Alun Leach Jones

Alun LeachJones was born in Maghull, Lancashire, UK in 1937. His family moved to the village of Glasfryn in North Wales where he spent his childhood. In 1951, age 14, he began a threeyear 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. He moved to Adelaide Australia in 1960 and studied printmaking at the South Australian School of Art under Udo Sellbach. During 196465 he moved to London where he produced screenprints influenced by the British pop art of fellow artists Patrick Caulfield and Eduardo Paolozzi. He returned to Australia and settled in Melbourne in 1966. LeachJones received a Master Diploma from the National Gallery of Victoria Art School Melbourne in 1971. During the sixties, LeachJones was recognized as part of what was then called the New Abstraction in Australian art. His work developed into a style still known as

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