Alumnae Artists

Valerie Waring (Smeed) is an alumna of Brisbane Girls Grammar School, 1948 to 1949.

She began her training working as a museum artist at Queensland Museum with attendance at Brisbane Technical College Classes and later workshops run by the late Melville Haysom, John Rigby, the late Len and Kathleen Shillam and, more recently, Robert Wade and Greg Allen. Valerie has won numerous local awards and she has exhibited with the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour at the Mall Galleries in London, the Queensland Art Gallery in the L.J. Harvey Drawing Prize and the Andrew & Lilian Petersen Memorial Prize.

She has had a number of solo exhibitions and in 1988 she designed and painted the murals for the Univations Pavilion at Expo 88.

She is represented in private collections in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, and Japan.

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