Jacqueline Hick

Jacqueline Hick was born on 8 December 1919 in Adelaide, South Australia, the first child of Horace Barnett Hick and Julia Caroline Hick-Thomson. in her 3rd year in 1937 She did her teachers training at Adelaide Teachers' College in 1939-40 She also studied at the Central School of Art and Design in London, and the Académie Montmartre in Paris. Her time in England, France, and Italy spanned the period between 1948 and 1950. ==Career==

Hick taught at her alma mater, the South Australian School of Arts and Crafts, from 1941 to 1945, before resigning to work full-time as an artist. 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. and wrote a poem in her honor. She also trained with the Australian artist Ivor Hele, 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 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. 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. She was primarily a figure painter in oils, but also created prints, set designs, and enamels. ==Recognition and honours==

In 1953 Hick won a prize in a Dunlop competition for her watercolour 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. in 1958 for her piece Horse Destroyed, and in 1960 for Corridor. In 1991, Hick's life and work were the subject of an MA thesis by Flinders University student Paula Furby. 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". Hick's work is mentioned multiple times in art historian Bernard Smith's 2001 book on Australian painting. 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. ==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. A solo exhibition of her work was held at the Royal South Australian Society of Arts gallery, 2–30 March 1994, ==Collections==

Hick's work is part of the permanent collection of the following art museums in Australia: • National Gallery of Australia • National Gallery of Victoria • Art Gallery of South Australia • Art Gallery of New South Wales Her work is also found in the London Guildhall, as well as in the Mertz Collection and the Raymond Burr Collection in the United States. == Personal life ==

Hicks married Frank Galazowski (d. 1987), and the couple had four children. She lived in Brisbane, Queensland, from 1978 until 1990. She died on 11 May 2004 in Adelaide. == References ==