The cousin of Thea Proctor, Hera Roberts was a 'flamboyantly stylish and well known designer working in the bold modernist style of the 1920's and 1930's. Very much part of the Sydney social scene', she 'enjoyed a considerable amount of fame and artistic authority'.
Best known for her many Home magazine covers of the 1920s and 1930s, Roberts created 'flat, stylised images rendered with bold colour combinations. As an aspect of commercial art, she also arranged photo-spreads for the magazine featuring the fashionable new Art-Deco objects on sale in Sydney. Her cover for Home's 'Interior Decoration Number' of 1930 signalled other interests. It was self-consciously modernist, illustrating circular blonde-wood furnishings, a sheet-glass lamp base after French designer Djo-Bourgeois and a suitably modish woman.'
(Source: Dictionary of Australian Artists Online)
