[2] Dodd attended Adelaide Teachers College and later the South Australian School of Art.
[2] By 1964 she was married with children, living in the United States where her husband worked at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
At this time she read The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, and felt liberated by new concepts of women's roles.
Here she began to create her ceramic Holden FX cars to consider Australian identity and male and female roles.
[2] The Holden FX was Australian-made but American-owned and Dodd defined it as the "Trojan horse of American imperialism".
[3] In the 1970s Dodd became part of a loose movement of ceramicists in Adelaide who were embracing what might be called 'funk' art.
A mother takes her children to a beach, and upon return is accosted by men at a petrol station.
At the time of the exhibition, the artists was quoted as saying:[9]"They [Holden family cars] are disappearing gradually and they become fossils," she says.