GALLERY 1+2+3: All good boys and girls can expect a well-earned present of affordable art this summer. Damon Kowarsky, Anne Hastie, John Bodin, Jessie Deane, Kate Hudson, Naomi Waller, Cat Rabbit, Polly Hollyoak, Julie Bradley, Sarah Gully, Maria Colaidis, Steve Rosendale, Debbie Mourtzios, Jessie Yvette Journoud-Ryan, Sally D’Orsogna, Bambi Johnson, Claire Lefebvre, Susan Illingworth, Steve […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 1+2+3: All good boys and girls can expect a well-earned present of affordable art this summer. Damon Kowarsky, Anne Hastie, John Bodin, Jessie Deane, Kate Hudson, Naomi Waller, Cat Rabbit, Polly Hollyoak, Julie Bradley, Sarah Gully, Maria Colaidis, Steve Rosendale, Debbie Mourtzios, Jessie Yvette Journoud-Ryan, Sally D’Orsogna, Bambi Johnson, Claire Lefebvre, Susan Illingworth, Steve […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 1+2+3: All good boys and girls can expect a well-earned present of affordable art this summer. Damon Kowarsky, Anne Hastie, John Bodin, Jessie Deane, Kate Hudson, Naomi Waller, Cat Rabbit, Polly Hollyoak, Julie Bradley, Sarah Gully, Maria Colaidis, Steve Rosendale, Debbie Mourtzios, Jessie Yvette Journoud-Ryan, Sally D’Orsogna, Bambi Johnson, Claire Lefebvre, Susan Illingworth, Steve […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 1: The life of an art gallery is usually a short one (though red gallery has been showing new art for nearly 15 years). David Turner, however, has been making and showing art since the early 1970s, which is almost as meritorious as his spectacular gouache paintings in his latest solo show, Serious Business. […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 2+3: “I am interested in school chairs and rubbish left on food court tables.” Xavier Jones Out of the studio and into the white cubes come six second-year students of RMIT’s Visual Arts school, and their disruptive, anxious, fascinated and entropic engagement with our chaotic world, the self, and the materials used to represent […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 2+3: “I am interested in school chairs and rubbish left on food court tables.” Xavier Jones Out of the studio and into the white cubes come six second-year students of RMIT’s Visual Arts school, and their disruptive, anxious, fascinated and entropic engagement with our chaotic world, the self, and the materials used to represent […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 1: Claire Lefebvre’s third solo series of paintings explores wonderment, contemplation and meditation through the use of painted and drawn layers. United States of Curiosity is an exhibition of large, pulsating abstractions, with fluid-poured layers of colour, tight lines and repeating dots. They oscillate between haphazard and painstaking – or intuitive and meticulous – […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 2: Mixed Palette brings together a group of eight artists who have been taking classes from Adriane Strampp and Kez Hughes for a number of years. Over time students have learnt to develop their own interests, focus and direction; to master the technical side of painting and considerations such as composition, tone and colour […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 3: Cathy Muhling’s Elusive Dissolution exhibition unites subtly powerful small and larger paintings, aglow with pared-back hues and amorphous shapes. Soft translucent glazes and dark tones create immersive and vibrational colours. The works ponder human emotion and memory’s evanescence, using abstracted landscape as a metaphor for the psyche. Washes of rubbed-back glazes, barely there, […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 1: In the ongoing Transdisciplinary series, red gallery presents ANCIENT WATERS: TRANSDISCIPLINARY SPACE. Phil Edwards, Clinton Cahill, Peter Clarke and Augusta Zeeng are joined by curator/artist Dr Colleen Morris in this annual, multi-disciplinary exhibition. Morris’ practice focuses on waterways and the four artists chosen to join her in this exploration share her collaborative philosophy […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 2: “Our relationship with the landscape is defined by constant movement. By moving through the landscape we leave a trace that marks the earth’s rich surface. The restless pattern of light and weather changes the land’s form before us, as surely as rounding a corner changes the view.”  Ceramicist Sarah Ormonde details the movements […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 3: TXT is a collaborative project that seeks to challenge the way text messages are processed and interpreted. Over one month, whilst on separate continents, Anat Cossen and Sarina Lirosi sent each other one text message a day. Each message was interpreted by the recipient and represented as a photographic image. An interpretive dance […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 1: Drugs and Floods With an exhibition history that arcs back to Roar Studios in the 80s, Hugh Wayland returns to the white cubes of Fitzroy with recent work, enigmatically titled: Drugs and Floods. Hugh is an arts industry ‘lifer’, with a career in music and theatre that has toured him around world. Two […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 2: The Field Ainsley Walters‘ oil paintings are an homage to the nearby Brunswick Street Oval, and its place in the geography and cultural history of North Fitzroy. Abandoned arenas and remnants of sacred sporting sites have always appealed to photographers and painters, however Brunswick St Oval is triumphantly alive in Ainsley’s canvas and […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 3: Unnatural Collection Sarah Ritchie confronts the viewer with an assembly of works containing multiple and repetitive components – aspects of a collection. In this exhibition, Unnatural Collection, she explores her ongoing interest in the didactic part of collecting and display – for science, for pleasure or both. Circular Turkish map books, photograms and […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 1: Photography is an excellent expository art form, which suggests what it cannot reveal, and reveals more than can be seen. In Australia, a photographer such as Bill Henson has found considerable fame by transmitting the intimate awkwardness of adolescence, as if it were some beautiful, dissociative state. The ennui and displacement of tweendom […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 2: Kaya Barry’s Movement Fields exhibition is a series of works created during a 2015 summer artist residency in rural Finland. Focusing on the act of walking through forests and woodlands, the exhibition explores how we reorient, align and move with environmental experiences that immerse us. Each work contemplates the way we might sense […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 3: KATE WALSH AND MARY GRAY graduated RMIT’s masters’ program together in 2011and discovered that they shared an interest in the texture and surface tension of mark making. ….. This current body of work explores what is often unconsciously absorbed or that which lingers within the layers of consciousness. Kate and Mary are artists […]

