Sue deGennaro found that drawing as a child filled in all the spaces left behind by having no television.

Part of her love of drawing is due to the fact that art class ended up being the only class she never wagged in high school.

From school, Sue completed an arts degree in film, travelled and then enrolled in art school where she learnt to draw and weld. But after a year, she dropped out and moved to Sydney where she learnt trapeze. And for the next ten years Sue trained as an aerialist and performance artist.

Sue now has two children and she draws full time on a long bench and a wobbly stool, with her feet firmly on the ground. She has illustrated for books including The Princess & the Packet of Frozen Peas (2009) and for Jackie French’s The Tomorrow Book to be released in March 2010.

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