'Having invented a language of forms that suits his needs, he is continually refining, adjusting- his manner of expression. Jacks has often been called a Romantic, even though his work is vigorously abstract, and has been closely aligned with minimalism and colour-field painting.'
- John McDonald, Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday March 15th, 1997
- John McDonald, Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday March 15th, 1997
| BIOGRAPHY | |
| 1958-60 | Prahran Technical College, Melbourne 1961-62 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology |
| Professional experience |
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| 1968 | Lecturer Rochdale College, Toronto |
| 1976 | Artist-in-Residence, Hot Sun Foundation, Austin, Texas |
| 1978 | Artist-in-Residence, University of Melbourne |
| 1980-83 | Lecturer Sydney College for the Arts, Sydney |
| 1983 | Artist-in-Residence, Prahran College, Melbourne |
| 1984-88 | Lecturer Prahran College, Melbourne |
| 1987 | Visiting Lecturer, Cornwall School of Art, U.K. |
| 1989 | Artist-in-Residence, Joye Foundation Studio, Sydney |
| Solo exhibitions |
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| 2007 | Anna Schartz Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2006 | Robert Jacks, Working in Multiple Dimensions, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin |
| 2005 | On Paper, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria |
| 2004 | The Living and the Dead, James Joyceof the Dead, Dublin |
| 2003 | Metro 5, Melbourne Port Jackson Press, Melbourne Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne University Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney |
| 2002 | ‘A Reason to be Cheerful’, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo |
| 2000 | Flags and other Abstractions, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney |
| 1998 | Ramp, Herring Island Gallery, Herring Island Environmental Sculpture Park, Melbourne Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney |
| 1997 | Sketches of Spain, Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney |
| 1996 | Sketches of Spain, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne Robert Jacks From the Studio, Castlemaine State Festival, Castlemaine |
| 1995 | Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1994 | Bellas Gallery, Brisbane Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, Victoria Robert Jacks: Harmonice Mundi- Works from the 1970s and 1990s |
| 1993 | Castlemaine Art Gallery, Castlemaine, Vic. Bellas Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1991 | Robert Jacks - Works from New York 1969-1978, Deutscher Fine Art |
| 1990 | Robert Jacks- On Paper 1958-1990, The Ian Potter Gallery, The University |
| 1989 | Australian Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1987 | Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Australian Galleries, Melbourne |
| 1986 | Gallery 52, Perth Arts Gallery, Auckland, N.Z. |
| 1985 | Realities Gallery, Melbourne Anima Gallery, Adelaide |
| 1984 | Realities Gallery, Melbourne Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney ACCA, Melbourne |
| 1983 | Gallery 52, Perth Realities Gallery, Melbourne Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney |
| 1982 | Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane Realities Gallery, Melbourne Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney |
| 1981 | David Reid Gallery, Sydney Realities Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1980 | David Reid Gallery, Sydney Art Projects, Melbourne Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane |
| 1979 | Arts Projects, Melbourne Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1978 | Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane University Gallery, The University of Melbourne |
| 1977 | Works on Paper Gallery, Sydney ACT, Toronto, Canada |
| 1975 | South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1973 | South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne Bonython Gallery, Sydney A Space, Toronto |
| 1972 | A Space, Toronto, Canada |
| 1971 | New York Cultural Centre, New York Whitney Museum Artists Resource Centre, N.Y. |
| 1969 | Pollock Gallery, Toronto, Canada South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne Clune Gallery, Sydney |
| 1967 | South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1966 | Gallery A, Melbourne |
| Selected group exhibitions |
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| 2008 | 2 x 2 Group Exhibition, Tim Olsen Gallery Annex, Sydney |
| 2007 | Australian Drawing John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2006 | Neo Minimalism and some Anticedents, John Buckley Gallery Melbourne |
| 2005 | #Pitch your Own Tent, Monash University Museum of Melbourne |
| 2004 | Barnados, The National Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2002 | Towards Colour, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin, Victoria |
| 2000 | Significant Contempory Artists, Smyrnious Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1999 | A Letter to Picasso: The Stamp in Contempory Art, National Philatelic Centre and Archives, Melbourne |
| 1998 | A Decade of Contempory Australian Printmaking, Metrapolitan Museum of Seol, Korea Australian Contemporary Art Fair 6, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne Sketches Of Spain, Philip Bacon Gallery, Brisbane |