Categories: 2016

20 July – 6 August Bad graphics, earnest commentary, back-stories and scandal, heroes and villains, bogans and toffs, families and ferals, pageantry and drama. The game of our own is no longer the same, and this humorous, thought-provoking exhibition explores the painted grass roots of contemporary sport and its head-high collision with the art world. […]

Categories: 2016

20 July – 6 August Bad graphics, earnest commentary, back-stories and scandal, heroes and villains, bogans and toffs, families and ferals, pageantry and drama. The game of our own is no longer the same, and this humorous, thought-provoking exhibition explores the painted grass roots of contemporary sport and its head-high collision with the art world. […]

Categories: 2016

20 July – 6 August Bad graphics, earnest commentary, back-stories and scandal, heroes and villains, bogans and toffs, families and ferals, pageantry and drama. The game of our own is no longer the same, and this humorous, thought-provoking exhibition explores the painted grass roots of contemporary sport and its head-high collision with the art world. […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 1: Ambiguous Bodies is Mattia Cicoli’s examination of the figure under duress in a new series of expressionist paintings. Evocative of past masters, Phillip Guston and Pablo Picasso, Mattia’s abstracted figures are interwoven by muscles. They are described in different patches of colour surrounded by violent brush strokes. Vibrant colours interrupt and fragment the […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 2: Leigh Webster’s intention, in Out of the Foliage, is to abstract the tangible forms of a recognisable landscape into constituent parts. Viewers of his new works experience scenery as a reduction of shapes, tonal values and their separate edges. They reward spectators with a sometimes huge-scale ‘drip-painting’ evocation of the environment around us, […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 3: Wendy Busch’s work as a painter is an exploration of self-perception. Second Guessing investigates alienation and psychological tension, using oil and enamel on aluminium sheet. With a moody colour palette and mirror-like surfaces, Wendy’s work draws upon personal feelings of uncertainty and apprehension, exploring subjectivity in the painterly intersection of geometry and the figure.

Categories: 2016

A diverse group of graduating jewellery students will exhibit their collective body of work in Form this June at red gallery. Drawing inspiration from the varied backgrounds of 30 exhibiting students, Form boasts an exciting collection of handcrafted jewellery and objects, the culmination of two-and-a-half years of study. You can expect to see a broad […]

Categories: 2016

A diverse group of graduating jewellery students will exhibit their collective body of work in Form this June at red gallery. Drawing inspiration from the varied backgrounds of 30 exhibiting students, Form boasts an exciting collection of handcrafted jewellery and objects, the culmination of two-and-a-half years of study. You can expect to see a broad […]

