"Long Jetty" Collage

After completing five years of arts training at the University of Wollongong in the mid eighties Crane gained an Associate Diploma of Creative Art followed by Bachelor of Creative Arts graduating with Distinction. Crane has been involved with many artist run initiatives and community arts projects over many years. These groups include being one of the founding members of Art Arena Gallery Inc. Wollongong, NSW. Arriving to Canberra in the nineties she was Chair at Megalo Access Arts then later on the management committee as a studio holder at the ANCA Dickson studio complex. During this time she participated in many solo and group exhibitions. Since her arrival to the Far South Coast of NSW she has participated in eleven solo shows and has been represented in many group and selected exhibitions - regionally, nationally and internationally. Residencies since 1995 have included the Bundanon Trust, Alice Springs, Broken Hill Art Exchange and most recently Berlin. She won the Illawarra Art Prize in 1986 and has been acquired by the Alice Craft Acquisition for mixed media in 2007 In 2008 she was the joint winner of the Calleen Acquisition (with Wendy Teakel). Her work is in the collection of the Bundanon Trust.