Renowned artist honoured at Orange Regional Gallery

The official opening of the exhibition Roy Jackson Retrospective 1963 -2013 is 2pm on Saturday and will be opened by Terence Maloon, Director, Drill Hall Gallery Australian National University.

The retrospective will feature a range of Jackson’s work spanning the last five decades.

Orange City Council Services Policy Committee Chair Cr Ron Gander said the retrospective honoured the career of the late artist who was known as the “painter’s painter”.

“The exhibition includes a collection of Jackson’s beloved books, diaries, and photographs of his travels, which give insight into the ideas and passions that underpin about 60 paintings and drawings that are on display,” Cr Gander said.

Roy Jackson’s work has been widely collected and is represented in the National collection and state and regional galleries of NSW.

Cr Gander said Jackson was commonly described as one of the most distinctive abstract painters in the country.

“His was a rare talent that challenged and explored abstraction,” Cr Gander said.

The exhibition is curated by Sioux Garside and Terence Maloon and it opened at the

Australian National University, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra in late 2013, after the artist

died.

The exhibition has toured Tamworth and Wollongong and will head to Maitland after its

stint in Orange from September 3 to November 6.

PROLIFIC PAINTER: Roy Jackson's career spanned 50 years.