Sam Leach
The Platform, 2007
Oil and resin on wood, 36cm x 26cm
Provenance: Sullivan and Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney. Private collection, Queensland. Menzies, Sydney.
Exhibited: The University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane 2008.
The Pedestal, 2009
Oil on linen, 138cm x 97cm
Provenance: Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne. Private collection, Melbourne. Leonard Joel, Melbourne.
Exhibited: Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, 2010
Adelaide artist, Sam Leach contemporary works address the catastrophic price that humanity has paid for the dominance over the environment and natural world, through the stampeding progress of technology and science. His painting style evokes parallels to the Dutch Renaissance artists of the 17th century. Leach has undertaken extensive formal studies, and received a Masters Degree in ‘Fine Art’ at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He is well decorated with art prizes, and best known for his controversial win for the ‘Art Gallery of New South Wales’ (AGNSW) ‘Wynne Prize for Australian Landscape’ in April 2010.
Artist Statement
'Using the history of architecture and still life painting, with particular reference to Dutch painting of the 17th century, I examine how the construction of atmosphere through light, space and surface has been used to respond to an ambiguous attitude towards the creation and accumulation of wealth.' (1).