“Ways and Means - The red and the blue”
Benjamin Sheppard and Vin Ryan
25 Jan → 16 Feb 2013

Why does a boxing ring have a blue and a red corner? Why not blue and? orange or red and green? Why are Republicans red and Democrats ?blue? Why blue for boys and pink (light red) for girls?? Red and blue seem to be engaged in some kind of weird cultural struggle, pitted against one another as signifiers of polarity in political views, gender and temperament.? Can’t they just get along?

This latest incarnation of the Ways and Means experimental drawing project began as the result of a conversation where the artists realised they had used red and blue in their work- exercising similar oppositional rationales.

Vin Ryan is a Melbourne based artist. He works in a variety of media including installation, drawing, photography, video and sculpture. ?His work is represented in many collections including Art Bank, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, City of Melbourne, St Vincent’s Hospital, City of Maribyrnong and private collections in Australia and overseas. ?He is represented in Australia by Anna Pappas Gallery.

Benjamin Sheppard is a Melbourne based artist and teacher who has exhibited locally and internationally. He makes drawings and, what he considers, sculptural drawings. He is also the founding member of the Ways and Means