Jacky Redgate

Jacky Redgate (born 1955) is an Australian-based artist who works as a sculptor, an installation artist, and photographer. Her work has been recognised in major solo exhibitions surveying her work has been included in many group exhibitions in Australia, Japan and England. She studied at the South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia, She moved to Sydney in 1980.

During her 40-year career, Redgate has published few artist statements or biographical information. One detail that is known is that she once worked as a retail window dresser in Adelaide.

She began her career working in photography, and many of her works focused on optics and what is revealed by gazes. Early photographic works that launched her career include the series Photographer Unknown (exhibited 1983) and Work-to-Rule (exhibited 1986). In photography she has explored what happens when a three-dimensional object is captured in two-dimensional media. The works slip between representation (of objects) and abstract compositions.

In large works shown at the Geelong Art Gallery in 2020–2021, she incorporated references to her childhood, including teddy bears and dolls.

Awards and grants Redgate has received competitive grants through the Visual Arts/Craft Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. In 1987 Redgate received an overseas fellowship residency, which she spent at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. This art gallery provides studio space to support and promote contemporary artists.

In 2006 Redgate won first prize in the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award.

In 2007 she received an Australia Council fellowship.

In 2012, the Art Gallery of New South Wales presented a survey of Redgate's development from 1980 in an exhibition of her works in their collection. They reflect her interest in the photographic works of American photographer Dare Wright who, in 1957, published The Lonely Doll, a story about a doll and a teddy bear. These recent works also use mirrors, and abstract backgrounds that recall Redgate's earlier work. the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Art Gallery of South Australia, and the National Gallery of Victoria.