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At the age of twenty six Robert Jacks could already be called a successful artist, having sold out his first solo exhibition and being acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria. In 1968 Jacks decided to leave Australia, wanting to go and see museums in America where the most interesting and important art of that time was being made. New York was the place where he believed he would find other artists like himself who were challenging old assumptions and looking for something new.

When Jacks returned to Australia in 1978, he brought back a finely-tuned visual language. Across the subsequent …