14 Facts About Rick Amor

Richard William Amor was born on 3 March 1948 and is an Australian artist and figurative painter.

Rick Amor has a certificate in art from the Caulfield Institute of Technology, and Associate Diploma in Painting from the National Gallery School, Melbourne.

Rick Amor began exhibiting at the Joseph Brown gallery in 1974 and has shown annually at Niagara Galleries since 1983.

Rick Amor has entered the Archibald Prize at over 10 times and been exhibited nine times.

Rick Amor has been the recipient of several Australia Council studio residencies, allowing him to work in London, New York and Barcelona.

Rick Amor's work borrows heavily from the pictorial traditions of Symbolism and Surrealism.

Rick Amor's handling of light and his alluring manipulation of depth of field in his paintings achieves a sustained sense of tension and mystery that insinuates a multiplicity of meanings.

Rick Amor's works include psychologically potent symbolism and his landscapes in particular convey a disquieting atmosphere, with objects saturated by contrasting light and shadows.

Rick Amor's major recurring subjects are the solitary watcher, figures at twilight, the vast emptiness of urban spaces and quiet mysterious interiors.

Rick Amor's commitment is unmistakable, his intelligence acute, and his best images impossible to forget.

Since the early 1990s, Rick Amor has incorporated sculpture into art practice.

Rick Amor begins the process of creating each mould at home, which he then has cast in foundry using the Lost-wax casting method.

Rick Amor's sculptures are object and figure based, and are often incredibly textural to achieve an impression rather than a replication of the subject.

Rick Amor is represented in numerous private and permanent public collections.