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Kit Hiller

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Kit (Christine) Hiller is a Tasmanian artist, now working principally in the mediums of linocut print and oil painting.[1] She is a three-time winner of the Portia Geach Memorial Award, a portraiture prize for Australian women artists, and has been a finalist in the Archibald Prize for Portraiture five times. Hiller is widely known for her vividly coloured linocut prints of nature subjects, particularly flora and birds. She also paints large-scale portraits and landscapes of North-West Tasmania, where she lives.

Biography

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Hiller was born in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1948[2] and trained at the Tasmanian School of Art from 1966-69. She was an art teacher from 1970–72 and has been an exhibiting artist since 1979. She lives at Lower Mt Hicks, on Tasmania’s North West Coast.

Works

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Hiller both hand-colours single-block lino-cut prints and uses the elimination lino-cut method to create her signature vividly coloured print works. Originally a watercolour painter, she now favours large-scale works in oil, frequently with herself as the subject. She won the Portia Geach award in 2009 with the self-portrait, The Old Painter, in which she depicted herself as the Virgin of Guadalupe, inspired by a visit to Mexico.[3]

Awards

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Winner of the Portia Geach Memorial Prize 1986, 1987 and 2009.[4] Hiller is represented by Australian Galleries[2] in Melbourne and Sydney and Handmark Gallery[5] in Tasmania. She was named Tasmanian of the Year in 1987.

Collections

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Her work is held by the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Artbank as well as several university and regional collections.

References

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  1. ^ At home with Kit Hiller, 24 September 2018, retrieved 8 March 2020
  2. ^ a b "Kit Hiller". Australian Galleries. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  3. ^ "Tasmanian painter wins Portia prize". ABC News. 24 September 2009. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  4. ^ "Portia Geach Memorial Award". S.H. Ervin Gallery. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  5. ^ "Christine Hiller". Handmark. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
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