Born South Africa 1936
Died January 2025
Elected Associate RE 1959, Fellow 1965, Honorary RE 1990
Elected Royal Academician in 1976 (ARA 1970)
Jennifer Dickson was well known as a printmaker, painter, teacher and photographer and she exhibited her work internationally.
She studied painting and printmaking at London’s Goldsmiths’ College School of Art, and then further studied etching working under Stanley William Hayter at the Atelier 17, Paris in the 1960s.
She founded and directed the graduate printmaking programme at Brighton College of Art. In 1969 she emigrated to Canada, and became a Canadian citizen, and continued her teaching at the Saidye Bronfman Centre in Montréal.
She was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 1995. In 2002 she received the Victor Tolgesy Arts Award from the Council for the Arts in Ottawa for her contribution to the arts in Ottawa, where she lived and worked.