| Lin Van Hek | |
| Occupation: | Artist, musician |
| Associated Acts: | Difficult Women |
Lin Van Hek (aka Lyn van Hecke, born Lyn Whitehead) is an Australian writer, singer, painter, designer and artist. She was a vice-president of the Society of Women Writers and co-founder of the literary-music group Difficult Women.
Van Hek was born in Melbourne and lived in Europe and India while she was growing up.
Van Hek co-wrote and sang the song "Intimacy" for the film, The Terminator.[1] She later recorded a solo CD River of Life featuring songs of New Zealand writer, Kath Tait. More recently, she has performed with her partner, Joe Dolce in Difficult Women, that began with a series of feminist literary salons van Hek held in the 1980s.[2]
She also worked for over two decades with a group of women in North Vietnam designing, manufacturing and trading in hand-embroidered silk garments and textiles with a focus on fair trade and worker ethics.[3]
She is a prolific painter and writer. She is described by Booker Prize-winning author Keri Hulme as writing "like an angel giving the devil her due."[4]
| width=25% | Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs Black | 2003 | Van Hek, Lin . 2003 . Cat Tales: The Meaning of Cats in Women's Lives. Spinifex Press . | |||
| The Goddess Paddock | 2004 | Van Hek, Lin . 2004 . Horse Dreams: The Meaning of Horses in Women's Lives. Spinifex Press . | |||
| This Most Privileged of Madnesses | 2013 | Van Hek, Lin . May 2013 . This Most Privileged of Madnesses. Quadrant . | |||
| Mikel’s Christmas | 2017 | Van Hek, Lin . June 2017 . Mikel's Christmas . Quadrant . | |||
| Mrs Black | 2017 | Van Hek, Lin . Dec 2017 . Mrs Black . Quadrant . | |||
| Year | class='unsortable' | Review article | class='unsortable' | Work(s) reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Van Hek, Lin . Jan–Feb 2018 . Poetry of wildness . Quadrant . 62 . 1–2 [543] . 85–86. | Book: Petit, Pascale . Mama Amazonica . Bloodaxe . 2017 . |