01/08/2026
In January this year we were lucky enough to visit Heysen Gallery in Adelaide Hills. We were on a mission to see the place that Nora Heysen grew up and for a few years had a studio there where she painted.
đ¨The connection? We have printed three of Noraâs work for NERAMâs shop and this year they can be found in the gallery shop at Heysen The Cedars. Iâm pictured here with Emma Farnam - the Director of Heysen Gallery.
đThe new Gallery has just opened and we canât wait to see it next time we are in SA. đ
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Nora Heysen
A talented still life and portrait painter, Nora was the first woman and the youngest ever artist to win the Archibald Prize in 1938 for portraiture and the first Australian woman appointed as an official war artist in 1943.
Nora Heysen
Eggs 1927
oil on canvas
36.6 x 52.5 cm
Gift of Howard Hinton 1934 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
âOne of the most loved images in the Hinton Collection, Eggs is a celebration of the beauty found in ordinary, everyday objects. Painted when the artist was only 16 years old, Nora Heysen has depicted the homeliness of a country kitchen scene of eggs in a cane basket and on a wooden bench. One has been cracked into a glass in preparation for cooking. The creams and browns of the eggs, wall and bench harmonise with the matching blue of the cloth and curtain behind.
Howard Hinton donated this beautiful work and it hung in the Library of the Armidale Teachersâ College. In the Armidale Express in 1948, and in the later memorial volume Howard Hinton: Patron of Art, John Fountain claimed it as the best of Nora Heysenâs works, showing âloving detail combined with an earthly lyricismâ.â - NERAM
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These prints can also be found NERAM shop both cotton rag prints and now in larger canvas prints.
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