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 be creative.
After leaving school Lee became a nurse and developed a particular affinity with geriatric nursing. She loved to hear about the lives of the elderly people who she worked with. At 22 years of age, she went to college in Brisbane to undertake ‘sports studies’ and pursue her sporting passions. She developed a career in scuba diving which led her to Cairns in Far North Queensland, where she worked…
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