art Review column for The Northern Rivers Echo, a regional newspaper, as well as a variety of short essays for art catalogues and publications as well as producing a quarterly gallery newsletter and so forth.
Following a high profile murder trial in 2000, where Irena was acquitted and completely exonerated, she wrote her biography with Mark Amdur, IRENA, The Irena Hatfield Story, which was published by Harper Collins in 2001.
As a personal legacy for her family, in 2012, Irena wrote Memories of my Childhood, a candid journey through the innocence of her childhood whilst growing up in Mount Druitt during the 1950s. Situated 43 kilometres west of Sydney, at this time, Mount Druitt was a sleepy, working-class, rural hamlet. Born, Irena Dobrijevich, daughter of WWII refugee migrants, she shares the delights and adventures of her day to day life as well as intimate experiences of time spent at Dalwood Home, a Sydney government run orphanage, and Haddon Hall, a small Presbyterian children's home in the Blue Mountains.
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