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Richard Jack

Richard Jack was born in Harare, the son of a nurse and an architect. He furthered his art studies at Durban Art School from 1969 until 1973. He began his career as an artist in South Africa from 1975 exhibiting in Johannesburg. Returning to Harare in 1980 he held his first one man exhibition at Gallery Delta in 1981. Drawing, assembling, applying and carving images from the African environment, he sees his work as reflections of the changing, mirrored contrasts around.

The construction of Richard Jacks sculpture incorporate the media of stone, metal and wood.

This is dedicated by the necessity to express all aspects and variations of the human individual: man, family, sensitivity, futiveness are reflected in this dimension of form and involve a new integrity which has not been affected by destruction or violence.

Painting and sculpture, and the combination of the two, has always fascinated me. By combining various materials I see myself and things more clearly in this multi-faceted environment where everything becomes permeated by human thoughts, actions and imagination that vary.

Art is my expression, its sometimes social comment, sometimes dreams, some understand some dont want to

Africa

Continent of colour and contrast

An obsession with self-expression.

Balance forms: chaotic fields.

Sharing peace and the fruit.

Meshing minds

The artist pains and sculpts.

Thoughts

Dreams

Mixed emotions under a moonlit sky.

Patterns

Rurual and urban images

With wood

Stone, steel

Reeds

Pains.

And everyday

Changes, figures,

Still lifes

Contemporary cries of primitive spirits.

Richard Jack September 1994

There is the thought in Europe and a few other places that any valid art coming from Africa should necessarily be produced by blacks, the indigenous people of a predominantly black continent.

White artists involved with the African idiom find this hard to accept, and of course it is. It may well be in years to come, that the possible broader scope of white thinking allied to the African feel and theme could syntheses to form a contemporary African art favouring neither racial backgrounds nor colour.

Whatever the outcome, many white artists are inextricably involved with Africa and its people. One of them is Richard Jack.

John Deward, The Star, June 1979 (Johannesburg, S.A.)

Africa has become a strange jumble of ideas, using the old to throw light on the new, and the new throwing the old into shadow. But while everyting has not always been black and white, some of the cross-patches of light and shade have provided startling patterns for the observer. Richard Jack is an observer.

Andrew Whaley, The Herald August 1981 (Harare, Zimbabwe)

Biography

1949

Born in Harare, Zimbabwe. Educated in Harare and Durban.

1969-70

Natal Technical Art College Durban, studied graphic design and photography

1971-75

Worked in advertising agencies in Harare, London and Johannesburg

1975

Began painting and sculpting and also did freelance illustration and graphic design

Exhibitions

1977

Chris Crake Gallery, Johannesburg Group Show

1978

Walsh Marais Gallery, Durban One Man Show Trevor Coleman Gallery Johannesburg One Man Show

1979

Akis Gallery Johannesburg One Man Show

1979-80

Opened Marico Moon Gallery, Johannesburg

1980

Durban Arts 80 outdoor sculpture

1981

Market Gallery Johannesburg One Man Show

Artists from Zimbabwe Trevor Coleman Gallery

Delta Gallery Harare Two Man Exhibition

Delta Gallery Harare Group Show

Weldart National Gallery of Zimbabwe (NGZ)

24 Annual NGZ

1982

Delta Gallery Harare Group Show

Nedlaw Sculpture Exhibition NGZ

Helen de Leeuw Gallery Johannesburg One Man Show

Mall Gallery London Group Exhibition

1983

Nedlaw Sculpture Exhibition NGZ 2nd Prize

Weldart NGZ

John Boyne Gallery Harare One Man Show

Zimbabwean-Mozambique Solidarity Exhibition, Maputo

1984

International Art Fair Barbican Centre London Group Show

The Rt Hon. Lord and Lady Walston Picaddily Residence

John Boyne Gallery Harare Group Show

1985

Nedlaw Sculpture Exhibition NGZ

Delta Gallery Harare Group Show

1986

Delta Gallery Harare Group Show

Annual Baringa/Nedlaw NGZ

ZAVACAD Anti-apartheid Exhibition Murewa Cultural Centre

John Boyne Gallery Harare Group Show

1987

Annual Baringa/Nedlaw NGZ

Delta Gallery Harare Group Show

1988

Pachipamwe workshop Exhibition NGZ

Annual Baringa/Nedlaw NGZ

1989

1990

Annual Baringa/Nedlaw NGZ

Le Forum, Harare Group Show

2nd Pachipamwe workshop Exhibition NGZ

Delta Gallery Contemporary wood sculpture

Delta Gallery Group Show

1991

Johnson & Fletcher Wood sculpture NGZ

4th Pachipamwe workshop Exhibition NGZ

Le Forum, Harare The New Generation

Annual Zimbabwe Hertiage NGZ

Thapong Workshop Exhibition National Gallery of Botswana

4th Biennial Havana Cuba

1992

10 Sculptures Contemporians du Zimbabwe Paris

National Gallery of Zimbabwe solo show. Sandros Gallery, Harare two man show.

1993

Alva Aalto Museum, Jyvaskyla, Finland 6th Graphica Creaativa. Gallery Delta exhibition with Matti Wasskilampi from Finland.

1994

Gallery Delta Solo Show.

1995

SANAA National Museum of Contemporary Art, Norway. Contemporary art from East and Southern Africa. First SA Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa. 6th All Africa Games, Harare Mural in granite for torch base.

1996

Alva Aalto Museum 7th Graphica Creativa. Jyvaskyla, Finland. Remisen Brande, Denmark International Artists Workshop.

1997

Gallery Delta solo show. Royal Museum of Central Africa Tervuren, Belgium Legacies of Stone, Zimbabwe past and present.

1998

Gallery Delta graphics. Contemporary sculpture of Zimbabwe Espace Artsenal, Paris. Commissioned sculpture Aage Damgaard, Herning, Denmark.

1999

Quenington Sculpture Trust Fresh Air 1999. Cuxhaven Art Centre Artist in Residence. Commission for Cuxhaven Schlossgarten. Wawana Gallery, Maastricht. Zimbabwe German Society workshop and exhibition (NGZ). Annual Heritage Exhibition (NGZ), 1982-1999.

2000

Gallery Delta Millennium exhibition. Gallery Delta Post Election Selection.

2001

Gallery Delta Thoughts, solo show. Quenington Sculpture Trust Fresh Air 2001.

2002

Wawana Gallery, Maastricht Thoughts in Form, solo show. Gallery Delta, Harare Group sculpture exhibition.

2003

October Gallery, London Africa Informs, four contemporary African Artists. Quenington Sculpture Trust Fresh Air 2003. Gallery 27, Cork Street, London Artists for Zimbabwe.

2004

StArt Fair, Strasbourg. Gallerie dAmes dAfrique, Strasbourg.

2005

Alan Kluckow Gallery Juxtaposition. Quenington Sculpture Trust Fresh Air 2005. Musee des Arts Deniers, Paris Group exhibition. Surrey Open Studios, Farnham.

2007

Hockey Gallery UCCA Technique.

2008

Hockey Gallery UCCA Technique The Lightbox, Woking.

2009

Hockey Gallery UCA Technique Quenington Sculpture Trust Fresh Air 2009

CATALOGUES THAT COME WITH PURCHASE:

Graphics, Paintings, Sculptures, Gallery Delta, Zimbabwe 1989

Sculptures & Murals by Richard Jack, The National Gallery of Zimbabwe (NGZ) 1992

Two Directions with Three Mediums, Gallery Delta, Zimbabwe 1994

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