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He studied art at the Liverpool College of Art from 1955 to 1957. He moved to Adelaide Australia in 1960 and studied printmaking at the South Australian School of Art under Udo Sellbach.
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Alun Leach-Jones
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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. During 1964-1965 he moved to London where he produced screenprints influenced by the British popular art of fellow artists Patrick Caulfield and Eduardo Paolozzi.
He returned to Australia and settled in Melbourne in 1966.
Leach-Jones received a Master Diploma from the Art School Melbourne in 1971. 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.
Alun Leach-Jones is known for his range of work covering painting, drawing, sculpture, linocuts, screenprints and etchings.
1968 The Field, Melbourne 1964-1992 Australian Galleries, Melbourne 1967–1972 Watters Gallery, Sydney 1970-1984 Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane 1976-1982 Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney 1976-1986 Solander Gallery, Canberra 1987-1991 Luise Ross Gallery, New York, United States of America 2005-2012 Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney.
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