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The Rick Amor Gift
Sep 10, 2022
Nov 20, 2022
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'The Rick Amor Gift' presents a collection of twenty works by one of Australia's preeminent artists, Rick Amor, and includes nineteen works in a variety of media recently donated by the artist.

Over the last three years Gippsland Art Gallery has been most fortunate to receive a large and most generous gift of nineteen artworks from one of Australia’s most established and respected artists, Rick Amor.

The gift, comprising oils, watercolours, prints, and a charcoal drawing, gives the Gallery one of the most extensive collections of Amor’s work anywhere in Australia, especially when Amor’s portrait of John Leslie OBE, commissioned by the Gallery in 1996, is included.

Amor’s art takes us to places dark and unfathomable, though strangely familiar.

Usually bereft of people, or populated only with isolated figures, his windswept landscapes, seascapes and barren cityscapes reveal another, sometimes sinister, but always sublime, edge to the world we inhabit.

‘The Rick Amor Gift’ is complemented by a mix of other recent acquisitions, including ceramics by Pippin Drysdale, Bettina Willner, Robert Barron, Owen Rye, and Janet Beckhouse.

We are enormously grateful to Rick Amor and Meg Williams for the significant donation of works to the Gallery’s collection, and to all other recent donors who have contributed so much to the Gallery’s growing holdings of original art over the last year.

Selected Artworks
Rick AMOR
Foreshore II
Year:  
2018
Medium:  
Etching on paper
Size:  
22.5 x 28.8cm (platemark); 37.8 x 43.8cm (sheet)
Collection Gippsland Art Gallery. Donated by Rick Amor and Megan Williams through the Australian Government Cultural Gifts Program, 2022.
© 
The artist.
Rick AMOR
Grounded Ship
Year:  
2014
Medium:  
Lithograph on paper
Size:  
50.6 x 70.9cm (image); 56.5 x 76cm (sheet)
Collection Gippsland Art Gallery. Donated by the artist, 2021.
© 
The artist.
Rick AMOR
Night in the Remote Suburbs
Year:  
2020
Medium:  
Oil on canvas
Size:  
100 x 64cm
Collection Gippsland Art Gallery. Donated by Rick Amor and Megan Williams through the Australian Government Cultural Gifts Program, 2022.
© 
The artist.
Rick AMOR
Study for One Way Street in Shadow
Year:  
2016
Medium:  
Watercolour on paper
Size:  
54.4cm x 70.4cm (visible)
Collection Gippsland Art Gallery. Donated by Rick Amor and Megan Williams through the Australian Government Cultural Gifts Program, 2022.
© 
The artist.
Rick AMOR
Study for the Traveller Entering the City
Year:  
2020
Medium:  
Charcoal on paper
Size:  
50.7 x 64.2cm
Collection Gippsland Art Gallery. Donated by Rick Amor and Megan Williams through the Australian Government Cultural Gifts Program, 2022.
© 
The artist.
Rick AMOR
The Clinic
Year:  
2017
Medium:  
Watercolour on paper
Size:  
57.5 x 61cm
Collection Gippsland Art Gallery. Donated by Rick Amor and Megan Williams through the Australian Government Cultural Gifts Program, 2022.
© 
The artist.
Rick AMOR
The On Ramp
Year:  
2017
Medium:  
Oil on canvas
Size:  
117 x 162cm
Collection Gippsland Art Gallery. Donated by Rick Amor and Megan Williams through the Australian Government Cultural Gifts Program, 2019.
© 
The artist.
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