Heide Museum of Modern Art is celebrating the 100th anniversary of Joy Hester’s birth with a huge survey of the artist’s work. Joy Hester: Remember Me encompasses more than 130 works from the ...

In 1945, Joy Hester painted Pauline McCarthy, a portrait of her close friend. Not only is it a rare oil painting by Hester, it presages one of her oeuvre’s most significant and arresting ...

Joy Hester’s images of love and loss still crackle and burn. When art historian Janine Burke first came across Hester’s then forgotten work while curating a 1975 show on Australian women ...

Joy Hester, 1947 So said artist Joy Hester, in words that were no doubt a response to dramatic life events that have overshadowed attempts at a sustained critical appreciation of her art.

Gippsland artist Kiera Brown admits to being fixated with artist Joy Hester. At the age of 30 ... and timber was hauled to Melbourne. It's an easy ride and passes wineries and through towns ...

Now, they are on display side by side at the TarraWarra Museum of Art in the exhibition Patricia Piccinini & Joy Hester: Through Love... which is on show until March 11. Patricia Piccinini and ...

When Philippe Mora shoots his film this year about some of Australia's most famous artists and lovers - Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker, Joy Hester ... married artist called Gray Smith. Hester had ...