Joy Hester
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Joy St Clair Hester 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 bes
Hester, c. 1940
Sunday Reed
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Sunday Reed was an Australian patron of the arts. Along with her husband, John Reed, she established what is now the Heide Museum of Modern Art.
Joy Hester
…same year Hester became a founding member of the Contemporary Art Society (CAS), exhibiting with them annually. Hester met Melbourne-based art patron Sunday Reed in 1939 at the Herald Exhibition, which brought British and French artworks to Australia for the first time. The two became friends, with Reed nurturing…
Portrait by Moya Dyring, c. 1934