Alun Leach-Jones was born in Wales and moved to Australia in 1960 while in his early twenties. Based in Melbourne, he became known as a painter of hard-edged abstract paintings. He moved to Sydney in 1977. His prints have always used a vocabulary of forms very closely related to his paintings. Although his work appears to be concerned entirely with abstraction and formal composition, the expression of human experiences is an important aspect of his intentions as an artist. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts program by the artist in 2000.