Vanda Carter
About me
1950s
I was born in South West London in the year that Elvis joined the US Army.
1960s
I retired from my first career as a fashion model at the end of the Sixties (That's me, top middle & bottom right around 1964).
1970s
At the end of the Seventies I read English at Brasenose College, Oxford.
1980s
In the mid Eighties I ran the film distribution library at the London Film Maker’s
Co-operative.
My experimental animation has been screened internationally and supported by the British Council and the Arts Council.
1990s
In the Nineties I worked for five years with the internationally renowned reminiscence charity Age Exchange.
I ran 'Telling & Showing', a video production company making training, information and local history video programmes.
I taught animation for Lambeth Community Education Service at the Strand Film Workshop and worked in the Media Department of South Thames further education college.
In this millennium
2004 - 2015: I ran Camden Council's groundbreaking Intergenerational Development programme and co-founded the London Intergenerational Network.
I also volunteered with the educational charity Out For Our Children working to improve resources and practice in schools around representation of same-sex parented families.
2018 - 2024: I worked as a Development officer on Camden Council's Community Investment Programme building new social and affordable housing.
Now
I make metal sculpture and swim as often as possible.
What comes next? Who knows...