I interviewed a really creative doll artist from Adelaide, Sandy Pine, who started to make dolls to fill in time. Now it’s her business and her dolls represent the magical mystical world.
You can read the story, published in Australian Dolls Bears and Collectables in June, here. “Sandy’s Seventh Heaven.”
The Writers Block
Born in Sydney, I grew up in an inner city pub, where the patrons were 1970s gangsters. After studying journalism at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, I worked for commercial and community radio as well as the ABC in Brisbane and Broken Hill. I even penned for the odd polititian. Swapping a microphone for a white board marker, I taught media and English in Brisbane, London and Melbourne for over a decade. Now working as a journalist full time again, I am also trying to complete a Masters of Journalism at the Queensland University of Technology-it’s taking a long time! I write freelance on an array of subjects and sometimes can be heard hosting the odd show on 4ZZZ-FM Radio (102.1).
In 2008 I was nominated for a Queensland Media Award, for my article “Bright Sparks,” which was a cover story about gifted children in The Age. This story also was highly commended at the Ozzie Awards and won best feature story in the 2008 QUT Journalism Awards.
You can contact me at bea@belindahogan.com