Rosaleen Norton
"The New Zealand-born, Australian artist Rosaleen Norton (1917-1979) provides us with one of the few reasonably close parallels to Austin Spare. Bohemian, eccentric and extraordinarily talented, she has left her mark in Sydney folklore as 'the Witch of Kings Cross' and as a painter of the supernatural who was presumed during the moralistic social era of the 1950's to indulge in 'Satanism and pornography'. This view of her reflects the narrow judgemental attitudes that hounded her for most of her creative life."
"The New Zealand-born, Australian artist Rosaleen Norton (1917-1979) provides us with one of the few reasonably close parallels to Austin Spare. Bohemian, eccentric and extraordinarily talented, she has left her mark in Sydney folklore as 'the Witch of Kings Cross' and as a painter of the supernatural who was presumed during the moralistic social era of the 1950's to indulge in 'Satanism and pornography'. This view of her reflects the narrow judgemental attitudes that hounded her for most of her creative life."
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