# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joy-hester
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:41:57.025Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joy-hester"
name: "Joy Hester"
slug: "joy-hester"
description: "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 best known for her bold and expressive ink drawings. Her work was charged with a heightened awareness of mortality due to the death of her father during her childhood, the threat of war, and her personal experience with Hodgkin's disease. Hester is most well known for the series Face, Sleep, and Love (1948–49) as well as the later works, The Lovers (1956–58)."
tagline: "Australian painter (1920-1960)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joy_Hester_portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1920-08-21"
deathDate: "1960-12-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.66
  momentum:             3.982300884955752
  historical:           7.0189
  currentAttention:     22.12389380530973
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Hester"
    title: "Joy Hester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%8A_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "جوي هيستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%89_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "جوى هيستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Hester"
    title: "Joy Hester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Hester"
    title: "Joy Hester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Hester"
    title: "Joy Hester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Hester"
    title: "Joy Hester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Hester"
    title: "Joy Hester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6297144"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump