Painter and teacher, born in Fife, Scotland. She studied at Edinburgh College of Art, 1968–72, winning first prize in Scottish Young Contemporaries in the latter year. Ten years later she won Scottish Arts Council awards. She taught part-time at Preston Polytechnic from 1982–3, in the latter year becoming a junior fellow at Cardiff College of Art. In 1985 she was artist-in-residence at London’s National Gallery, the year following being guest artist at the University of Minnesota and visiting tutor at Goldsmiths’ College in London, also in Canterbury, Watford, Newcastle upon Tyne and Glasgow. Redfern had a solo show at Scottish Arts Council in Edinburgh in 1976, then exhibited regularly, latterly at Trinity Gallery, Compass Gallery in Glasgow and Bohun Gallery in Henley-on-Thames.