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Lorri Whiting nee' Fraser
The expat Australian painter Lorraine (Lorri) Whiting, daughter of Neville and Una Fraser and elder sister of the late former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, studied sculpture at the Technical College of Melbourne. After her marriage to the Australian poet Bertram (Bertie) Whiting, the couple moved to the desert to raise bees. In 1951, they left the outback for the United Kingdom. 1955 they then transferred to Rome, which was living a moment of cultural and social revival. As part of the Piazza del Popolo group they frequented not only other artists and writers like Alberto Moravia and Renato Gattuso, but also some of the cinema stars such as John Huston and Peter Finch, who were working at Cinecitta' movie studios.

Bertie and Lorri began sailing and constructed the intern of their boat "Servyn" on their roof terrace in Trastevere. After Bertie's death in 1988, Lorri moved to the country-side near Orbetello to be closer to the boat and donated their apartment in Rome to the Australia Council for Australian poets in residence. Bertie is buried in the Non-Catholic cemetery in Testaccio, which also houses the tombs of Keats and Shelley.

Lorri continued sailing until the age of 89, taking Servyn as far as the Azores islands in the Atlantic. She contributes regularly to the London Cruising Association review with accounts of her sailing experiences.

After moving to Italy, Lorri had moved from sculpture to clay and then finally painting. After an evening organised by John Huston with the American architect, designer and inventor Buckminster Fuller, who extolled at length the natural form of the triangle,as opposed to the square which he found unnatural, Lorri's painting transformed. She began using pieces of painted lacerated triangles to form her works. She now drew her inspiration from the sea and the waves. As the Italian art historian and former Mayor of Rome was to write of her art, "with the elimination of the picture-object, the material-painting loses all its ambiguity and offers itself immediately to our perception." Lorri's paintings are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in Rome, the Wardown Park Museum in Luton (U.K.), the Estorick Collection of Modern Art in London and the Gamc in Viareggio, Italy.