Micky Allan
Micky Allan (born 1944) is an Australian photographer and artist whose work covers paintings, drawings, engraved glass overlays, installations and photography. Allan has become an influential public speaker and has been invited to be a part of many discussions on feminist politics and present a number of speeches held in galleries across Australia about art photography during the 1970s. Biography Allan was born in Melbourne in 1944. From the age of two, she lived in Japan, before her family moved back to Melbourne in 1950. Allan attended the Melbourne Church of England Girls Grammar School, in South Yarra, where she received an American Field Service Scholarship allowing her to study in the U.S. Allan was heavily involved in painting as a teenager and attended a girls school in Kansas City in 1961. The school held Allan's first solo exhibition when her paintings were displayed in a national art contest. After returning from Kansas, Allan studied Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne under Joseph Burke in 1963. She commenced a full-time Diploma of Painting course at the National Gallery of Victoria Painting School in 1965. However she felt it was impossible to make a living off art and only began