Alan McGregor
ART / TRA
3 Apr - 14 Apr 2024
G3
Opening Night
Friday 5 Apr | 6 - 8pm
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The works presented represent an ongoing interest by the artist in the elementary responses that tend to drive a person's wide-ranging visual/ sensual perceptions.
Broadly, the approach taken is to provide an opportunity to momentarily evacuate the accepted, generic mind space by exploring the fundamental possibilities of placing the dialogue in a more elementary bandwidth.
The connection to this notion is thus encouraged by entering a dialogue with the viewer via a range of ideas, icons and universal practices (shapes, colour, line, pattern, mathematics, geometry, text, language, etc) that reside in everyday activities, but may not necessarily be acknowledged.
Artist Bio
Alan McGregor was awarded a Diploma in Art & Design from the Bendigo Institute of Technology/ Latrobe University North. After roles as a teacher and designer with the Education Dep’t of Victoria, the artist moved to London, (UK) during the 1980’s and undertook further study at St Martin’s School of Art and the Camden Institute
He also worked as a studio artist at Time Out Magazine in London and various other organisations before being appointed as Manager of the Brooke Community Cultural Centre in North London. During this period he also maintained his own independent visual arts practice.
After returning to Australia he was appointed as Arts & Cultural Development Co-ordinator for the City of Hamilton, whilst also undertaking the role of Teacher of Drawing for South West Institute of TAFE.
Moving to the City of Frankston he took the role of Arts & Cultural Development Co-ordinator which included management and implementation of the Public Arts Program and the development and management of the White Street Project. The role also involved the curatorial co-ordination of around 15 exhibitions and the editing of several arts and cultural publications.
The artist’s own practice has been maintained since leaving art school, presenting exhibitions in both Regional Victoria and Melbourne, with an annual exhibition commitment at Red Gallery in North Fitzroy North since 2016.
The artist’s work is held in private collections in Australia and the UK, as well as the Hamilton Regional Art Gallery.
Contact
Phone : (03) 9482 3550
mail@redgallery.com.au
Address
157 St Georges Rd
Fitzroy North, Victoria, 3068
Map
How to get here
Tram: route 11
Stop 21 just north of Edinburgh Gardens
Melway ref: 30B12
Parking in nearby streets
Bus: 504 (Reid Street)
