Patronised and often ignored in their lifetimes, the female artists who travelled to pre-war Europe and brought modernism ...

Success breeds success. Nora Heysen’s significance as an official war artist meant that she was a dominant figure in the Australian War Memorial’s 1994 exhibition of women war artists.

went out of vogue after the Second World War only to be "rediscovered" by curators and feminist art historians in the late 1980s. Anne-Louise Willoughby's life of Nora Heysen. Heysen might have ...

Renowned artist Nora Heysen has died in Sydney at the age of ... in 1943 becoming the first female war correspondent. The appointment took her to New Guinea, Lae, Finchhafen, Morotai and Borneo.