GALLERY 1+2+3 Opening Night Drinks Thursday 31st January 2019, 6-8pm The visual arts in Melbourne have a pulse, measurable in the annual throb of newcomers to the urban white cube. On show in January is After Class – our pick of the hot graduates from The VCA and RMIT’s art schools; the future, yes, but […]
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GALLERY 1+2+3 Opening Night Drinks Thursday 31st January 2019, 6-8pm The visual arts in Melbourne have a pulse, measurable in the annual throb of newcomers to the urban white cube. On show in January is After Class – our pick of the hot graduates from The VCA and RMIT’s art schools; the future, yes, but […]
Categories: 2019
GALLERY 1+2+3 Opening Night Drinks Thursday 31st January 2019, 6-8pm The visual arts in Melbourne have a pulse, measurable in the annual throb of newcomers to the urban white cube. On show in January is After Class – our pick of the hot graduates from The VCA and RMIT’s art schools; the future, yes, but […]
Categories: 2019
GALLERY 1 Opening Night Drinks – Thursday 21st February, 6-8pm As though to ‘find himself’, Ben Champion is out and about as rural flaneur in Grand Ridge Drive – an exhibition of acrylic paintings that draw on studies from a vantage point overlooking a landscape. Wrought again by memory and its vagueries, his colour palette […]
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GALLERY 2 Opening Night Drinks – Thursday 21st February, 6-8pm Angela Hayes, Felicity Law, Minaal Lawn, Pip Byrne, Danielle Segal – 5x5x5 = Melbourne is experiencing a pleasing resurgence of interest in ceramic art, and the work of these five artists will not disappoint. Collaborative sharers of studio space, knowledge and technique, the sculptors of 5 […]
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GALLERY 3 Opening Night Drinks – Thursday 21st February, 6-8pm Tania Matilda plays with form and colour within a sculptural ready-made discipline. Her materials comprise board, paper, paint and discarded refuse, which has its own utility and which she deftly augments with a cubist’s eye for fractured representation and a Futurist’s zeal for geometric splendor […]
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GALLERY 1 Opening Thursday 14th March 2019, 6-8pm Sketches made on location in multicultural Carlton have generated the latest suite of paintings by Robert Babic. There’s Something About Carlton depicts his fascination for the curious suburb’s gardens, people, it’s architecture and inspiration.
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GALLERY 2 Opening Thursday 14th March 2019, 6-8pm Using a melange of painterly styles, Christian Hanson tells colourful, personal stories about the self. Who Am I? is a tempting personal narrative in egg tempura, encaustic and oil. Expressive, naïve and semi-abstracted, his paintings depict goals, dreams and experiences with vigour, colour and compassion.
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GALLERY 3 Opening Thursday 14th March 2019, 6-8pm It is the silent voices or the unnoticed forgotten corners of urban landscapes that excite and inform Jo Ryan’s practice. With aerosol paints, enamels, vinyl and other hardy sign-writing materials, multi-disciplinary artist Jo Ryan owns the quiet places that everyone walks by, re-painting the city in its […]
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GALLERY 1 Opening Night Drinks Thursday April 4th, 6-8pm Curated by Adriane Strampp and Kez Hughes, this diverse painting exhibition showcases a selection of ongoing and atelier artists from the studio of the Fitzroy Painting School. Brad Reynolds Jeremy Drake Claire Thomas Rosemary Clark Ron Taylor Karl Lurman Virginia Guest Linda Buffey Marie Larkin Sian […]
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GALLERY 2 Opening Night Drinks Thursday April 4th, 6-8pm The paintings for this exhibition celebrate diverse qualities of the Australian landscape. The subjects range from remote areas of the semi-arid Northern Territory and mid-north South Australia to rolling pastoral land in Victoria and the thickly wooded coast typical of south-eastern Tasmania.
