Winner $3,000 Incinerator Gallery Award: Heather Hesterman, LOSS/GAIN, 2017, plywood, stain, water-jet cutting, native plant stock,160 x 160 x 120 cm LOSS/GAIN references relocated and lost landscapes displaced through rail and mining. This sculptural work comprises of 400 Australian native plants and is the exact size of an individual mining plot in 1800s Bright, Victoria. […]
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Congratulations to the winners of the ultimate 2017 Graeme Hildebrand Art Prize for Young Contemporary Artists: Liz GRIDLEY / Troy ARGYROS / David HOYT / Joshua BURROWES / Kelly EGAN / Laura MANNES / Alfred LIU Commended artists include: Stacey KORFIATIS / Patrick FRANCIS / Liz GRIDLEY / David MUSIAL / […]
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GALLERY 1+2+3 Red Gallery reopens for a new year with a startling group show from RMIT and VCA’s most promising recent graduates. There’s a Great Future in Plastics curates outstanding young emerging talent, bringing canny collectors, art people and next big things together for three weeks, from Wednesday Feb 1. 6-8pm opening drinks. To download […]
Categories: 2017
GALLERY 1+2+3 Red Gallery reopens for a new year with a startling group show from RMIT and VCA’s most promising recent graduates. There’s a Great Future in Plastics curates outstanding young emerging talent, bringing canny collectors, art people and next big things together for three weeks, from Wednesday Feb 1. 6-8pm opening drinks. To download […]
Categories: 2017
GALLERY 1+2+3 Red Gallery reopens for a new year with a startling group show from RMIT and VCA’s most promising recent graduates. There’s a Great Future in Plastics curates outstanding young emerging talent, bringing canny collectors, art people and next big things together for three weeks, from Wednesday Feb 1. 6-8pm opening drinks. To download […]
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GALLERY 1: In the current climate of Trumpism, racism, Islamaphobia, sexism, refugee injustice, and resistance Melanie Lazarow’s exhibition is an action research immersion into the necessity to protest. Lazarow uses an installation of i-pads, banners, cushions, and photos to link the incommensurables of politics and art. Thousands turned out to put pressure on the Liberal […]
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GALLERY 2: “I have always been fascinated by the reproduction of images, both mechanical and digital, and the power and influence they exert over all of us.” Alan McGregor takes an experimental approach to ideas, images and pictorial reproduction. Gathering quite disparate found print images he manipulates them with other components, and makes physical and […]
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GALLERY 3: Ian Westwood has a knack for transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary. Road detritus, antique printing blocks, and Corflute signage unite in an explosion of colour and careful composition that set up a metaphorical and literal investigation into our ever changing skyline…why didn’t we see the signs? Assemblages of bygone factory silhouettes contrast […]
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GALLERY 1+2+3 Cut and Press is a contemporary array of mixed up bits – artists’ proofs, happy accidents and superb printmaking outcomes, and harried matrices of spilling picture planes. The old and the new feature – mixed media, lithography, ancient techniques and the Twentieth Century cut up – made by student artists of today, baby […]
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GALLERY 1+2+3 Cut and Press is a contemporary array of mixed up bits – artists’ proofs, happy accidents and superb printmaking outcomes, and harried matrices of spilling picture planes. The old and the new feature – mixed media, lithography, ancient techniques and the Twentieth Century cut up – made by student artists of today, baby […]
Categories: 2017
GALLERY 1+2+3 Cut and Press is a contemporary array of mixed up bits – artists’ proofs, happy accidents and superb printmaking outcomes, and harried matrices of spilling picture planes. The old and the new feature – mixed media, lithography, ancient techniques and the Twentieth Century cut up – made by student artists of today, baby […]
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GALLERY 1: Creatures of Habit is a photographic documentation on the morning routine of office workers, whose ubiquity and visual banality is a walking reminder for the artist of how not to live one’s life. The harsh realities of life cause us to pursue the pragmatic over the idealistic – art is often fuelled by […]
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GALLERY 2: Inside and Out: paintings and drawings Richard Collins is a painter, printmaker and draftsman exhibiting for the 5th time at red gallery. He is showing streetscapes, scenes of beach and bay, bushland and gardens, and interiors. Many of these works are the result of weekly plein air excursions, in company or alone. He […]
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GALLERY 3: In a hard-edged abstractionist phase, mid-career artist Clive Stratford paints searingly sharp lines between his colour forms with fine sable brushes and pedantry – no artist’s tape allowed. Shapeshifting is a collection of contemporary varnished oil paintings in diamond and oblong shapes, adjacent expressionistic oil studies on cardboard. Works that at first glance […]
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GALLERY 1: Gallery 1 becomes Heather Hesterman‘s botanical installation Fieldwork: Ovens and Merri. Inside the gallery sits a plinth measuring a 28 foot mining plot, and seedlings of local indigenous plant species – which reference the displaced landscape lost to rail and mining progress. The skylights of the gallery enable the plantings to grow throughout the […]
