page_title: Anne Dybka
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Anne Dybka / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Immigration - Migrants in the arts and entertainment in Australia - British Artist practises glass engraving. Anne Dybka. PRINCIPAL CREDIT: Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA) The names of the files give their series and control symbols: &#160; National Archives of Australia series: A12111 Control symbol: 1/1970/6/41
context_page_description: Anne Dybka OAM was an English Australian artist and glass engraver. After training and study in painting, drawing, glass engraving and graphic arts, Dybka went on to create works which are on display in Australian public collections. Dybka's works are privately owned by Hua Guofeng, the former Chinese premier, Lord Snowdon, Sir Roden Cutler and Neville Wran.
context_section_description: Dybka was born Anne Ruth Mary Hutchings on 1 January 1922 in Portsmouth, England, and she died at age 85 in Sydney, Australia on 11 May 2007. Her father, remembered as "Mad Hutch" was a submariner and commander in the Royal Navy. Little is known about her life in Britain, however at an early stage of life, Dybka began undertaking artistic study and training.
  In her early life she completed studies in painting and drawing with Martin Bloch in London. She also studied graphic arts at London Polytechnic. Dybka was a fellow of London's guild of glass engravers, and is one of only two known people to use the cameo technique.
caption: Anne Dybka practices glass engraving[3]
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