23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- AU Financial Review
The Aussie ‘messenger girls' who changed art
When Nora Heysen became the first woman to win the Archibald Prize in 1938, The Australian Women's Weekly celebrated by photographing her in her kitchen and asking for her favourite recipes.
This weekend, the Art Gallery of South Australia will focus on Heysen's beguiling portraits and still lifes in an exhibition of local female artists who travelled to Europe before World War II and played an underappreciated role in catalysing the modernist art movement at home.
