1960, aged 40. Hester was laid to rest at the Box Hill Cemetery in an unmarked grave, at her behest. Legacy John and Sunday Reed organised a commemorative exhibition of Hester's work in 1963. In 1978, a street in the Canberra suburb of Chisholm was named Hester Place in her honour. In 1981, Janine Burke, Hester's biographer, curated the first major retrospective at the National Gallery of Victoria. Hester's life and work was the subject of a documentary, The Good Looker, in 1995. A plaque was erected in 1999 at the Box Hill Cemetery in honour of Hester's contribution to the arts. Reviewing her work for Time in 2001, Michael Fitzgerald wrote "Forty-one years after her death, Hester's drawings still suck the oxygen from the air, providing some of the clearest-eyed images in Australian art". In 2018 her Love and The Lovers series of works featured in a joint exhibit with Patricia Piccinini at TarraWarra Museum of Art. Piccinini credited Hester as a major influence on her own practice; stating: "I love the way her painting, especially those with merged features, are simultaneously surreal and figurative. I am really interested in depictions of love and intimacy in my own work, so I find Hester's approach very inspiring". Two plays have been written about her life: Joy by Christine Croyden, and Hester by Wendy Beckett. Joy Hester's art was included in the exhibition, Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now at the National Gallery of Australia, in 2021-2022. Exhibitions Solo exhibitions Melbourne Book Club Gallery, 6 February 1950 – 17 February 1950, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Mirka Cafe, July – August, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Gallery of Contemporary Art, 9 April 1957 – 23 April 1957, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Posthumous solo exhibitions Joy Hester, 3 September 1963 – 21 September 1963, Museum of Modern Art and Design of Australia, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Drawings by Joy from a private collection, 2 August 1966 – 12 August 1966, South Yarra Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Joy Hester Graphics, 20 October 1970 – 2 November 1970, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Joy Hester, 6 October 1976 – 25 October 1976, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Joy Hester, April 1977 – May 1977, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Joy Hester, Early Works on Paper, 14 June 1980 – 3 July 1980, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Joy Hester Retrospective, 29 September 1981 – 5 December