Robert Jacks 'Harlequin Red Ground' mixed media Aspden's importance to the evolution

Aspden's importance to the evolution of Australian abstract movement had been recognised by numerous awards and prizes

He plays on the concept of a muse

Leach-Jones was part of the National Gallery of Victoria’s landmark The Field exhibition

Like Claude Monet

the Australian sublime and exhausted ambition – abandoned service stations

Robert Jacks 'Harlequin Red Ground' mixed media Aspden's importance to the evolutionRobert Jacks represents one of Australias most esteemed and distinctive abstract artists. From selling out his first solo exhibition in 1966, spending ten years on a self described international internship in New York and Canada through to a major retrospective at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2014, Jacks spent a lifetime fine tuning his visual language. Against a succulent orange backdrop, Harlequin Red Ground centres an hourglass shape.