Alex Ryrie

 Last Minute

14 -25 May 2025

G4

Opening Night

Friday 16 May | 6 - 8 pm

Artist Statement

Last minute changes, unforeseen circumstances and strange weather events. Odd encounters with odd personalities and waiting for a train. Using the upheavals and small moments that change our lives everyday as inspiration, Alexander Rryie's paintings explore characters that are as strange as the times they exist in. Recalling the cartoon imagery of his youth, these slightly deranged and sinister people embrace the absurdity and ambiguity we live everyday. 

Artist Bio

Alexander lives and works on Wurundjeri Country. Working across a variety of mediums in an expanded painting field he creates installations using textiles, videos and illustrations. Exploring themes of domesticity and the absurd every day, Alexander creates an ambiguous narrative world.  Populated with sinister, oddball characters his expressive figurative paintings are influenced by cartoons, pop culture and folklore.

Education

2023-Current  Master of Contemporary Art, Victorian College of the Arts 

2019  Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours, University of New South Wales: Art and Design

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024   From Where I Stand, VCA Artspace, Melbourne
2024  Changing Room, Motley Bauhaus, Melbourne

2023  Double Denim, VCA Artspace, Melbourne

2022  Grey Foundations, Way Out Artspace, Kandos

2020 Comparing Mythologies, AD Space, Sydney

Prizes and Awards

2019  Winner, The Jenny Birt Award for Painting, AD Space, Sydney           

2019 Tim Olsen Drawing Prize, AD Space, Sydney       

Contact
Phone : (03) 9482 3550
mail@redgallery.com.au

Address
157 St Georges Rd
Fitzroy North, Victoria, 3068
Map

How to get here
Tram: Route 11
Stop 21 just north of Edinburgh Gardens

Melway Ref: 30B12
Parking in nearby streets

Bus: 504 (Reid Street)