Michael Leunig 'Self Service' printmaking

Michael Leunig 'Self Service' printmakingFor more than fifty years, Michael Leunig gently and brilliantly skewered the absurdities of everyday life. Now, as one of Australias most cherished and quietly missed voices, his work feels more luminous than ever. This petite 9 7 cm image is small in scale but full of heart, insight and that unmistakable Leunig spirit. For admirers of Leunig and collectors of works on paper, Self Service is a bemusing find. This work is provenanced from the Leunig

Exploring the social and cultural consequences of war

See also 'Untitled (Red Landscape at Morning)'

it sees a body roll down the page like a river between mountains

and sweet and sublime

The presence of water too represents his ancestral country and spiritual home

The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art

because of his devotion to Renaissance techniques and figuratism

Picturing an island on the horizon

‘In the Wings’ testifies to this

Shaike Snir too creates a transcendental experience

For collectors of nudes and contemporary art

His ‘Paradise’ calls on the eternal paradises of Eden