Katira + Lucy Lucy
RADIANCE: Cultivating Feminine Forces
31 May - 11 June 2023
G3 / G4
Opening Night
Friday 2 June | 6 - 8pm
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Artist Statement
The exhibition ‘Radiance’ arises from the interlacing of the artistic expressions of two feminine forces: Lucy Lucy (France) and Katira (Colombia). Informed by their bicultural identities, the artists present a new weaving of dreams revealing the unapologetic beauty of the Feminine power.
Navigating between Lucy’s work, bursting with colours, textures, and patterns, and Katherine’s dream-like compositions, the viewer is invited to explore alternative narratives offering a space for empowerment, evolution, and reconciliation.
Artist Bio
Katira
Katherine Gailer (aka Katira) is a Colombian artist currently based in Melbourne, exploring cultural identity, the natural environment, women's empowerment, magical realism, and contemporary design. Her Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Arts Management degrees from RMIT University were both awarded with honours. Her practice includes large-scale mural painting, oil painting, illustration, and music.
As part of her creative expression, she examines the complex relationships between vulnerability and strength, vulnerability and empowerment. Her dream-like compositions celebrate resilience and liberation and clamour for an urgent need to restore the invisible fabric that weaves together humans and nature. Her work challenges social structures and reclaims the space for diverse cultural expression and women at the forefront of social change.
Lucy Lucy
French Parisian-born artist Lucy Lucy immigrated to Australia in 2006. Currently residing in Melbourne, she has graciously carved her niche in the Australian urban art community. She has been painting large-scale murals for more than a decade in Australia and Europe, working in collaboration with city councils, corporate clients, and private commissions.
Figurative painter, Lucy’s paintings capture the evolving folklore of the feminine, exploring the energy through archetypal portraits of women symbolising social change, resilience, and reconciliation. Her elegant melange of colours, textures, and patterns inquires subtly about a potential alternative story in which nurturing and caring would be predominantly valued.
The joyful clash of energies, influences, and styles in her work celebrates the bright and the bold as an art de vivre, cultivating wonder and lightness while taping all at once into a deeper root of the Feminine essence.
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)
