Robert Brown

Ambience

12 - 23 November 2025

Opening night

14 November | 6 - 8pm

G3

Robert Brown’s painting centres on a narrative journalling of direct observations and experiences – moments that have inspired curiosity, wonder and awe. His subjects, including seascape, landscape, still life and portraiture, respond to diverse personal local and further afield experiences. Motivated by the meditative experience painting can engender, his work explores the forces of nature, both subtle and dramatic, which are balanced with the inherent stillness of a particular moment in time. Using veils of tone and colour, applied and removed, his painting searches for transitory qualities of abstract beauty in the visual world conveyed through rhythmic and patterned movement. A career engaged in the nexus between art, teaching and research has led Robert to value the positive ambient and felt experiences painting can engender through the resonances of space, light and colour.

Artist Biography

Robert Brown’s art practice has evolved from several interconnected professional strands as an experienced artist teacher, lecturer and researcher. He completed his visual arts practical training at the University of Melbourne and achieved his doctorate at the same institution. He has taught adults in diverse university and public contexts both in Australia and South East Asia and engaged in long-term research focused on artists working with young people. Exploring arts engagement Robert has undertaken research with diverse cultural institutions including the National Gallery of Victoria, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne Museum, ArtPlay and Signal. Robert has exhibited and sold his work through curated and public art exhibitions and private acquisitions.

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)