Irena Sibley
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Irena Sibley (16 June 1943 – 29 March 2009), born Irena Justina Pauliukonis, was an Australian artist, writer, illustrator of children's books, and art instructor.
Personal life
When Irena was a baby, her mother Anele and her father Zenonas Pauliukonis fled communist-controlled Lithuania in 1946. The Pauliukonians immigrated to Australia via refugees camps in Freiburg, Germany, where her brother Vidas was born, and Naples, Italy. The family arrived in Sydney, Australia, on December 31. 1949, and settled in Bathurst, before establishing their family home in Cabramatta in Sydney's western suburbs.
Irena Pauliukonis married artist Andrew Sibley in 1967 and had two sons, Benedict and Jonathan. The Sibley family lived in Albert Park, where she was active in the Save Albert Park resistance campaign against the Australian Grand Prix in the 1990s.
In the 1970s and 1980s, the Sibley family owned a house and artists' studio in Flowerdale, Victoria, which have been featured in House & Garden magazine. The family had a fruitful fight against the Black Saturday (2009) bushfires, but only minor damage was sustained, owing to a sprinkler system and the deliberate planting of fire retardant vegetation.
Career
Irena Sibley graduated in Fine Arts from the National Art School in Sydney in 1964. She established the art department at Burke Hall (a preparatory junior school of Xavier College) in Melbourne in 1967 and taught there on and off for 13 years. She served as an art teacher at Firbank Girls' Grammar School from 1982 to 2007.
Rainbow, her first book, was released in 1980 as both a children's book and hand-made Artist's Book, as well as her children's book The Bilbies' First Easter, When the Sun Took the Colours Away (1991), and Zara's Zoo (2001). Sibley's works of art are on display in the State Library of Victoria and the National Library of Australia, as well as many private collections.
Sibley has sold more than a dozen children's books, six independant books, and several bookplates for private collectors. Her artwork incorporates a variety of techniques, including hand-colored linocuts, scratchboard, and, later in her career, acrylic painting. Her artwork will often depict Eastern European printmaking techniques, as well as contemporary depictions of Australia's natural environment.
Irena Sibley was a passionate environmentalist with a passion for Australia's indigenous flora and fauna. This passion is captured in several of her paintings, particularly An Alphabet of Australian Wildflowers (1988) and her Easter Bilby series. Rabbits, according to Irena Sibley, pose a significant threat to Australia's natural environment (see Environmental issues in Australia), and she has endorsed attempts to substitute the Easter Bunny with the "Easter Bilby" in Australian Easter celebrations.
Between 1994 and 2000, Sibley published three Easter Bilby books, including the best-selling The Bilby and the Bunyip (1994), The Bilby and the Bunyip (1998) and Grandma Bilby's Easter Tree (2000).