Anne Marie Hall 'Sister Blackford Speaking' reproduction-print A jack of all trades

A jack of all trades

'Axiom' 1998

Dimensions: 122 x 85 x 2 cm

Set in a dusky landscape

'Bird Dance' 1965

Anne Marie Hall 'Sister Blackford Speaking' reproduction-print A jack of all tradesIn Sister Blackford Speaking, Anne Marie Hall sketches a nurse. The work was drawn in 1976 when Halls then husband, Australian artist John Perceval, was committed to Larundel Mental Asylum on the outskirts of Melbourne. It is likely a portrait of one of his nurses, captured with a wicked eye. Hall draws the nurses fingers like wriggling worms and her expression slightly deranged. Perceval lived at Larundel between 1974 and 1989; he and Hall divorced