Jacqueline Hick

Jacqueline Hick
Born(1919-12-08)8 December 1919
Adelaide, Australia
Died11 May 2004(2004-05-11) (aged 84)
Adelaide, Australia
EducationGirls' Central Art School
Adelaide Teachers College
Known forPainting, printmaking
MovementSocial Realism, Surrealism
AwardsMelrose Memorial Prize, Cornell Prize

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

Early life and education

Jacqueline Hick was born on 8 December 1919[1] in Adelaide, South Australia, the first child of Horace Barnett Hick and Julia Caroline Hick-Thomson.[2]

Hick studied at the Girls' Central Art School from 1934 to 1927 (a school within the school that became the South Australian School of Art.[3] in her 3rd year in 1937[4] She did her teachers training at Adelaide Teachers' College in 1939-40[5]

She also studied at the Central School of Art and Design in London, and the Académie Montmartre in Paris.[2] Her time in England, France, and Italy spanned the period between 1948 and 1950.[6]

Career

Hick taught at her alma mater, the South Australian School of Arts and Crafts, from 1941 to 1945,[5] where she was noted for being one of three teachers "instrumental in introducing students to modernism",[7] before resigning to work full-time as an artist.[5]

She was a founding member of the Contemporary Art Society of South Australia in 1942.[2] In January 1943, one of her works was exhibited in an "all Australian anti-Fascist" art exhibition in the South Australian National Gallery. Along with two others, her painting was acquired by the gallery.[8]

In the 1950s, Hick worked in the Hexagon group with fellow Australia artists John Dowie, David Dridan, Francis Ray Thompson, Douglas Roberts, and Pam Cleland.[2] Dowie sculpted a bronze of Hick that was in the National Gallery of Victoria,[9] and wrote a poem in her honor.[10] She also trained with the Australian artist Ivor Hele,[11] and in the 1960s studied in the USA and Mexico.[12]: 111 

From 1968 until 1976 Hick was a trustee at the Art Gallery of South Australia,[2] the second woman to hold this position after Ursula Hayward.

Art practice and themes

Hick was influenced by the art of Mary P. Harris and John Goodchild, and inspired European artists Goya, Honoré Daumier, and Käthe Kollwitz as well as Australian painters William Dobell and Russell Drysdale.[5] She identified with Australian artists working on the themes of "isolation, drought, exploration, pioneers, and colonial crime".[13] 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.[12]

She was primarily a figure painter in oils, but also created prints, set designs, and enamels.[5]

Recognition and honours

In 1953 Hick won a prize in a Dunlop competition for her watercolour works,[14][15] and won again in 1955 and 1956.[2]

In 1958, she won the Melrose Memorial Prize, a prize for portraits given by the South Australian Society of Arts.[14] She won the Cornell Prize twice,[16][17] in 1958 for her piece Horse Destroyed, and in 1960 for Corridor.[12]: 126 

In 1960 she also won the Caltex prize at the Adelaide Festival of the Arts.[14]

In 1962 and again in 1964 she won the Maude Vizard-Wholohan Prize.[14][18]

In 1991, Hick's life and work were the subject of an MA thesis by Flinders University student Paula Furby.[19]

In the 1995 Queen's Birthday Honours in Australia, she was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia, "For service to art as an artist and teacher".[20]

Hick's work is mentioned multiple times in art historian Bernard Smith's 2001 book on Australian painting.[21]

In 2000, one of her pieces sold for $27,600, a new record for her work.[22]

In 2013 a book covering Hick's life, Catherine Hick: Born Wise, was published.[12]

Exhibitions

Since 1940, Hick's art been presented in both solo and group exhibitions in all states in Australia as well as in the UK, US, and Netherlands.[2]

Her work was included in a 1962 exhibition entitled Commonwealth Art Today at the Commonwealth Institute in London.[23]

A solo exhibition of her work was held at the Royal South Australian Society of Arts gallery, 2–30 March 1994,[24]

Collections

Hick's work is part of the permanent collection of the following art museums in Australia:

Her work is also found in the London Guildhall,[30] as well as in the Mertz Collection[31] and the Raymond Burr Collection in the United States.[2]

Personal life

Hicks married Frank Galazowski (d. 1987),[32] and the couple had four children.[12]: 124 

She lived in Brisbane, Queensland, from 1978 until 1990.[5]

She died on 11 May 2004 in Adelaide.[2]

