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Alie migrated to Australia with her husband and family in 1967, and began working in the textile industry both as a dressmaker and pattern maker. Alie has been a member of OPUS Performing Arts Community since it's inception in 2001, designing sets for most of their theatre productions.

                       OPUS Production A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum

Alie has also used her artistic skills to design and create a variety of props, including massive 'Audrey 2' plants for Little Shop Of Horrors, huge 'horse head masks' for Equus, and the amazing 'Aztec icons' for Royal Hunt Of The Sun.

           OPUS Production of Equus                           Costume Designer, Alie Beck 'dressing'                                                                                  John Sands in The Royal Hunt Of The Sun.

                                                                                    (Photo supplied by Cathy Davis)      

In addition to her theatrical work, Alie has also designed and constructed numerous life-sized soft sculptured figures for various events along with 'Shming', a wearable puppet like monster, made for Services for Children and Families.

After a lifetime of art activities, Alie has combined her love of sculpture with her many needlecraft skills to create her Dolls With Attitude collection, a range of free standing soft sculptured figures, standing approximately 50cm high, depicting many of the stars of stage and screen. Using cloth, wire, wood, padding and clay, along with detailed costuming, Alie has recreated many well known characters such as 'Charlie Chaplin' and 'Marcel Marceau', and lovingly keeps her collection  in custom made display cases, always ready for their next exhibition.

                Charlie Chaplin                                     Alie with Marcel Marceau

Alie currently has a collection of her work displayed in the foyer of the Hopgood Theatre, (formerly the Noarlunga Theatre), at Noarlunga Centre.                              

Mario, Alie Beck's recent lifesized creation, enjoying the recent OPUS event held in the Hopgood Theatre foyer on Sunday 18th January 2009.

Here's Alie with Mario at the OPUS celebration held in the Hopgood Theatre, Noarlunga Centre, 18th January 2009.