Annemarie was born in 1945 in Budapest, Hungary. In 1956 she left Hungary with her family and settled in Australia in 1957. In the sixties she studied sculpture and painting and trained as an art teacher. From the mid-1960s, Annemarie has regularly exhibited in Group shows in Melbourne and in Victorian Regional Galleries.
In her early twenties, travelling to Mexico and Tahiti fuelled her enthusiasm to create. However teaching and starting a family took up most of her time.
Her 1984 return trip to Hungary and Austria and discovering Italy, inspired her to mount her first solo exhibition of European scenes. After this show, perhaps because of her long involvement in teaching figure drawing she found it naturally more expressive. Her theme became a variety of explorations in figure composition. Cutting the drawings up and re-arranging the shapes into a variety of compositions gave rise to new possibilities. As each drawing would mutate it needed to achieve a more fluid visual form. She wanted to animate to continually morph her images. To achieve her goal Annemarie returned to study at the VCA Film and TV school. However, the animation course was narrative based so it required her to tell stories with her drawings.
Her first film 'As it was', is about her family escaping Hungary during the '56 Revolution and arrival in Australia. In the years 2000-2003, she went back to study for a Master of Arts in Animation at RMIT University. Filmed with a video camera, her research was to demonstrate possibilities through experimentation with mixed media. She employed a practical application of some of her experiments in her final film called 'Fox Dance'. The vibrant colours in her experiments on film namely 'Collage Kinetics', prompted her to paint watercolours and construct collages with found papers and materials. In 2005 these abstract compositions were compiled into an exhibition called 'European Songlines'. In early 2007, to commemorate the 50th year of the Hungarian Revolution, she exhibited her drawings of those events along with the images from her film 'As it was'.
In the 2009 Survey Exhibition called 'Configurations 1968-2008', she exhibited 40 years of developing the figurative aspect of her art work.