Background
Michele Margaret (Micky) Allan was born in 1944 in Melbourne, Australia.
Michele Margaret (Micky) Allan was born in 1944 in Melbourne, Australia.
Allan received a BFA from the University of Melbourne in 1967 and a Diploma of Painting from the National Gallery School in Melbourne in 1968.
At the time of this writing, Allan is a tutor and artist-in-residence at the Art Workshop of the University of Sydney, Australia. She was a lecturer at the Art School, Preston Institute of Technology, Melbourne, 1975-76.
She works strictly in 35mm, producing black- and-white and hand-painted (oil, watercolor, gouache, pencil) photographs.
PUBLICATIONS Monograph: My Trip, 1976 (Melbourne). Book: Cafe Sport, w/Pamela Brown, 1979 (Seacruise Books: Sydney). Catalogs: The Philip Morris Collection, 1979 (Melbourne); The CSR Pyrmont Refinery Centenary 1978 Photography Project, 1978 (Sydney).
COLLECTIONS In Australia: Art Gall, of New South Wales; Art Gall, of South Australia; Australian Natl. Gall., Canberra; Ballarat Fine Art Gall., Victoria; Philip Morris Cllctn.; Univ. Art Mus., Queensland.
A member of the Art Workers Union as of 1979.