Rick Amor 'Out to Sea' photography

Rick Amor 'Out to Sea' photographyRick Amor is among Australias most collectible artists. His work is psychologically incisive, taking ordinary landscapes and filtering them through an emotional prism. Under Amor, the thrashing sea becomes a site of alienation, melancholy and melodrama. A sense of foreboding perculates, as though an allegory stirs between the water and its prey. In a review for Amors exhibition at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, Sebastian Smee wrote that he is

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University of Queensland

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Image Size: 39 x 36 cm

the Art Gallery of South Australia

Image Size: 45 x 30 cm

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those intrigued by art history and with a pop art sensibility

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calling forth its political undertones

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