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Biography

In 1948 Grahame Sydney was born in Dunedin, New Zealand. He also attended Corstophine Primary school (which closed down), Macandrew Intermediate School and Kings High School. He was also teaching for a while at Cromwell District High School. In the 1950's Grahame Sydney decided to do some drawings of disney characters. Grahame Sydney also has a really cool book in The Art of Grahame Sydney if you ever needed to study Grahame Sydney. In 1978 he Grahame Sydney married a lady named Roslyn Nairn. Grahame Sydney's first solo exhibition at the Moray Gallery in the good old days back in the good old days in 1975 which is when he first started his career in landscapes and portraits. When Grahame Sydney first started painting landscapes he was based around the southern region (Around the Ida Valley) in Otago. In my personal study I have learnt that Grahame Sydney works widely in oils, watercolours, tempera, etchings and lithographs.He is a clever magician who plies his craft with great skill and subtlety,making paintings that are seemingly simple. Back in 1978 Grahame Sydney got married and in 1979 he became a father of a daughter named Melissa who is now 29. In 1981 they had a son named Nicholas who is now 27. In 1983 they moved back to Dunedin. He built his new home and studio in 2000 also in 2003 he made an officer or the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM), and in 2000 he won the Montana medal for non fiction, lllustrative arts award, readers' choice award, bronze medal of excellence, surfers choice internet award and the golden graphics award of excellence. Also in 1996 he won supreme award for painting and premier print award. In 2007 Grahame Sydney remarried a lady named Heidi McLeod. In 2009 he started to make his first documentary film. 2010:


 * //Thanks Sam. You've done an excellent job here.// //I think this is a Level 3-4 Biography// (Have a look at the matrix on the biography page)

//In terms of next steps for writing a biography, I think you need to consider the following://

Purpose:** You've done a thorough job of the background (and why he's so important), possibly need a little more about his influences.
 * Text Organisation:** Sequencing - a couple of times you skip to a new thing without giving us the background (teacher training for instance). I also wonder if you might have borrowed a few of these sentences. Try and rewrite them in your own words. **Language Features**: Pretty good here, just a couple of tense issues as we'ev discussed and some surface features, capitals and fullstops etc.