Categories: 2016

A diverse group of graduating jewellery students will exhibit their collective body of work in Form this June at red gallery. Drawing inspiration from the varied backgrounds of 30 exhibiting students, Form boasts an exciting collection of handcrafted jewellery and objects, the culmination of two-and-a-half years of study. You can expect to see a broad […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 1: For years, Peter Quarry has been fascinated with the idea of using multiple modules as a way of creating large artworks. A trip through southern Spain some years ago allowed him to study the tiles used in Arab-influenced architecture – especially the way individual pieces can aggregate into a pleasing and impressive whole. […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 2: My title for this exhibition is taken from Edouard Vuillard’s assertion that he didn’t paint portraits, but people in their homes. Inspired by his example, I approached friends to sit for me. I avoided planned compositions but took my cues from what I encountered at the first sitting, painting some of my subjects […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 3: Sara Jane Revill is an artist working with digital photography, a tool which breaks recognisable photographic subject matter into coloured pixels, denoted by a coded number, ready to be transformed. In her work, beauty is dream-like, but not always beautifully happy. There are portentous fires burning from some unseen cause. Civilization has been […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 1, 2 + 3 Layered with blood reds and deep shadows, Homage to Duende is an evocative series of new works by Andrea Newton. In various residencies across Spain, the Melbourne-born artist has made work influenced by flamenco, duende, and the dark, romantic pulse of life there, while investigating her matriarchal bloodlines. Reminiscent of […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 1, 2 + 3 Layered with blood reds and deep shadows, Homage to Duende is an evocative series of new works by Andrea Newton. In various residencies across Spain, the Melbourne-born artist has made work influenced by flamenco, duende, and the dark, romantic pulse of life there, while investigating her matriarchal bloodlines. Reminiscent of […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 1, 2 + 3 Layered with blood reds and deep shadows, Homage to Duende is an evocative series of new works by Andrea Newton. In various residencies across Spain, the Melbourne-born artist has made work influenced by flamenco, duende, and the dark, romantic pulse of life there, while investigating her matriarchal bloodlines. Reminiscent of […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 3:   A devotee of the ballet, Andrew Conners has captured the power of the human form in motion, with a thrilling attention to composition and detail in his new paintings. His subjects were shot during a workshop with the feted New York dance photographer, Lois Greenfield, and are informed by a rich history […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 1, 2 + 3 Vulnerable, organic, hand-made or industrial, culturally sensitive, an outmoded technology, housing for architects, flammable evidence, packaging for consumption; as one of the oldest art-making tools, paper is all this and more. Works on paper, in all their inventiveness and rich variety, demand close scrutiny and reinvigorate the original in a […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 1, 2 + 3 Vulnerable, organic, hand-made or industrial, culturally sensitive, an outmoded technology, housing for architects, flammable evidence, packaging for consumption; as one of the oldest art-making tools, paper is all this and more. Works on paper, in all their inventiveness and rich variety, demand close scrutiny and reinvigorate the original in a […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 1, 2 + 3 Vulnerable, organic, hand-made or industrial, culturally sensitive, an outmoded technology, housing for architects, flammable evidence, packaging for consumption; as one of the oldest art-making tools, paper is all this and more. Works on paper, in all their inventiveness and rich variety, demand close scrutiny and reinvigorate the original in a […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 1:   red gallery presents two artists who interrogate the past with their subject matter or materials. Michael Jenkins Michael Jenkins is both a surfer and a builder. His art distils these two important facts as influences, as he manipulates construction materials with a recognisably coastal aesthetic, in which found objects have weathered, been […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 2:   With a multi-layered mix of raw and acutely painterly styles, Robyn Dansie is a Fitzroy-based visual artist and flaneur. Her practise juxtaposes classical and religious iconography with ephemeral, commonplace imagery, a pop kitsch mash-up of sorts. Cartoons, children’s book characters, vintage wallpaper patterns, high and lowbrow content form a carefully articulated melange […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 3:   Nick Berry’s work exposes the artists’ secret methods and strips the artifice of the white cube back to its constituent parts. He simultaneously makes and unmakes, adds by removing, extends by limiting in small-scale installations. His works are bright shards, broken memes that parody the notion of artistic intent. He renders the […]

Categories: 2016

GALLERY 1:   Heavily influenced by Manga comics, Eddie Botha aims to capture a story in a single image. The effect of video on everyday life, and the fact that in every glimpse of daily life, there is a much larger story to be told, has encouraged this narrative. A succession of images related to […]

Categories: 2014

GALLERY 2:   In her latest body of work Leah Mariani explores the link between fashion and identity. While it is well established that what we wear portrays a message about how we are Mariani considers how what we wear tells a story about who we love. It is not uncommon for couples, close friends […]

Categories: 2014

GALLERY 3: For the past three years professional painter and printmaker Vesna Peko-Luketic has been experimenting with Digital Art and printing. Peko-Luketic is fascinated by new forms of technology, which have allowed for her the creative outlet to express a feeling or emotion instantaneously.* ‘I can draw anywhere, at anytime and before me I have […]

