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july 10 - 28
Surface
by Rhiannon Slatter
Through medium scale digital prints Rhiannon Slatter investigates the horizon line by overlaying lines, texture, colour and tone.
The horizon acts as both the base foundation and primary design element, becoming the point on which the balance of each composition hinges. Horizons are usually identifiable, where land or water meets sky. Slatter confounds the viewer with her seamless surfaces. Her subtle horizon and playful manipulation of distance, leaves the viewer reaching deeply into the seascape, searching for a visual anchor point.
Surface has an exquisite balance of line and colour. Each image hangs quietly in the gallery as a portal to a mysterious seascape where the existence of life is suggested through soft surface ripples and slow moving skies.
Rhiannon Slatter is a professional photographer. Her professional work has informed her current body of research with her meticulous selection of colours, paper and attention to the finest detail in the printing process. She graduated from RMIT in 2001 and since then her broad range of commercial photography is seen regularly in design books and magazines. This is her first solo exhibition at red gallery.
by Bevan Shepherd
Bevan Shepherd’s recent works focus on the landscape and its subtle beauty. Images in this exhibition are derived from his immediate surroundings and a personal interpretation of his recent past.
Since the early 1970’s Shepherd’s work has investigated the manipulation of the environment by man. The resulting reorganisation of the natural and built environment flow through Shepherd’s medium scale paintings. Incorporated onto the canvas are symbolic representations of trees, rivers, roads, fences, subdivisions, and indigenous spirits.
The negative impact of European settlement on the natural environment is a predominant feature of the paintings however Shepherd has been able to depict the subtle beauty of man’s influence. Neat trees collude along chromatic picket fences, and meandering rivers mimic the horizon line of hills. Each image is almost a Lego scene of an industrialized forest. However beneath the lollipop trees the canvas challenges the viewer to observe their negative footprint on planet earth.
Since studying at RMIT in 1971, Bevan Shepherd has exhibited his works extensively.
Duck and Weave
Socialization elicits certain instincts that play a significant and propelling role in human behaviors. Competitiveness and aggression are the outcomes of certain structured hierarchies imbedded in the child on the basis of gender. Regina Newey has created a body of work in response to this discourse.
By photographing and then enlarging detailed and pixilated images captured from television, Newey has frozen and deconstructed her subject. It is momentarily removed from its original context and dropped into the void of a microscope for analysis.
Duck and Weave exudes testosterone from the canvas as it leaks from pixilated bodies. Newey has extracted the essence of competition and virility. The raw male bucks and ruts with, and against, others of his clan. Muscles are flexed and a chest thrust forward as man-boys pit against each other.
Regina Newey is a Melbourne based artist. This is her first solo exhibition at red gallery.
opening night drinks
wednesday july 11
6-8pm
exhibition duration: july 10 - 28