Sydney Contemporary 2024
As galleries from across Australia, New Zealand, and much further afield were setting up their stalls with the works of over 400 contemporary artists within Sydney’s cavernous Carriageworks—overseen by Lisa Roet’s enormous twenty-metre wide Skywalker Gibbon— Scottish painter Peter Doig revealed in The Guardian that while his much-coveted paintings have sold for an estimated £380 […]
Madeleine Pfull
First impressions are formed within seconds of meeting someone. You judge them—and just as quickly, they judge you. These impressions are determined by mannerisms, facial expressions, body language, and they can be near impossible to shake. Madeleine Pfull’s characters are no exception. Her portraits, often presented in diptychs or triptychs, capture the subtle nuances of […]
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Australian Galleries at Sydney Contemporary
Drendel eschews a nostalgic view of rural life and the vivid experiences associated with his youth, recreating the low horizon line and flat plains of monotonous landscape, unrelieved by either natural landmarks or signs of activity. The relative absence of vertical structures in the local environment of farm blocks is referenced in Monument 2, 2024, […]
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Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery at Sydney Contemporary
The Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery’s booth of carefully curated works at Sydney Contemporary 2024 is drawn from their archive, which includes key historical moments, over the gallery’s forty-two-year history. A history of discovering and supporting some of the most recognisable Australian artists, alongside international artists, whose work is often unconventional, sometimes confronting, but always thought provoking. […]
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OLSEN Gallery at Sydney Contemporary
At Sydney Contemporary 2024, OLSEN Gallery will present new work from Leila Jeffreys, Shirley Purdie, Holly Greenwood, Eliza Gosse, and Dani McKenzie—five women whose work reflects variously on nature, on Country, or on scenes from contemporary life. For years, Leila Jeffreys has captured with great sensitivity the personalities of Antipodean birds. In her 2022 OLSEN […]
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Hellyers Road Distillery at Sydney Contemporary
On the rugged northwest coast of Lutruwita | Tasmania, nestled near the leafy Fern Glade Reserve and the winding Emu River, you will find the carefully aged whiskies of Hellyers Road Distillery. With its commitment to exceptional artisan craftsmanship, Hellyers Road Distillery is partnering with Sydney Contemporary 2024 to introduce the splendour of premium single […]
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Arthouse Gallery at Sydney Contemporary
The title of Joshua Yeldham’s exhibition, Broken Head, comes from a moment of tragedy. After labouring for months on a large ceramic head, a moment of inattention saw Yeldham’s work fall and break into pieces on his studio floor. It is the kind of accident which would usually signal the end to an artwork. “I […]
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Jasper Knight: Dusk to Dawn
“Surface. It doesn’t matter what you paint, your works are about surface.” In his Darlinghurst studio, surrounded by two decades of his work, Knight reflects on this observation, made by Ian Grant, his tutor at the University of New South Wales during Knight’s 2003 master’s degree. Surface, for Knight, was initially the cold, glossy, collaged […]
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Light Now
In this year’s Sydney Contemporary, MARS Gallery will present a new exhibition Light Now featuring works from three Melbourne-based artists: Jenna Lee, Diego Ramirez, and Meagan Streader. The artists consider light’s physical, psychological, and conceptual properties as well as capacity to carry layered meanings. Jenna Lee’s new works extend upon her recent explorations of First […]
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35 years and counting: Utopia Art Sydney
The anniversary of Utopia Art Sydney is a moment to reflect for the founding director who was, in the early days, one of many young artists in Sydney working multiple part-time jobs to support their exhibiting career. “In the late eighties I saw artists who needed a hand” he explains, with the same purposeful succinctness […]
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Trevor Vickers
Trevor Vickers has been working in abstraction for more than five decades, importing constructed visualisations onto canvas, offering ways of how the world can be perceived and understood. He has produced, and continues to produce, some of the finest abstract paintings in the country. An overview of Vickers’ practice with works from the 1970s to […]
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Sydney Contemporary 2023
Artist Profile is proud to be a Major Partner of Sydney Contemporary 2023, working with leading independent curators 3:33 Art Projects to present Jasper Knight’s new series The Coral Coast at this year’s fair. Catalogue of The Coral Coast: here Artist Profile will also be launching The Clayton Utz Art Partnership: 2017 – 2022 book. Available here […]
Peter Hill’s Top Ten Picks from Sydney Contemporary 2022
Peter Schjeldahl, the great American art critic for The Village Voice, and now The New Yorker, once described the visceral experience of viewing the astonishing late works of Willem de Kooning at the Metropolitan. “The effect was like a plane taking off, when the acceleration presses you against the seat. The painting’s violent intelligence detonated […]
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Mary Tonkin
One of Australia’s pre-eminent landscape artists, Mary Tonkin’s practice is centred around Kalorama, located on the outer-eastern fringe of Melbourne, adjacent to Mount Dandenong. Her grandfather established a farm there in the 1930s that still supplies rare bulbs and cut flowers. She knows the environs intimately, having made it her artistic focus for the last […]
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Explore Sydney Contemporary
From the November 11 to 21, 2021, Explore Sydney Contemporary offers access to over eighty galleries, 500 artists, and 1700 works of art. Usually housed in Sydney’s Carriageworks, this year a commitment to public health priorities sees the event accessible from across the country, and indeed the world, via its online platform. Highlights of the fair […]
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Colin Pennock
In Issue 45, Kevin Wilson visited Colin Pennock in his Noosa Hinterland studio to chat about the artist’s incredible journey thus far.
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Sonia Payes
Sonia Payes’ ‘Woman in Bronze’ explores creation, destruction, and transformation through a contemporary lens of growing environmental angst.
Sydney Contemporary
Sydney Contemporary, for the past four years, has been a microcosmic study of the Australian art market: its symbiotic relationship with international markets and its major galleries.
Artist Profile X Guo Jian
Artist Profile presents new work by Chinese-Australian artist Guo Jian at Sydney Contemporary 2019.
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Artist Profile at Talk Contemporary
What is it about the relationship between non-objective art and portraiture that continues to evoke such a divided response?
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Sydney Contemporary Exhibitors Announced
Sydney Contemporary announces more than 70 galleries from Australia and overseas, with respected names from 12 countries and 4 continents coming together in Sydney for the inaugural fair in September this year.
