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