Bio
Alun Leach-Jones (Britain- Australian 1937-2017)
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 to 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, also in Adelaide he met his wife there – artist Nola Jones.
During 1964–65, they moved back to London, where he produced screenprints influenced by the British pop art of fellow artists Patrick Caulfield and Eduardo Paolozzi and she studied at the Chelsea School of Art. They then 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 infamous 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.
On December 24, Christmas Eve, 2017, Alun Leach-Jones died in his home in Sydney Aged 80.
