Arts
THE ART By Andrea Louise Thomas Photos Yanni
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orrento art conservator Cash Brown has a fascinating job. She’s an investigator, scholar, chemist, art historian, technician and artist all in one. All of her interests, skills, studies and previous professional incarnations come into play in her current work and she loves it. From the earliest age, Cash was driven by curiosity, creativity and a spirit of inquiry. She was always making things and collecting ephemera from the natural work which she documented through drawing and painting.
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September 2021
Growing up in Adelaide she remembers having access to great artworks, particularly Aboriginal and Indonesian art, as they formed part of the curriculum from primary school. Excursions to the Art Gallery of South Australia made a great impression on her. She studied art in high school, but decided to pursue a degree in Biological Science (University of Adelaide) studying botany and zoology. She stopped just one subject short of her degree because she realised the jobs she really wanted weren’t open to women in her field at that time.