Categories: 2014

GALLERY 1, 2+3:   FEATURING: Anna Taylor, Jessica Tremp, Katie Langmore, Lisa Sewards, Lily-Mae Martin, Marzena Wasikowska, Michelle Ferreira, Olivia Pintos-Lopez, Paola Del Rio, Rachel Power, Sarina Lirosi and Susie Dureau. To become a mother is to step over a chasm into a new world, full of extreme emotions, ambivalence and contradictions. Stripped raw, and with less time than […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY  1, 2+3:   FEATURING:  Anna Taylor, Jessica Tremp, Katie Langmore, Lisa Sewards, Lily-Mae Martin, Marzena Wasikowska, Michelle Ferreira, Olivia Pintos-Lopez, Paola Del Rio, Rachel Power, Sarina Lirosi and Susie Dureau. To become a mother is to step over a chasm into a new world, full of extreme emotions, ambivalence and contradictions. Stripped raw, and with less time than ever,  we find […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 1,2 + 3:   FEATURING:  Anna Taylor, Jessica Tremp, Katie Langmore, Lisa Sewards, Lily-Mae Martin, Marzena Wasikowska, Michelle Ferreira, Olivia Pintos-Lopez, Paola Del Rio, Rachel Power, Sarina Lirosi and Susie Dureau. To become a mother is to step over a chasm into a new world, full of extreme emotions, ambivalence and contradictions. Stripped raw, and with less time than ever,  we […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 1:   In his second solo show at red gallery, Quarry investigates a new visual language. Dissecting traditional portraiture to its very core, he attempts to reconfigure the communication of identity. Quarry calls his new works ‘Identigrams’. They expose the multiple levels of identity – those elements that add up to create a whole […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 2:   In False Perceptions Anni Ruuskanen and Courtney Price explore the mind’s ability to distort experience, memory and perception over time.  Both artists investigate the line between imagination and reality, Price in her use of the mirror to create the false spaces of memory and Ruuskanen in the contrast she creates between the […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 3:   Creativity In-transit explores the act of packing a bag for travel and the collaborative and processual encounters experienced while in-transit. Using a variety of media, the exhibition includes interactive installations, video, and diagrammatic images. Each work plays on experiences that we have when traveling: from moments of disorientation, negotiating materials, interpreting the […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 1:   In Wonderland Sophie Skarbek and Myrna McRae investigate the wonder of the natural environment. In her vibrant new body of work Skarbek explores different approaches to her favourite subjects, flowers, bushland and things living in the sea. Her style navigates between realist and more abstract forms and her colours from warm to […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 2   Richard Collins’ latest body of work is an extension of his daily habit of drawing. Most of the prints have been made directly from life with some from earlier sketchbook drawings. Their subject matter encompasses what he find around himself – family and friends, their pets and other animals, fellow tram and […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 3:   TomboyBill is an artist interested in exploring ideas of belonging. Growing up in a small town in regional Victoria, Australia, she moved to Melbourne’s northern suburbs as a teen, keen to pursue her artistic dreams. TomboyBill paints with a gentle, self-deprecating humour, exploring feelings of dislocation; longing to be somewhere else, of never […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 1,2 + 3   FEATURING: Amaryll Perlesz, Anne Galbraith, Barbara Bolt, Elizabeth Faul, Ivana Maric, Martin James, Melanie Lazarow, Michael Rigg, Sam Davis, Thalia Robertson and Uri Auerbach From Daumier’s political cartoons to Picasso’s Guernica and more recently Pussy Riot’s performances artists have always been at the forefront of politics acting as social agitators, commentators […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 1,2 +3   FEATURING: Amaryll Perlesz, Anne Galbraith, Barbara Bolt, Elizabeth Faul, Ivana Maric, Martin James, Melanie Lazarow, Michael Rigg, Sam Davis, Thalia Robertson and Uri Auerbach From Daumier’s political cartoons to Picasso’s Guernica and more recently Pussy Riot’s performances artists have always been at the forefront of politics acting as social agitators, commentators and documenters. In Maintain the […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 1,2+3   FEATURING: Amaryll Perlesz, Anne Galbraith, Barbara Bolt, Elizabeth Faul, Ivana Maric, Martin James, Melanie Lazarow, Michael Rigg, Sam Davis, Thalia Robertson and Uri Auerbach From Daumier’s political cartoons to Picasso’s Guernica and more recently Pussy Riot’s performances artists have always been at the forefront of politics acting as social agitators, commentators and documenters. In Maintain the Rage…art […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 1:   Born in 1945 and raised in London Jean James experienced a London riddled with bombsites, half buildings and rubble. “My family talked amongst themselves about the war and certainly did not discuss it with us children except to totally forbid us to play on, or anywhere near, the bombsites, but of course we […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 2:   In her latest body of work Penny Darling takes inspiration from The Bestiary, a medieval catalogue of animals, some real and some imagined. Darling’s work is a collection of bizarre and dangerous beasts, realized through sculpture and collage. Human shapes and forms occur, but are deformed or only partly present, alluding to […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 3: Hayley Martin’s practise combines processes of drawing, painting, collage and recently printmaking to record and discover the world that surrounds her. Living in country NSW on the Murray River she take inspiration from the magical colours, organic shapes and various textures that appear in nature. Martin collages studies of the landscape that reflect […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 1: Daniel Grace is a semi-retired cabinet maker who has always worked with his hands. For Grace it was a logical step to make art from the same materials that he knows. With drills and saws he uses extremely precise cutting to create a unique form of abstract art. Painted in bright colours, they catch the […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 2: Painting and its multi-dimensional nature lie at the forefront of Caroline Collom’s practice. Whether this is with a brush on canvas or other materials such as metal, wood or glass, she is heavily aware of the post-medium condition within which she practices. Her primary creative focus is tangible spatiality through expression of objects […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 3:   In his second show at red gallery Manfred Krautschneider teams up with digital artist Olga Morris. In this latest body of work Krautschneider references his earlier collection Suburban Reflections which began when he noticed modern art motifs in the subtle distortions of streetscapes reflected on imperfect surfaces. Through these Krautschneider began his […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 1:   Completed during the first year of a residency at Dunmoochin, Lisa Nolan’s latest body of work demonstrate a quiet observation of nature and everyday life. “I love working with the face and figure, drawing and painting the body in all shapes and sizes,” she says.”Landscape studies give balance, as they offer me […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 2:   David Boyle paints in the tonalist tradition across a range of subjects including still life, portrait and landscape. His work explores gradations of tone and the subtleties of light that occur within the dark zones of his subject matter. Boyle has enjoyed the tutelage of David Moore at Monsalvat for several years. He is largely influenced […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 3:   The bush has feelings It has a soul But does it have a voice? “Sometimes I think we take the bush – our environment – for granted. We think we can control nature. In the city, we all too often ignore it – think of it as a destination for a Sunday […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 1, 2 + 3:   FEATURING: Aly Aitken, Tomboy Bill, Dean Colls, Sarah Gully, Helen Kocis Edwards, Emma Morgan, Siobhan McMahon, Christian Pearson and Kim Wall Domesticated, wild, real or imagined animals have appeared in art for centuries. In the Beast Beside Us red gallery brings together nine artists who celebrate this tradition. Christian Pearson’s […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 1, 2 + 3:   FEATURING: Aly Aitken, Tomboy Bill, Dean Colls, Sarah Gully, Helen Kocis Edwards, Emma Morgan, Siobhan McMahon, Christian Pearson and Kim Wall Domesticated, wild, real or imagined animals have appeared in art for centuries. In the Beast Beside Us red gallery brings together nine artists who celebrate this tradition. Christian Pearson’s Tagged series features animals […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 1, 2 + 3:   FEATURING: Aly Aitken, Tomboy Bill, Dean Colls, Sarah Gully, Helen Kocis Edwards, Emma Morgan, Siobhan McMahon, Christian Pearson and Kim Wall Domesticated, wild, real or imagined animals have appeared in art for centuries. In the Beast Beside Us red gallery brings together nine artists who celebrate this tradition. Christian Pearson’s Tagged series features animals […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 1:   It’s long been thought that dreams contain underlying messages that may not be immediately apparent to the dreamer.  