Rosaleen Norton, “the witch of Kings Cross”, was born to a world at war during a thunderstorm on this day in 1917. The dominant position in artworks by the Antipodean occult luminary is often occupied by a leering, demonic figure who bears the arresting features of the artist herself. “Her visions of the night,” says biographer Nevill Drury, “the phantasms which haunted her imagination and opened doorways to other realms of mythic consciousness, serve as a reminder that there are always greater realities in the universe which we can acknowledge and explore.”
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The witch of Kings Cross
Pan’s people
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