DEDE GOLD WAS BROUGHT UP on the south coast of Ireland and oscillated between a strict convent education and a more free-range quaker school, depending on how her grades were going; anything less than a B and she was hiked back down the hill to the nuns. The Quaker school was brilliantly attentive to the importance of the arts, sports and individual self-expression: it was as much about creativity as curriculums. She can still hear her art teacher’s words calling after her and her friends as they headed into town to ‘look up;’ he was encouraging them to remember to look beyond the tips of their noses and their immediate orbit, and let the imagination wander to see what it stirs within; ultimately a great lesson for life and art.
Still, a career in law followed and, after the end of her marriage, she attended