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Joy St Clair Hester (21 August 1920 – 4 December 1960) was an Australian artist. She was a member of the Angry Penguins movement and the Heide Circle who played an integral role in the development of Australian Modernism. [1] . Hester is best known for her bold and expressive ink drawings. [1] .
Although she was known for her association with John and Sunday Reed and the group of artists centred at the Reeds’ home, Heide, in 1940s Melbourne, Joy Hester was a significant Australian modernist artist in her own right and acclaimed for her highly expressionistic, personal drawings.
Joy St Clair Hester (31 August 1920 – 4 December 1960) was an Australian artist. She was a member of the Angry Penguins movement and the Heide Circle who played an integral role in the development of Australian Modernism. Hester is best known for her bold and expressive ink drawings.
- Australian
- August 21, 1920
- Melbourne, Australia
- December 4, 1960
Jul 2, 2020 · Joy Hester’s entire body of work can be understood as an exploration of human relationships, connections, in all their complexity. A major retrospective now acknowledges her...
- Victoria Carruthers
Nov 28, 2020 · Joy Hester produced some of the most distinctive and intriguing imagery to emerge in Australia during the 1940s and 1950s. Working almost exclusively with brush and ink, she focused on potent expressions of the human figure, using drawing as a vehicle to grasp life in all its complexity.
Jul 7, 2020 · Joy Hester – a body of work, remembered at last. The Heide retrospective of Hester’s work marks the centenary of her birth. It comes at a time when audiences have a much greater sensitivity to her place in the canon of Australian modernism and of the human condition. 7 Jul 2020.
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Sep 11, 2020 · Brimming with wrought expression, Joy Hester’s drawings are personal and mysterious renderings of internal states. Her subject matter—love, sex, birth and death— are universal, yet the manner in which she depicts them is particular.
