Anna Fairbank

ANGLE OF INCIDENCE

6 - 17 August 2025

Opening Night

Friday 8 August

6 - 8 pm

G3

Artist Statement

The angle of incidence is the angle formed between an incoming ray of light and a line that is perpendicular to the surface it strikes (the normal. This angle is important in understanding how light reflects off surfaces, and rules such as angle of reflection is equal to the angle of incidence.

Artist Biography

Anna Fairbank (b. 1966) is an artist and architect, working at the intersection of art, architecture and environment, using found objects, industrial materials, photography, cartography and digital processes, informed by archaeology, philosophy and poetry to inform speculative image-object assemblies concerning modernity and state of environment. Past corporate practice and organisational theory intersects recent engagements in the culture of technology and materialities such as consequences unlimited growth in industries such as aviation. Invitation to participate in Venice Biennale formalised the arts agenda, as speaker and workshop panellist for a USA convened Session Displace/ Disrupt under the 2016 Venice Biennale curator headline Reporting from the Front - the theme of The Shareholder and ship wreck allegory redraws the future of practice, and subsequent role as curatorial director for Hayball Architects, Exchange, for the European Cultural Centre’s Time Space Existence exhibition, Venice Biennale, 2018. In 2022 she was awarded Australian institute at Athens Creative Contemporary Arts Residency, courtesy University of Sydney to extend research on legacies research, museology, the contemporary city concept of reciprocity, and realise Cerberus/Kεrveros a monument work in black clay, responding to psychospatial past-present Australia-Greek connections made in WWI and mythologies. At the city scale, Architeam Unbuilt Prize 2022 M1 The Deck: Infrastructural Open Air Museum Park focusses on freeway conversions redressing modernism, which formed in volunteering to survey aviation growth and global policy affecting communities, resulting in the inception of a, The Office of the Air, an ongoing manifesto work beyond discipline norms. Currently she is undertaking PhD studies at RMIT, and relaxes by fabricating objects, and spending time outdoors.

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)