Rick Clise is an Adelaide-based artist who mainly makes abstract and geometric steel sculptures. He has studied at Adelaide Central School of Art, completed a Master of Business Administration at Adelaide University in 2003 and is currently completing a Diploma of Civil Engineering at TAFE SA. His engineering studies allow him... Read More

Rick Clise is an Adelaide-based artist who mainly makes abstract and geometric steel sculptures. He has studied at Adelaide Central School of Art, completed a Master of Business Administration at Adelaide University in 2003 and is currently completing a Diploma of Civil Engineering at TAFE SA. His engineering studies allow him to design and fabricate larger sculptures. Prior to pursuing his professional visual arts career, which started in 2003, Rick had a successful business career working mainly in the information technology sector. He came to Adelaide in 1995 to set-up and manage Microsoft's first South Australian sales office.

In high school in the United States, Rick's 6 of 8 of final year subjects were fine arts subjects. Following graduation from high school, He was accepted for undergraduate study at the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design, but deferred studies while travelling the Pacific Ocean as an electronics technician in the US Navy. It has taken thirty years but now Rick is fulfilling his long held vision of being a visual artist. Since 2003 he has exhibited his sculptures at many of Australia's major sculpture exhibitions including Sculpture by the Sea (both Bondi and Cottesloe), The Montalto Sculpture Prize, Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition, The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Toorak Village Festival of Sculpture, and Palmer Sculpture Landscape Biennial. In 2008, Rick's sculptures have been selected as finalists for the University of Western Sydney Acquisitive Sculpture Exhibition and Award, and for the Stanthorpe (Qld) Art Prize. Rick's first solo gallery exhibition was at Prospect Gallery in 2007.