DIA Hall of Fame Inductee Dorothy Erickson’s new exhibition, Hesperia Piu di Cinquante, celebrates over fifty years of making remarkable and highly collectable contemporary jewellery.
This is an exhibition with a number of strands that take different directions to do justice to the different women that have been the source of inspiration that Dorothy’s work honours.
Hesperia is the name of the Evening Star. It is also used to denote a western land and I have created a new collection of jewellery and bodyworks inspired by, and a tribute to, the women who were among the first to make art their profession in Western Australia, a land the founding father wished to call Hesperian. Many of these women were also stars in their own time but are now forgotten.
Image credits: Self portrait – For Kate III – Hesperia Collection, 2023