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Jacqueline Hick

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.

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

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. 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.

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

She was a founding member of the Contemporary Art Society of South Australia in 1942. 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.

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. 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 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.

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