In mid-2014, Grace Biles had a waking dream that changed the direction of her life, leading her to pursue her artistic creativity with an unbridled passion and focus. Dreaming is that special place where […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 2:   “there is no beauty without some strangeness” Edgar Allan Poe Shirley Ploog’s current body of work is a response to what she witnessed at Mt Zero, Victoria in 2014. It references this environment and the nature within it. Ploog has created organic floating worlds showcasing elements of Australian flora. Having witnessed the […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 3:   Elizabeth Farlie’s latest body of work dismantles representation of the self, negotiating the seam between provided identity and the actual. Consisting of an installation, a sculpture, writing, photographs and drawings as well as a sort of soundscape that the audience mutters, rereads and rechecks. The various elements are combined within the exhibition […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 1, 2 + 3:   FEATURING: Julie Bradley, Annie Burns, Katharine Campbell, Elizabeth Faul, Penelope Hunt, Claire Mooney, Bernadette Pilli, Carol Swain and Carole Wilson In Place and Space nine Australian artists present their interpretation of our physical surroundings. For some this is a direct response to changes they have observed in our environments […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 1, 2 + 3:   FEATURING: Julie Bradley, Annie Burns, Katharine Campbell, Elizabeth Faul, Penelope Hunt, Claire Mooney, Bernadette Pilli, Carol Swain and Carole Wilson In Place and Space nine Australian artists present their interpretation of our physical surroundings. For some this is a direct response to changes they have observed in our environments […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 1,2 + 3:   FEATURING: Julie Bradley, Annie Burns, Katharine Campbell, Elizabeth Faul, Penelope Hunt, Claire Mooney, Bernadette Pilli, Carol Swain and Carole Wilson In Place and Space nine Australian artists present their interpretation of our physical surroundings. For some this is a direct response to changes they have observed in our environments while […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 1: ANJA confronts the fears and stigmas associated with the perceptions of womenʼs bodies in todayʼs world of unrealistic and idealised standards of how women ʻshould lookʼ. Lilli Waters does not aim to sexualise the female form, but instead strives to find self-compassion and emotional awareness both in herself and in her audience. “Photographing […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 2: In his current body of work Melbourne based artist Michael Armstrong presents an investigation into the process of attempting to represent the sensation of remembering. His works explore how memory is made and reiterated through narrative and how memories fade and details are lost to the point where only the archetypal and allegorical […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 3: FEATURING: Rowena Doyle, Olivia Mazzone and Geraldine Richards In Traces of Place three artists explore their mutual appreciation for map-making as a platform for investigating connections to place and environment. Geraldine Richards’ paintings are formed from her physical and emotional responses to journeys and places she encounters. Her use of colour and line […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 1: Historically, the shape of a circle represents eternity. For Melbourne based artist Alice Blackley it represents wholeness. “I use the circle as my symbol for an empty mind whilst meditating. I write the word ‘focus’ inside the circle as a form of mantra.” Using a technique that she has refined over the number […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 2: The Disquiet Up There is a negotiation of the artist’s own internal dialogue. It is an attempt to express the self-analysis and conflicts that are played out daily in her head. The figures depicted embody this discourse, as they duplicate, merge, emerge from and hide within themselves. Each drawing captures snippets of conversations […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 3: Melanie Lazarow’s respect and admiration for those who collectively gather and protest is examined with 28 rich photographs of protesters projected and shattered by light on rich paper. “I love the large bottle used as the shattering medium which is curiously interesting […]. Scientists and opticians have used glass to bend light to […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 1: In an ongoing series of exhibitions curated by Colleen Morris red gallery is pleased to present Fluids: Trans-Disciplinary Studio 2015 featuring the work of Colleen Morris and Phil Edwards. In her current body of work Morris is focused on land and the freshwater landscape – its ecology, place, space, poetry and in particular, […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 2: In her second solo exhibition at red gallery Barbara Bolt presents a new suite of drawings and inks. On first glance these could be scenes from anywhere around the world. Here commuters go on their way engaging in their daily acts commuting. Individual figures fiddle with their iPhones and androids or stare abstractly […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 3:   “Chaos was the origin of everything, and the first thing that ever existed. It was the primordial void, the source out of which everything was created, including the universe and the gods.” – greekmythology.com Gabrielle New, employs the body in performance, utilizing costume, installation and video to explore themes of identity, relationship […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 1: ‘Using the Everyday to Reflect the Everyday’ as her launching point Annette Chang’s work centers on reconfiguring found and existing materials to create two and three-dimensional works. She is interested in the innovative use of common materials to create new forms of visual experience. These new visuals seek to communicate not only contemporary […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 2:   In her first exhibition at red gallery Moon Beam Milk is an exhibition of new objects and arrangements by Aniquah Stevenson. For her new collection of work Stevenson explores translucent, fragile and milky materials in an attempt to capture invisible moments, like phosphene and visual static that swim across the peripheries of […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 3: In her third solo show at red gallery Kate Walsh’s new body of work focuses on the notion of Inter-connection, an aspect of her life that she has begun to appreciate in recent times. Inter-connection will feature a portrait of Charles Fisher aka the Song Doctor (pictured above), Walsh’s submission to the 2015 […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 1: In her current exhibition Susannah Foster draws on anecdotal statements both overheard and addressed to the artist to harness the idea of the unreliable narrator in creating a sense of place. Concepts of race, class, culture and identity are considered through traveling to several American cities; Portland, Boston and Detroit. Verbal descriptions or […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 2: The Edge of Flooding is a phrase that pertains to pertinent happenings that momentarily arrest us, appearing to depart as swiftly as they come. Still we know on a visceral level that they remain sustained and reconfigured. Rebekah Stuart feels these happenings are concurrent with a larger force that is often unforeseeable in a […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 3: Mixed Palette brings together a group of eighteen students who have been attending painting classes at Fitzroy Painting for Beginners for a number of years. Some have been attending classes for many years, and some just for a couple. All began as complete beginners. Over time each student has learnt to develop their […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 1: In her latest exhibition, re-threaded, Jenni Walker presents a new series of oil paintings. The works encourage the viewer to reflect upon the use and value of the seemingly unimportant craft tools used to create the hand-made. These handmade creative activities enrich our lives and should be recognized and celebrated. The subject matters […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 2: Thalia Robertson’s current body of work elaborates on earlier collections that explored the themes of ephemerality and fragility in regards to environmental issues through the medium of painting. Her intention in this series of paintings is to gain a sensorial appreciation for the subject of glaciers and glacial environments through first hand experience. […]

