Rick Amor b. 1948

Also known as Ric Amor
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
Contemporary Melbourne painter, printmaker and political cartoonist. In 1999 the Australian War Memorial appointed Amor as an official war artist, along with Archibald Prize-winning painter Wendy Sharpe. They travelled to East Timor to record events there - the first artists to ever to be commissioned in peace time.
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Citations

  • McQueen, Humphrey (2002), 'The solitary watcher’, Overland, 10, Review.

  • McDonald, Katherine, 'Running with Tradition’.

  • Dixon, Christine, '(exhibition catalogue)’.

  • Catalano, Gary (2002), 'The Solitary Watcher – Rick Amor and his Art’, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Hansen, David (1990), 'Rick Amor: Paintings and drawings 1983 1990’, Warnnambool and Melbourne, Vic : Warrnambool AG & Niagara Galleries catalogue.

  • (1993), 'The prints of Rick Amor’', Melbourne, Vic : Imprint, vol. 28, no. 4, Summer, pp 1,4.

  • Murray-Smith, Stephen (1978), 'Overland Papers’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • (1986), 'Rick Amor Prints’, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Senyard, June (1991), 'Labour in Cartoons: Cartoons of the Australian Labour Party in Victoria, 1891-1990’, Hyland House Publishing.

  • Melbourne, Vic. : Labor Star.

  • Sydney, NSW : Tribune.

  • Melbourne, Vic. : Locomotive Journal.

  • Melbourne, Vic. : Meat Employees’ Journal.

  • Catalano, Gary (1997), 'Building a Picture: Interviews with Australian Artists’, Sydney, NSW : McGraw Hill Australia.

  • Catalano, Gary (1992), 'The Poetry of Place: An interview with Rick Amor’', Canberra, ACT : Art Monthly Australia, 05, p 2-6.

  • Catalano, Gary (c.1997), 'Rick Amor and the Graphic Arts: Selected Prints 1968 1997’, Melbourne, Vic: Niagara Galleries & NETS Victoria.

  • (1986), 'Rick Amor Prints’, Melbourne, Vic : Niagara Galleries.

  • 'Joan Kerr Archive’, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

See also

  • 'Self Portrait, Fragment 1990 (influenced by Counihan, ill. McDonald)'.

Initial data sources

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