Over the last three years Gippsland Art Gallery has been most fortunate to receive a large and most generous gift of nineteen artworks from one of Australia’s most established and respected artists, Rick Amor.

The gift, comprising oils, watercolours, prints, and a charcoal drawing, gives the Gallery one of the most extensive collections of Amor’s work anywhere in Australia, especially when Amor’s portrait of John Leslie OBE, commissioned by the Gallery in 1996, is included.

Amor’s art takes us to places dark and unfathomable, though strangely familiar.

Usually bereft of people, or populated only with isolated figures, his windswept landscapes, seascapes and barren cityscapes reveal another, sometimes sinister, but always sublime, edge to the world we inhabit.

‘The Rick Amor Gift’ is complemented by a mix of other recent acquisitions, including ceramics by Pippin Drysdale, Bettina Willner, Robert Barron, Owen Rye, and Janet Beckhouse.

We are enormously grateful to Rick Amor and Meg Williams for the significant donation of works to the Gallery’s collection, and to all other recent donors who have contributed so much to the Gallery’s growing holdings of original art over the last year.