Categories: 2015

GALLERY 3: We are living on islands, lifeboats on a planet that is 71% water, 95% of that is ocean. Beyond that is infinite space. 94% of life is aquatic but most of that is not named or even classified. Mostly, we know the fish we eat, seafood. Dead Fish is a compelling photographic exhibition […]

Categories: 2015

Mettle highlights the vast range and inventiveness of work the 2014 Graduate Jewellery students of NMIT have produced this year. Mettle is the ability of a person to cope well with challenges, a true display of one’s spirit, resilience and tenacity. The word ‘mettle’ also derives from a traditional Shakespearean spelling of metal. Throughout two […]

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  Mettle highlights the vast range and inventiveness of work the 2014 Graduate Jewellery students of NMIT have produced this year. Mettle is the ability of a person to cope well with challenges, a true display of one’s spirit, resilience and tenacity. The word ‘mettle’ also derives from a traditional Shakespearean spelling of metal. Throughout two […]

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Mettle highlights the vast range and inventiveness of work the 2014 Graduate Jewellery students of NMIT have produced this year. Mettle is the ability of a person to cope well with challenges, a true display of one’s spirit, resilience and tenacity. The word ‘mettle’ also derives from a traditional Shakespearean spelling of metal. Throughout two years […]

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GALLERY 1: Featuring Adam Lee, Alan Nguyen, Anne Bennett, Annita Furey, Caroline Kennedy McCracken, Clinton Cahill, Colleen Morris, Karen Simpson-Nikakis, Kate Geck, Michelle Gillick, Peter Clarke, Peter Ellis, Phil Edwards, Simon Bowland and Stephen Pascoe. Transdisciplinary Studio 2014 brings together 15 artists, all of whom were invited to contribute at least one small piece of art work in […]

