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Rena spent her childhood days as a Greek island girl. With little to watch on television apart from Jerry Lewis and Little House on the Prairie, she spent her days climbing trees, going on treks with her pet goat, riding her bmx down dirt roads, lounging the beach in the nude, watching the sun set over the ocean and sleeping under the stars.
Rena was reacquainted with civilisation when she moved back to Australia at the age of 11. There she learnt about ballpoint pens, that the times table doesn't end at 10x10, sarcasm, colour television, Seinfeld, and computers. She spent her adolescence in various isolated small towns in country Victoria, where she often had nothing better to do than make art.
Although she was a top student in all her classes at school, the only subject Rena liked was art, so she concentrated on this through her final years and moved to Melbourne to follow on to university to complete a Bachelor of Contemporary Arts (Visual Art). After spending a year and a half out of Uni, working in retail, she realised there would never be any listings under 'Artists' in the careers section of the Saturday paper, so Rena went back to university to gain a Postgraduate Degree in Graphic Design at RMIT.
Rena still lives in Melbourne and is currently working as Graduate Artist for Aristocrat. She tries to do a bit of art in her spare time and has been working on a graphic novel for the last few months, which she one day hopes to get published. Please feel free to contact her for any freelance work.
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