MELBOURNE ART FAIR 17-20 FEB'22

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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 63 leading 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. Melbourne Art Fair is a stage to view and purchase art from the most stimulating contemporary artists working today. Tickets on sale now.

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We are excited to announce the program is now live

We are excited to announce the program is now live for the 2022 edition of @melbourneartfair, Australia's first art fair since the start of the pandemic, with only one month to go until doors open from 17-20 February.

In addition to the exceptional work presented for sale by 63 leading contemporary galleries, the Fair will also highlight the vibrancy of Melbourne's art scene with an onsite/offsite LATE NIGHTS program presented in partnership with @broadsheet_melb.

Your health and safety is our utmost priority. Density restrictions, three-hour ticket sessions and maximised air quality over 7,000 sqm are just some of the ways we are ensuring a COVID-Safe event.

Tickets are limited, so don't miss your chance to view and buy art this summer.

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Image: The Huxleys, Nervous wreck, 2021, Giclée print. Courtesy of the artists and @murraywhiteroom (Naarm/Melbourne)

Sally Smart is one of Australia’s significant co

Sally Smart is one of Australia’s significant contemporary artists with a practice that engages identity politics: ideas relating to the body; the home and history. She is recognised internationally for producing stunning, large-scale cut-out assemblage installations made from felt, canvas, silk- screened and everyday fabrics that she constructs with pins.

Experience Sally Smart’s work in person with @gallerysallydancuthbert at @melbourneartfair, 17-20 February at MCEC in South Wharf.

Image: (Left) Sally Smart, ‘The Artist’s Ballet (GEOMETRY)’, 2021, synthetic polymer on canvas fabric with various collage elements, 218 x 125 cm. Sally Smart, ‘The Artist’s Ballet (ASSEMBLAGE)’, 2021, synthetic polymer on canvas fabric with various collage elements, 218 x 125 cm. (Right) Sally Smart, ‘The Artist’s Ballet (AUTOMATA)’, 2021, synthetic polymer on canvas fabric with various collage elements, 218 x 125 cm. Courtesy the artist and @gallerysallydancuthbert.

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SOLO HIGHLIGHT: Tomislav Nikolic presented by @fox

SOLO HIGHLIGHT: Tomislav Nikolic presented by @foxjensenmccrory

The paintings of Tomislav Nikolic offer a multitude of contradictions. Their respect for precedent is signalled overtly in their enthusiastic adoption of the ‘garb’ of history painting. At times this outfit can feel like a costume worn to celebrate the role that painting might still be capable of assuming in the marking of social and cultural change. But there is also irreverence in this aim for Nikolic, evident in the way in which he can flirt with structural profligacy, with chromatic folly to a nigh-on reckless extent. These paradoxes infiltrate every aspect of their making, their atmosphere and even their reception…and they are magical because of it.

Image: Tomislav Nikolic, ‘vestiges of now’ (detail), 2017 - 2019, 7 parts. Courtesy the artist and @foxjensenmccrory.

Experience the magic of Tomislav Nikolic at @melbourneartfair this summer, 17-20 February at MCEC in South Wharf.

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While David Palliser remains acutely intrigued by

While David Palliser remains acutely intrigued by the reconciliation of the formal relations of scale, composition, the relating of forms and, particularly, colour, he seems overwhelmingly sentient to the historic legacies and ambiguities of the pictorial space.

David Palliser, ‘Wayside Travel Dispute’, 2016, presented by @jacobhoernergalleries at @melbourneartfair 2022.

Experience this work in person at Melbourne Art Fair this summer, 17-20 February at MCEC in South Wharf.

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@thecommercial presents @yasminhelenasmith at @mel

@thecommercial presents @yasminhelenasmith at @melbourneartfair next month.

Yasmin Smith, ‘Terroir’, 2020, stoneware slip, pinot noir vine-ash glaze, 20 objects, overall 230 x 540 cm. Photo: Elle Fredericksen. Composite:
Sofia Freeman.

Experience this work at Melbourne Art Fair, 17-20 February 2022 at MCEC in South Wharf. Link in bio for tickets.

@janmurphygallery will present Lara Merrett at @Me

@janmurphygallery will present Lara Merrett at @Melbourneartfair 2022.

Lara Merrett’s colour-rich paintings have been compared to the romantic painters of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries: both ‘imagine geographies of space, atmosphere and physicality. For Merrett, it’s the inquiry into the picture plane and surface, balance of ink and acrylic, of depth and opacity, chaos with order and the reference to otherness’ that inspire her works.

Image: Lara Merrett, ‘Forget me not’, 2021, Acrylic and ink on linen. Courtesy the artist and @janmurphygallery.

Tickets on sale now for Melbourne Art Fair this summer, 17-20 February at MCEC in South Wharf. Link in bio.

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