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GALLERY 2: The term “Anthropocene” describes the current geological era that has formed due to the scale and impact of human activity on the Earth. Using a mix of installation, hands-on tasks, and interactive projections, Kaya Barry and Jondi Keane’s Measuring the Anthropocene exhibition explores how people perceive and calculate their movements on the Earth […]
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GALLERY 3: Garth Henderson is an artist concerned with the evolutionary, cultural, mathematical and visual significance of plants. As an occupational horticulturist and photographer growing up in South Western Australia, Garth had a keen visual interest in elements of the local Banksia population. Their family name – Proteaceae – comes from the Greek god Proteus, […]
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GALLERY 1: Sleeping roll, thermos, map, magic sword, and bottled djinn. I lie on my back and think of where the journey would take me this time. Spending some of my childhood in China before coming back to Australia, I lived with my grandma who doesn’t speak English and myself, only a little bit more. […]
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GALLERY 2: The short days of winter are upon us – room for pause, and contemplation of the seeming diminishment of time. And of materiality, well-being and decay… In the artists’ own words: Hilary Dodd’s abstracted forms linger behind the veil their constructed surfaces, shrouded and immobile. We are seductively reminded of the delicate yet brutal nature of […]
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GALLERY 3: Greyscale strips out the chroma, boosts the contrast, and brings the white noise in a micro-group show. The monochrome mightiness of Black and White finds expression in the sharp work of five artists of various mediums. OLIVIA MAZZONE JOSH WILSON BELINDA WEEKS PATRICIA DENIS AMY CRAWLEY. Positives: the art / the wine. Negatives: […]
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GALLERY 1+2+3 “My infant daughter could have done that.” (Somebody, somewhere, all the time.) Either a modern horror, or a mind-bending window into the sublime, abstract art is both an historical turning point, and an anxiety that the art world willingly offers the greater population. The emergence of abstraction – a monumental high-brow piss-take, really […]
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GALLERY 1+2+3 “My infant daughter could have done that.” (Somebody, somewhere, all the time.) Either a modern horror, or a mind-bending window into the sublime, abstract art is both an historical turning point, and an anxiety that the art world willingly offers the greater population. The emergence of abstraction – a monumental high-brow piss-take, really […]
Categories: 2017
GALLERY 1+2+3 “My infant daughter could have done that.” (Somebody, somewhere, all the time.) Either a modern horror, or a mind-bending window into the sublime, abstract art is both an historical turning point, and an anxiety that the art world willingly offers the greater population. The emergence of abstraction – a monumental high-brow piss-take, really […]
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GALLERY 1 Transmutation brings together two Canberra artists whose sculptural and photographic work dissects the ordinary to traverse unfamiliar grounds. Rebecca Selleck’s work is concerned with the ambivalent relationship between the animal world and humans. Selleck used sculpture and photographic work as an emblem for the perceptual dissonance experienced when empathising and identifying with creatures, […]
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GALLERY 2 Six artists engage with the notion of making visible the invisible. This gallery 2 collaborative exhibition combines sculpture, painting, installation and drawing in a collective exposure of the innermost subjective source material for these artists. Psychological, spiritual and emotional spaces are marked by barriers familiar to us all. Deep internal spaces become represented […]
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GALLERY 3 Harry Zed Hughes’ painterly world is populated by symbology, ambiguous spaces, and revelations of bright colour emitted from miasmic darkness. At this point in his career, he paints as an earnest, yet playful surrealist whose work evokes the depth and mystical qualities of James Gleeson and greater luminaries. Hughes reveals his visions with […]
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GALLERY 1+2+3 To the heavyweights, their collectors, and to us, hounds matter. Efforts to capture the true, instinctive essence of our herdists and hunters form ALL TEETH AND SWAGGER – a contemporary show about predators, sooks, man-beasts, and man’s best friends. Curated by Kim Wall, Nick Reed and ably assisted by Shirley, this group show […]
Categories: 2017
GALLERY 1+2+3 To the heavyweights, their collectors, and to us, hounds matter. Efforts to capture the true, instinctive essence of our herdists and hunters form ALL TEETH AND SWAGGER – a contemporary show about predators, sooks, man-beasts, and man’s best friends. Curated by Kim Wall, Nick Reed and ably assisted by Shirley, this group show […]
Categories: 2017
GALLERY 1+2+3 To the heavyweights, their collectors, and to us, hounds matter. Efforts to capture the true, instinctive essence of our herdists and hunters form ALL TEETH AND SWAGGER – a contemporary show about predators, sooks, man-beasts, and man’s best friends. Curated by Kim Wall, Nick Reed and ably assisted by Shirley, this group show […]
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GALLERY 1: 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 in relation to land, environment and ecological issues.
