Kit hiller biography

Christine Hiller lives on the North-West Coast of Tasmania.
Born in Hobart and trained at the Tasmanian School of Art she has exhibited her art for over thirty years.

Her watercolour portraits have been shown in the Archibald Prize exhibition on five occasions and she has won the Portia Geach Memorial Award for Women Portrait Painters three times. Now painting in oils, she produces landscapes of the North-West Coast of Tasmania, still-lives and portraits. She is also well known for her hand-coloured lino-cuts, elimination lino-cuts and dioramas.

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

2014 Kit Hiller Long Gallery Hobart
2014 Kit Hiller Linocuts Australian Galleries Melbourne
2011 Kit Hiller Linocuts Australian Galleries Sydney
2011 Kit Hiller Linocuts Australian Galleries Melbourne
2010 Kit Hiller survey show – Burnie Regional Art Gallery
2008 Kit Hiler – Mexico – Long Gallery Hobart
2006 Christine Hiller – Long Gallery, Hobart
2004 Christine Hiller – Long Gallery, Hobart
2003 Christine Hiller Printmaker – Sidewalk Gallery, Hobart
2002 Christine Hiller – Long Gallery, Hobart
2000 Christine Hiller – Long Gallery, Hobart
1998 Seabrook Road – Sidewalk Gallery, Hobart
1997 Post cards from France – Sidewalk Ga

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Past Sales

Geraniums

Dove Lake

Briar Berries

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Prints & Graphics

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$1,794

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Sold 1 works for

$984

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Auction Houses

Colville Auctions Tip down. Ltd.

Sold 15 works for

$9,018

Gowans Auctions

Sold 3 works for

$2,168

Leonard Joel

Sold 7 works for

$1,943

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Biographical entry: Hiller, Kit (1948 - )

Born

1948

Occupation

Artist

Summary

Christine Mary Hiller, landscape and portrait painter, printmaker, lives and works at Lower Mount Hicks, Tasmania. Recognised nationally for her watercolour portraits, winning the Portia Geach prize in 1986 and 1987, her work was exhibited in the Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales between 1982 and 1986.

Details

Hiller studied at the Tasmanian School of Art from 1966 to 1968. She works in a range of media and her large-format watercolour portraits are characterised by decorative and symbolic aspects of composition and a combination of natural and abstract formal elements. Hand-coloured linocuts, detailed mixed media dioramas and large oils represent major areas of Hiller's oeuvre. Christine Hiller's work is represented in major collections in Australia, and overseas.

Liz Van Ommen

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