Nicole Evans / 22 Mar - 14 April 2024
Nicole Evans
Outré Gallery Fitzroy
22 Mar - 14 April 2024
Opening Night
6–8pm on Friday, 22 March 2024
319 Smith Street, Fitzroy
Drinks provided by Range Life Wine & Bodriggy Brewing Co.
*** Exhibition preview can be viewed HERE
Nicole Evans is an Australian artist who grew up in the beautiful state of Tasmania. Growing up in Tassie instilled an appreciation and love for the environment and animals from a young age. Her realistic yet surreal paintings of animals and the natural world are multi-layered both literally and conceptually. Through meticulously painted layers and layers of oil paint, Nicole spotlights and aims to communicate her environmental concerns, love of animals and the natural world as well as grappling with and alluding to things from her personal life.
Nicole attained a Master of Fine Art from RMIT university in 2015 and exhibits her work nationally and internationally with her pieces held in private collections worldwide. She has been featured in publications such as Beautiful Bizarre Magazine and The LA Times.
Artist statement:
This series, ‘Glimmer’, has an environmental focus and spotlights threatened species of animals in unusual or unexpected environments - alluding to climate change. My paintings are also quite personal; the animals I paint are quite anthropomorphic and represent me, loved ones or things from my personal life. My paintings allow me to grapple with or communicate things in a way that is very cathartic for me.
Richie Fahey / 22 Mar - 14 April 2024
Richie Fahey
Outré Gallery Fitzroy
22 Mar - 14 April 2024
Opening Night
6–8pm on Friday, 22 March 2024
319 Smith Street, Fitzroy
Drinks provided by Range Life Wine & Bodriggy Brewing Co.
*** Exhibition preview can be viewed HERE
New York City photographer Richie Fahey paints on his pictures in a cold water flat, surrounded by his inspiration: a towering collection of 1930s-1960s musty paperbacks and detective pulp. With the help of a postwar hobbyist's manual, “Photo Oil Coloring for Fun and Profit”, he learned to transform black and white photographs into glorious colour by dabbling with pigments on snapshots from the '40s.
Fahey's technicolor-like style evokes lobby cards in old movie houses, covers of dimestore novels and star portraits in fan magazines like “Screen” and “Photoplay”. In defining his style, Fahey is inspired by the posed photographs from detective magazines, cinematographers of the 1940's-50's like John Alton, portrait photographers such as George Hurrell, and painters and illustrators like Leeteg and James Avanti.
In creating his images, Fahey plays with the noir stereotype of beautiful women gone bad and the men who love them. He is painstaking about stylistic detail. Convincing art direction, combined with vintage lighting techniques and hand colouring conspire to create alluring, ambiguous works. The viewer's inability to pinpoint the exact time frame in which a Fahey photograph was taken, lends a certain timelessness to the artist's work.