The judge

Rick Amor
Australia
1948

The judge
1991
mezzotint on paper
Place made
Cottles Bridge, Victoria
Medium
mezzotint on paper
Edition
4/10 first edition of three
State
v/vi
Dimensions
20.0 x 14.0 cm (plate)
Credit line
Gift of Rick and Jan Frolich through the Art Gallery of South Australia Contemporary Collectors 2015. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Accession number
20155G140
Signature and date
Signed and dated l.r., pencil "Rick Amor '91".
Media category
Print
Collection area
Australian prints
Copyright
Courtesy the artist and Niagara Galleries, Melbourne

  • Rick Amor: Contemporary Romantic, 2016-2017


    The statue of the judge represented here is based on James White’s Edmund Fitzgibbon Memorial in Melbourne, which now stands on St Kilda Road, opposite the National Gallery of Victoria. In this mezzotint Amor depicts the judge from behind and from a low viewpoint, compositional strategies that suggest the interpretation that ‘justice is blind’. Amor had read Kafka’s novel The Trial (1925) and was inspired by Orson Wells’s film of the book (1962), and both influenced his conception of this work.

     

    On display are Amor’s original watercolour sketch that formed the basis of the composition, and the mezzotint plate from which the print was pulled.

     

    Maria Zagala, Associate Curator, Prints, Drawings & Photographs

  • Rick Amor: Contemporary Romantic

    Art Gallery of South Australia, 2 December 2016 – 30 April 2017