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Prue Acton initially wanted to become a traditional artist - a painter - before focusing on fashion. "At 15 I went to RMIT I was one of the youngest ever to go to RMIT" Acton says about her art studies that lead up to her fashion career "And during that time I was making my own clothes and making clothes for friend and that’s how I was making pocket money". Right after graduating, Acton worked on clothing samples, and began her business. At the start of her career, she wrote a fashion column for the journal Go-Set. Acton was the first Australian female designer to show her own fashion range in New York.

Acton returned to painting in the 80s. She shifts her focus from fashion to painting because " it’s all about making money and I’m becoming far more interested in painting". Acton found both hobbies to be similar "I don’t think it makes any difference whether I’m painting or I’m a designer it’s about the art of what we do of how the parts come together". She attended life drawing classes at Swinburne College, and studied painting with Clifton Pugh and Mervyn Moriarity. Since 1989, Acton continues to hold exhibitions with Clifton Pugh and the Dunmoochin Artists.