Runner

Rick Amor
Australia
1948

Runner
1984
woodcut on buff paper
Place made
Baxter, Victoria
Medium
woodcut on buff paper
Edition
6/10
Dimensions
28.7 x 43.3 cm (image)
38.3 x 56.0 cm (sheet)
Credit line
Gift of the artist through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Accession number
20176G105
Signature and date
Signed and dated l.r., pencil, "R.Amor 84".
Provenance
The artist, Melbourne.
Media category
Print
Collection area
Australian prints
Copyright
Courtesy the artist and Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

  • Rick Amor: Contemporary Romantic, 2016 - 2017

     

     

    This group of works originated from Amor’s drawings of the Frankston pier in the early 1980s, after he began exploring childhood memories in his art. Since then Amor has adapted the motif of a fleeing figure in various compositions in paintings, prints and sculptures. The powerfully suggestive image recalls the unpleasant sensation of being pursued by a menacing force in a dream. Likewise, the fleeing man can also be read as a symbol of an individual’s struggle to overcome the psychological and physical difficulties faced in life.

     

    Maria Zagala, Associate Curator, Prints, Drawings & Photographs

  • Rick Amor: Contemporary Romantic

    Art Gallery of South Australia, 2 December 2016 – 30 April 2017