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GALLERY 3 Opening Night Drinks Thursday April 4th, 6-8pm Two artists travel inland to experience a different landscape from their familiar temperate forest surroundings. Journeying inward to reconnect with the land and open spaces, they seek to interpret the landscape with a new language. The exhibit documents experiences in vastly different terrains where climate and […]
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GALLERY 1 Opening Night Drinks Thursday 2nd May, 6-8pm Red Room – a peek into the red stockroom Alfred Liu Barek Jack Summers Alan McGregor Ben Champion Kim Wall Tom Buckland Anne Hastie
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GALLERY 2 Opening Night Drinks Thursday 2nd May, 6-8pm The shifting forms in Michal’s acrylic painting and drawings reconfigure the self, expressing the changing inner complexities of the artist’s emotional realm, with an acutely abstracted style of bold portraiture
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GALLERY 3 Opening Night Drinks Thursday 2nd May, 6-8pm Narrative fine art photographer Marea Reed tells stories of lost people, lost places, in an attempt to elicit a visceral reaction of recognition and feeling. In Think of Me at My Best, perfect but strange suburban scenes trap figures in emotional states, which exist just beyond […]
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GALLERY 1+2+3 Opening Night Drinks Thursday 23rd May 2019, 6-8pm red gallery is delighted to present a solo exhibition of works spanning a half a century of printmaking and mixed media by the esteemed teacher and artist, Graeme Lee. Works on Paper collects eight suites of bold and expressive predominantly black and white images. Graeme […]
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GALLERY 1+2+3 Opening Night Drinks Thursday 23rd May 2019, 6-8pm red gallery is delighted to present a solo exhibition of works spanning a half a century of printmaking and mixed media by the esteemed teacher and artist, Graeme Lee. Works on Paper collects eight suites of bold and expressive predominantly black and white images. Graeme […]
Categories: 2019
GALLERY 1+2+3 Opening Night Drinks Thursday 23rd May 2019, 6-8pm red gallery is delighted to present a solo exhibition of works spanning a half a century of printmaking and mixed media by the esteemed teacher and artist, Graeme Lee. Works on Paper collects eight suites of bold and expressive predominantly black and white images. Graeme […]
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GALLERY 1 Opening Night Drinks Thursday 13th June, 6-8pm Emerging beyond the discipline of curvature and radii, this new collection from established abstractionist David Turner draws upon a near half century study of symbol and recurring shapely patterns. Optical art with a nod to the Memphis design movement, Turner’s work is fixed in the metaphysical. […]
Categories: Currently Showing, Coming Up, 2019
GALLERY 2 Opening Night Drinks Thursday 13th June, 6-8pm Rosalind Pach Anastasia Kotzapavlidis Julie Milton Amanda Amenta In an explosion of colour and application of design techniques, four artists come together to explore the process of image making. Printmaking, collage, digital, analogue and mobile phone photography are some of the techniques blended by these process-driven […]
Categories: Currently Showing, Coming Up, 2019
GALLERY 3 Opening Night Drinks Thursday 13th June, 6-8pm Henry Maas is Fitz-royalty. Mastermind and lead singer of The Bachelor’s From Prague; creator of the Black Cat Cafe and The Night Cat in Brunswick and Johnston Streets; Blue Diamond night club owner in Queen St; Henry is a true original who aided a working class suburb’s emergence […]
Categories: Currently Showing, Coming Up, 2019
GALLERY 1 Opening Night Drinks Wednesday 3rd July 2019, 6-8pm Light, translucency and the transient nature of shadows within the viewing environment are some of John Owe Young’s fascinations, manifested in the sculptural shapes that comprise Luminous. A talented teacher of design (Visual Merchandising), John Owe Young’s wire sculptural shapes blur the squiggly lines between […]
Categories: Currently Showing, Coming Up, 2019
GALLERY 2 Opening Night Drinks Wednesday 3rd July 2019, 6-8pm Her greenery in Castlemaine is the subject and inspiration for Elizabeth Nelson‘s observational gouache and watercolour exhibition, Edge of the Garden. Painted en plein air, each single sheet of paper forms a component of the larger whole, capturing the early summer light cast over the […]
