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Delores
Foxtonfinn
Visual Artist
&
Musician
(Hunter
Valley, NSW)
Delores Foxtonfinn was born in Sydney, Australia.
She grew up in the town of Granville in Sydney's western suburbs in
the sixties and began her training for graphic art and illustration
at Victor Forstmann Studios in Sydney. She also became involved in music
performance around this time.
By the age of eighteen she was working in London as a
graphic artist and illustrator for trade fair exhibitions and corporate
identity. She returned to Sydney after four years overseas and continued
her graphics career working in newspaper and retail areas. She moved
to Newcastle in the early eighties with the intention of carrying on
in her chosen field.
The onset of a chronic illness was the catalyst that propelled
her into painting and writing and at the same it time exiled her from
exhibiting her paintings or touring her music to the extent she had
hoped for. She began exhibiting her paintings in the mid eighties and
also began selling her work privately. During the nineties she released
4 CD's with her band Me Me Me through Sydney independent label Phantom
Records.
Her paintings and her songs are a mixture of metaphor
and myth about an existence checkered with the satisfaction of a creative
life almost fulfilled and the accompanying battle to gain control of
her health. They are a roller coaster ride down into a quiet despondency
and up to the highest sense of humour. Often it is a sardonic combination
of both. Her work, for her, is a kind of narration and interpretation,
catharsis and escape. At times it reflects a stream of consciousness
and at other times it is the result of thoughtful contemplation. Though
a lot of her work is biographical, she has also taken time to bear witness
to events around her. Some of her paintings are simply an attempt to
achieve serenity. She has an affection for symbolism and religious imagery,
vintage clothes and harbours a passion for birds.
Delores now lives in the Hunter Valley where she continues
to paint, write and occasionally perform. She is
currently recording a CD with some of her band mates from the "MeMeMe"
years - Karl Richardson, Paul Cossettini and C.T. Dullard.
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