Robyn Rich - Optics

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Driven by the passion to minimise her environmental footprint and a love of reusing and recycling, Rich has chosen objects that would often be discarded or ignored to be the vessels which hold each eye.

Opening reception: Saturday, December 3rd, 6 - 9pm.

This exhibition will run from December 4th - December 23rd and will coincide with Victor Castillo's The Stolen Muse, Marina Dieul's Le Jeu du Chat et de la Souris, Raúl Guerra's Read More

Optics is a collection of paintings by Robyn Rich in and on objects. These pieces are inspired by the intriguing history of Georgian eye miniatures or ‘Lover’s Eyes’, brought to life in a contemporary way.

Driven by the passion to minimise her environmental footprint and a love of reusing and recycling, Rich has chosen objects that would often be discarded or ignored to be the vessels which hold each eye.

Opening reception: Saturday, December 3rd, 6 - 9pm.

This exhibition will run from December 4th - December 23rd and will coincide with Victor Castillo's The Stolen Muse, Marina Dieul's Le Jeu du Chat et de la Souris, Raúl Guerra's HOPE & Roos Van Der Vliet's Allegory of the Moon.

As the viewer, at first all you see is a mass of eyes all looking at you, watching and waiting. This may be a little confronting or unnerving, but then you start to notice them individually, drawn in by their personality, their emotion and uniqueness.

As the painter, Rich notes that in painting only an eye, one sees a little glimpse of a person, not the full story: just a hint of who they are and what they are feeling. Eyes are considered the windows to the soul, and Rich also sees them as our windows to the world.

Robyn Rich lives and works in the unceded land of the Boonwurrung People. She works mostly in oils, focusing on the everyday and what some might even call mundane; she is fascinated by how people interact with the objects around them and the emotions or memories such objects elicit.

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Robyn Rich - "Wanda 2" - oil on vintage spoon

Robyn Rich - "Wanda 1" - oil on vintage spoon

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Robyn Rich - "Rebecca 1" - oil on vintage spoon

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Robyn Rich - "Rebecca 2" - oil on vintage spoon

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Robyn Rich - "Marie, Inspired By A Portrait Of Marie Marguerite Bontemps, 1696" - oil in vintage tin

Robyn Rich - "Sara" - oil in vintage compact

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Robyn Rich - "Robert, Inspired By A Painting By Francois Meuret, 1858" - oil in vintage tin

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Robyn Rich - "Ruth" - oil on vintage tin lid

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Robyn Rich - "Clare" - oil on vintage spoon

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Robyn Rich - "Geoff" - oil on vintage spoon

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Robyn Rich - "Freya" - oil on vintage spoon

Robyn Rich - "Marthe, Inspired By A Portrait By Jean-Étienne Liotard" - oil on vintage spoon

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Robyn Rich - "Look Up" - oil in vintage tin

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Robyn Rich - "Anatomy" - oil in vintage tart tin

Robyn Rich - "Jess" - oil in vintage tin

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Robyn Rich - "Sarah" - oil on vintage tin lid

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Robyn Rich - "Samm" - oil in vintage tin

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Robyn Rich - "Robyn" - oil in vintage ladle

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Robyn Rich - "Self 2" - oil in vintage tin

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Robyn Rich - "Aheda" - oil in vintage tin

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Robyn Rich - "Anonymous" - oil in vintage tin

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Robyn Rich - "Kate" - oil in vintage tin

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Robyn Rich - "Sophia" - oil in vintage tin

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Robyn Rich - "Becc" - oil in vintage tin

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Robyn Rich - "Ceruti, Inspired By A Portrait By Ceruti Giacomo" - oil in vintage tin

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Robyn Rich - "Scrunched" - oil in vintage tin

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Robyn Rich - "Claire 2" - oil in vintage tin

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Robyn Rich - "Michael" - oil in vintage tin

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Robyn Rich - "You Can't See Me" - oil in vintage tin

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Robyn Rich - "Amber" - oil in vintage tin

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Robyn Rich - "Bouguereau Eyes 2" - oil in vintage tin

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Robyn Rich - "Wilhelmine, Inspired By A Portrait Of Wilhelmine Begas By Carl Joseph Begas, 1828" - oil in vintage tin

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Robyn Rich - "Michelle" - oil in vintage tin

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Robyn Rich - "Portrait Of A Young Lady, Inspired By A Portrait By Frans Bourbus, The Elder" - oil in vintage tin

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Robyn Rich - "Ekin" - oil in vintage tin

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Robyn Rich - "Artists From History" - oil in vintage patty pans

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Robyn Rich - "Jack" - oil in vintage tin

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Robyn Rich - "Christopher" - oil in vintage tin

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Robyn Rich - "Tears" - oil in vintage tin

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Robyn Rich - "Bouguereau Eyes" - oil in vintage tin

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