Sam Leach (artist) explained

Sam Leach
Birth Place:Adelaide, South Australia
Nationality:Australian
Field:Painting
Awards:

Sam Leach (born 1973) is an Australian contemporary artist. He was born in Adelaide, South Australia. Leach worked for many years in the Australian Tax Office after completion of a degree in Economics. He also completed a Diploma of Art, Bachelor of Fine Art degree and a Master of Fine Art degree at RMIT in Melbourne, Victoria.[1] Leach currently resides in Melbourne.Leach's work has been exhibited in several museum shows including "Optimism" at the Queensland Art Gallery[2] and "Neo Goth" at the University of Queensland Art Museum[3] in 2008, in 2009 "the Shilo Project" at the Ian Potter Museum of Art [4] and "Horror Come Darkness" at the Macquarie University Art Gallery [5] and "Still" at Hawkesbury Regional Gallery in 2010.[6] His work is held in public collections of regional galleries of Geelong, Gold Coast, Coffs Harbour, Newcastle and Gippsland and the collections of La Trobe University and the University of Queensland.

His portrait of musical comedian Tim Minchin won the Archibald Prize, one of Australia's most noteworthy art prizes, in 2010.[7] In the same year, he won the Wynne Prize for his landscape Proposal for landscaped cosmos.[8] In doing so he became only the third artist after William Dobell and Brett Whiteley to win the Archibald portrait prize and the Wynne landscape prize in the same year. The award has generated some controversy [9] due to the similarities, acknowledged by Leach, between his work [10] and one by seventeenth-century Dutch artist Adam Pynacker.[11]

Awards and prizes

Collections

Leach's work features in several collections including

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Leach's work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions.

Group exhibitions

Leach's work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions.

Melbourne

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=m6ewzzbxskexz Sam nets a Wynne with Archibald
  2. Web site: Archived copy . 2011-07-13 . dead . http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20091003130037/http://qag.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/past/2008/optimism . 3 October 2009 . dmy-all .
  3. Web site: Neo goth: Back in black - UQ Art Museum - the University of Queensland, Australia . 2011-07-13 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110301163203/http://www.artmuseum.uq.edu.au/neo-goth-125174 . 1 March 2011 . dmy-all .
  4. Web site: Ian Potter Museum of Art. www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au. 25 September 2018.
  5. Web site: Macquarie University Art Gallery. www.artgallery.mq.edu.au. en. 2018-09-25.
  6. Web site: Archived copy . 13 July 2011 . 29 September 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110929025535/http://www.hawkesbury.nsw.gov.au/services/hawkesbury-regional-gallery/exhibtions/?a=23714 . dead .
  7. http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/sam-leach-wins-archibald-prize-20100326-r1e6.html Sam Leach wins Archibald prize
  8. http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1222907/Singer%27s-portrait-wins-2010-Archibald-Prize Artist notches up prestigious double
  9. Web site: Genius or copycat?. Coslovich. Gabriella. 2010-04-14. The Age. en. 2018-09-25.
  10. Web site: Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2018 :: Art Gallery NSW. www.thearchibaldprize.com.au. 25 September 2018.
  11. Web site: Schippers met boten - Rijksmuseum Amsterdam - Museum voor Kunst en Geschiedenis . www.rijksmuseum.nl . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110608045013/http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/aria/aria_assets/SK-A-321?lang=nl&context_space=&context_id= . 2011-06-08.
  12. Web site: Archibald Prize Archibald 2024 work: Louise Milligan by Sam Leach . 2024-06-08 . Art Gallery of New South Wales . en.
  13. Web site: Archibald Prize Archibald 2010 work: Tim Minchin by Sam Leach . 2024-06-08 . Art Gallery of New South Wales . en.
  14. Web site: Wynne Prize finalists 2010 Art Gallery of NSW . 2024-06-08 . Art Gallery of New South Wales.

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