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Edith Collier: A Light Among Shadows
Film (Full Length) – 2007
When she died there were trunks full of unused canvases and oils.– Biographer Joanna Drayton
She was a housewife, she was an aunt, she was a sister, but in her own heart she was an artist ... I guess ... that’s the sad thing, the sad loss, that she gave her dream away.– Biographer Joanna Drayton, in an interview in the documentary
Beautiful, rich and acutely sensitive.– Dominion Post review of Edith Collier: A Light Among Shadows
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