Anne Marie Hall 'Sister Blackford Speaking' reproduction-print and where festival rites took

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Anne Marie Hall 'Sister Blackford Speaking' reproduction-print and where festival rites tookIn 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