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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.
During this time were 2 types of music: 50s Rock'n'Roll (which consisted of about 8 songs on a mix tape) and The Divinyls. As a result of the former, Rena has been influenced by that 50s/60s, Rock'n'Roll, Motown, retro aesthetic. The latter, one hit wonders, have had little, if any, influence.
Rena was reacquainted with civilisation when she moved back to Australia at the age of 11. There she learnt about ballpoint pens, the 12s timestable, sarcasm, colour television, Seinfeld, computers and later, the internet. 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, where she developed a love for typography and a passionate hatred for badly used fonts.
Rena still lives in Melbourne and spends most of her day at the computer as Lead Designer for a Web 2.0 company in Sydney, she has started a t-shirt label, exhibits fairly regularly and does freelance work. She is also a novice powerlifter, can deadlift double her body weight, and loves a good armwrestle.
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