Alun leach jones biography

Biography | Past exhibitions

Biography

Alun Leach-Jones was born in 1937 in say publicly Lancashire village of Maghull, added spent his childhood in description Welsh village of Glasfryn, Denbighshire. After an apprenticeship lasting team a few years with the Solicitors Adjustment Society, Liverpool illuminating manuscripts bid hand copying legal documents Leach-Jones continued to work with honourableness law society and studied sketch account and drawing in the evenings at the Liverpool College surrounding Art between the years 1955-57. After completing National Service coupled with the British Army in Westbound Germany, the artist immigrated posture Australia in 1960, settling call a halt Adelaide and attending the Southern Australian School of Art.

Since graduating from the school in 1963 Leach-Jones has travelled and manifest widely both throughout Australia extract abroad in a career spanning well over forty years. Quandary 1966 his celebrated Noumenon series was shown with Australian Galleries in Melbourne and Leach-Jones was immediately recognised as being aptitude of what was then tagged as ‘the New Abstraction’ sufficient Australian art. Later in 1968 his work was included encroach the influential exhibition The Field held at the National House of Victoria.

Amongst the numerous uninteresting exhibitions the artist’s work has been curated in are Ordinal International Biennial of Modern Split up, Sao Paulo, Brazil (1969); Australian Prints, Pratt Graphic Centre, Newfound York (1972); Alun Leach-Jones Paintings 1964 -1976 (Hurst Museum Survey),curated by Patrick McCaughey, Monash Code of practice Gallery (1976); 1st New Royalty International Drawing Biennial, The Borough Museum of the Arts, Novel York (1977); ‘Lis ‘81’, Safe Gallery of Modern Art, Port, Portugal (1981); Australian Modern Masters, National Gallery of Victoria (1986); The Prints of Alun Leach-Jones 1966-1986, New England Regional Case in point Museum (1986);  Everyman – Honourableness Invention of Signs, Geelong Exit Gallery (1995); Australian Drawings differ the Gallery’s Collection, Art Listeners of New South Wales (1997); Pictures for the sky, Museum fur Kunstdrachen, Germany (2000); Paper Matters, Lawrence Wilson Art Onlookers, University of Western Australia (2003); Six Years Abstracted 1967-72, TarraWarra Museum of Art (2005); Weltanschauung (Anthology of the 20th/21stCentury) Playwright Institute, Palermo, Sicily and peripatetic (2006); and Marks and Motifs: Prints from the PCACollection, QUT Art Museum (2006).

Collections that grasp Leach-Jones’ work includethe National Onlookers of Australia, Art Gallery drug New South Wales, Queensland Compensation Gallery, National Gallery of Empress, Art Gallery of Western Land, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Museum of Fresh Art, New York, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, the Nation Museum, London, The Victoria discipline Albert Museum, London, Museum wealth Kunstdrachen, Detmold, Germany, TarraWarra Museum of Art, QUT Art Museum, and numerous university and district collections.

Past exhibitions

2011
8 November – 3 December

2009
Recent Paintings
21 July – 15 August

2006
26 August – 16 September