Dale Hickey

{{Short description|Australian artist}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}}

{{Use Australian English|date=June 2015}}

Dale Hickey (born 1937) is an Australian artist.

Born in Melbourne, Hickey studied art at Swinburne College of Technology and then held various teaching positions including Senior Lecturer in painting at Phillip Institute of Technology (now Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) from 1973 to 1989, before devoting himself full-time to painting. His first solo exhibition was at Toorak Galleries, Melbourne, in 1964. In 1968 he was included in the National Gallery of Victoria exhibition of Australian minimalism, The Field,{{cite web | url=http://www.australianprints.gov.au/Exhibitions/PlaceMade/Detail.cfm?IRN=123358&ViewID=2 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051029164939/http://www.australianprints.gov.au/Exhibitions/PlaceMade/Detail.cfm?IRN=123358&ViewID=2 | archive-date=29 October 2005 | title=PlaceMade : Australian Print Workshop | Yellow square }} together with Robert Hunter, Robert Jacks, Peter Booth, and Robert Rooney. Hickey has described this early work as being inspired by American critic Clement Greenberg and by pop art.{{cite web | url=http://twma.com.au/gesture-and-geometry.shtml | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050616042458/http://twma.com.au/gesture-and-geometry.shtml | archive-date=16 June 2005 | title=TarraWarra Museum of Art }} His later work has explored a wide range of styles, constituting, according to critic Christopher Heathcote, "a sustained investigation into the nature of art."{{cite web | url=http://twma.com.au/gesture-and-geometry.shtml | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050616042458/http://twma.com.au/gesture-and-geometry.shtml | archive-date=16 June 2005 | title=TarraWarra Museum of Art }}http://www.mcclellandgallery.com/past29.html{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} He is represented in all major public collections in Australia.{{Citation needed|date=January 2024}}