Rick Amor 'The Judge' first nations artist a colonial vessel making the

a colonial vessel making the voyage from England to Sydney

produced on museum-grade materials

turned into a laurel tree

everyday utensils like lamps are symbolic of the Jewish refugee’s plight

a metaphysical dimension lingers

Rick Amor 'The Judge' first nations artist a colonial vessel making theRick Amor is among Australias most collectible artists. His work is psychologically incisive, taking ordinary landscapes and filtering them through an emotional prism. Under Amor, an encounter with a statue becomes heavy with alienation, melancholy and melodrama. In a review for Amors exhibition at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, Sebastian Smee wrote that he is singular: there is nobody really like him his commitment unmistakable, his intelligence,