Robert Jacks Australian, 1943-2014
Robert Jacks is one of Australia’s most significant and accomplished abstract artists. His constant exploration of abstract through an array of different mediums has created a unique and influential path through late twentieth and early twenty-first Australian art.
Jacks attended Prahran Technical College from 1958-1960 where he first studied sculpture and then subsequently moved to RMIT in 1961-62 to study painting. His first solo exhibition proved to be an enormous success and in 1968 his work was included in the landmark exhibition, The Field, at the National Gallery of Victoria.
In 1968, Jack spent the next ten years living and working in Canada and the United States. It was during this time he became inspired by his artistic peers, Sol LeWitt and Donald Judd and as a result his work drastically evolved into incorporating elements of contemporary abstraction, minimalism and conceptual practice, in his work. It is because of these experiences, Robert Jacks has carved out a unique place for himself within the history and development of twentieth century Australian art.
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BIOGRAPHY |
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1958-60 |
Prahran Technical College, Melbourne 1961-62 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology |
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Professional experience |
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1968 |
Lecturer Rochdale College, Toronto |
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1976 |
Artist-in-Residence, Hot Sun Foundation, Austin, Texas |
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1978 |
Artist-in-Residence, University of Melbourne |
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1980-83 |
Lecturer Sydney College for the Arts, Sydney |
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1983 |
Artist-in-Residence, Prahran College, Melbourne |
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1984-88 |
Lecturer Prahran College, Melbourne |
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1987 |
Visiting Lecturer, Cornwall School of Art, U.K. |
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1989 |
Artist-in-Residence, Joye Foundation Studio, Sydney |
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Solo exhibitions |
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2007 |
Anna Schartz Gallery, Melbourne |
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2006 |
Robert Jacks, Working in Multiple Dimensions, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin |
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2005 |
On Paper, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria |
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2004 |
The Living and the Dead, James Joyceof the Dead, Dublin |
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2003 |
Metro 5, Melbourne |
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2002 |
‘A Reason to be Cheerful’, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo |
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2000 |
Flags and other Abstractions, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney |
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1998 |
Ramp, Herring Island Gallery, Herring Island |
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1997 |
Sketches of Spain, Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney |
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1996 |
Sketches of Spain, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne |
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1995 |
Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne |
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1994 |
Bellas Gallery, Brisbane |
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1993 |
Castlemaine Art Gallery, Castlemaine, Vic. |
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1991 |
Robert Jacks - Works from New York 1969-1978, Deutscher Fine Art |
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1990 |
Robert Jacks- On Paper 1958-1990, The Ian Potter Gallery, The University |
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1989 |
Australian Galleries, Melbourne |
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1987 |
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney |
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1986 |
Gallery 52, Perth |
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1985 |
Realities Gallery, Melbourne |
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1984 |
Realities Gallery, Melbourne |
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1983 |
Gallery 52, Perth |
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1982 |
Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane |
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1981 |
David Reid Gallery, Sydney |
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1980 |
David Reid Gallery, Sydney |
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1979 |
Arts Projects, Melbourne |
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1978 |
Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane |
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1977 |
Works on Paper Gallery, Sydney |
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1975 |
South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne |
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1973 |
South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne |
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1972 |
A Space, Toronto, Canada |
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1971 |
New York Cultural Centre, New York |
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1969 |
Pollock Gallery, Toronto, Canada |
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1967 |
South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne |
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1966 |
Gallery A, Melbourne |
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Selected group exhibitions |
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2008 |
2 x 2 Group Exhibition, Tim Olsen Gallery Annex, Sydney |
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2007 |
Australian Drawing John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne |
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2006 |
Neo Minimalism and some Anticedents, John Buckley Gallery Melbourne |
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2005 |
#Pitch your Own Tent, Monash University Museum of Melbourne |
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2004 |
Barnados, The National Gallery, Melbourne |
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2002 |
Towards Colour, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin, Victoria |
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2000 |
Significant Contempory Artists, Smyrnious Gallery, Melbourne |
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1999 |
A Letter to Picasso: The Stamp in Contempory Art, National Philatelic Centre and Archives, Melbourne |
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1998 |
A Decade of Contempory Australian Printmaking, Metrapolitan Museum of Seol, Korea |
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1995 |
The Situation Now: A Survey of Local Non-Objective Art, University Art |
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1993 |
From the Lithographer's Workshop, Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney |
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1992 |
Contemporary Australian Drawing, Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney
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Re-View, Gore Street Gallery, Melbourne |
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1990 |
Central Street, Charles Nodrum Gallery,Melbourne |
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1989 |
Interior Views, Victorian Regional Galleries |
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1987 |
Surface and Reflection, Art Gallery of N.S.W, Sydney |
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1986 |
Colour and Transparency, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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1985 |
The Subject of Painting, Art Gallery of N.S.W. |
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1984 |
The Field Now, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne |
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1983 |
Wynne Watercolour Prize, Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney |
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1981 |
Australian Perspecta Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney |
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1978 |
Four New York Painters: Fundamental Minimalism, Institute of Modern Art |
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1977 |
University Art Collections, Grey Gallery, NewYork |
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1974 |
Third Annual Contemporary Reflections, the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut, U.S. |
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1973 |
Recent Australian Art, Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney |
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1972 |
Large Works on Paper, Reese Palley Gallery, New York |
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1970 |
Group Show, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York |
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1968 |
The Field, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, tour to Art Gallery of |
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1963/4/5 |
New Generation, Museum of Modern Art,Melbourne |
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1962 |
Contemporary Art Society Annual, Argus Gallery, Melbourne |
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Selected Collections |
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National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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1998 |
Ramp, Herring Island Environmental Sculpture Park, Parkes Victoria, Red |
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1995 |
Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla, Victoria |
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1993 |
Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne, rugs for reception area |
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1992 |
Matsushita Corporation, Chifley Tower, Sydney, two large paintings for |
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1988 |
Woodside Offshore Petroleum, rug for foyer |
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1986 |
State Bank, Sydney, lift lobby, floor 35 and 36, marble floor |
