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19 may - 5 june 2010
please join us for opening night drinks wednesday 19 May 6-8pm
Friends and Parasites New Miniatures and Curiosities
For her new solo exhibition at red gallery, Sarah Gully presents her latest collection of drawings and miniature oil paintings that draw upon multiple influences. For this series, Sarah has taken inspiration from Old Master portraiture. But rather than focusing on the subject or the dark Renaissance interiors, she instead looks past the figure, past the props and drapery and out the tiny windows into the distant, often Arcadian landscapes visible far below.
Sarah's re-inventions of these landscape views are populated with hybrid creatures. The creatures themselves are inspired, as in her previous works, by fairytales and children’s literature. Whilst some of these creatures delight in their solitude, others are bothered or befriended by various critters.
Each image is meticulously painted on specially prepared wood panels and worked in layers of oils and glazes. To provide the narrative and the finishing touch for each work, the titles are taken from some of Sarah’s favourite works of 19th century literature. Though the artist’s influences may be centuries old, the finished works are gleefully contemporary.
Sarah Gully is a Melbourne-based visual artist. Her works have been included in many group and solo exhibitions in Australia and Japan. This is her second exhibition at red gallery.
This exhibition will be opened by Dave Graney.
To view the recent ABC Art Nation profile on Sarah Gully, visit http://www.abc.net.au/arts/stories/s2752262.htm
Boogie Street
Amelia Lackmann’s recent paintings combine fragmented architecture and abstraction to create imagined urban sites. Intrigued by the disparate nature of urban spaces and the varying sensations of experience which may be felt from within them, Lackmann’s Boogie Street presents a revelation of 'the concealed visceral beating, organs of the city'. She plays with the idea of the city as a living entity and draws on the unique personality and character of its urban areas to create a re-invented sense of place.
Amelia Lackmann graduated from her Fine Arts degree at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2008. Since graduating, Lackmann has shown in group exhibitions at Pigment gallery and Carbon Black gallery. This is her first solo exhibition.
PETER LAMBROPOULOS
JAN PARKER
Strange Nature
These three artists are connected by their ongoing interest in nature, artifice, and the complex relationship between human beings and their environment. This exhibition of new paintings and photography takes a trip into a world where the natural and artificial have seductively merged.
In Dena Kahan’s painting, 19th century glass models of plants and marine life are re-created as surreal objects, more like part of a fantastic landscape than scientific tools in a museum case.
In his studio, Peter Lambropoulos makes “unreal” worlds specifically for the camera. He does so by transforming banal everyday substances into the extraordinary. Micro-sculptures encrusted with crystals are presented as hallucinatory visions.
Jan Parker’s photographs offer viewpoints on nature and the alchemy of light. Through analogue and digital processes, she conjures up uninhabited and often myopic landscapes, cryptic in their placement but also referencing the actual work of the eye.
Together, these three artists present an oblique yet critical view of the world we inhabit — theirs is a strange nature indeed.
Dena Kahan, Peter Lambropoulos and Jan Parker's works have been featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions, and are included in both public and private collections in Australia and abroad. This is their first collaborative group exhibition together.
Click here to download Strange Nature exhibition catalogue (2.72MB)
