RED Gallery, 157 St Georges Rd
Fitzroy North, Melbourne
Friday | 31 October | 6 - 8pm
Opening Night
29 October ~9 November 2025
CURATOR'S STATEMENT
Tammy Honey
Honey has curated artworks from each artist’s collection that embody the essence of the Gothic Romantic — works that evoke the beauty within life and death, light and dark, love and loss, and the emotional resonance found in their delicate balance.
Gothic Romantic brings together a group of contemporary artists whose artworks echo the aesthetic, thematic, and emotional undercurrents of the Gothic, Romantic, and Symbolist traditions — moving through shadow and splendour in an exploration of darkness, beauty, and mystery through a modern visual language.
In this exhibition, life and death are not opposites but intertwined forces, each revealing the other’s fragile splendour. The works presented embrace melancholy and desire, decay and renewal, the sublime and the spectral. From the expressive mark of ink and paint to the tactile weight of clay and the luminescence of digital light, each artist traces a path through the emotional terrain of the Gothic imagination.
Together, these artists summon a space where emotion deepens into atmosphere — a celebration of the beautiful and the macabre, the eternal and the ephemeral. Gothic Romantic invites viewers to linger in the shadows, to find tenderness in darkness, and to rediscover wonder in the mysteries that surround us.
Andy McIntyre, Bella Insch, Francesca Goldspring, Freya Skarsgard, George Alamidis, James Annesley, Nick Stella, Pinggot Zulueta and Sandra Ann Minchin.
Artist Statement
Pinggot Zulueta’s works inhabit a space where the organic and the spectral intertwine. Through meticulous linework and dense, symbolic imagery, he explores themes of mortality, longing, and transformation. Rooted in personal memory and cultural mythologies, each drawing becomes a site of introspection - where veiled figures, skeletal remnants, and entangled flora evoke both decay and sacred beauty.
In this series, he approaches the gothic not merely as an aesthetic, but as an emotional landscape charged with ambiguity, spiritual unease, and the sublime. The red accents serve as visceral disruptions - signs of life, death, or desire - punctuating the otherwise muted terrain of the soul. By confronting the shadowed recesses of the human condition, he invites viewers into a quiet reckoning with fragility, permanence, and the mysteries that outlive us.
