Nick Stella
HEART
29 May - 9 June 2024
G2
Opening Night
Friday 31 May | 6 - 8pm
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Depictions of the heart have been recorded throughout history; as far back as the Egyptian art of c.1300 BC, where the heart was represented as a symbol of the soul at the end of life. As a child brought up in the Catholic tradition, Nick Stella was surrounded by religious iconography that often displayed the Sacred Heart of Jesus or the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Nick also admired the beautiful anatomical studies of the heart by Leonardo da Vinci, which were produced at the height of the Renaissance. Nick considers these anatomical studies to be art works in themselves.
For some time now, Nick has wanted to do a series of works based on images associated with the heart, as his sister Anna-Maria passed away from a heart condition and he wanted to commemorate her life, by producing a body of work in her honour. Anna would have turned seventy in February of this year.
Initially Nick’s project started as exploration studies, inspired by Da Vinci’s detailed sketches, which he admired a few years earlier at an exhibition in London. He first produced a set of three drawings, which were based on studies of a sheep heart. This led to further exploration of human heart images, some of which were kindly donated by Dr. Levent Efe; artist and medical illustrator. These heart images became the basis for Nick’s HEART exhibition
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)