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GALLERY 2: Nick Berry is an artist interested in paintings as installation objects and their manufacture as a process to demythologise painting’s own history. Surface explores the social and psychological experiences of his everyday life through ironic representations, parody and sentiment, thickly layered textures and structured, painterly forms.
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GALLERY 3: It’s Only Show Business is a blast of experimental colour and gestural brushstrokes, a wall-sized collection of naïve works by painter, Kim Hatcher. The artist explores a fascination with show business and the chaos of the stage with art brut’s approach to representation, to humorous and engaging effect.
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GALLERY 1: A magical, paperless means to an end, an app on the iPhone is Hugh Wayland’s tool of choice in Mechanizmo. Hundreds of the artist’s digital drawings have fed a selection of ten works, which are joined by acrylic paintings – works which amplify the colour and luminosity of the surrounding ‘new media’ format. […]
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GALLERY 2: The Living Miracles present Goodbye Cruel World At the present time, The Living Miracles are in lockdown with a legal team, hammering out the nuts and bolts concerning the veracity of the ban on their show Goodbye Cruel World.
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GALLERY 3: REFLECTOR | RECEPTOR is part of Radiant Pavilion – Melbourne’s Contemporary Jewellery and Object Biennial festival. Nicole Polentas’ stunning installation incorporates overlapping large scale projections in an artist-built enclave within gallery 3. This exhibition seeks to examine the ways in which the crafted object can transform lived experience into narrative forms. Polentas – whose work has shown across the […]
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GALLERY 1: Odyssée/Odisea brings together two distinct artists located in Melbourne, whose practices are powerfully informed by the origins of their forebears. Jessie Yvette Journoud-Ryan and Rachel Suarez engage with far-flung worlds that both artists understand through stories from their grandmothers – from France and El Salvador, respectively. The cautionary tales and lore of their […]
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GALLERY 2: Deserted sites / a large-scale swimming pool / unnatural scenery. We found traces of people but we found nobody… The swimming-pool series of Tianshu Zheng explores the therapy of self-cure through contemplation, and seeking one’s inner world. Scenes in the artworks seem as if they are from somewhere unreal or imaginary. Perhaps they […]
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GALLERY 3: The artist’s studio is a place of contemplation, transmutation and breakthrough. It is also a place of struggle, doubt and perseverance. Melbourne based artist, Robert Babic, sees his studio not only as a kind of alchemist’s cell that deals with transmutation but also as a kind of secular chapel that provides relief from […]
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GALLERY 1+2+3 red gallery is proud to announce the finalists for the 2017 Graeme Hildebrand Art Prize For Young Contemporary Artists Prize A: Major Prize – Body Of Work Joshua BURROWES, James CHAPMAN, Mattia CICOLI, Kim EGAN, Thomas GIBBS, Elizabeth GRIDLEY, Samuel HARDIDGE, David HOYT, Harry Zed HUGHES, Sean McDOWELL, Greg O’TOOLE, Chloe VALLANCE Prize […]
Categories: 2017, Currently Showing, Coming Up
GALLERY 1+2+3 red gallery is proud to announce the finalists for the 2017 Graeme Hildebrand Art Prize For Young Contemporary Artists Prize A: Major Prize – Body Of Work Joshua BURROWES, James CHAPMAN, Mattia CICOLI, Kim EGAN, Thomas GIBBS, Elizabeth GRIDLEY, Samuel HARDIDGE, David HOYT, Harry Zed HUGHES, Sean McDOWELL, Greg O’TOOLE, Chloe VALLANCE Prize […]
Categories: 2017, Currently Showing, Coming Up
GALLERY 1+2+3 red gallery is proud to announce the finalists for the 2017 Graeme Hildebrand Art Prize For Young Contemporary Artists Prize A: Major Prize – Body Of Work Joshua BURROWES, James CHAPMAN, Mattia CICOLI, Kim EGAN, Thomas GIBBS, Elizabeth GRIDLEY, Samuel HARDIDGE, David HOYT, Harry Zed HUGHES, Sean McDOWELL, Greg O’TOOLE, Chloe VALLANCE Prize […]
Categories: 2017, Currently Showing, Coming Up
GALLERY 1: Anne Hastie and Celia Bridle share a fascination with composing abstract images, and each has their own separate, distinct and lyrical manner of doing so. They paint, pour, scrape, draw, scan, print, and cut and paste to create abstractions from their individual worlds, absorbing and responding to the visual stimuli of their environment, […]
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