Education
He studied sculpture from 1958 to 1960 at the Prahran Technical College, Melbourne, and painting in 1961 and 1962 at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (now Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University).
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Robert Jacks
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Born in Melbourne, Australia. In 1966 he had his first solo exhibition at Gallery A, Melbourne from which a work was purchased for the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria. In 1968, he participated in ‘The Field’ an extremely influential exhibition at the new National Gallery of Victoria, which effectively launched color field abstraction in Australia.
He taught at Rochedale College, Toronto before moving to New York in 1969.
He returned to Melbourne in 1978 to be artist-in-residence at the University of Melbourne. In 2001 the Bendigo Art Gallery established the Robert Jacks Drawing Prize.
His mature work, while emerging out of the international abstract "color field" movement of the late "60s, retains an ambiguous link to the representation of appearances, especially of objects in space. "I think my work has always been minimal and abstract because when I was being taught sculpture, it was expressed in abstract terms.
Form in space, mass and volume - that sort of thing.
Painting, for me, is an extension of sculptural ideas.".
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Australia