Vali Myers Witch of Positano

A site dedicated to my love and appreciation of Vali Myers. Please feel free to submit or share your own art/words/connection with Vali. This blog also functions as a community and I love hearing from you! None of the pictures in this blog are mine unless otherwise stated. Please click each picture individually (or the time posted link located below each entry) for more information. Questions/comments are welcome! Much love!! x

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From an Italian magazine

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Vali Myers by Ed Van Der Elsken

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Bohemian like you: Vali Myers the Witch of Positano

Vali Myers was never going to be ordinary. Her talent, wayward spirit and shock of flame-red hair marked her out for a life less ordinary. Ordinary was nice and nice was boring and Vali Myers hated boring. But Vali had come from ordinary. She was born in Canterbury, Sydney, in 1930 to a wireless operator father and a talented violinist mother. Her mother had given up her career with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra to raise her family. Vali watched in growing horror as her mother slowly fell to pieces with the frustration of her small town life. Wives were expected to be drudges for the benefit of their husbands and nothing more. Her mother’s unraveling inspired Vali to focus on and nurture her own talents. She was good at art and loved to dance. She hated school and had difficulties with reading and writing. Her classmates thought her odd, but Vali thought them odd and frighteningly unimaginative. She quit home at fourteen and worked in a factory to finance her ambitions to become a dancer. Vali eventually became a principal dancer with the Melbourne Modern Ballet Company. This early success confirmed her belief there was more to life than...

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Bobby Yarra with Vali Myers, Positano

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Vali with Mick Jagger and Australian designer, Jenny Kee.

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A page from Vali Myers’ diary

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Un regno animale - Storia di Vali Myers e Gianni Menichetti - CTRL

Gianni Menichetti è stato l’ultimo devoto amante di Vali Myers. La sua casa è nei boschi, in un canyon a Positano, dove vive da più di 40 anni.

Fantastic article by Ivan Carozzi about his meeting with Gianni in Positano. Photographs by Gaetano Pappalardo. I am mentioned in here! With Mick Jagger! :) (article in Italian, you may need to put into a translator)

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My Vali Altar 🌙✨

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Vali and Ching Ho Cheng. Photographer unknown. 

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Vali Myers in her studio by Annemarie Szeleczky, 1997. 

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Hello everyone,

Hope you all had a wonderful Holiday season and a fantastic New Year! Sorry I have been a bit far and between with posts! I always look forward to everyone’s amazing submissions, and I will get to them all eventually! Thanks everyone and welcome new followers! 

XO

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The Witch of Positano by Tiera Boo. Gorgeous stencil work! If you are interested, Tiera will be making a small run of giclee prints. Email her here. 

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Vali Myers. Photographer unknown. 

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Love this! Thank you for sharing xo 

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View from Vali and Gianni's front door- Positano, Italy.

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