Robert Jacks 'Heard the Snow Falling ' bright & vivid

Robert Jacks 'Heard the Snow Falling ' bright & vividAmong Australias most distinct and celebrated abstractionists, Robert Jacks's work is both intelligent and intriguing. This etching forms part of the James Joyce House of the Dead suite, inspired by Joyces short story The Dead. Jacks created this suite for the 2004 centenary of Bloomsday, an annual festival that celebrates Joyces masterpiece Ulysses. Occurring on the 16th of June, the event sees city and novel fuse. Participants retrace the books

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Gouache and watercolour on paper

It's a rich find for collectors of Blackman and important works on paper

the figure’s expression distantly melancholic

advertising and modern cinema

even calling him when he strays too far

” What do you see

The rose recalls romance

This is how one remembers their childhood

a symbol of his wife's pregnancy

The infinite horizon of Central Australia is suffused in soft European light - Leveson is uninterested in the specificities of place

Leach-Jones is a burst of welcome energy