Her work reveals a fascination with the female form and its spiritual manifestations, exploring the mythology of ancient civilisation, Western approaches to nature enshrined in Celtic and Druid traditions, and the mysticism of Eastern religion.
[2] Noela Hjorth, printmaker, painter and sculptor, was born and studied in Melbourne, and trained at Chelsea Art School in London.
Her later work had a strong environmental message about the role of ecology and obsolescence and took the form of social habitual structures she called living sculptures.
She frequently went to Arnhem Land and Kakadu National Park to watch ceremonies and visit cave paintings.
1994 was her most prolific year in that decade with exhibitions including retrospective works and recent sculptures at St Peter's Cathedral in conjunction with the Adelaide Festival, with subsequent exhibitions at the Greenaway Art Gallery, Kent Town, South Australia and the Melbourne Contemporary Art Gallery, Victoria.
After her first marriage ended, Noela met and married John Olsen and moved to Clarendon, South Australia.