Rick Amor 'Out to Sea' animals

Rick Amor 'Out to Sea' animalsRick 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

In ‘Frenzy’

photography

'Fire and Water' 2008

titled and editioned bottom image

'Lilies 7' 2016

he was diaristic and instinctual – capturing friends

Bold and vibrant

This work of art has been mounted and is ready to frame

'3 Minotaurs'

'Gulls' 1985

Auguste Blackman’s ‘Huître II’ is an ode to oysters

Kipenzi struggled with her first calf who represented the first white rhino to be born at the Zoo in almost a decade