Richard McCoy

26 Nov - 7 Dec 2025

Opening night

28 November | 6 - 8pm

G4

Artist Statement

CLICKBAIT unravels the illusion of beauty standards through a digital lens. Mannerism through code with poses fractured and woven from pixels. Stilted gestures are replayed in chrome, the machine and the man. Each work reflects how the legacy of belief: in beauty, divinity, and form, mutates through technology’s gaze. Surface and simulation, sex and salvation, faith in appearance replaces faith itself.

Artist Biography

Melbourne based artist Richard McCoy thinks of his work as snapshots or inventories of fragmented lives. Often kitsch, with a consistent use of computer technology, his work explores the interrelationships between change, time, reality and identity. He works across fashion, print design, photography and digital art with the aim of suggesting alternatives to how we see the past, reality, and the transformative power of art. After exhibiting his 3D printed master’s artworks at London’s Tate Britain in 2013, his work continues to use new technology.

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)