Frank Hinder

Hinder was the fourth child of Enid Marguerite (née Pockley) and Henry Vincent Critchley Hinder (1865–1913). His father was a prominent surgeon,{{cite web |last1=Mellor |first1=Lise |title=HINDER, HENRY VINCENT CRITCHLEY |url=https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine/museum/mwmuseum/index.php/Hinder,_Henry_Vincent_Critchley |website=sydney.edu.au |publisher=Faculty of Medicine Online Museum and Archive, University of Sydney. |access-date=16 December 2020 |date=2008}} He was born in the family home Carleton a grand Italianate Victorian mansion in Summer Hill, New South Wales.{{cite web |title=46-56 Liverpool Road, SUMMER HILL, NSW 2130 |url=http://www.knowthatproperty.com/PropertyDetails.aspx?propid=40 |website=knowthatproperty.com |access-date=16 December 2020 |language=en-AU |quote="CARLETON", "RENWICK HOSPITAL FOR INFANTS" Built: c. 1884 |archive-date=26 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170326230707/http://www.knowthatproperty.com/PropertyDetails.aspx?propid=40 |url-status=dead }} He attended his father's alma mater, Newington College from 1916 until 1918.Newington College Register of Past Students 1863-1998 (Syd, 1999) pp85 He then completed his high school education at Shore School, when his mother remarried and moved to the North Shore. As an art student he was tutored by Antonio Dattilo Rubbo at the Royal Art Society of New South Wales and at the East Sydney Technical College. Rubbo had also been his art master at Newington. While travelling he pursued his training at the Art Institute of Chicago, New York School of Fine and Applied Art and at the Taos summer school.{{Cite web |url=http://www.odana.com.au/aaa_art/hinder_cr_intro.html |title=Bloomfield Galleries – Frank Hinder |access-date=27 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140114085608/http://odana.com.au/aaa_art/hinder_cr_intro.html |archive-date=14 January 2014 |url-status=dead }}

In the mid-1930s he worked as a commercial artist in the United States and taught at the Child-Walker School of Fine Art, Boston. On 17 May 1930 he married artist Margel Harris at the registry office in Wellesley, Massachusetts. They both returned to Sydney in August 1934, working in theatre design, advertising and graphic art.

Hinder was a lieutenant (1941–43) in the Citizen Military Forces (CMF). Working with Professor William Dakin, a Sydney University zoologist, and the civilian Sydney Camouflage Group, Hinder was seconded to the Camouflage Wing of the Royal Australian Engineers (1942–44) during World War II where he designed the Hinder Spider, a garnished conical frame for concealing a man, and dummy aircraft such as the Hindup. His wife Margel assisted his work by making scale wooden models.{{cite journal |first=Ann |last=Elias |title=The organisation of camouflage in Australia in the Second World War| journal=Journal of the Australian War Memorial |date=April 2003 |issue=38 |issn=1327-0141 |publisher=Australian War Memorial |url=https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/journal/j38/camouflage}}

After the war Hinder took a teaching position at the East Sydney Technical College and then became head of the Art Department of Sydney Teachers' College (now part of the University of Sydney) from 1958 to 1964. In 1952 he was awarded the Blake Prize for Religious Art for his painting Flight into Egypt.{{Cite web|url=http://www.blakeprize.com/winners.html|title=The Blake Prize Winners|accessdate=2007-08-02|publisher=The Blake Society Limited|work=The Blake Prize}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.artreview.com.au/art/collecting/feature-blake-prize.aspx|title=Feature: Blake Prize|accessdate=2007-08-02|publisher=Australian Art Review|date=November 2005 |first =Rebecca |last=Somerville |work=Contemporary|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070830155656/http://www.artreview.com.au/art/collecting/feature-blake-prize.aspx|archivedate=30 August 2007}} As an artist he is best known for his abstract paintings, yet he also produced work across a diverse range of materials, including drawings and electric-light sculptures. He was a trustee of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia. His work is held in many publics galleries including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Art Gallery of South Australia, the Australian National Gallery, the Australian War Memorial and the National Gallery of Victoria. Frank Hinder died aged 86 on 31 December 1992 at Killara, New South Wales.{{cite AuDB |title=Hinder, Margel Ina (1906–1995) - Shared biography |first=Eileen |last=Chanin |year =2016 |access-date=16 December 2020}} nb. Shared bio. page with Henry Francis Critchley Hinder (1906–1992)

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• [http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/artists/hinder-frank/ Frank Hinder] at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
• [http://www.artnomad.com.au/artists/artist.cfm?id=1043 Art Nomad: Francis (Frank) H. C. Hinder]
• [http://www.frankhinder.com.au/artworks.php?tag=highlight Frank Hinder: Official website of the estate, all artworks]

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