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Ann Grocott (Ann Oenone Wood) was born on 1938 in Glenelg, South Australia, is an Australian writer, artist (born 1938). Discover Ann Grocott's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?

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Age 86 years old
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Born 1938
Birthday 1938
Birthplace Glenelg, South Australia
Nationality Australia

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1912

The exhibition featured works by Ann Grocott, Noel Wood 1912-2001 (her father), Rex Wood 1906-1970 (her uncle) and Thomas Wood 1855-1937 (her great-grandfather).

1938

Ann Oenone Grocott (born 1938) is an Australian writer and painter, whose two children's books have been translated into Swedish and Danish.

In addition to figurative, portraiture and landscape painting, her artworks include: assemblages in fabric, cement, wood, found objects etc.; oils on canvas, paper and plaster; watercolours and small sculptures.

Ann Wood was born in 1938 in Glenelg, South Australia.

Her father was the Australian painter, Noel Herbert Wood and her uncle, Rex Wood was an Australian painter/printmaker.

Her father married Eleanor Weld Skipper whom he met at Art School in Adelaide.

During World War II, Ann, her mother and her older sister Gini were evacuated from Bedarra Island to Woodend, Victoria.

Following the war, her parents remained apart.

Ann Wood eventually married Terry Grocott and reconnected with her father.

In her 40s, Grocott published two novels for children aged 8–12 years:

1985

Duck For Danger (1985) and Danni's Desperate Journey (1987, Angus & Robertson).

Duck For Danger, whose protagonist traveled from Queensland to Bangkok and London, was described as combining "a liberal helping of humour with a sense of the daring and unexpected into a totally irresistible blending".

The protagonist of Danni's Desperate Journey, a science fiction fantasy, travels the universe.

Grocott also published a handbook on How to write for children (1985, AWPS), as well as several short stories.

A French criticism of juvenile writing quoted her on the challenges of writing for younger people.

Grocott eventually decided to concentrate on painting.

She worked for a decade as a self-taught artist, and was a student of the Australian Flying Arts School.

The school was led by Mervyn Moriarty, who flew to remote areas of regional Queensland and north-western New South Wales to give workshops.

1987

Duck For Danger was translated into Swedish as Fly för livet, Micky (Wahlstroms, 1987, ISBN 91-32-12837-1) and Danni's Desperate Journey was translated into Danish as Fridas farlige faerd (Tellerup, 1989, ISBN 87-588-0358-0).

1991

Grocott earned a Post-Graduate Diploma in Fine Art from Monash University in 1991.

1998

Her painting New Generation -- Ancient Land (1998) was shown in London, Stockholm and Brussels.

The London showing was opened by Prince Charles.

As part of the United Nations Millennium Art Exhibition it was also shown in New York.

The piece was purchased for the permanent collection of the Bundaberg Regional Galleries.

Her works have been included in Sydney, Australia's Salon des Refuses, an alternative to the prestigious exhibitions held annually for the Archibald and Wynne Prizes.

1999

In 1999, Grocott was one of five artists chosen to represent Australia in "Our World in the Year 2000", the Winsor and Newton Worldwide Millennium Exhibition, as a result of which her work appeared in London, Stockholm, Brussels and New York.

In 1999, Grocott was one of five artists chosen to represent Australia in "Our World in the Year 2000", the Winsor and Newton Worldwide Millennium Exhibition.

2011

In 2011, she won both the grand prize and the portrait award in the Bundaberg Sugar Gala Arts Festival.

Grocott has exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions and her works are held in gallery collections.

Her work appears in the 20th Century Fox movie Nim's Island, based on the book by Wendy Orr.

Grocott exhibited at the Allamanda Gallery which was an important center for artists and their exchange of ideas in Bundaberg.

2017

In 2017 Ann Grocott curated Bloodline at the Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery.

2019

In August 2019, Ann Grocott was showcased with Jennifer McDuff, Marvene Ash, John Honeywill, and Coralie Busby in the exhibition Out of The Allamanda at Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery.

The exhibition was developed in collaboration with the Colour and Response tour and exhibition which examined the impact of the work of Merv Moriarty and Flying Arts throughout Queensland.

In 2019, just before an art auction at Leonard Joel in Melbourne, Ann Grocott discovered several works by her father Noel Wood were fakes or copies with a forged signature of her father's. The works were subsequently withdrawn from the auction sale.