Tim hixson biography
- Born in Adelaide in 1950.
- Tim was born in Roanoke, Virginia to Rev. Cecil and Betty Hixson on Veteran's Day, 1950.
- Born in Adelaide in 1950, Hixson has lived in Sydney since the age of three.
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Whale Tale
Born in Adelaide in 1950.
Grew up at Collaroy Beach and the North Shore of Sydney.
Received a scholarship to Southern Illinois University USA 1968-73 and gained a BSc degree in Cinema and Photography. Travelled extensively through USA.
Returned to Australia and worked on a Visual Arts Board Grant at Bryon Bay 1974
Commenced working as a photographer in Sydney 1978
18 images accepted for ACMP Collections of Australian Photography.
9 Solo exhibitions and over 70 group shows.
Finalist in: ‘Head On’ 3 times, ‘Ulrick and Schubert Photographic Award’ 3 times including winner of Living Art Prize 2003 with ‘Lake Jump’. Finalist in Moran, Olive Cotton and Art and About.
In collections: Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Lismore Regional Gallery, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Patrick Corrigan and other private collectors.
Exhibited in Paris, Tokyo, New York, Chicago and Auckland.
1998 produced ‘Beach’ 104 pp the first hard cover Plastic Camera book.
Voted ‘Australia’s Top Art Photographer’ in a 2006 magazine survey.
Appeared on ABC News, Arts Nation, Radio Nati
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Hikers visiting the preserved dinosaur tracks or mysterious German ranch house at Government Canyon State Natural Area might never have seen these sights had it not been for San Antonio businessman George C. “Tim” Hixon.
Hixon, who reached international heights in the conservation arena, was instrumental in preserving Bexar County’s largest piece of public land – one of his countless contributions to society and the natural world, Hixon’s friends and family told the Rivard Report on Monday.
Hixon died on July 18, leaving behind his wife, Karen, of 43 years; two sons; two grandchildren; three brothers; and their families. He was 81.
A force in local philanthropy and civic engagement, Hixon served at times in oversight roles for Trinity University, St. Mary’s Hall, Texas Biomedical Research Group, the McNay Art Museum, The Nature Conservancy, and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, among many others.
In his service as commissioner for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department from 1989 to 1995 and as chairman of the affiliated Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation from
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Pittwater Online News
Tim Hixson
www.timhixsonphotography.com.au
Spending a little time with photographer Tim Hixson is an amazing experience; like a wonderful tutorial on what real photography is. Humble, focused on the process and how much that determines the outcome, citing the paths trodden and made by those who went before him, finding he’s still learning himself and happy that he is, this is what makes a great teacher.
You also sense a bit of every road he has travelled, and envision a keen eye that is looking around him, out in the dawn, embraced by everything there, one ear listening to what is on this sphere, the other hearkening to every other, and still prepared to examine the vision afterwards, to know he was not just walking through Byron Bay fields filled with early frogsong while gold and pink tainted the horizons, but that there would have been dew in those lush fields too, that wet feet and wet path made have established some moment beyond words. And he is quietly smiling in this vision, bright eyed himself.
Mr. Hixson is a saltwater man as
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