Rick Amor 'Study for ‘The Judge'' earth tones 'The Long Way Home' 2007

'The Long Way Home' 2007

Stewart MERRETT (1943 - 2020)

which too perceived the indoors as reflective of our inner-self

superimposing his own design over it

In this painting

Rick Amor 'Study for ‘The Judge'' earth tones 'The Long Way Home' 2007Rick Amor is among Australias most collectible artists. His work is psychologically incisive, taking ordinary landscapes and filtering them through an emotional prism. Under Amor, an encounter with a statue becomes heavy with alienation, melancholy and melodrama. What does it mean to sit beneath this icon of justice, surrounded by bone like trees? In a review for Amors exhibition at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, Sebastian Smee wrote that he is