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Rick Amor (Richard William Amor) was born on 3 March, 1948 in Frankston, Australia, is an Australian artist and figurative painter. Discover Rick Amor's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 76 years old?

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Age 76 years old
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Born 3 March 1948
Birthday 3 March
Birthplace Frankston, Australia
Nationality Australia

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1948

Rick Amor (born 3 March 1948 ) is an Australian artist and figurative painter.

He was an Official War Artist for Australia.

Rick Amor was born in Frankston, Victoria, Australia.

He has a certificate in art from the Caulfield Institute of Technology, and Associate Diploma in Painting from the National Gallery School, Melbourne.[1]

1974

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

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

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

1990

In 1990 McClelland Gallery curated a major survey exhibition of his paintings, which went on to tour various regional galleries in Victoria and South Australia throughout 1990 and 1991.

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

Amor typically works in the medium of bronze for his sculptural works.

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

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

Amor's skill in the medium of sculpture has been recognised by The National Gallery, Canberra who has purchased a two-metre-high bronze sculpture of a dog – "a made-up dog, a survivor".

1993

An exhibition of his prints toured various regional galleries in Victoria and Tasmania between 1993 and 1994.[2] In 1993 another exhibition staged by Bendigo Art Gallery toured Australia.

1999

In 1999 he was one of the first Australian artists to be appointed as the Official War Artist to East Timor by the Australian War Memorial, and the first since the end of the Vietnam War.

Over the course of his artistic career, Amor has held over 70 solo exhibitions and over 100 group shows.

2005

In 2005, Peter Berner interviewed Amor for a documentary about the Archibald Prize entitled Loaded Brush.

2007

Moreover, in November 2007 Rick Amor won the prestigious $100,000 McClelland Sculpture Award for his haunting work Relic.It's a relic, it's a distant memory.

I don't know where it came from, from the unconscious.

It's not meant to be an Anubis or any Egyptian deity, it's just something that popped up.

artsACT commissioned a version of Relic for the city of Canberra, which is in situ near the intersection of Childers Street and University Avenue..

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

Australian public collections include National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Portrait Gallery, Canberra; Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat; Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria; Geelong Gallery, State Library of Victoria; Castlemaine Art Museum; as well as numerous state, regional and university collections throughout Australia.

2008

Sebastian Smee wrote in a review of Amor's 2008 retrospective exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art, that he was: convinced not only of Amor's singularity in contemporary Australian art – there is really nobody like him – but of his importance.

His commitment is unmistakable, his intelligence acute, and his best images impossible to forget.

2013

In 2013 a 30th Anniversary exhibition of his extended practice was held at Niagara Galleries.

2014

Major texts on Amor's work have also been published in the last twenty years, including Barry Pearce's 100 Moments in Australian Painting (2014), Gary Catalano’s biography, The Solitary Watcher: Rick Amor and his Art (2001), and Gavin Fry’s monograph, Rick Amor(2008.

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

The legacy of these art movements manifests within the poetic quality of Amor's style.

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.

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

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

Even throughout his journalistic works, such his war paintings of East Timor his works are captivating for their unfathomable subtexts.

2017

Amor's most recent exhibitions include Rick Amor: Contemporary Romantic at Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide in 2017, Rick Amor: 21 Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra in 2014, Rick Amor: From Study to Painting in 2013 at Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum, Victoria, and an exhibition at the Australian Print Workshop in 2012.

Recent significant group shows have included the 2017 Blue Chip XIX: The Collectors’ Exhibition, at Niagara Galleries, the Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, and the Small Sculpture Fair at McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery in 2013.