Biography

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1966 Gallery A, Melbourne
1967 South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
1969 Pollock Gallery, Toronto
        South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
        Clune Gallery, Sydney
1971 New York Cultural Centre, New York
        Whitney Museum Artists Resource Centre, New York
1972 A Space, Toronto
1973 South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
        Bonython Gallery, Sydney
        * A Space, Toronto
1975 South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
1977 Works on Paper Gallery, Sydney
        * ACT, Toronto
1978 Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
        ‘Works in Progress’, University Gallery, The University of
        Melbourne.
        Stempelplaats, Amsterdam
1979 Art Projects, Melbourne
        Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
        Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1980 Art Projects, Melbourne
        Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
        David Reid Gallery, Sydney
1981 David Reid Gallery, Sydney
        Realities Gallery, Melbourne
1982 Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
        Realities Gallery, Melbourne
        Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney
1983 Gallery 52, Perth
        Realities Gallery, Melbourne
        Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney
1984 Realities Gallery, Melbourne
        Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney
        Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
1985 Realities Gallery, Melbourne
        Anima Gallery, Adelaide
        Reddoch Gallery, Mount Gambier
1986 Gallery 52, Perth
        Artis Gallery, Auckland
1987 Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney
        Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1989 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
        ‘Mc Garvie Street Paintings’, Australian Galleries, Sydney
1990 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
        ‘On Paper 1958-1990’, Ian Potter Gallery, The University of
        Melbourne, touring to Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
        and Art Gallery Of New South Wales
        Gore Street Gallery, Melbourne
1991 ‘Works from New York 1969-1978’, Deutscher Fine Art,
        Melbourne
1993 Castlemaine Art Gallery, Victoria
        Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
1994 Bellas Gallery, Brisbane
        Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
        La Trobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Victoria
        ‘Harmonice Mundi’, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1995 Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1996 ‘Sketches of Spain’, Robert Lindsay, Melbourne
        ‘From the Studio’, Castlemaine State Festival, Victoria
1997 ‘Sketches of Spain’, Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney
1998 ‘Sketches of Spain’, Philip Bacon Gallery, Brisbane
        Herring Island Gallery, Melbourne
1999 Olsen Carr Gallery, Sydney
2000 ‘Flags and Other Abstractions’, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
        John Buckley Fine Art, Melbourne
2001 ‘Sketches of Spain’, Lister Calder Gallery, Perth
        ‘Past Unfolded’, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne
        ‘Past Unfolded’, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2002 ‘Guitar’, Frankston International Guitar Festival, Victoria
        ‘Past Unfolded’, Lister Calder Gallery, Perth
        ‘Reasons to be Cheerful’, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
2003 ‘Underwater Garden’, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne
        ‘Art In Focus’, Ian Potter Gallery, The University of
        Melbourne
        Port Jackson Press, Melbourne
        Philip Bacon Gallery, Brisbane
        Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2004 ‘The Living and the Dead’, James Joyce of the Dead, Dublin
        ‘Melbourne/New York’, Tarrawarra Museum, Victoria
        * ‘Melbourne/Toronto’, John Buckley Fine Art, Melbourne
2005 ‘On Paper’, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
        ‘Never Ending Project’, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
           ‘Red’, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
        ‘Bloomsday’, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville
        ‘His Bloomsday Book’, Woodbine Gallery, Malmsbury
2006 ‘Robert Jacks: Working in Multiple Dimensions’,
        McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin
2007 Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

* in collaboration with Ric Evans

SELECTED COMMISSIONS

1985 Lift Lobby, marble floors, State Bank, Martin Place, Sydney
1986 Painted Tram, Victorian Ministry of the Arts
1988 Rug for atrium, Woodside Offshore Petroleum, Perth
1992 Two large paintings for foyer, Matsushita Corporation, Chifley Tower,
        Sydney
        Brass inlaid into bluestone pavement, Swanston Walk,
        Melbourne
1993 Rugs for reception area, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
1995 Bronze Sculpture, gift to Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria in memory of
        Pamela Gullifer AM
        Steel Screens for stairwells, St Leonards Apartments,
        St Kilda, Melbourne
1998 ‘Ramp’, red gum sculpture, Herring Island Environmental Sculpture
        Park, Melbourne
2000 ‘Rising Chords’, a sculpture commissioned by the tenants of the
        Domain Apartments, Melbourne
2003 ‘Chords Long Drawn’, a postage stamp commissioned by
        Australia Post

AWARDS

1967 Benalla Prize, Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria
1968 Canadian Arts Council Grant
1969 Hart House Prize, University of Toronto, Canada
1975 Australia Council Visual Arts Board, Standard Grant
1981 Henry Salkauskas Art (Purchase) Award, ‘Australian
        Perspecta’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1982 Australia Council Visual Arts Board, Standard Grant
1998 Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1999 National Works on Paper Prize, Mornington Peninsular
        Regional Gallery, Victoria
2003 Kedumba Drawing Prize, New South Wales
2006 Awarded Officer of the Order of Australia Medal

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