Vali Myers (1930-2003) was an acclaimed Australian artist and dancer born in Sydney in 1930. She was a dancer for the Melbourne Modern Ballet Company when she moved to Paris aged 19 and began to draw black and white autobiographical works. Vali Myers featured in Ed van der Elsken’s book ‘Love on the left bank’ (1956) and George Plimpton’s Paris Review (1958), establishing an international profile. In 1958, she settled in Italy at Il Porto near the seaside town of Positano where she founded the Il Porto Wildlife Oasis, caring for more than 100 animals. She regularly travelled to the Chelsea Hotel in New York to sell her drawings, dividing her time between New York and Positano. In 1993, she returned to Australia, establishing a studio-gallery in the Nicholas Building in Swanston Street Melbourne. Vali Myers travelled extensively, exhibiting her work in Amsterdam, New York and Italy, becoming internationally known as an artist. She left a body of work from the 1950s until her death in 2003.