Figurative elements slide into abstract shapes–a panel of curved deep black slices carefully against a pale ground
When I ask Hagerty what drew her to art at such a young age, she dispels any romantic notions of a precociously young vocational calling. Her family was not wealthy. They lived in a fibro shack in Sydney’s western suburbs. “I just needed to get out. I stayed in a student lodge; they were happy, liberating times.” “Were your parents supportive of your choice? Of following an art career?” “I was very shy at that time and my mother knew I had to leave. She wanted me to get out into the world.”
Hagerty’s triptych, 2012, appeared in , at the National Gallery of Australia, 2020–2021. Like her stories of early escape into art, it
