Dale Hickey b. 1937

  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Designer (Graphic Designer)
Melbourne artist whose paintings show an awareness of minimalism, colour field and realism.
Tags: Colour field, Realism
exhibited at
Dale Hickey: Life in a Box
Date
2008
Place
The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Vic.
Description

Dale Hickey is one of Australia’s most highly regarded painters. His work has influenced generations of Australian artists. This survey comprises thirty-six key works and focuses on the immediate confines of the artist’s studio and the objects within it, synthesizing the flat and the painterly. The majority of selected works are large paintings made after 1982. They present familiar, mundane objects in ever-changing configurations within a shallow stage-like space. This exhibition includes large abstract works from the late 1960s, and a group of Hickey’s small still-life paintings from the 1970s that highlight his lifelong exploration of pictorial space.

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/fromyear/2001/toyear/2011/exhib-date/2008-02-12/exhib/dale-hickey-life-in-a-box
exhibited at
1968
Date
1995
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description

1968 was an exhibition of works from the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Australia, curated by Michael Desmond and Christine Dixon. As the curators noted, it included work from 1967 to 1969 that encapsulated the spirit of those revolutionary years both in Australia, Europe and the USA.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
revolution, posters, Graphic Art, Photography, Abstraction, Colour, Political art, political posters, Minimal art, Fashion
exhibited at
Dale Hickey: a retrospective exhibition
Date
1988
Place
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, VIC
Description

Organised by Ballarat Fine Art Gallery.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
BFAG annual report; UTAS catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Dale Hickey: a retrospective exhibition / with an essay by Margaret Plant. Ballarat, [Vic]: City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, 1988
ISBN 0947310010

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Retrospective, Painting
exhibited at
Project 15: Dale Hickey
Date
9 October 1976
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Project No 14: Dale Hickey
Date
1976
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Dale Hickey. [Sydney]: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1976
[4]p: ill, port ; 30 cm

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Painting
exhibited at
Dale Hickey: paintings
Date
16 July 1975 - 26 July 1975
Place
Pinacotheca Gallery, Richmond, Vic
Type
Exhibition
Tags
Pinacotheca
exhibited at
Recent Australian Art
Date
19 October 1973 - 18 November 1973
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The Situation Now: Object and Post Object Art
Date
16 July 1971 - 6 August 1971
Place
Central Street Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description

Curated by Terry Smith and Donald Brook, The Situation Now: Object and Post Object Art, was a survey exhibition of conceptual and experimental works in Australia, sponsored by the Contemporary Art Society (CAS) held at Central Street. David Aspden’s work listed in the catalogue was replaced by a work by James Doolin in the exhibition itself.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
One Central Street
exhibited at
Exhibition of photographic work by artists associated with Pinacotheca
Date
31 May 1971 - 19 June 1971
Place
Inhibodress Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
Tags
Inhibodress, Pinacotheca
exhibited at
John Kaldor Art Projects 2, Szeemann: I want to leave a nice, well done child here (20 Australian Artists)
Date
29 April 1971 - 13 May 1971
Place
Bonython Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description

ALSO: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, with additional installation by Mike Brown

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Dale Hickey: paintings
Date
c.October 1969
Place
Pinacotheca Gallery, St Kilda, Vic
Type
Exhibition
Tags
Pinacotheca
exhibited at
The Field
Date
1968
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
Description

The Field was the first temporary exhibition in the newly opened National Gallery of Victoria building in St Kilda Road. Its curators, John Stringer and Brian Finemore, proudly proclaimed its partisanship as it celebrated the work of a new generation of Australian abstract artists.
“It is not impartial and comprehensive. It is biassed to define one particular direction in contemporary Australian art,” they wrote.
The Field was held a year after MoMA’s Two Decades of American Painting travelled to Sydney and Melbourne, and both its content and its catalogue were significantly influenced by that exhibition. Its professional production as much as the content of the lively hard edge abstract works encouraged the perception that this was the avant garde in Australia in 1968.
In 2018, the 50th anniversary of The Field, the National Gallery of Victoria recreated the exhibition at Federation Square.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Colour field, Abstract, Hard edge, Minimalism