Maree Laffan graduated in Fine Arts from the National Art School, Sydney in 1987 majoring in photography and sculpture. Her other creative life is dance with a passion to integrate artforms and broaden artistic vocabulary. Maree currently runs a Flamenco dance troupe Aire Flamenco that performs regularly across WA. She collaborates with Interstate and international Artists.
She has always had a love of art and science. Maree has a Bachelor of Science (Honours 1) from the University of New England, NSW and has studied and worked internationally in geology, photograph and dance including extended periods in London, New York and Spain.
Career highlights include receiving the NSW State Honours thesis award, working at Time Life Photo Library London and being a finalist and exhibiting at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland and the Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW.
Maree is engaged in photography and videography, across the performing arts sector. She has managed and curated exhibitions for a series of Indigenous art exhibitions including Artists from Laverton, the Western Desert region, Wongatha and Badimia countries.
Maree has curated YODyssey exhibitions and managed the communications and social media sites as a founding member since its inception. She became involved with Young Onset Dementia when her brother-in-law Robert Anson was diagnosed in 2018. YODyssey was initiated to showcase the quality of the artwork and the importance of art as a form of self-expression while on the Young Onset Dementia journey.