References

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  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Germaine, Max (1979). Artists and galleries of Australia and New Zealand. Internet Archive. Sydney : New York : Lansdowne Editions. p. 257. ISBN 978-0-86832-019-9.
  3. ^ "South Australian school of art rides out 20th Century changes from North Terrace to North Adelaide to Underdale". Adelaide AZ. Retrieved 16 November 2025.
  4. ^ "GIRLS' CENTRAL ART SCHOOL". News. Vol. XXIX, no. 4, 496. South Australia. 20 December 1937. p. 7. Retrieved 16 November 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ a b c d e f Furby, Paula (7 January 2022). "Jacqueline Hick :: biography". Design and Art Australia Online. Archived from the original on 16 November 2025. Retrieved 16 November 2025. created 1995, updated 2011, then Jan 7, 2022
  6. ^ Forwood, Gillian (2003). Lina Bryans : rare modern, 1909-2000. Internet Archive. Carlton, Vic. : Miegunyah Press. pp. 121, 150. ISBN 978-0-522-85037-6.
  7. ^ "Antecedent History". UniSA. Retrieved 16 November 2025.
  8. ^ "Anti-Fascist Art For S.A. Gallery". News. Vol. 40, no. 6, 077. South Australia. 19 January 1943. p. 3. Retrieved 16 November 2025 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. ^ Scarlett, Ken (1980). Australian sculptors. Internet Archive. West Melbourne, Vic. : Thomas Nelson (Australia). p. 177. ISBN 978-0-17-005292-4.
  10. ^ Press, Wakefield (2001). John Dowie: A Life in the Round. Wakefield Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-1-86254-544-1.
  11. ^ Melanie Nolan (2021). Australian Dictionary Of Biography Volume 19; 1991– 1995 A– Z. p. 382.
  12. ^ a b c d e Strzelecki, Gloria (2013). Jacqueline Hick : Born wise. Wakefield Press. ISBN 978-1-74305-200-6.
  13. ^ Ryles, Graham (1992). A buyer's guide to Australian art. Port Melbourne: Mandarin. pp. 4, 134. ISBN 978-1-86330-146-6 – via Internet Archive.
  14. ^ a b c d McCulloch, Alan; Nodrum, Charles (1984). Encyclopedia of Australian art. Internet Archive. Hawthorn, Vic. : Hutchinson of Australia. pp. 73, 574, 781. ISBN 978-0-09-148240-4.
  15. ^ "This oil won £300 - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) - 12 May 1953". Trove. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
  16. ^ Wilson, Shirley Cameron (1988). From Shadow Into Light: South Australian Women Artists Since Colonisation. Delmont. p. 119. ISBN 978-0-7316-4846-7.
  17. ^ "Hick, Jacqueline (1919-)". Trove. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  18. ^ "Maude Vizard-Wholohan Prize :: recognition at :: at Design and Art Australia Online". www.daao.org.au. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
  19. ^ Furby, Paula (1991). Jacqueline Hick: Her life and art (MA). Flinders University. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  20. ^ "QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY 1995 HONOURS". Canberra Times. 12 June 1995. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  21. ^ Smith, Bernard (2001). Australian painting, 1788-2000. Internet Archive. South Melbourne, Vic. : Oxford University Press. pp. 235–236, 348–349, 351, 560. ISBN 978-0-19-551554-1. Jacqueline Hick pains figurative compositions, in a broad, expressive style, drawn from scenes of daily life.
  22. ^ Ingram, Terry (6 July 2000). "Mertz mistake creates post-sale mayhem". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
  23. ^ Pierse, Simon (5 July 2017). "Australian Art and Artists in London, 1950-1965 ": An Antipodean Summer. Routledge. p. 170. ISBN 978-1-351-57496-9.
  24. ^ Dutkiewicz, Adam; Schrapel, Stephanie (1994), Jacqueline Hick, Royal South Australian Society of Arts, ISBN 978-0-646-17375-7
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  27. ^ "Jacqueline HICK". National Gallery of Victoria. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
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  29. ^ "Works matching "jacqueline hick" | Art Gallery of NSW". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
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  31. ^ Corcoran Gallery of Art (10 March 1967). The Australian Painters 1964-1966: Contemporary Australian Painting from the Mertz Collection.
  32. ^ Grishin, Sasha (21 June 2013). "Timely tribute". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
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