Jacqueline HICK

Jacqueline Hick AM was born in Adelaide in 1919, and is widely celebrated for her impressionistic rendering of people, the human condition, performing arts, and Australian landscapes. She was an accomplished painter and printmaker, and later took up enamelling. She won many significant awards namely, the Melrose Prize for her Self Portrait (1959), Cornell Prize (1958, 1960) and Maude Vizard-Wholohan Prize (1962, 1964). Hick both studied and taught at the South Australian School of Art, was a founding member of the Contemporary Art Society and the Adelaide Theatre Group, and later a board member of the Art Gallery of South Australia. Hick was a central figure in Adelaide's art scene in the 1940s and she continued to practice and exhibit her work into the 1990s. In 1995, she was appointed Member of the Order of Australia, AM, for services to art.