Artist Joy Hester - a preview (SOLD OUT)
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For our second major event of 2025, the St Kilda Historical Society combines art history and theatre to present a compelling homage to artist Joy Hester.Against the dramatic backdrop of Hester’s art and controversial life, actor/writer Emma Louise Pursey and art historian/biographer Janine Burke will explore how gender bias can subsume women’s art, and how that is changing.
Dr Janine Burke wrote Hester’s biography and curated her retrospective at the National Gallery of Victoria. She also edited Dear Sun: The Letters of Joy Hester and Sunday Reed (1995) and wrote The Heart Garden: Sunday Reed and Heide (2004).
Emma Louise Pursey is a critically acclaimed Melbourne-based stage and screen actor, writer and producer who has performed nationally and internationally since 1997. Her latest play, Where is Joy? is based on Hester’s life.
Location
St Kilda Army and Navy Club
88 Acland Street, (upstairs - lift access), St Kilda VIC 3182
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Artist Joy Hester - a preview (SOLD OUT)
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