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Lina Eve is an Australian artist, adoption activist, singer/songwriter, photographer and filmmaker.
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Lina Eve is an Australian artist, adoption activist, singer/songwriter, photographer and filmmaker.
Lina Eve was born in Germany to Polish parents. Her father was a Holocaust survivor, and, to escape war torn Europe, the family immigrated to Australia in 1951. At 17 years old, pregnant and unmarried, she lost her first child to Forced Adoption In Australia in 1964.[ citation needed ]
Eve travelled back to Europe where she worked on a kibbutz in Israel; as a folk-singer in London; as a model in Greece and Paris; and as a silversmith, travelling overland between Europe and the East. In Australia she has worked as a singer/songwriter, photographer, visual artist, and as a filmmaker.[ citation needed ]
Eve started painting in 1994 studying Fine Arts at Southern Cross University, in Lismore, NSW, and sold her first paintings in the same year. Her paintings have been selling locally, nationally and internationally ever since. Her Bad Girl series, [1] music, and videos have enhanced her activism in adoption reform and, along with her Holocaust series, Reclaiming my Family History, have led to recognition in Australia, the United States and Europe.[ citation needed ]
After venturing into the world of filmmaking, she won the Best Australian Music Video Award at the WOW Film Festival in Sydney in 2009, [2] for Bitter Wind. [3]
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