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Hermia Boyd

Name

Hermia Boyd

Other names

LLOYD-JONES, Hermia Sappho (née)

Culture

Australian

Gender

Female

Birth date

1931

Birth place

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia View on map Close map

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Death date

25 January 2000

Death Place

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia View on map Close map

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Movements

England 1950-55; Italy, England 1962-68; France 1970-71

Occupations

Artist (painter) | Ceramic artist | Decorative / design artist | Designer (stage) | Potter | Printmaker

Summary

Worked: Australia (NSW), England, France. Etchings, Lithographs, Wood-engravings

NGA IRN

16956

Context

Australia

Biography

Hermia Boyd

Born in Sydney 1931, Hermia Sappo Lloyd-Jones studied sculpture under Lyndon Dadswell at East Sydney Technical School 1945-1947. Married to David Boyd, she is well known for her ceramics, glass and drawings which she has exhibited in London and Australia. In 1952, whilst in France, she studied wood-engraving with Edward Gordon Craig. Early in 1970 she settled with her husband in the south of France where she studied etching with Sathish Sharma. She died in 2000.

© Australianprints, 1992

Daughter of Herman (Jonah) Lloyd-Jones, sister of Clytie Jessop

Last Updated

24 Mar 2021