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Joy Hester and Friends
1 September – 28 October 2001
All Joy Hester works are reproduced with permission of VISCOPY Ltd, Sydney 2001
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| This exhibition seeks to bring Joy Hester's remarkable contribution to Australian Art to the fore. Hester's art will be shown in relation to works by other artists who were in close contact with her in the 1940s and 1950s including Albert Tucker, Danila Vassilieff, Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd, Gray Smith, Mirka Mora and Charles Blackman. The show will also include photographs and other documentary material to reveal her friendships with John and Sunday Reed, Barbara Blackman, Barrett Reid and others. |
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In this way the exhibition will place Joy Hester's work in the context of the times in which she was working, to reveal the inter-connections as well as the idiosyncrasies of her extraordinary artistic output. |
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| Artist: | HESTER, Joy |
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| Title: | Boy (No title (baby boy)) |
| Date Made: | c. 1952-54 | | Media Category: | Drawing | | Medium: | brush and ink, charcoal, wash | | Dimensions: | 38.2 cm x 30.6 cm (sheet) | | Accn No: | 81.1933 | | Web Credit: | Gift of Mrs Robert Dulieu, 1981 |
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| Article: | The boy’s moon face rests on his polo neck sweater and like many of Hester’s drawings dominates the lower section of the paper. The space above feels like his thinking space. The eyes, created with a few strokes of a brush, convey an expression of knowingness, linking childhood with old age. Hester was keenly aware that children often knew more than adults gave them credit for. |
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