Rick Amor is one of Australia’s most collectible artists. His work is psychologically incisive, transforming everyday landscapes into sites charged with feeling. In his hands, an ordinary bridge becomes a stage for quiet drama. Here, as a tanker moves through the scene, the atmosphere is enigmatic and charged — as though the stillness might soon be broken, or perhaps extend forever.

Writing on Amor’s exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Sebastian Smee observed: “there is nobody really like him and important… his commitment unmistakable, his intelligence, acute and his best images impossible to forget.”

Amor’s career includes major public exhibitions at the Art Gallery of South Australia, the National Portrait Gallery, Castlemaine Art Gallery and the Australian Print Workshop. In 1999, he was appointed Australia’s official war artist and has since been the subject of two major monographs.

This painting captures Amor’s mastery of atmosphere and light, and—like Jeffrey Smart before him—the poignance he finds in the external world. For collectors of contemporary and significant landscape art, Amor remains a striking presence.

Rick AMOR (1948 - )
'Untitled (Tanker under a Bridge)' 1992
oil on board
Image Size: 24 x 24 cm
Dimensions: 42 x 42 x 5 cm
Signed: signed and dated lower right: Rick Amor 92
Comes with Letter of Provenance
Condition: Excellent

(c) Rick Amor / Copyright Agency