Rick Amor
Australia Council for the Arts Residency
2000
Rick Amor is an Australian artist, living and working in Melbourne. His practice includes paintings, drawings, watercolours, prints and sculpture. Rick is also highly renowned as a portraitist and has been commissioned by many institutions including the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. A major survey of Rick’s paintings was curated by McClelland Gallery in 1990 and toured various regional galleries in Victoria and South Australia throughout 1990 and 1991. In 1993 an exhibition mounted by Bendigo Art Gallery celebrated his work as a printmaker and graphic artist toured Victoria and Tasmania.
Gary Catalano’s biography The Solitary Watcher: Rick Amor and his Art, was published by The Miegunyah Press in 2001, and in 2008 The Beagle Press published Gavin Fry’s richly illustrated monograph, Rick Amor. Rick’s works are held in major public galleries including the National Gallery of Australia and in private, corporate and institutional collections both within Australia and internationally.
Australia Council for the Arts
Since 1992, the Australia Council for the Arts has partnered with Acme to provide London work/live residency opportunities for Australian visual artists. These residencies are located at Acme's Fire Station in Poplar, E14. Application and selection is undertaken directly by the Australia Council for the Arts.
For more information visit australiacouncil.gov.au