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GALLERY 3 Opening Night Drinks Wednesday 3rd July 2019, 6-8pm Jack Summers is a gestural painter in the mode of the Fauves and Neo-Expressionists, exploring selfhood via improvisation and spontaneous movement across large canvasses. Eschewing realism for intentional crudity of style, his mostly portraiture depicts everyday social and domestic life and its inhabitants, formalizing inner […]
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GALLERY 1+2+3 Opening Thursday 1st February, 6-8pm red gallery: 157 St Georges Rd, Fitzroy North, Victoria, 3068 This year, there is more at play than a bunch of Sheilas with a weird ball. red gallery’s biennial football group show celebrates the exciting recent conjunction of our great game and gender equality. Footballers’ WAGS, trophy beards, […]
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GALLERY 1+2+3 Opening Thursday 1st February, 6-8pm red gallery: 157 St Georges Rd, Fitzroy North, Victoria, 3068 This year, there is more at play than a bunch of Sheilas with a weird ball. red gallery’s biennial football group show celebrates the exciting recent conjunction of our great game and gender equality. Footballers’ WAGS, trophy beards, […]
Categories: 2018
GALLERY 1+2+3 Opening Thursday 1st February, 6-8pm red gallery: 157 St Georges Rd, Fitzroy North, Victoria, 3068 This year, there is more at play than a bunch of Sheilas with a weird ball. red gallery’s biennial football group show celebrates the exciting recent conjunction of our great game and gender equality. Footballers’ WAGS, trophy beards, […]
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GALLERY 1+2+3 Opening Wednesday 21st February 6-8pm Exhibition Dates: 21st February – 11th March the space between … connected Sarah Ormonde Joanne Searle John Tuckwell Greg Daly Guest Speaker : Jane Sawyer – As ceramicists who live and practice hundreds of kilometers apart, Sarah, Joanne, John and Greg each draw from the idiosyncrasies of the lights, […]
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GALLERY 1+2+3 Opening Wednesday 21st February 6-8pm Exhibition Dates: 21st February – 11th March the space between … connected Sarah Ormonde Joanne Searle John Tuckwell Greg Daly Guest Speaker : Jane Sawyer – As ceramicists who live and practice hundreds of kilometers apart, Sarah, Joanne, John and Greg each draw from the idiosyncrasies of the […]
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GALLERY 1+2+3 Opening Wednesday 21st February 6-8pm Exhibition Dates: 21st February – 11th March the space between … connected Sarah Ormonde Joanne Searle John Tuckwell Greg Daly Guest Speaker : Jane Sawyer – As ceramicists who live and practice hundreds of kilometers apart, Sarah, Joanne, John and Greg each draw from the idiosyncrasies of the […]
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GALLERY 1+2+3 Opening Thursday 15th March, 6-8pm Exhibition Dates: Thursday 15th March – Sunday 8th April Britta Benno Ulvi Haagensen Mall Nukke Liina Siib Helen Tago Maria-Kristiina Ulas This eclectic exhibition draws together different generations of Estonian women artists, within a contemporary context of the Australian diaspora. Amidst a diversity of practices, all artists explore […]
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GALLERY 1+2+3 Opening Thursday 15th March, 6-8pm Exhibition Dates: Thursday 15th March – Sunday 8th April Britta Benno Ulvi Haagensen Mall Nukke Liina Siib Helen Tago Maria-Kristiina Ulas This eclectic exhibition draws together different generations of Estonian women artists, within a contemporary context of the Australian diaspora. Amidst a diversity of practices, all artists explore […]
Categories: 2018
GALLERY 1+2+3 Opening Thursday 15th March, 6-8pm Exhibition Dates: Thursday 15th March – Sunday 8th April Britta Benno Ulvi Haagensen Mall Nukke Liina Siib Helen Tago Maria-Kristiina Ulas This eclectic exhibition draws together different generations of Estonian women artists, within a contemporary context of the Australian diaspora. Amidst a diversity of practices, all artists explore […]
Categories: 2018
GALLERY 1+2+3 Opening Thursday 12th April, 6-8pm Red Gallery presents a line up of RMIT and VCA’s most promising recent graduates. There’s Still a Great Future in Plastics curates outstanding young emerging talent, bringing canny collectors, art people and next big things together for three weeks. Eleanor James Lily Holmes Margot Sharman Pattie Beerens Matilda […]
