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I have a high interest in music. It influences how I now see the world. My whole family has been musical in nature so music has been in my life since before I would walk. Their talents have influenced me into learning to play various instruments from a young age. I have been playing piano from ten tears old, guitar since twelve, and violin since I was fourteen. I have participated in many amateur musical productions such as school spectaculars in high school, battle of the bands, as well as performing for nursing homes and preschools. I also have an interest in children's music and have taught many children music in early childhood settings.

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I have always had an artistic outlook on life. My mother is very artistic and so as a child I did many visual arts activities such as drawing with different mediums like pencils, oil pastels, crayons, pens and textas.

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I have only had a little bit of experience in Drama as an art form. During high school, I started to do drama as a subject in year nine, however I did not like it very much and decided to drop it.

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I haven't had a lot of experience in Media Arts. In fact, I didn't even know it existed until I enrolled into the EMA117 subject at university. Since then,  I participated in a group that performed a skit as a way to teach young children as well as adults about the benefits of art forms in early childhood. We used drama as well as music and dance to perform this skit. I found it really fun and am excited to continue learning about it.
Because of my lack of knowledge in this art form I would place myself in the Experiencing the New section of the Ryan and Healy (2008) table.

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I have had a few experiences of dance in my life. When I was a child I went to a dance school and started to learn Tap, Jazz and Ballet, however I did not like it at all. I was a very stubbourn kid and refused to go back to the dance school after only being there for three weeks!
After that, I had only participated in school dance events such as the end of year chirstmas concerts in primary school.

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I have since participated in drama during university in the subject EMA117 where a group I was in made a skit as a form of educating people about the benefits of art forms in the education of young children.
I would say that my knowledge of drama is developing and I have been enjoying exploring drama.
On the Ryan and Healy (2008) table I would place myself into the conceptualising category as I still have so much to learn and explore.

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Music is a way that I can express myself as well as an emotional outlet.
I would say that my knowledge would be at the applying stage of the Ryan and Healy (2008) table

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As I got older I really enjoyed art and so I took visual art as a subject for the HSC. It was one of my favourite subjects as I got to experience many different types of art. My favourite by far was sculpture where I made a model of an angel by reusing common items that I found around the house.
I am an Indigenous woman, so I have also grown up around a lot of Indigenous art and when I turned eighteen, I was invited to learn dot painting by the elders around my home town. I loved this as I had always dabbled but had never taken a serious approach and I then had the opportunity to gain new skills in this art form. I became quite skilled in my paintings and was asked by the elders to paint for the organisation Kurranulla! This was awesome as it meant that I could then sell my artwork. This gave me some exposure in the art world and I have since been approached by .a tattoo parlour in Sydney to paint and sell my work at their shop!

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In the Ryan and Healy (2008) table I would place myself in the applying section as I believe I have a well rounded view of the art form.

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In high school, Dance was a mandatory sport so I had a little experience from there but again I didnt like it very much and I didnt put a lot of effort into learning. However in year eleven, I went on an excursion to an indigenous dance school and found that I loved it. I really enjoyed Indigenous dancing as it resonated with me on a cultural level.
I also did gymnastics as a sport for six years when I was a teenager, which somewhat contributed to my knowledge of dance. I focussed on 'floor' which meant that I combined my gymnastics skills with dance and choreographed my own routine. I really enjoyed this and competed at my gymnastics school.
I would place myself in the conceptualising stage of the Ryan and Healy (2008) table.