ArtistJack, Kenneth

Artist Years1924-2006

Artist NationalityAustralian

TitleSliding Rock Mine – Ruins, Flanders Ranges, S. A.

Year1969

MediumDrawing > Mixed Media

DimensionsSheet: 8.5 X 15 inches

Accession NumberRC1431

Notes Kenneth William David Jack AM, MBE, RWS, was an Australian watercolour artist who specialised in painting the images of an almost forgotten outback life: old mine workings, ghost towns, decaying farm buildings. The son of Harold James Jack (1901–1977), and Ethel Gertrude Jack (1892–1950), née Orr, Kenneth was born in Malvern on 5 October 1924. He became a professional painter at the age of 39 after giving up his job as senior instructor at the Caulfield Institute of Technology, and continued as a prolific painter until his death in June 2006. He was elected to the Royal Watercolour Society in 1977, awarded the MBE "for service to the arts" in 1982, and awarded the Order of Australia (AM): "for service to the arts, particularly to watercolour painting". The Kenneth Jack Memorial Drawing Award was established in his honor in 2007 by The Australian Guild of Realist Artists.
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