About the researcher

I share some similarities with my quirky subject, Mr Meek, in that I have turned my hand to many things over the years – languages student, secretary, administrator, English teacher for adult migrants, and country real estate agent to name a few.  I’m also a psychologist and have worked in university, corporate, and private practice settings.

I was a keen Volunteer Guide at the Art Gallery of Ballarat, and have since moved to New Zealand where I coordinate the Volunteer Guide program at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki.

I have travelled in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, looking at Meek works held in overseas collections, researching at Stationer’s Hall, London, where Meek registered his works for copyright. Mr Meek was not able to take his Atlas of the Australasian Colonies on tour in Great Britain in 1862, as he had hoped, but I am pleased to give him an international presence 150 years on.