Alun Leach-Jones

Alun Leach-Jones (1937 – 24 December 2017 ), was a British-born Australian artist known for his range of work covering painting, drawing, sculpture, linocuts, screenprints and etchings.

Early life Born in Maghull, Lancashire, in the UK, his family moved to the village of Glasfryn in North Wales where he spent his childhood. In 1951, age 14, he began a three-year apprenticeship with the Solicitors Law Stationery Society Limited in Liverpool, where he was employed as a painter of illuminated manuscripts. He studied art at the Liverpool College of Art from 1955 to 1957 before moving to Adelaide, Australia in 1960, where he studied printmaking at the South Australian School of Art under Udo Sellbach.

Work During 1964–65, Leach-Jones moved back to London, where he produced screenprints influenced by the British pop art of fellow artists Patrick Caulfield and Eduardo Paolozzi. He returned to Australia and settled in Melbourne in 1966.

During the sixties, Leach-Jones was recognized as part of what was then called "the New Abstraction" in Australian art. His work developed into a style still known as Hard-edge painting. Alun Leach-Jones was included in the now notorious 1968 The Field exhibition held at the National Gallery of Victoria.

In 1971 Leach-Jones received a Master Diploma from the National Gallery of Victoria Art School in Melbourne.

In 1978, he painted a permanent mural called Sydney Summer for Macquarie University in Sydney.

In 1979, he painted a mural called Crossing to Capricorn for Griffith University in Brisbane.

Exhibitions 1968 The Field, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 1964–92 Australian Galleries, Melbourne 1967–1972 Watters Gallery, Sydney 1970–84 Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane 1976–82 Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney 1976–86 Solander Gallery, Canberra 1987–91 Luise Ross Gallery, New York, USA 2005–12 Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney

Collections Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Museum of Modern Art, New York National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Art Gallery of New South Wales Art Gallery of South Australia National Gallery of Victoria Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth National Museum Cardiff British Museum, London Victoria and Albert Museum, London Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Glynn Vivan Art Gallery, Swansea Museum of Modern Art, Machynlleth, Wales Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool National Gallery of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur National Performing Arts Centre, Bombay Parliament House Collection, Canberra Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand Perth Cultural Centre, Western Australia Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria Art Bank, Sydney Western Sydney University Art collection Castlemaine Art Museum

Awards 1985 Fremantle Print Award 1999 Honorary Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London