Anne Forwood

Smart Gentle Loving

5 February – 23 February

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Smart Gentle Loving presents images of women with their greyhounds and greyhound portraits. The grace and gentle elegance of these hounds, mostly rescued from the racing industry, is captivating. They are individual personalities not running machines with their own presence and essence. Her work captures a warmth and mutual connection between the greyhounds and their owners as well as the unique and individual personalities of the greyhounds themselves. Originally inspired by traditional paintings of women with their hunting dogs, Anne reworks the notion of nobility, emphasising compassion and resilience.

About the Artist
Anne Forwood was born and has always lived in Victoria, apart from eight years in the Northern Territory during the 1980’s. Anne’s recent art work has focused on women, their vulnerability and their strength. The vulnerability of women to the appalling acts perpetrated in our supposedly civilised society is depicted in her images of victims of violence. Strength is embodied in portraits of women with their hounds, representing calm leadership and a bond that is based on understanding and mutual trust rather than dominance. Anne works mainly with ink, watercolour and pencil on paper and oils and acrylics on board and canvas

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)