Sam Leach 'Brief and Formal' mixed media 'Echidna' 1992

'Echidna' 1992

Image Size: 72 x 80 cm

notably the Art Gallery of New South Wales

Tommy Watson is a Pitjantjatjara elder of the Western Central Desert and a leading contemporary Aboriginal artist

The recipient of a PhD

Sam Leach 'Brief and Formal' mixed media 'Echidna' 1992Winner of the Wynne Prize for landscape painting and the Archibald Prize, Leach is among Australia's leading contemporary artists. The artist has long taken animals as his subject matter. In an interview with Andrew Frost, Leach explains his reasons. Employing animals as human metaphors hes hoping to develop empathy while simultaneously pushing to depict each animal on its own terms. Like a commanding leader, this little monkey sits upon a plinth,