Gala Jane

Art or Not?

25 September - 6 October 2024

G4

Opening Night

Friday 27 September | 6 - 8pm

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Through hand-tufted rugs Gala Jane explores the line between craft and art and questions our preconceived ideas about what deserves to be in a gallery space. This ambitious project sees bright-coloured, text-based rugs presented in the ‘white cube’ posing the question, is this art yet?

Artist Bio

Gala Jane (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary feminist artist known for using bold text, colours and found objects to create a dialogue around women’s safety and creating safe spaces. Graduating with a Bachelor of Art and Design from Southern Cross University in Lismore on Bundjalung Country, she is now based in Naarm, Melbourne studying a Masters of Contemporary Art at the Victoria College of the Arts.

With her commercial signwriting training, she embraces text and hand painting throughout her practice. Her earlier solo exhibition Fine, Thanks explored her experience of surviving the Lismore floods of 2022. It saw found objects, film, rugs and signage to present the experience of living through a natural disaster in Australia.

She started tufting rugs after the floods as a new activity that was free of mud, from there she has excelled at the medium and has had works in solo and group shows throughout NSW and Victoria. Currently, she is exploring institutional critique and the relationship between art and craft in a gallery setting.

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)