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Linda Marrinon 2019. Courtesy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.

Amanda Williams 2020. Courtesy The Commercial.

Amanda Williams 2020. Courtesy The Commercial.

André Hemer 2021. Courtesy Yavuz Gallery.

Patju Presley 2021. Courtesy Vivien Anderson Gallery.

Patju Presley 2021. Courtesy Vivien Anderson Gallery.

André Hemer 2021. Courtesy Yavuz Gallery.

Nabilah Nordin 2021. Courtesy Neon Parc.

Christopher Langton 2019. Courtesy Tolarno Galleries.

Matlok Griffiths 2018. Courtesy ReadingRoom.

Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
17–20 February 2022

Australasia’s most progressive forum for contemporary art and ideas returns in 2022 to present new and iconic work from artists represented by over 50 of the region’s most exciting galleries. With a focus on solo shows and works of scale and significance, experience a fair that is instrumental in shaping the future of art in the region. First Release tickets on sale now.

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#Exhibition Shan Turner-Carroll 'Edge Of The Garde

#Exhibition Shan Turner-Carroll 'Edge Of The Garden' at @comagallery until 13 November

Shan Turner-Carroll spent several months making wearable sculptures and photographing members of his family on the property he grew up on. More than simply adornment or even protection, each sculpture is an apparatus, designed to interact with the body. The wearables were produced from materials found on the property, including objects from the artist's past.
'Edge Of The Garden' both un-earths a family history, at the same time re-earthing that history to the artist's familial (and familiar) environment anew. Boxing gloves become terrariums, and crutches turn into limbs.⠀⠀⠀⠀

Image: Shan Turner-Carroll, 'Edge Of The Garden' (exhibition view), 2021.

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#Exhibition Janet Fieldhouse 'Never the Same' at @

#Exhibition Janet Fieldhouse 'Never the Same' at @vivienandersongallery until 13 November

Fieldhouse practice is an expression of her Torres Strait Islander heritage: the material culture, rituals of social and religious life, and artefacts which are created to fulfil the functional and spiritual needs of the peoples of the Torres Strait.

Image: Janet Fieldhouse, 'Never The Same Witchery 1 2021', 2021, Buff Raku Trachyte, Japanese speckled paper Raffia, 20 x 10 x 8 cm

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#Exhibition Yona Lee ‘Kit-set In-transit’ at @

#Exhibition Yona Lee ‘Kit-set In-transit’ at @fineartssydney until end of October and now reopen in-person

Yona Lee makes sculptures that combine structures of stainless steel tubing with everyday materials of urban and domestic spaces. 'Kit-set In-transit' presents a room-sized sculpture composed of welded stainless steel with household utility objects including lamps, beds, umbrella, tables and chairs.

Image: Yona Lee, ‘Kit-set In-transit’, 2020, stainless steel, objects, dimensions and configuration vary according to site.

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#Exhibition Robert Malherbe 'Feeling is everything

#Exhibition Robert Malherbe 'Feeling is everything' at @janmurphygallery until October 30

Robert Malherbe’s exhibition 'Feeling is everything' captures the artist’s surrounds, be it the soaring landscapes of the Blue Mountains, the glimpses of domesticity in the home or the quiet moments shared between artist and muse in the studio. Malherbe is renowned for painting ‘alla prima’, a direct painting technique where a work is completed in one session by applying wet paint in layers.

With a sense of urgency to capture what is immediately before him, his latest body of work celebrates the pure joy of observing and we bear witness to an artist in full command of the brush. By using a heightened colour palette, Malherbe pushes the boundaries of the genre’s more traditional limitations. Thick, luscious strokes of bold colour breathe life into the works, the immediacy of his brush strokes rendering a breeze in the landscape or the subtle movement of his model in the studio.

Image: Robert Malherbe, 'Untitled 2', 2021, oil on board, 40.5 x 30.5 cm

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Connie Anthes , ’Untitled (Slackers)’, 2019, p

Connie Anthes , ’Untitled (Slackers)’, 2019, powder coated steel, textile, 260 x 71 x 86 cm

She makes paintings, objects and installations that investigate the mechanics of vision and spatial experience, often using non-traditional materials and methods to interrogate these ideas. Using process, failure and material ruptures as a means to test new ways of making images, Anthes’ works probe our perceptive limits and deliver experiences that oscillate between the cognitive and the expressive.

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#Exhibition Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran 'The Gaurdia

#Exhibition Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran 'The Gaurdians' at @sullivanstrumpf until 13 November

'Nithiyendran’s new series of ceramics for his exhibition 'The Guardians', pulls at our inherent impulse to locate faces in things. Inspired by Japanese Nio guardians and Hindu Dvarapala door or gate guardians, Nithiyendran deploys a series of abstracted ceramic forms as the exhibition’s namesake. These ceramics bear little resemblance to the human form. Instead, they move between rigid geometrical shapes and much looser, almost sprawling, structures.' Essay by Tai Mitsuji

Image: Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, 'The Gaurdians' (exhibition view), 2021.

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