4.4 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Nora Heysen wasn’t the only talented artist in the family. As a young woman, her painting was extraordinary, but she could never get out from the shadow of her dad. She took her talents to London to carve her own identity, but male teachers and critics told her that her work wasn’t very good.
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0:00.0 | This is a B.C. podcast. |
0:05.0 | Ninemani, Nainai, Tiana, Nagananari, Gungabina. |
0:10.0 | Hello, are you good? My name is Tiana. My Ghana name is Gangabina, which means the caring one. |
0:16.2 | To begin, it's important that we acknowledge the country that we are on. |
0:21.6 | I'm on Ghanaian faith, the lands of the Ghana people of the Adelaide Plains. |
0:26.5 | We would like to pay our respects to the custodians, to the ancestors that nurtured the land and the elders that have led the way for generations. |
0:37.0 | This is your land, this is your country, it has always been Aboriginal land. |
0:42.0 | And as this is a podcast, it has always been Aboriginal land. |
0:43.0 | And as this is a podcast whose reach is far and wide, |
0:47.0 | we would like to extend our respect to the elders of the lands |
0:51.0 | this recording might reach. of the |
0:55.0 | girls who are rich. |
0:56.0 | Girl Power. |
1:00.0 | This is the story of Nora Heisen, |
1:02.0 | the girl who never stopped painting. |
1:05.0 | Read by the 2018 Archibald Prize winner Yvette Coppersmith. |
1:10.0 | Noirritt Barton D'A. Nora buttoned up her brown velvet jacket and checked herself in the mirror. |
1:20.0 | She looked smart and strong. |
1:23.0 | She'd bought the jacket herself with money from her sellout shows. |
1:28.0 | Nora Hyacinth's paintings were snapped up by galleries in almost every state. |
1:35.0 | She's the next big thing in Australian art, |
1:39.0 | collectors gushed. |
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