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GALLERY 1+2+3 Opening Thursday 12th April, 6-8pm Red Gallery presents a line up of RMIT and VCA’s most promising recent graduates. There’s Still a Great Future in Plastics curates outstanding young emerging talent, bringing canny collectors, art people and next big things together for three weeks. Eleanor James Lily Holmes Margot Sharman Pattie Beerens Matilda […]
Categories: 2018
GALLERY 1+2+3 Opening Thursday 12th April, 6-8pm Red Gallery presents a line up of RMIT and VCA’s most promising recent graduates. There’s Still a Great Future in Plastics curates outstanding young emerging talent, bringing canny collectors, art people and next big things together for three weeks. Eleanor James Lily Holmes Margot Sharman Pattie Beerens Matilda […]
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GALLERY 1: Opening Wednesday 2nd May, 6-8pm Elizaveta Maltseva an artist, curator and arts manager with over ten years of local and international exhibition experience, presents Ed’s Girls, a series of nude portraits. The artist principally examines areas of culture, multiculturalism, heritage, self-hood and otherness, imposing strict formative regulations and prolonged conditions of creation in […]
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GALLERY 2: Opening Wednesday 2nd May, 6-8pm Chloe Vallance is a painter and accomplished drawer whose subject matter is deeply informed by practices of meditation and yoga. For many years Vallance has been experimenting and resolving delicate compositions of ‘people she loves on plywood’. A decidedly unconventional and challenging medium, the artist’s forms are shaped […]
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GALLERY 3: Opening Wednesday 2nd May, 6-8pm Two long term friends and fellow artists, Beatrice Magalotti and Sharyn Madder are both profoundly informed by natural and built environments and the flora and fauna that respectively populate them. Magalotti, an exhibiting artist for over sixteen years (and counting), works principally in sculpture and photography, crafting unlikely […]
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GALLERY 1+2 Opening Wednesday 23rd May, 6-8pm The advertising lens has become a powerful tool for bodily control… That glossy magazine girl from advertising – plucked, waxed, purged and shrunk to perfection has defined how a woman relates to her body. The labouring, discomfort, time and effort to produce this effect is never seen or […]
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GALLERY 1+2 Opening Wednesday 23rd May, 6-8pm The advertising lens has become a powerful tool for bodily control… That glossy magazine girl from advertising – plucked, waxed, purged and shrunk to perfection has defined how a woman relates to her body. The labouring, discomfort, time and effort to produce this effect is never seen or […]
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GALLERY 3 Opening Wednesday 23rd May, 6-8pm GLIMMER Five Melbourne-based artists assemble for the multidisciplinary installation; GLIMMER. Clare Ellison Jakes, Jacquie Owers-Gayst, Benjamin J Baker, Ellen Yeong Gyeong Son, Hannah Potter noun 1. a faint or unsteady light; gleam. 2. a dim perception; inkling. verb (used without object) 3. to shine faintly or unsteadily; twinkle, […]
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G1 Catherine Stringer will be giving a free artist talk at Red Gallery on Saturday 16th June at 2:30pm. In the Icelandic folk tale of the Seal Skin, the seal woman could slip easily from seal to human form by removing her sealskin. One day whilst she danced on the shore as a woman her […]
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G2+G3 Deborah Williams, Ginny Grayson, So Hee Sophia Yoon, Elizabeth Faul, Shan Crosbie, Sharon West, Kim Wall, Jen Hoddinott, Mikaela Watt, Andrea Sinclair, Tracy Potts Snout, paw, horn and tail; Four Legs Good is a celebration of the domesticated beast. The red team have curated a collection of works from artists, near and far, to […]
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G2+G3 Deborah Williams, Ginny Grayson, So Hee Sophia Yoon, Elizabeth Faul, Shan Crosbie, Sharon West, Kim Wall, Jen Hoddinott, Mikaela Watt, Andrea Sinclair, Tracy Potts Snout, paw, horn and tail; Four Legs Good is a celebration of the domesticated beast. The red team have curated a collection of works from artists, near and far, to […]
