Biography:
Joy Hester was born on 21st of August 1920 at Elsternwick, Melbourne. Her father Robert was a bank officer and her mother Louise was a teacher, Joy was also the second child in the family. She had studied at St Michael’s Church of England Girls grammar school. In 1936 she had graduated from an art-and-craft course which took one year. On the 1st of January 1941 she had married an Anglican and fellow artist Albert Tucker who is also a very famous artist from the same period of time.
From 1938 until 1947 Joy Hester was part of a colloquial group known as the ‘Angry Penguins’. She was the only women artist in the group of 4 others named, Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd, John Perceval and Albert Tucker.
Hester would use mostly brush and …show more content…
She did this to show the intense emotions and psychological states which had registered quickly. In 1946 to 1947 she had included portraits of her friends and family which she had concentrated on painting into the upward-gazing heads.
Also in 1947 Joy was diagnosed with having Hodgkin's disease. Since then she left her husband and young son, to move to Sydney with another artist named Gray Smith. In the next two years she produced some of her finest drawings: the 'Face', 'Sleep' and 'Love' series which she exhibited in 1950.
Joy went against medical advice and gave birth to two more children. She was in remission from Hodgkin's disease until 1956. In her last years she had her first studio which is where she produced her largest drawings as well as regularly sign and date her art. During the same year her poetry was considered to be romantic love including metaphors of the natural world.
In 1959 on the 14th of April Joy and Albert divorced and the same year on the 11th of November she then re-married Gray Smith. She was in hospital a lot from then but had support from her husbands and three children (2 boys and a girl). She then passed away on the 4th of December 1960 at Prahran and was buried at the age of
Joy Hester was born on 21st of August 1920 at Elsternwick, Melbourne. Her father Robert was a bank officer and her mother Louise was a teacher, Joy was also the second child in the family. She had studied at St Michael’s Church of England Girls grammar school. In 1936 she had graduated from an art-and-craft course which took one year. On the 1st of January 1941 she had married an Anglican and fellow artist Albert Tucker who is also a very famous artist from the same period of time.
From 1938 until 1947 Joy Hester was part of a colloquial group known as the ‘Angry Penguins’. She was the only women artist in the group of 4 others named, Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd, John Perceval and Albert Tucker.
Hester would use mostly brush and …show more content…
She did this to show the intense emotions and psychological states which had registered quickly. In 1946 to 1947 she had included portraits of her friends and family which she had concentrated on painting into the upward-gazing heads.
Also in 1947 Joy was diagnosed with having Hodgkin's disease. Since then she left her husband and young son, to move to Sydney with another artist named Gray Smith. In the next two years she produced some of her finest drawings: the 'Face', 'Sleep' and 'Love' series which she exhibited in 1950.
Joy went against medical advice and gave birth to two more children. She was in remission from Hodgkin's disease until 1956. In her last years she had her first studio which is where she produced her largest drawings as well as regularly sign and date her art. During the same year her poetry was considered to be romantic love including metaphors of the natural world.
In 1959 on the 14th of April Joy and Albert divorced and the same year on the 11th of November she then re-married Gray Smith. She was in hospital a lot from then but had support from her husbands and three children (2 boys and a girl). She then passed away on the 4th of December 1960 at Prahran and was buried at the age of