Jacqueline Hick ('Jackie; 8 December 1919 – 11 May 2004) was an Australian painter whose work is held in the permanent collections of multiple museums in Australia. She is known for her work depicting human figures and the Australian landscape. She is the subject of the 2013 book ''Jacqueline Hick: Born Wise.''

Early life and career

Hick was born on in Adelaide, Australia, the first child to Horace Barnett Hick and Julia Caroline Hick-Thomson, and died in Adelaide, Australia. Hick studied at several places include the South Australian School of Art, the London Central School of Art, Académie Montmartre in Paris. Her time in England, France, and Italy spanned the period between 1948 and 1950. In 1950, she worked in the Hexagon group with fellow Australia artists John Dowie, David Dridan, Francis Ray Thompson,

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, and Pam Cleland. Dowie sculpted a bronze of Hick that was in the National Gallery of Victoria, and wrote a poem in her honor. She also trained with the Australian artist

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, and in the 1960s studied in the USA and Mexico. From 1968 until 1976 Hick was a trustee at the Art Gallery of South Australia, the second woman to hold this position after Ursula Hayward.

Art work

Hick identified with the

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, Australia artists working on the themes of "isolation, drought, exploration, pioneers, and colonial crime". Her work ranges from landscape to portrait. She increasingly showed the human suffering of the Indigenous Australians, and the adverse effects of metropolitan life on its inhabitants. Hick's work is mentioned multiple times in art historian Bernard Smith's 2001 book on Australian painting. Hick's work is part of the permanent collection of the following museums: *

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, *

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, *

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, *

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, Hick's art has also been presented in temporary shows, notably at the Royal South Australian Society of Arts Gallery, 2–30 March 1994, and in London in a show with other Australian artists. Her work is also found in the London Guild Hall, the Mertz Collection in the United States, and the Raymond Burr Collection in the United States. In 2000, one of her pieces sold for $27,600, a new record for her work. In 2013 a book covering Hick's life, ''Catherine Hick:'' ''Born Wise''_, was published. Earlier, her life and work had been the subject of an MA thesis.

Awards and honors

In 1953 Hick won a prize in a Dunlop competitions for her water color works, and won again in 1955 and 1956. In 1958, she won the Melrose Memorial Prize, a prize for portraits given by the South Australian Society of Arts. She won the Cornell Prize twice, in 1958 for her piece Horse Destroyed and in 1960 for Corridor. In 1960 she also won the Caltex prize at the Adelaide Arts Festival. In 1962 and again in 1964 she won the

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. In the 1995 Queen's Birthday Honours in Australia, she was award a

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(1995), with a citation that read "For service to art as an artist and teacher".

Personal life

She was married to Frank Galazowski (d. 1987), and the couple had four children.

References

External links

A selection of Hick's artworksJacqueline Hick interviewed by Hazel de Berg
– audio recording {{DEFAULTSORT:Hick, Jacqueline Members of the Order of Australia 1919 births 2004 deaths Artists from Adelaide 20th-century Australian women artists 20th-century Australian painters Australian modern painters