KENNETH JACK AM MBE RWS AWI
Sawmill and end of line siding,
Theodore, QLD 1999
Acrylic on Board
80 x 120 cm

 

Magpie stump hotel,
Mintaro, S.A. 2005
Acrylic on Board
19 x 34 cm

 

Hotel of the far inland,
Gawlia, W.A. 2005
Watercolour
33 x 53 cm

 

High life, down under,
Uluru, N.T. 2005
Watercolour
51 x 51 cm

 

Flood waters on the finke,
N.T. 1990
Watercolour
81 x 121 cm

 

Wilkawillina gorge,
S.A. 1991
Mixed Media
34 x 54 cm

 

Chichester cathedral,
England 1998
Watercolour
33 x 53 cm

 

Stamford,
England 2005
Watercolour
33 x 53 cm

 

Castleton,
Isle Of Man 2003
Watercolour
32 x 52 cm

 

Exeter cathedral,
England 1997
Watercolour
33 x 53 cm

 

Bendigo,
Victoria 1978
Mixed Media
25 x 34 cm

 

Terowie,
S.A. 2001
Watercolour
32 x 52 cm

 

Long reach railway station,
QLD 1992
Watercolour
30 x 45 cm

 

P.S. Adelaide,
Echuca VIC 2004
Watercolour
50 x 51 cm

 

P.S Alexander Arbuthnot, Echuca
Watercolour
77 x 114 cm

 

Korumburra
Watercolour
56 x 81 cm


Born Melbourne 1924.

Educated State Schools:  Melbourne High School (gained top place for Leaving Honors Drawing in the State for 1942).

RMIT

- qualified for Drawing Teachers Primary Certificate (D.T.P.C.)

- qualified for Drawing Teachers Secondary Certificate (D.T.S.C.)

- qualified for Art Teachers Certificate (A.T.C) (Thesis 'On the Drawing of Architecture')

- qualified for Art Teachers Diploma (A.T.D)

(These latter two being Victorian Education Department degree equivalents.)

Melbourne Teachers College - qualified for Trained Teachers Certificate (Manual Arts) 1947

1943, 44, 45

Served in R.A.A.F. in World War II as a survey and cartographical draughtsman - overseas service in New Guinea, Morotai and Borneo.

1948 - 68

Full time art instructor for Education Department of Victoria. While doing this, learned printmaking and continued drawing and painting after teaching hours.

1956

Founded the Painting and Printmaking department within the Art-School at Caulfield Institute of Tech. (now part of Monash University) and was head of both departments until resigning from teaching in 1968 to paint full time. In 1968 appointed Deputy Head of C.I.T. Art School.

1969 - 76

Member of the Council of Caulfield Institute of Technology.

1980 - 83

Foundation Member of Federal Government's Artbank Board.

Honours and Awards

1987

Awarded AM (Member of the Order of Australia).

1982

Awarded MBE (Member of the British Empire).

1977

Elected member of the R.W.S (Royal Watercolor Society of London). Senior member since 1994.

Election is by secret ballot of the 80 members on works submitted.

1987

Awarded medal of Honour American Biographical Institute.

1986

Life Fellow and Patron, International Biographical Association (Cambridge England)

Since 1981

Patron Victorian Watercolor Society (Past President 1979-81).

Since 1974

Member of National Register of Prominent Americans and International Notables.

1965

Certificate of Honour, International Graphic Art Exhibition, Leipzig.

1961

Certificate of Merit, 4th International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, New Dehli.

Since 1955

Elected Member of Australian Watercolor Institute (A.W.I)

Commissioned by Robin Boyd for 2 works: Design and paint 24 foot mural for Australian Pavilion, Expo-67, Montreal; Design Tapestry Coat of Arms for Australian Pavilion at Expo-70, Osaka.

1988

 Honorary Life Member of Melbourne High School Old Boys Association

1989

 Honorary Life Member of AGRA (Australian Guild of Realist Artists) Foundation Vice President 1974-81

1994

Honorary Fellow of the Victorian Artists Society.

Retrospective Exhibitions - Adelaide Festivals 1970 and 1978; Australian Galleries, Melbourne 1988.

Won over 40 Prize awards including Trustee W'Color AGNSW 1967 & 1972; 

Silver Medal Royal Adelaide Exh. (Judge Hal Missingham);

1953 Perth Prize (oils) (Judge: Laurie Thomas);

1968, 69, 70 won the Rural Bank prize for oils;

Maude Vizard-Wholohan (Adelaide Gallery) for watercolor 1961 and 63, and print section in 1963; etc.

Represented

500 paintings and drawings in the Australian War Memorial Canberra - all done as extra to normal daily service duties. Was not an Official War Artist, being too young.

Represented in the collection of H.M. The Queen; H.M. The Queen Mother; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Cincinnati Art Museum; Kuala Lumpur Gallery, Malaysia; Dunedin Art Gallery, N.Z.; all Australian capital city National Art collections; National Collection, Canberra; Artbank; many provincial public art galleries; overseas and most Australian Universities and many overseas and Australian corporate and private collections including Myer, the former Mertz collection, ANZ Bank, R&I Bank, Hayman Island, Adelaide, Melbourne and Queensland Clubs.

Member of the Turner Society of England.

Represented in the Mitchell Library (NSW), Latrobe Library of Victoria, Oxley Library Brisbane, National Library Canberra.

Watercolors included in exhibitions in Vancouver, Washington DC, Taiwan, Singapore, Mexico City and Pittsburgh.

Publications on his art:

1998

"Kenneth Jack - Printmaker" - Lou Klepac (Beagle Press)

1994

"Queensland Paintings and Drawings - Kenneth Jack" - Text by K.J. (Boolarong Press)

1990

"Kenneth Jack   World War II Paintings and Drawings" - Text by K.J. (Boolarong Pres)

1988

"Kenneth Jack" - Lou Klepac (Bay Books)

1984

"The Flinders Ranges" - Paintings & Text by K.J. (Australian Artists Editions)

1972

"Kenneth Jack" - Douglas Dundas (Collins)

1962

"Gold & Ghost Towns of Australia" - Porpoise Bookshop, San Fransisco, U.S.A. (Linocuts)

1949

"The Charm of Hobart" - (Ure Smith) - 52 drawings by K.J.; Text by Clive Turnbull

1948

"The Melbourne Book" - 34 drawings by K.J.; Text by Clive Turnbull.