Noela Hjorth was an artist in printmaking, painting, and sculpture. Born in Melbourne, Hjorth studied at RMIT in Melbourne and Chelsea Art School in London. Along with key printmakers such as Noel Counihan, she left a legacy as an important printmaker who helped to establish the Victorian Print Workshop at the Meat Market in the 1970s which then became the Australian Print Workshop in 1981.

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While her earlier works were characterised by female iconography, her later work deployed discarded materials into ecological social sculptures. From the turn of the 21st century, Hjorth’s work took on a more majestic dimension in terms of scale. Hjorth brought her passions together — art, anthropology (material cultures) and architecture — by building houses she called "living sculptures". These living sculptures have a strong environmental message about the role of ecology and obsolescence and took the form of social habitual structures.

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Download her selected Curriculum Vitae.

Read Noela's Obituary.