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G1+G2+G3 Opening Thursday 5th July, 6-8pm Debbie Mourtzios, Zoe Woebken, Jen Hoddinott, David Musial, Maria Petrova, Helen Kocis Edwards & Jessie Wong, Robert Babic, Barbara Bolt, Alfred Liu & Naomi Waller, Bruce Kirby, Dierdre Pearce, Elspeth Gordie, Winsome Spiller, Benjamin Carey, Penny Peckham, Simon O’Carrigan, Kelly Sullivan Paper … Precision and elegance. Splodges and shadows. […]
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G1+G2+G3 Opening Thursday 5th July, 6-8pm Debbie Mourtzios, Zoe Woebken, Jen Hoddinott, David Musial, Maria Petrova, Helen Kocis Edwards & Jessie Wong, Robert Babic, Barbara Bolt, Alfred Liu & Naomi Waller, Bruce Kirby, Dierdre Pearce, Elspeth Gordie, Winsome Spiller, Benjamin Carey, Penny Peckham, Simon O’Carrigan, Kelly Sullivan Paper … Precision and elegance. Splodges and shadows. […]
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G1+G2+G3 Opening Thursday 5th July, 6-8pm Debbie Mourtzios, Zoe Woebken, Jen Hoddinott, David Musial, Maria Petrova, Helen Kocis Edwards & Jessie Wong, Robert Babic, Barbara Bolt, Alfred Liu & Naomi Waller, Bruce Kirby, Dierdre Pearce, Elspeth Gordie, Winsome Spiller, Benjamin Carey, Penny Peckham, Simon O’Carrigan, Kelly Sullivan Paper … Precision and elegance. Splodges and shadows. […]
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GALLERY 1: Opening Wednesday 25th July, 6-8pm ‘For this is not just pointless play in putting together origin and end, in this shuffling of the order of seeing a mysterious commandment invites us to grasp a hidden truth….’ Jean Tardieu Dirty Magic provides a testing ground for emerging artists Jessie Balletta and Adam Wilkinson to […]
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GALLERY 2: Opening Wednesday 25th July, 6-8pm The geometry of forms in the mineral kingdom and nature are explored in Thalia Robertson’s new series of precise paper and wood works, deftly painted using gouache, pen, acrylic and oil.
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GALLERY 3: Opening Wednesday 25th July, 6-8pm A joint exhibition between Erica Bettles and Isabel Koslowsky explores landscapes and subjectivity – peoples’ associations, their memories, sense of purpose, belonging and emotions. The works evoke a state of mind within a dreaming landscape. They examine fundamentals, like fear, guilt, complexity, melancholy and beauty, and the human […]
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GALLERY 1 Opening Wednesday 15th August, 6-8pm Trans-Disciplinary Sequence – Atmospheres: Air + Water + Colleen Morris Phil Edwards Peter Clarke Augusta Zeeng Phil Edwards, Peter Clarke and Augusta Zeeng are joined by curator/artist Dr Colleen Morris in this annual, multi-disciplinary collaboration at red gallery. Although the artworks and philosophy are positioned primarily in relation […]
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GALLERY 2 Opening Wednesday 15th August, 6-8pm What happens if you draw and draw upon a life? With a digital male ‘life’ model, a pen and paper and memories, this is a drawing class like no other. Examining life drawing class practice and the pitfalls of being a student and the studied, Life Drawing – figures […]
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GALLERY 3 Opening Wednesday 15th August, 6-8pm Returning to a stricter figurative mode, Steve May’s recent paintings assimilate a playful but earnest nod to masters like the early Australian Modernists. Executed with fervour and controlled splashes of dynamic colour and shading, We Are Not Ourselves hints to a darker, more thought provoking subject than what […]
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GALLERY 1 Opening Wednesday 5th September, 6-8pm Heather Davies‘ atmospheric photographic series Cloudland captures fleeting moments of the sky as if it were a landscape. Davies uses the subject matter of clouds to explore the environment which is in a continuous state of flux, capturing both the sense of movement and the living nature of […]
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GALLERY 2 Opening Wednesday 5th September, 6-8pm Tom Buckland Sian Watson Erin Linhart Heidi Lefebvre Amelia Chapman Anton Poon Performance art has, as it’s most central charge, an importance by impermanence. A tableau of six eclectic artists responding to place; actual, imagined and the mid-point of both, remembered, will be exhibited in gallery two. They’ve […]
