Category: 2009

SHIFT  2009 RMIT GRADUATE PRINT MAKING EXHIBITION When a shift occurs it sets about a transformation, one that may take place between states of consciousness, through natural, cultural and technological evolution, or in interactions between all these realms. This exhibition of works by RMIT University Printmaking Graduates  explores these transformations through the shifts inherent to …

Gallery 3 …and the Gods made Blue is a painted installation that consumes  the rear space at red gallery. A droplet of solid light intrudes from the window frame, surrounded by a panorama of blue paintings. The science-fiction imagery oozes heavy paint; some canvases are pocked with holes stitched and re-stitched to build up scarred surfaces.…

Gallery 2 Stockinged legs dangle from the ceiling, and plywood pixels scatter the walls.  Everyday materials are dissected and reassembled to become secret codes whispering from timber grain and nylon.  I was, I am is an exhibition of recent work by Romany Glover and Penny Parkinson. Penny reworks stockings into new forms that explore elements of what…

Gallery 1 Melbourne-based artist Rebecca Power has been exploring the dark side of ‘fairtyale macabre’ for some years now. This new series of ink and watercolour paintings expands upon her previous exhibitions to address issues of power, sexuality and control. As Rebecca notes,’We don’t suffer fools gladly’, is a saying that only those in places…

  ‘Chelle Macnaughtan’s universe of work, located at the productive boundary of architecture, is characterised by indeterminacy, intertextuality, iterability and sound. Her reconfigurable aluminium constructions, notations, etchings, scores and realisations, pavement photographs, and cartographies that become architectural details augmented through listening, continue the legacy of John Cage’s experiments in indeterminacy, and bring these procedures into…

Gallery 2 In this exhibition of new drawings, Morgan Simpson views the appearance of foreign elements around Melbourne’s waterways as clues toward uncovering synthetic histories.  The banks of the Yarra are over-run with non-native flora and fauna, and marked with signs of urban interference. Industrial membranes shelter and bind growing trees while, as Simpson notes,…

Gallery 3 Boyd Hughes makes abstract sculptural constructions using found and salvaged  materials including scrap metal, plastic, copper wiring and power cords. Some are fitted with lighting elements to create glowing contortions silhouetted in space; others are free-standing or wall-mounted and feature highly textured oxidised surfaces. Boyd’s interest lies in diverting the normative use of …

Gallery 1 What makes a place meaningful, and what does ‘place-making’ involve? This exhibition takes the form of a photographic dialogue between two artists working with ideas of urban space and placement. For the past few months, Jane and Christine have embarked on numerous  exploratory journeys around the streets of their local neighbourhood, North Melbourne.…

red gallery is proud to present an exhibition of new photographic works by Melbourne-based collaborators Gerard O’Connor and Marc Wasiak. Informed by the artists’ shared background in design, fashion and advertising, the exhibition combines the grandeur of history painting with the glamour of contemporary staged or constructed photography. The majority of these large-scale colour images…

REGIONALIS Artists on the Environment Regionalis is a group exhibition featuring works by six established regional Victorian artists. Curated by artist Steve Gray, the exhibition offers a diverse range of perspectives on contemporary environmental issues. Bold and subtle images directly and symbolically explore notions of land, ecologies, territory and nature on a range of levels, while personal…