Lot 78

Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
Private collection, Melbourne

Gravity Tractor, Sullivan+Strumpf, Singapore, 23 July - 28 August 2016

Sigglekow, Z., 'Sam Leach: Avian Interplanetary', Art Guide Australia, Melbourne, May 2017

Sam Leach's art brings together art history, philosophy and science. His landscapes are largely derived from bucolic 17th Century Dutch paintings, using stones and rock formations which impart a sense of metaphor and myth. Leach traverses the realms of the real and the imaginary, the digital and the analog.
A gravity tractor is a theoretical object designed to deflect another object, especially one that might come into contact with Earth. The paintings exhibited in 'Gravity Tractor' capture the new landscapes that evolve from the shifts and movements of deep Earth stone formations. The works' colour palettes are mostly muted, with sharp touches of magenta. Leach chose to use magenta as it is a non-spectral colour, not produced by a single wavelength.

Copyright the artist, courtesy the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf