Gollifer received her master's degree in printmaking from the University of Brighton, United Kingdom, in 1969.

[4] Early in her career, she taught at the Hastings Art College and exhibited at the Serpentine Gallery in London.

[7][8] She was the curator of the first five United Kingdom international exhibitions of electronic prints (ArCade I, II, III, IV, and V during 1995 to 2007 – "Computers in Art and Design Education").

[5] She was also the ACM SIGGRAPH Art Gallery Chair during 2004, in Los Angeles, United States.

[11][12] In 2024–25, a retrospective exhibition of her work was held at the BCS London office, organized by CAS.