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GALLERY 2: Inspired by personal and political liberty, Corban Renouf uses suggestive imagery to demonstrate chaos. Utilising the same language large marketing companies use to sell Renouf silently demonstrates the chaos that abounds within the media. Through this work, the artist hopes to convey the message that woman should not be valued by beauty alone, despite […]

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GALLERY 3:   Linda Wheeler’s paintings explore the tensions that emerge from problems of recognition. Wheeler believes that painting exists in a contested relationship to photography. In A Conversation with Painting she attempts to breach the boundaries of this relationship. Using personal, as well as randomly acquired photographic source material to start the developmental process, memories play an […]

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GALLERY 1 + 2 Beginning with word associations such as nuance, essence, boundaries and shadows each of the 11 artists in the Silhouette exhibition has realised their own understanding of the concept of a silhouette. For Alex Asch the Alphabet City of the 80’s had its own mythology; a desolate wasteland populated with crack heads […]

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GALLERY 1 + 2 Beginning with word associations such as nuance, essence, boundaries and shadows each of the 11 artists in the Silhouette exhibition has realised their own understanding of the concept of a silhouette. For Alex Asch the Alphabet City of the 80’s had its own mythology; a desolate wasteland populated with crack heads and artists […]

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GALLERY 3   Fascinated by the nuances of the everyday Chloe Vallance’s current body of work is a continuation of her exploration of portraiture and her desire to capture a sense of play and visceral emotion. ‘I see my portraiture work as an archive of intimate engagements and documents of a daily practice. The aim […]

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GALLERY 1: Using high art and pop culture Kat Weir portrays stylistic representations of her peers.  Working as a professional Tattooist has impacted the way Weir sees culture. Tattoos are a rite of passage, a scar, a mask, and a badge to the owner. It is this idea of cultural signification in the form of […]

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GALLERY 2: Brenda Walsh’s complex, multi-layered paintings stand firmly and unashamedly within the tradition of Art History. Iconographically, they teem with references to and direct quotations from Medieval and Flemish masters (Hans Memling and Hieronymus Bosch), the Italian Renaissance (Michelangelo and Masaccio) and Nineteenth Century Romanticism (Caspar David Friedrich), amongst others. Stylistically and formally, Walsh […]

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GALLERY 3: Chris Edmund is a director, teacher, writer and painter. He began painting during a period of writers block, following the advice of a friend he bought paints and canvases and immediately his artistic process evolved.   For Chris Edmund there is a direct link between his painting and aspects of his varied career. In his theatrical works […]

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GALLERY 1: In 1872, Charles Darwin published his little known The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals, in which he applied his theory of evolution to the development and expression of feelings. Darwin identified a number of emotions, which have evolved over time and can be recognised by any human, regardless of their cultural […]

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GALLERY 2: North of North is a series about change. Photographer Gitanjali Chetty spent four weeks camped on the frozen sea ice on Eclipse Sound a few hours komatik ride from Pond Inlet, a small hamlet in the northern most inhabitable area of Baffin Island, Canada. Struck by how quickly the landscape changed and how […]

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Gallery 3 will be closed 13 – 30 August. red gallery is pleased to announce that we are converting our storage space at the rear of the gallery into a functional artist studio. For further enquiries please contact: mail@redgallery.com.au  

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GALLERY 1: In his third solo exhibition Anthony Williams explores the complexities of body image and self-perception. The notion of perfection as something ‘entirely without flaws, defects or shortcomings’ has been idealised and integrated into our media and magazines forcing the consumer to compare and question their own selves. Utilising both painting and sculpture Williams […]

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GALLERY 2: Focusing on animals that are commonly hunted, poached or considered dangerous, They Know About Us is inspired by the constant need and desire to document non-human animals. Favouring the immediacy of pen on paper Morgan also explores the trend to humanise certain animals, as well as our ability (and inability) to coexist with […]

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GALLERY 3: Donna Lawrence’s work reflects themes of catharsis, isolation, prejudice and language. ‘I believe visual artwork can be aesthetically pleasing as well as being politically motivated or intellectual. I aim for both of these elements in my work.’ Using language and symbols Lawrence seeks to break down the stigmas connected to ‘the other’. The result […]

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GALLERY 1: Its 100 years since almost 39,300 horses were sent to the Middle East during the Palestine Campaigns of World War One.[1] The overarching narrative ‘all the horses were shot’ is a long held assumption that symbolises the loss of the human soldier and the overall occurrence of war. In reflecting on the role […]

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GALLERY 2: Annette Chang’s practice is characterised by her utilisation of found materials such as newspaper, plastic and other daily objects. She transforms these pre-loved materials from their everyday origins, offering new interpretations beyond the ordinary. In Chang’s current body of work she explores her interest in creating work using new and innovative methods. She […]

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GALLERY 3: A Firn line implies a liminal state. It marks the division between the blue glacial ice and the layer of accumulated snow covering the glacier that is constantly adjusting to environmental conditions. It is delicate and the balance can tip either way. In her second solo exhibition at red gallery Thalia Robertson explores […]

