Janet Goodchild Cuffley

Janet Goodchild-Cuffley was born in Melbourne. She undertook her initial art training at Swinburne and later achieved an M.A. in Visual Arts at La Trobe University Bendigo.

Concerned primarily with cultural and historical influences on female identity, she creates paintings which are strongly narrative in content.

Her current work draws on the Western tradition and centres on the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. It explores the legend of Demeter and Persephone, which she has set in the local environment of Central Victoria.

Goodchild-Cuffley has shown in solo and group exhibitions in Melbourne, Geelong and regional Victoria since the early 1980s, and at Australia House London in 2002.

She is represented in private collections in Germany, the UK, USA, New Zealand and Australia, and is in public collection at Bendigo, Australia (Golden Dragon Museum).

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