SAM LEACH
EXHIBITION: 20 NOVEMBER - 6 DECEMBER 2014 Peter Walker Fine Art 101 Walkerville Terrace Walkerville, South Australia 5081 info@peterwalker.com.au
Sam Leach is one of Australia¹s most admired contemporary artists, widelyacclaimed for his finely-detailed, meticulously-rendered, jewel-like paintings, works which have their intellectual and artistic origins in the traditions of the seventeenth-century Dutch ‘Golden Age’. But Leach’s paintings and sculptures are distinctive not only for their virtuoso technical skill; there is a great deal more than gratuitous or solipsistic aesthetic gamesmanship at issue in his oeuvre. For all their ludic visual wit, these works are seriously meaningful. They challenge us to attend closely and thoughtfully to the world beyond the picture plane: to consider economic and historical processes, hard and soft scientific realities. Behind the super-fine, near-invisible brushwork, in the velvety shadows, lie profound and sometimes disturbing philosophical, political and personal questions. DR DAVID HANSEN Senior Researcher and Paintings Specialist, Fine Art, Sotheby’s Australia
Proposal for a Puffin Habitat, 2014 Oil and resin on board, with powered coated steel rack consists of 6 panels 35 x 25cm & 5 panels 45 x 35 cm (each)
Tiger with Two Diagrams Oil and resin on board 32 x 44 cm
Tiger Diagram Oil and resin on board 34 x 47 cm
Rhino with Expanding Points Oil and resin on board 30 x 42 cm
Rhino Spot Oil and resin on board 42 x 59 cm
Rhino Fight Oil and resin on board 34 x 47 cm
White Tigers Oil and resin on board 42 x 59 cm
Young Tapir With Index Oil and resin on board 34 x 42 cm
Top: The Lio near CERN Oil and resin on board 30cm x 30cm
The Lio near CERN 2 Oil and resin on board 30cm x 30cm
Mouflon Oil and resin on board. Diptych. 50 x 80 cm
Simplified Asteroid Edited Shelf Sculpture Oil and resin on board, stone 25 x 25 x 15 cm
Cartesian Diver Head Wood, parabolic mirrors, printed composite stone 80 x 50 x 10 cm
Sartorius Basic Wood, laboratory scales, metal, glass 95 x 20 x 18
Sartorius Portable Wood, and laboratory scales 95 x 20 x 18
Growth and Form Shelf sculpture Oil and resin on board, horn 25 x 25 x 15 cm
Hammer and Anvil 25cm x 33cm x 33cm
EXHIBITION: 20 NOVEMBER - 6 DECEMBER 2014 Peter Walker Fine Art 101 Walkerville Terrace Walkerville, South Australia 5081 info@peterwalker.com.au