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A true Queenslander, Lee Porter was born at Townsville in the sixties. As a child she lived in a variety of interesting places including Tindal (near Katherine in the Northern Territory), Sydney and Malaysia.

She completed her secondary education at Ipswich in Queensland, where art teacher Alan Kinna introduced her to many styles and forms of art and encouraged her to

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