Author Archives: Oliver Gigacz
01 February – 19 February: There’s A Great Future In Plastics
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
01 February – 19 February: There’s A Great Future In Plastics
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
01 February – 19 February: There’s A Great Future In Plastics
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
22 February – 12 March: Melanie Lazarow – Defying Complacency
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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22 February – 12 March: Alan McGregor – Echte Welt
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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22 February – 12 March: Ian Westwood – Metropolis
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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16 March – 02 April: Cut and Press (Group Show)
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
16 March – 02 April: Cut and Press (Group Show)
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
16 March – 02 April: Cut and Press (Group Show)
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
05 April – 23 April: Darren Tanny Tan – Creatures of Habit
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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05 April – 23 April: Richard Collins – Inside and Out: paintings and drawings
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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05 April – 23 April: Clive Stratford – Shapeshifting
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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27 April – 14 May: Heather Hesterman – Fieldwork: Ovens and Merri
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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27 April – 14 May: Kaya Barry & Jondi Keane – Measuring the Anthropocene
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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27 April – 14 May: Garth Henderson – constructive_botanics/banksia/[algorithmic_flora]
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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17 May – 04 June: Alfred Liu – Far Away and Close To Home
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. […]
Categories: 2017
17 May – 04 June: In the Creases of Time
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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17 May – 04 June: Greyscale (Group Show)
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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07 June – 25 June: Another World – Abstraction Group Show
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, Currently Showing, Coming Up
07 June – 25 June: Another World – Abstraction Group Show
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, Currently Showing, Coming Up
07 June – 25 June: Another World – Abstraction Group Show
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, Currently Showing, Coming Up
28 June – 16 July: Bec Selleck & Thomas Buckland – Transmutation
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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28 June – 16 July: Invisible (Group Show)
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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28 June – 16 July: Harry Zed Hughes – Walpurgis Nebulah
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 detail and mystical qualities of James Gleeson and greater luminaries. Hughes reveals his visions with […]
Categories: Currently Showing, Coming Up