[4] Hagerty was commissioned by the architects Guida Moseley Brown to design the exterior of the Peter Karmel building, an extension to the existing School of Music at the Australia National University.
Hagerty said of the final design: "The massed red of painted walls and white pillars underscores the motifs above and unifies the pictorial and architectural spaces, including the entrance court".
[6] In discussing what he regarded as a "standout exhibition" Haynes referred to Hagerty's talents and found her work "powerfully incisive and aesthetically beautiful".
[7] The Canberra Contemporary Art Space website has a short description of Blue Blooded found they were reminded of "Modigliani’s voluptuousness stripped of figurative connotation" and that Hagerty's "luxurious overlay of form and virtuoso use of colour is paradoxically best described as sculptural, and calls to mind the organic abstraction of Jean Arp".
[8] The Fellowship Award was "to mount an exhibition of her paintings at Olsen Gruin Gallery, New York, as well as pursuing a new development in her practice incorporating assemblage".