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9 -26 June 2010
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Natura Morta
Sussi Ross' new series of drawings and oils on linen are inspired by her recent investigations into the crossovers between still-life and portraiture. Natura Morta presents an unadorned exploration of an hermetic space consisting of personal objects and people, with a fascination for the atmosphere that can be created by shifts in light and colour.
Ross' meticulous line-work and elegantly sparse compositions are designed to emphasise sensations of longing, drawing attention to the role of 'presence' within each image. Ross has confessed that she is ' fascinated by notions of presence and absence. Just as I have explored the expressions of absence in portraiture, I am interested in the atmosphere of absence in the uninhabited world of the still life.'
Sussi Ross is a Melbourne-based visual artist. She has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions including at Seventh Gallery, Trocadero Artspace and Chapman and Bailey, and her works are included in numerous collections. This is her second solo exhibition at red gallery.
who knows why or should
This new series of works on paper has evolved out of Indigo O'Rourke's investigations into the art of the everyday. Her doodles, jottings, biro portraits and accidental ink, coffee and wine-stained drawings are produced through a stream of consciousness process, and are assembled without any overriding structure. Fragments of text, signs, scenes and figures are scattered across the surface of each image like clues from a scrambled transmission.
This exhibition includes a number of portraits (detailed drawings of faces) and a large, five-metre long drawing that has developed over time like a visual map. The presentation of disparate scenes and visual motifs prompts the viewer to formulate connections or relationships between the components within each image, be they real or imagined, actual or perceived.
Indigo O'Rourke completed her Postgraduate Diploma at VCA in 2009, after previously undertaking studies in graphic design. She has been exhibiting regularly since 2007, and her works and commissioned pieces are included in numerous collections. This is her first exhibition at red gallery.
Along the Way
Chloe Vallance’s latest exhibition features a series of new drawings and paintings on plywood and paper. In some of these works, two images are placed side by side within the same frame. Although ostensibly of the same scene, in one image the background is removed so the figures seem to float in space and the grain of the wood is clearly visible; in the other, the background remains but the figures are removed, leaving holes in the landscape.
Chloe Vallance thinks about these kinds of erasures and duplicities as relating to ideas of context and narration. As she comments, 'The idea of sequencing imagery to suggest an underlying notion of narration is a recurring theme in my practice. To draw or paint a passed moment can relay an unfixed reality. I’m interested in the placement of figures, together and alone, within diverse landscapes to convey ideas about transient moments and the relation between individuals and their environmental contexts.'
The images in Along the way are predominantly based on photographs that the artist captured during her travels through the Northern Territory and Western Australia. Chloe Vallance was awarded the Graeme Hildebrand Travel grant in 2009 and used part of the grant to fund her recent travels.
Chloe Vallance graduated from RMIT (Drawing) in 2009 and has undertaken over twenty group and solo exhibitions in Melbourne, South Australia, Brisbane and Italy. She is the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, and her work features in private collections in Australia, Italy, London, New York, Germany, Spain, Portugal and France.
