Melbourne Art Fair 2024
I was sitting on a chair in the Piazza Bar at the Preview of the Melbourne Art Fair (MAF), sipping a Piper-Heidsieck champagne (one of many MAF partners), and angled so I had a clear view of Anna Schwartz’s vast booth. Like many galleries she had accepted the organiser’s recommendation to show the work of […]
NotFair 2023: Alchemy
NotFair, Australia’s perpetually unruly alternative art fair, was founded in 2010 as a satellite event to the Melbourne Art Fair—thus Not The Fair, a title which was rapidly shortened. The notion was to showcase independent artists who do not fit the commercial mould, are overlooked, and under-recognized. Run every second year, with occasional off-shoot projects, […]
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Nick Santoro
You draw from a wide range of imagery and ideas. What are the major sources of inspiration for your works? The process for gathering content to use in my paintings is a combination of information snacking, image hoarding and autobiographical content. What I’m exploring changes rapidly, governed by anything from music, art or ideas that […]
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END OF AN ERA: 2016 Melbourne Art Fair cancelled
It was the end of MAF, or so we all thought.
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Mikala Dwyer is the winner of the 2014 Melbourne Art Foundation Artist Commission
Artist Mikala Dwyer’s sculptural work The weight of shape, 2014 is revealed as the 2014 Artist Commission by the Melbourne Art Foundation.
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2014 Melbourne Art Fair
Melbourne opens its doors to the international art community, with the annual Melbourne Art Fair 13 – 17 August.
Issue 19
Melbourne Art Fair Special Edition Media Partner of the 2012 Melbourne Art Fair, Issue 19 of ARTIST PROFILE is a Special Edition that focuses on artists exhibiting at the fair. On the cover is internationally renowned Sally Smart, whose work is based upon the principles of painting but extrapolated conceptually and rendered in an unusual […]
