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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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GALLERY 1: In this series of photographs Sri Lankan born artist Suresh Jeanel produces atmospheric abstractions through processes of digital manipulation. Conflating the rhythms of wild style graffiti with a Renaissance inspired tonal palette, the formal elements gleaned from this incongruous mix of reference points are then treated with non-linear image warping technologies. Acting […]
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GALLERY 2 This series of bold and irreverent multi media works has allowed the artist to release and confront the subconscious darkness that has been generated through her experience of fear, grief, anxiety and remorse. The result is a body of work that is poignant, emotionally compelling and psychologically provocative. Both in form and […]
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GALLERY 3: This exhibition brings together the artwork of a father and daughter pair, whose confluent interests in the concepts of interconnectedness and gestalt theory have resulted in analogous practices. Through a shared conceptual framework the work of both artists reflects and extends the practice of the other in a reciprocal exchange. Martin Hunting […]
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