Rodney McRae Rodney McRae i(A45624 works by) (a.k.a. Rodney John McRae; Rod McRae)
Born: Established: 1958 Lower Hutt, Wellington (Region), North Island,
c
New Zealand,
c
Pacific Region,
;
Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 17 Oct 1984
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

BiographyHistory

McRae was educated in Lower Hutt before studying design and illustration at the Wellington Polytechnic's School of Design and being awarded a Diploma in Visual Communication Design. He also studied at the City Art Instutute, Sydney. McRae then engaged in television graphics and animation until an Oxford University Press publisher commissioned his illustrations for Joy Cowley's picture book, The Terrible Taniwha of Timberditch (1982). He won a Queen Elizabeth Arts Council grant to travel to the UK to observe illustration techniques. Having studied illustration in London, he worked in Europe, Russia and the United States before settling in Australia. Here he worked in film illustration and did freelance illustrations of books and readers, illustrating over sixty books. During the 1990s he lectured in graphic design at Randwick College of Design and the University of Western Sydney. Subsequently he conducted a course in Design Fundamentals at the Design Centre of the Sydney Institute of Technology and co-owned a shop called Animal Fetish dedicated to taxidermy. He has lived in Redfern, Sydney.

(Source: Walter McVitty Authors & Illustrators of Australian Children's Books (1989); The Source database).

Most Referenced Works

Last amended 19 Jun 2007 15:41:19
Other mentions of "" in AustLit:
    X