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GALLERY 1: In his first solo exhibition Darcy Moore constructs a sinister love letter to the diverse cultures of Melbourne’s popular inner city suburbs. It is the inner suburbs that define Melbourne’s vibrant culture. Whether its live music in Fitzroy, a great new restaurant in Abbotsford, or a friend’s new apartment in Southbank, every suburb […]

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GALLERY 2: In Women From the Land of Light and Darkness artist & filmmaker Stepanka Cervinkova explores themes of deteriorated realities and undercurrents of prejudice in contemporary Cambodian society. This recent body of photographs is a personal take on the events Cervinkova witnessed while working in Cambodia. Women From the Land of Light and Darkness is […]

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GALLERY 3: Anne Algar’s photographic work is concerned with the cultural and the sociological. In Mississippi Blues, Algar plays homage to the genre of Blues music and the social history that gave birth to it. These photographs were taken in the Mississippi Delta, a region stretching from Memphis Tennessee in the north, to New Orleans, […]

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GALLERY 1: Developed collaboratively by Agnieszka Golda and Martin Johnson Setting Scenes is a large-scale mixed media installation. Encompassing two rooms Setting Scenes draws on fragmented narratives, immersive and ritualistic modes of installation art, traditional European folklore practices and the contemporary, globalised popular culture of Japanese anime. Bending towards the otherworldly Golda and Johnson harnesses the […]

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GALLERY 2: Developed collaboratively by Agnieszka Golda and Martin Johnson Setting Scenes is a large-scale mixed media installation. Encompassing two rooms Setting Scenes draws on fragmented narratives, immersive and ritualistic modes of installation art, traditional European folklore practices and the contemporary, globalised popular culture of Japanese anime. Bending towards the otherworldly Golda and Johnson harnesses the […]

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GALLERY 3: Untitled Responses is the second part of a body of work in which Liz Henderson examines the linguistic gap between olfaction and language. In Untitled (Blindside, Melbourne, 2013) Henderson asked her audiences to describe a scent through a series of typewritten impressions. Untitled Responses seeks a more analytical rather than sensual approach; Henderson […]

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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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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 at times double outlines, Knafelc dramatically transforms urban scenes and landscapes. […]

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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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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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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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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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GALLERY 1: For Primrose Variations, Vaughan presents a series of complex, representational oil paintings, pencil drawings and analogue collages.  Referencing elements from surrealism, pre-renaissance symbolism and photography, Vaughan also draws on personal histories through the use of embedded symbols and objects of significance. “I take snapshots from my past and re-imagine them as symbolic narratives.  I […]

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GALLERY 2:   FATHOM 1. A measure of length containing six feet. Holder. 2. Reach; penetration; depth of contrivance. Shakesp. To FATHOM. v.a. [from the noun] 1. To encompass with the arms extended or encircling. 2. To reach; to master. Dryden. 3. To sound; to try with respect to depth. Felton. 4. To penetrate into; […]

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GALLERY 3:   Falling to sleep last night in a deep crevasse between one rough dream and another, I seemed, still awake, to be stranded on a stony path, and there the familiar enigma presented itself…                                                             Enigma, Anne Stephenson, 2006   Using large scale works with elements of calligraphy, landscape painting, iconography and […]

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GALLERY 1:   Walsh’s painting practice pivots around an investigation of body language and facial expressions that reflect  the dynamics of personal interaction as well as emotional, psychological and spiritual states of being. Her latest series: Cultural Exchange: Business in China, functions as a visual diary that conveys the inevitable communication gaps, negotiations and connections […]

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GALLERY 2:   Utilising aqueous veils of colour interjected with gestural mark making, Pearce explores the vital properties of beauty and the sublime through her latest body of works – Intermezzo  Working intuitively and exploiting the inherent qualities of water and pigment, Pearce employs both chance and accident as well as conscious consideration in her […]

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GALLERY 3: Disturbance of Direction negotiates three bodies of work where individual and diverse practices are unified in dialogue. Haya Cohen, Virginia Miller and Sonya G Peters share parallels in their approaches; initiated by the conflicts around notions of re-location and dis-location, as well as the tension between the built and natural environment. Cohen’s textile […]

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GALLERY 1:   Artists Statement: The work I create centres around the relationship between humans and animals. Animals are fascinating. I watch different birds in the back yard and know their habits. The black bird runs with his head down and then stops and stares from the corner of his eye before darting out of […]

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GALLERY 2:   The stylistic flair and luminous visual appeal of Lessels’ oil paintings form an unexpected juxtaposition with the far more serious and somewhat poignant issues that inform his practice. Lessels is concerned with the ever-broadening gap between humans and nature and the depreciating relationship with other living creatures that can result in their […]

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GALLERY 3:   Taking Melbourne’s Inner North as inspiration, PESKY has created a series of works that convey her fascination and fondness for the constantly evolving life of our city’s façades. These images provide a unique view of Melbourne, capturing the beauty that is to be found in the geometric structures that are formed through […]

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