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Opening Show for 2012
exhibition dates 1st - 18th February 2012
please join us for opening night drinks Wednesday 1st February 6-8pm
Jess Hall
Swarm Series
Inspired by her ‘specimen collections’, Jess Hall’s paintings combine studies from life with invented hybrids, referencing scientific illustration and collection. This exhibition consists of a series of swarm paintings and a series of works on paper. Techniques used in Swarm Series include thinly applied oil paint, which resembles watercolour and densely layered passages with visible brush strokes. These paintings are a celebration of colour and form, an interaction between the representational and the abstract. Swarm series is inspired by the colour and light depicted in the work of Pierre Bonnard.
Jess completed first class Honours at Queensland College of Art and relocated to Melbourne in 2006 where she completed the Masters in Fine Art at Victorian College of the Arts and Music. Jess’ work has been acquired by public collections, and has also featured in numerous art prizes, group and solo exhibitions. Jess was awarded an Australia Council Art Start Grant in 2010.
Dislodged from narrative and explicit agenda, these paintings propose a space where subjective considerations can be drawn within broken analogies, material dynamics and bodily suspension.
Liquid Lava
Susie Leahy Raleigh paintings endeavour to stimulate the senses and provoke an intoxicating affect in the viewer. A dynamic energy is portrayed, psychedelic and iridescent inks are poured onto Perpex without constraint. The paintings are informed by the artist’s personal response to atmospheric phenomena, altered states of mind and consciousness. Returning to red gallery for her second exhibition this new body of work explores the psychedelic, symmetry and new ideas of intention and control, is the pouring technique spontaneous or planned? Whilst intending to be whimsical does the sub-conscious actually have a plan?
