Bio
Bio Jessie MacQueen Mackintosh (Australian 1891-1958)
Jessie MacQueen Mackintosh was born in Adelaide in 1891, around the start of the 1900s she moved down to Melbourne to study at the National Gallery Of Victoria School which she did for three years and then returned 16 years later for another 4 years.
In 1932-35 she studied at the bell-Shore School Of Creative Art then moved to the Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology.
Jessie is well known for her artworks which have sold at auctions houses like Sotheby’s, Christies, Lawsons and Menzies.
She is also known for her prints, photography and boardgames “Race Around Australia” most notably her (1945) “Corroboree” boardgame which she illustrated aboriginal tribes hunting, gathering and dancing which also included well illustrated pictures of Australian wildlife and scenery, the main goal of the game was to do things like throwing boomerangs and dig honey ants which advanced you to reach the destination of the home tribe-land without getting kicked out of the game or going backwards. The game was a attempt to broaden the knowledge of the players about indigenous culture during the 1940s and 50s
Her work has exhibited at galleries, art and printmaking shows which include Athenaeum, Tyers Gallery, Rookwood Gallery, Herald Art Show, Ideal Home exhibition, Australian Women Printmakers 1910-1940, Trust the Women (National Women’s Art Exhibition) and New Melbourne Art Club. Her works are held in collections all over Australia such as Geelong Art Gallery, Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum,
City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery and National Gallery of Australia