| 1995 | The Situation Now: A Survey of Local Non-Objective Art, University Art The Festival, the Foundary and the Artist, Melbourne International Festival Deakin University Art Collection, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong |
| 1993 | From the Lithographer's Workshop, Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney |
| 1992 | Contemporary Australian Drawing, Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney Re-View, Gore Street Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1990 | Central Street, Charles Nodrum Gallery,Melbourne |
| 1989 | Interior Views, Victorian Regional Galleries |
| 1987 | Surface and Reflection, Art Gallery of N.S.W, Sydney Painters and Sculpters - Diversity in Contemporary Australian Art, Contemporary Australian Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Japan Selected Contemporary Drawings, Heide Parkand Art Gallery, Melbourne Voyage of Discovery, The Cresent Gallery, Dallas, Texas |
| 1986 | Colour and Transparency, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne A Resistant Spirit, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney and Realities Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1985 | The Subject of Painting, Art Gallery of N.S.W. Victoria: Views of Contemporary Artists, Benalla, Victoria |
| 1984 | The Field Now, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1983 | Wynne Watercolour Prize, Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney Sydney Opera House Tenth Anniversary, Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney The Mosaic, The Grid, Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney Recent Australian Painting: A Survey of the 70s and 80s, Art Gallery of S.A., Classicism and Romanticism in Contemporary Painting, Geelong Art Gallery, Twelve Australian Painters, Art Gallery of W.A., Perth Continuum 83, The First Exhibition of Australian Contemporary Art in Australian Abstract Art, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, A Melbourne Mood: Cool Contemporary Art, Australian National Gallery, |
| 1981 | Australian Perspecta Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney |
| 1978 | Four New York Painters: Fundamental Minimalism, Institute of Modern Art |
| 1977 | University Art Collections, Grey Gallery, NewYork |
| 1974 | Third Annual Contemporary Reflections, the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut, U.S. |
| 1973 | Recent Australian Art, Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney |
| 1972 | Large Works on Paper, Reese Palley Gallery, New York |
| 1970 | Group Show, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York |
| 1968 | The Field, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, tour to Art Gallery of Canadian Artists '68, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto |
| 1963/4/5 | New Generation, Museum of Modern Art,Melbourne |
| 1962 | Contemporary Art Society Annual, Argus Gallery, Melbourne |
| Selected Collections | |
| National Gallery of Australia, Canberra New Parliament House, Canberra National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand Centre for Contemporary Art, Hamilton, New Zealand New York University, New York, USA Wesleyan University, Connecticut, USA Artbank, Sydney Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney Sony Corporation, New York, USA BHP Corporation, Melbourne UNESCO, Sydney The University of Melbourne, Parkville Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne University of Queensland, Brisbane Albury Regional Art gallery, NSW Australian club, Melbourne Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria Bendigo art Gallery, Victoria Burnie Art Gallery, Victoria British Museum London Castlemaine Art Gallery, Victoria Centre for Contempory Art Hamilton New Zealand Darwin Community College, Darwin Geelong Art Gallery The Holmes a Court Collection, Heytesbury La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria Monash Medical Centre Museum of Contempory Art , Sydney Museum Of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, NZ National Gallery Of Australia National Gallery of Victoria New York University, NYC Newcastle Regional Gallery NSW Parliament House Art Collection Canberra Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney RMIT University, Melbourne Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria State Bank, Sydney Tarrawarra Museum of Art , Victoria Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart Toowoomba Community College University of Melbourne University of Queensland, Brisbane University of Western Australia, Perth Wadsworth Athenaeum, Connecticut, USA Weseyan University, Connecticut, USA Woollongong City Art Gallery,NSW |
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| 1998 | Ramp, Herring Island Environmental Sculpture Park, Parkes Victoria, Red |
| 1995 | Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla, Victoria Gallery Park and Rose Garden, sculpture cast at Meridan Foundry, Melbourne, & St Leonards Apartments, St Kilda, Melbourne, steel screens for 4 stairwells |
| 1993 | Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne, rugs for reception area |
| 1992 | Matsushita Corporation, Chifley Tower, Sydney, two large paintings for Swanston Walk, Melbourne, brass inlayed into bluestone pavement |
| 1988 | Woodside Offshore Petroleum, rug for foyer |
| 1986 | State Bank, Sydney, lift lobby, floor 35 and 36, marble floor |