[1] Born the daughter of Donald Desmond Spooner (1910–1989), a classical pianist who studied for a short time at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide[2] before becoming a self-taught realist painter.
Composer, Malcolm Fox (1946-1997) created Cheque Mate, a musical contest between two groups of musicians dependent on the movement of the live chess pieces.
British actor John Stride (playing Coriolanus for The South Australian Theatre Company's Adelaide Festival production), officiated as The Adjudicator.
Her PhD focused on three decades of human interaction, social patterning, child’s play and reflections from her suburban childhood.
Dr Susan Sidlauskas, now Professor 19th Century, Rutgers, University of New Jersey[17] described the exegesis accompanying the body of work as a…fascinating hybrid of academic research, oral history, social analysis, artistic imagination, autobiography and archiving".
Her interest in distillation, repetition, modularity and generative processes provides, says Professor Carol Shepheard, an understanding of how history, society and culture impact the human condition.