Jeff Rigby

His two prints produced in collaboration with Fred Genis at the Kenthurst studio capture two of Australia’s most distinctive regional landscapes. Barossa Landscape (1981) turns its attention to South Australia’s famous wine country — the rolling hills and particular golden light of the Barossa rendered with economy and precision. Cowra Silo (1982) takes as its subject one of the great vernacular structures of rural Australia — the grain silo rising from the flat plains of inland New South Wales with an almost architectural grandeur. That Rigby chose such an unassuming subject and treated it with such seriousness is characteristic of the best Australian realist tradition — finding the monumental in the ordinary.

Jeff Rigby died in August 2012 at the age of 64.