Roberts completed her Dip. Art, Dip. Ed, Grad. Dip. Film & TV, and M.A. Animation and Interactive Media. Most of her studies were undertaken in Melbourne.

Over the course of her career Roberts has received several grants, prizes and scholarships, including the National Gallery Drawing Prize (1971); three Australian Film Commission grants (1981, 1991, 1994); and the Melbourne Fringe Festival Special Commendation Award for New Short Works (1995).

Roberts has received funding from the Australia Council to produce art work for exhibition. She has also worked as a lecturer, animator, illustrator, judge in film awards, assessor, curator and artist in residence (Manangatang, 1992, Wesley College, 1994, Scotch Oakburn College, 1997, Launceston College, 1998, and on the Aurora Australis, V7, to Davis and Mawson, Antarctica, 2000). During January and Feburary 2002 she completed a residency in Antarctica, as part of the Australian Antarctic Division Humanities Programme, developing material to build an interactive CDROM and other art work.

Roberts' work is held by the University of Melbourne, the State bank of Victoria, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Wesley College (Melbourne), Queensland University of Technology, the Victorian College of the Arts, and Launceston General Hospital. She is currently a member of the Launceston General Hospital Visual Arts Committee.

Sources used to compile this entry: Germaine, Max, A dictionary of women artists of Australia, Tortola, BVI : Craftsman House BVI, Roseville East, NSW, c.1991, 486 pp.