Red Gallery

9 April – 26 April: Manfred Krautschneider – Suburban Abstract

GALLERY 1: Captured through and on awnings and glass Krautscheider’s works successfully straddles the border between recognition and abstraction. His photographs transform street life and tourist precincts into transcendent images. In Suburban Abstract the artist explores the subtle distortions of the streetscape reflected on imperfect surfaces. His current series includes multiple reflections from inner and […]

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9 April – 26 April: Barbara Bolt – Two Drawings

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GALLERY 2: Barbara Bolt’s current series of drawings, Elegy to an Oz Republic, 2012 and Black with No Way Out (after Motherwell), 2012 investigate the entanglement of matter and meaning and how a new materialist framework shifts the focus from signification to force and effect. Bolt’s work allows us to consider not what a figurative […]

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9 – 26 April: Richard Collins – Things Are Made of Paint

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GALLERY 3: Painter Richard Collins returns to red gallery with an exhibition of oil paintings depicting the paraphernalia of his Clifton Hill studio. He paints from life seeking a heightened evocation of the motif under scrutiny. Favouring chance groupings over composed subjects, Collins is interested in translating the shy beauty of mundane objects into the […]

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30 April – 17 May: Greg Burton – Fractured Landscapes

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Gallery 1: For short flights at least, the window seat is the best on an aeroplane. On a clear day, no other view is like it. The sensory chaos that we wade through on the ground is resolved into a single, pristine surface. This is the seductive illusion of the overview, the god-like perspective which […]

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30 April – 17 May: Richard Knafelc – Transformations

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GALLERY 2: Transformations may evoke the surreal, the mysterious, the poetic, the sinister or the exuberant. Depicting urban scenes often inhabited by ghostly human figures, Richard Knafelc’s paintings explore tensions arising between notions of materialism and happiness. Using altered colours, photographic negative effects and double outlines Knafelc dramatically transforms urban scenes and landscapes. His use […]

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30 April – 17 May: Sarah Rhiannon – Screenshot!

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GALLERY 3: Screenshot! is an exploration of portraiture’s contemporary iterations within digital culture. Sarah Rhiannon’s vivid portraits draw on her own experiences of using the website Chatroulette and mobile application Snapchat. Both Chatroulette and Snapchat promise an ephemeral form of play, yet provide the potential for documentation through screenshots. This tension between the temporary and […]

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