Red Gate Gallery

Manning Regional Art Gallery Invitation will host Two Generations : 20 Years of Contemporary Chinese Art from February 4 to February 26 

Article in Manning Great Lake- Focus- Interview with Brian Wallace 

Article in River Times,  February 3rd-4th, 2012

New Era of Artistic Expression 

Article in Manning River Times,  February 8, 2012

A Pathway to China 

Cultural Style 

 Click on the article to reach the second part

Artists Han Qing and Jason Wing Work Together in Collaborative Workshops at Manning Regional Art Gallery, February 9 and 10, 2012

City of Sydney , Chinese New Year  Festival Program, January 20 2012 - February 5, 2012

Article by John McDonald inThe Sydney Morning Herald, January 14-15, 2012

Click on the article below to access The Sydney Herald Tribune's online gallery 

Article by Mariam Cosic in  The Australian, January 12, 2012 

Link to The Australian online gallery:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/gallery-fn9d3avm-1226241913906

Link to read online review by Walter Mason
http://www.waltermason.com/2012/01/red-gate-gallery-two-generations.htm

Red Gate is pleased to present a new series of paintings, prints and sculptures by Lv Peng. Painting in a signature style that is derived from the traditional precise ‘gong-bi’ technique, Lv creates a universe of head-on collision and coexistence with multiple personages from days of yore and today. Using a highly complex and constructed composition coupled with an uncanny play on scale and proportion, Lv’s works are like a labyrinth of visual symbols and the narrative is at once surreal and sensual to the viewer. In the painting “Bamboo and Plum Blossoms” the main character enters a literati scholar garden of bamboo and blossoms to discover a Lilliputian universe with an intertwined couple emerging from classical erotic paintings as suggested by the lady in bound feet. Lv also injects whimsy by way of an eclectic mix of fashion, combining the nostalgic Mao suit with Pu-Yi tainted round glasses and a bob haircut on the principal personage. The dramatic atmosphere is enhanced by theatrical red curtains being drawn on each side of the painting. In the world of Lv Peng’s art, there is a concerted and chaotic mélange of people and place that seems to rhyme with the current change and pace of China. 

Reading :: 7pm, Thursday, August 25, 2011

Venue :: Atrium of The Opposite House

RSVP :: liyu@redgategallery.com

[limited seating available to the first 40 guests]

Where is ‘home’? Does an adopted one matter? Who’s adopting whom? In these eleven richly varied stories, set in and around a Beijing railway station, in a downtown Toronto neighborhood, in Berlin and Buchenwald, in England and in Romania, Fatty Goes to China explores the precarious lives of an accident-prone Chinese construction worker with a dark and violent secret, a Romanian carpenter with a ‘deathcamp hangover’ who finds that his teddy-bear named ‘Seriously’ is his harshest critic, a fatally ill Canadian artist who remains in Beijing after the 2008 Olympics and develops a surprising friendship, a teenaged KFC waitress who is tricked by an American student, a malingering heir who visits his childhood home in England for “the shoebox,” a grieving barber who, after risking his life, makes a gruesome discovery about his Czech lover, and a Chinese couple who make a shocking, last-minute decision about their adoptive child. Written in original, humorous, and innovative ways, these unforgettable narratives expose the risks in finding shelter in unaccommodating places.

Royston Tester [roystontester.com], is a British-Canadian short story writer who is currently an artist-in-residence at Red Gate [redgateresidency.com]. He is also the guest-editor for Hong Kong based Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. Tester’s short story, ‘A Beijing Minute,’ to be read at The Opposite House, is from Fatty Goes to China, and has recently been published in the Quarterly Literary Review of Singapore.

This event is organized by Red Gate Gallery in collaboration with The Opposite House, Beijing.

Address ::

The Opposite House, 11 Sanlitun Rd, Chaoyang, Beijing

tel/fax: +86 6417 6688

www.theoppositehouse.com

The After Hours Art Event is hosted by After Bar and will showcase an installtion of artworks as well as a series of readings by our current artists in residency. 

Friday, July 29th, 2011, 20:00 - 24:00 @After Bar

Dajingchang Hutong off Gulou Dongdajie

Readings begin at 9:30pm, exhibition all weekend

Free BEER and CHUANR till they run out
 

Participating Artists:

Rayna Savrosa, USA, Photographer / Video Artist

Nick Curley,USA, Writer

Gerlind Zeilner,Austria, Painter

Georg Frauenschuh,Austria, Painter

Lyndal Walker,Australia, Photographer

Royston Tester,Canada, Writer

Tiffany Hambley,Australia, Writer / Interdisciplinary Researcher

Samuel Jablon,USA, Painter / Writer

Peter Froslie,USA, New Media

Jocelyn McGregor,UK, Sculptor

Josie Martin, New Zealand, Sculptor / Painter / Installation

A few clips of the opening composed by Red Gate's Crystal Ruth Bell :
 

click to watch on Tudou.

This past Saturday, some 300 people came out to celebrate 20 years of Red Gate exhibitions at the Dongbianmen Watchtower. To find out more, click here. Check out pictures of the event below!

China De La Vega is an Australian artist from Sydney. Originally came to Red Gate Gallery as Artist in Residence, majored in creative writing and cultural studies. Her art practice began after graduating from High School with the exhibition ‘Sculpture by the Sea’. De la Vega creates abstract impressions of landscape through the manipulation of found objects, using raw materials which reference the places in where they were found. Bringing these objects together in her work, objects which she describes as ‘forgotten artifacts of contemporary culture’ de la Vega is mainly interested in putting together the words and information attached to these objects almost as poems or short stories. De la Vega’s work is not so much the manifestation of environmentalist concerns but is more a celebration of the ultimate authority of nature.

She was invited by Red Gate Gallery to be part of The Red Gate Gallery Cultural Exchange Project brought Indigenous and emerging artists from Australia for a 1 month tour of arts communities and historic sites in the provincial Chinese cities of Pingyao, Xian, Chengdu, Chongqing, Wuhan, Shanghai and Suzhou. As a part of the tour the artists visited Xingren Primary School built by Bluescope in the earthquake ravaged province of Sichuan, participated in a cross cultural forum in Chengdu and were VIP guests of the Australian Pavilion at Shanghai Expo
The artists then enjoying a 1 month artist residency at the Red Gate Artists Residency Studio Lofts in Beijing where they engaged in a comprehensive program of cultural exchange including visits to artists studios and galleries in 798 Art District, Chaochangdi and Songzhuang Artists Village
A stunning exhibition of their work titled Hard Sleeper opened at Red Gate Gallery Dongbienmen Watchtower Beijing on October 30th 2010
An AUCTION of two special artworks painted by Guy Mastri & Frances Belle Parker, on steel panels from the newly ‘decommissioned’ Australian Pavilion raised over $17,000US for the Xingren Primary School in Sichuan and the Epenarra School in the remote Northern Territory of Australia

Here are a few photos of China's studio while she was here in Beijing.

China De La Vega in her studio in Beigao

Work in progress

In cooperation with Red Gate Gallery

H.E. Mr. Carlo Krieger, Ambassador of Luxembourg and Mrs. Nicole Krieger-Loos

have the honour to invite you and your guest to a

sculpture exhibition followed by a reception on

Wednesday 13 April at 17:00

21 Nei Wu Bu Jie

Dongcheng District

东城区内务部街21号

RSVP
Tel: 85880900
Fax: 65137268
e-mail : pekin.amb@mae.etat.lu