Rick Amor 'Study for 'Garden by the City'' fantastical sometimes disconcerting — engrosses the

sometimes disconcerting — engrosses the viewer

Image Size: 90 x 59 cm

he went on to win the Women’s Weekly Art Prize for Portraits and the Sulman Prize

featured in numerous monographs and survey exhibitions

Rejecting the linear and uniform

Rick Amor 'Study for 'Garden by the City'' fantastical sometimes disconcerting — engrosses theRick Amor is among Australias most collectible artists. His work is psychologically incisive, taking ordinary landscapes and filtering them through an emotional prism. In this work, the prism works both ways: on one side is a study for Amors painting Garden by the City, while on its verso is Study for an Untitled West Gate Bridge Scene. These are dichotomised faces of Amors world, one cast in swirling charcoals the other in dappled orange. It is as