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GALLERY 3 Opening Wednesday 5th September, 6-8pm Joshua Burrowes is a realist oil painter exploring relationships between objects depicted on a pictorial plane. Jiggery Pokery is an assortment of little characters, each with a story to tell. Careful staging and lighting evoke film noir with stark contrasts exaggerating expressions and shadows. This style directs a […]
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GALLERY 1 Opening Wednesday 26th September, 6-8pm The mediumistic qualities of tissue paper are such that, along with any given set of dyes, the colour of a sheet is entirely a product of light let through. Ru Ying Cai relates the ebbs and flows of a life to this paper, to ink and incandescence, ‘the […]
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GALLERY 2 Opening Wednesday 26th September, 6-8pm Amongst a chorus of form studies, experiments and inquests in “Archaeology of Practice 2” is a beige painting, painted upon flattened paint tubes. Winsome Spiller clearly and cleverly trades in visual excavation, re-interpretation and a ‘fascination with the fragmentary’. The next iteration of her ongoing “Archaeology of Practice” […]
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GALLERY 3 Opening Wednesday 26th September, 6-8pm Phil Sayer’s works are completed ‘en plein air’. I often feel compelled to read this as ‘on plain air’ as I find a level of accuracy in it’s implicated image. An artist painting upon a wind willy or the toppling force of a gale, entirely swept up into […]
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GALLERY 1 Opening Wednesday 17th October, 6-8pm Dealing in curvature, radii and diagonals, this new collection from established abstractionist David Turner draws upon a near half century study of shape and symbol. Reminiscent of Fibonacci’s spiral sequence, the works of ‘Curves Ahead’, while intuitively painterly, are calculated and blue-printed to precision. In a year where […]
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GALLERY 2 Opening Wednesday 17th October, 6-8pm The ‘collage’ has undergone some degree of resurgence as of late. Perhaps it’s socio-critical origins and probing of the media and market ring truer than ever (think Hannah Hoch). True to form, McGregor has spliced and isolated a halftone capture of “a group of people – a displaced […]
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GALLERY 3 Opening Wednesday 17th October, 6-8pm Polly Hollyoak and Nanou Dupuis have spent the past year pushing their practices in new directions. The body of work presented in this exhibition reveals their transitional journey individually but also as a collaborative approach. Polly’s recent works have seen elements that have traditionally composed the background of […]
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GALLERY 1 Opening Wednesday 7th November, 6-8pm Momentary Stillness is a collaborative exhibition between Yumemi Hiraki and Alfred Liu. Exploring fleeting memories of landscape and place, Yumemi Hiraki and Alfred Liu recall and articulate the places of their past through painting, drawing and spatial installation. Using emotion as narrative, Yumemi Hiraki’s installation retrace her relationship […]
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GALLERY 2 Opening Wednesday 7th November, 6-8pm Tan Yifeng, an accomplished and widely-exhibited practitioner of paints, prints and oils (recently represented in a number of solo’s in Beijing, Canberra, Melbourne) brings a new collection Adrift to Red. Composing absurdist, graphic studies – an ornate piece of china floats a party of ten upon a scrawled […]
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GALLERY 3 Opening Wednesday 7th November, 6-8pm Annie Hastie A long-term artist in residence at Red Gate Gallery (Beijing), Hastie works through ‘imagined’ and abstracted landscapes, ‘aerial perspectives and microscopic views’. The skeins and coagulations of water-based ink from a chance brush impression suggest tree-top canopy, before promptly switching likeness to a foreshore and swirling […]
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G1+G2+G3 Opening Friday 7th December, 6-8pm Art meets Christmas marketing, without the inanity. A group show of 30 plus artists and their affordable artworks. Jessie BALLETTA, Pattie BEERENS, Kate BIRRELL, Tiffany BLAISE, Tom BUCKLAND, Joshua BURROWES, Ray CARTER, Sally, D’ORSOGNA, Craig DANIELS, Dovey DEE, Phil EDWARDS, Elizabeth FAUL, Ayla GIGACZ, Elspeth GORDIE, Timothy GREAVES, Jo […]
