她在卡斯特頓讀過小學,後在巴拉瑞特的中學女王學院寄宿。在巴拉瑞特,她表現出很強的繪畫天賦,在巴拉瑞特上過私人素描課,還曾寫過一部戲劇,由同學表演[3]。她的家人搬遷到南亞拉肯辛頓路22號後[4],她轉入墨爾本英格蘭教會女子文法學校(Melbourne Church of England Girls' Grammar School)完成了最後一年的學業。1914年,她就讀於墨爾本的國家美術館學校,師從弗雷德里克·麥卡賓、馬克思·梅爾德倫,後者頗具爭議的理論對她影響很大[5]。
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