Rick Amor 'Study for 'The Bridge'' mixed media

Rick Amor 'Study for 'The Bridge'' mixed mediaRick Amor is among Australias most collectible artists. His work is psychologically incisive, taking ordinary landscapes and filtering them through an emotional prism. Under Amor, a deserted bridge becomes a site of alienation, melancholy and melodrama. A sense of foreboding perculates, as though something is about to cut the quiet. Amor, like his mentor Jeffrey Smart, seems acutely aware of how urban architecture can become symbolic of its

‘The Diving Pool’ occurs in a universe that never existed and yet it is somehow familiar

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Leach-Jones’s paintings are distinguished by an inner rhythm and the judicious balance of shapes and pigments

Edition 27 of 50

At once crowded but sparse

'Rhythms and Figures' 1987

where there is beauty

A strangely nostalgic and melancholic scene

'Portrait of Susan' ca

which combines contemporary art movements with traditional Mexican folk art

fans of Blackman and animal imagery

longing and the unknowable