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april 16 - may 3, 2008

Repressed

by Christine Wrest Smith

Conceived around the notion of the subconscious as a veil behind which memories, experiences and thoughts are repressed, these paintings aim to confront and challenge the viewer to delve within themselves. 

The viewer is invited to consider and respond to a series of works which have the intention of giving visual form to repressed emotions. 

Christine Wrest Smith is a Melbourne based painter with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from Monash University.

Step Into The Light

by Mischa Merz

Mischa Merz has worked as a writer and journalist since the early 1980s for the Age, Sunday Age and Herald Sun as well as numerous other publications. She has published critically-acclaimed fiction and non fiction including a book on her experiences as a boxer, Bruising, which was published in 2000 by Picador and will be republished later this year.

Her work has appeared in major Australian literary journals and magazines. She works as a sub-editor and arts writer for the Herald Sun.  She resumed her interest in painting in 2003 and is currently completing a Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting) at the Victorian College of the Arts.

This is Mischa Merz second exhibition at red gallery.

Places from the other side

by Christina Markin 

A consideration of place, both fascinating and foreign, inspires these mixed media works by Canadian artist living in Australia, Christina Markin.  

Walking in a park near the artist’s home has allowed her to explore the essence of place, and access the infinite notion of space, combining theories of the cosmos with daydreaming.

“Daydream undoubtedly feeds on all kinds of sights, but through a natural sort of inclination, it contemplates grandeur.  And this contemplation produces an attitude that is so special, an inner state that is so unlike any other, that the daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.”

Gaston Bachelard, Poetics of Space.

Christina Markin is a Canadian and Australian trained artist living in Melbourne who works across a range of mediums.