After travelling to Europe, Gazzard enrolled at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London where she studied from 1955 to 1959.

[2] Returning to Sydney, Gazzard studied sculpture at the National Art School, with Lyndon Dadswell.

In 1960, she opened a studio in Paddington, New South Wales, and in 1963 staged her first solo exhibition.

[3] In 1994, a survey of Gazzard's work was staged at the S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, accompanied by the launch of a monograph by Christine France.

[4] Major public commissions include 'Mingarri: The Little Olgas", which was installed in the Executive Court of Parliament House, Canberra in 1988.