Categories: 2018
G1+G2+G3 Opening Friday 7th December, 6-8pm Art meets Christmas marketing, without the inanity. A group show of 30 plus artists and their affordable artworks. Jessie BALLETTA, Pattie BEERENS, Kate BIRRELL, Tiffany BLAISE, Tom BUCKLAND, Joshua BURROWES, Ray CARTER, Sally, D’ORSOGNA, Craig DANIELS, Dovey DEE, Phil EDWARDS, Elizabeth FAUL, Ayla GIGACZ, Elspeth GORDIE, Timothy GREAVES, Jo […]
Categories: 2018
G1+G2+G3 Opening Friday 7th December, 6-8pm Art meets Christmas marketing, without the inanity. A group show of 30 plus artists and their affordable artworks. Jessie BALLETTA, Pattie BEERENS, Kate BIRRELL, Tiffany BLAISE, Tom BUCKLAND, Joshua BURROWES, Ray CARTER, Sally, D’ORSOGNA, Craig DANIELS, Dovey DEE, Phil EDWARDS, Elizabeth FAUL, Ayla GIGACZ, Elspeth GORDIE, Timothy GREAVES, Jo […]
Categories: 2018
Opening Friday 7th December, 6-8pm Art meets Christmas marketing, without the inanity. A group show of 30 plus artists and their affordable artworks. Jessie BALLETTA, Pattie BEERENS, Kate BIRRELL, Tiffany BLAISE, Tom BUCKLAND, Joshua BURROWES, Ray CARTER, Sally, D’ORSOGNA, Craig DANIELS, Dovey DEE, Phil EDWARDS, Elizabeth FAUL, Ayla GIGACZ, Elspeth GORDIE, Timothy GREAVES, Jo GREGG, […]
Categories: 2018
Opening Friday 7th December, 6-8pm Art meets Christmas marketing, without the inanity. A group show of 30 plus artists and their affordable artworks. Jessie BALLETTA, Pattie BEERENS, Kate BIRRELL, Tiffany BLAISE, Tom BUCKLAND, Joshua BURROWES, Ray CARTER, Sally, D’ORSOGNA, Craig DANIELS, Dovey DEE, Phil EDWARDS, Elizabeth FAUL, Ayla GIGACZ, Elspeth GORDIE, Timothy GREAVES, Jo GREGG, […]
Categories: 2018
Opening Friday 7th December, 6-8pm Art meets Christmas marketing, without the inanity. A group show of 30 plus artists and their affordable artworks. Jessie BALLETTA, Pattie BEERENS, Kate BIRRELL, Tiffany BLAISE, Tom BUCKLAND, Joshua BURROWES, Ray CARTER, Sally, D’ORSOGNA, Craig DANIELS, Dovey DEE, Phil EDWARDS, Elizabeth FAUL, Ayla GIGACZ, Elspeth GORDIE, Timothy GREAVES, Jo GREGG, […]
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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 […]
Categories: 2017
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Categories: 2017
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 […]
Categories: 2017
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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GALLERY 2: In the exhibition Relinquish, Naomi Waller encourages you to enter her process of discovery and exploration. Using ink, watercolour and pen she allows the flow of line and form to emerge, and the physical sensation, the act of creating, to produce something beautiful. Combining mark making and traditional pen techniques, she has approached this new […]
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GALLERY 3: Lines and their continuum are representative of thoughts, emotions and the whirring of the human psyche. Ceramicist Bettina Willner Browne and abstract painter, David Turnerjoin forces in this energetic exhibition of both the curly and the sharp – line and curve.
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GALLERY 1+2+3 Shed. Rocking. Redding. Otis. Shocking. First. Noël. Noel Redding. What am I banging on about? Red Stocking Art meets Christmas marketing, without the inanity. A group show of 30 artists and their affordable artworks. Deborah WILLIAMS, Gwen SCOTT, Rowena SILK, So Hee YOON, Sarina LIROSI, Harry Z HUGHES, Robert BABIC, Craig DANIELS, Jenny […]
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GALLERY 1+2+3 Shed. Rocking. Redding. Otis. Shocking. First. Noël. Noel Redding. What am I banging on about? Red Stocking Art meets Christmas marketing, without the inanity. A group show of 30 artists and their affordable artworks. Deborah WILLIAMS, Gwen SCOTT, Rowena SILK, So Hee YOON, Sarina LIROSI, Harry Z HUGHES, Robert BABIC, Craig DANIELS, Jenny […]
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GALLERY 1+2+3 Shed. Rocking. Redding. Otis. Shocking. First. Noël. Noel Redding. What am I banging on about? Red Stocking Art meets Christmas marketing, without the inanity. A group show of 30 artists and their affordable artworks. Deborah WILLIAMS, Gwen SCOTT, Rowena SILK, So Hee YOON, Sarina LIROSI, Harry Z HUGHES, Robert BABIC, Craig DANIELS, Jenny […]
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