Joy Hester

by Janine Burke

Joy Hester was part of the Angry Penguins, an Australian literary and artistic avant-garde movement of the 1940s. She married artist Albert Tucker and is best remembered as being part of the Heide artistic group in Melbourne.

Genres: Biography, Female Authors, Art

327 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

Dr. Janine Burke is an art historian and biographer, and has written eight books of fiction and art history. She has degrees from the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University. She was a lecturer in art history until she resigned from her job to become a full-time writer, which she has been for the last ten years.

Her books include Australian Women Artists, 1840-1940, Second Sight, which won the 1987 Victorian Premier's Award for Fiction, and Company of Images, which was shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year award and the Miles Franklin Award. Her novel for teenagers, Journey to Bright Water, is published by Mammoth. She also contributed to Libby Hawthorn's anthology of short stories, The Blue Dress.

Janine has curated exhibitions of historical and contemporary art, and currently holds a research fellowship at Monash University. She lives in Melbourne, where she regularly reviews, lectures and broadcasts on radio.

Reviews

[Sara · Rating 2 out of 5]

Janine Burke says Joy Hester's poetry is shit - so why does she spend so much bloody time analyzing it?

[Noel Landry · Rating 3 out of 5]

More a poetry and art criticism book than bio of a very interesting woman at an interesting time