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ILLUSTRATOR
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| Freya
grew up in Orange in the central west of NSW. As
a child she always had an interest in illustrating
stories, and later when several other attempted
occupations really didn't hit the spot, she realised
illustration was what she'd been searching for all
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Freya
studied a Bachelor of Design (Visual Communications)
at the University of Technology, Sydney, where
she focused on film and animation. She made two
short films of her own and worked for a few years
in the film industry in Sydney.
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She
then began a graduate diploma in Production Design
at the Australian Film Television and Radio School
only to be wisked away to New Zealand to work
for Weta Workshop as a prosthetic painter and
applicator on the film adaptation of Tolkien's
The Lord of the Rings.
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In
New Zealand, with work on the film over and an
opportunity for change, she tried her luck at
illustration and began illustrating for educational
publications. This work was discovered by Margrete
Lamond at Scholastic and Freya was given her first
picture book TWO SUMMERS,
written by John Heffernan. TWO
SUMMERS was a dream beginning for Freya's
career and now several other books are in the
pipeline...
Freya
is available to talk to primary and secondary
students about illustrating, be it smaller workshops
or larger presentations.
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