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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 returns in 2022 to present new and iconic work from artists represented by 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, a world-class platform for contemporary art and ideas.

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Susan Roux, 'Wives', 2018, photograph Canson paper

Susan Roux, 'Wives', 2018, photograph Canson paper, thread, polyester, dimensions variable, @artcollectivewa

Susan Roux is a South African born Western Australian artist. Her work is a critique on and response to cultural and social change regarding gender and body politics. The work often takes specific historical events as a point of departure, conveying burdens and conflicts with precise and economical means. The vulnerability of the human body as experienced in specifically the female body yield theme, mark and visual language. Touch educes the body as tactile territory, while mark and stitch mark its boundaries.

An obsessive and repetitive working process aims to engage viewers in connecting with their senses, body and mind. The rhythmic, cyclical acts of smocking, stitching, marking and unmarking by hand arrest time to both recall and urge a contemplative search that could possibly stretch beyond the immediate and the mundane, beyond the abject body. Her work prompts the notion that touch both caresses and consumes, that it immerses host and guest/artist and viewer.

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#Exhibition Lynda Draper 'Flowers Of The Night' at

#Exhibition Lynda Draper 'Flowers Of The Night' at @sullivanstrumpf
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For Lynda Draper, night is not a time of not sleeping, but a time for wandering and making. It is a time of solitude and reflection and of rolling and pinching, and building structures in clay.
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Existing at the threshold of daylight and dreams, her sculptures are shaped by the fragmented images of her environment and the ghosts from her past. They evolve organically, often from a state of subconscious reverie – musings by her hands that invite imagination and the contemplation of another realm, strange yet familiar.
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Image: Lynda Draper, 'Angels Trumpet', 2021, ceramic with various glazes, 140 x 51 x 51 cm
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#contemporaryart #art #lyndadraper #sullivanandstrumpf

#Exhibition Peta Minnici 'Marking Time' at @chalkh

#Exhibition Peta Minnici 'Marking Time' at @chalkhorsegallery until August 7

Time is often imperceptible, but in presence of Peta Minnici’s work, we feel it. Paintings imbued with a restful stillness sit beside black and white drawings charged with movement and vibration. The past is present, and the present unfolds and obscures before us. In 'Marking Time', Minnici welcomes us into her painted world of vintage interiors. Here one encounters ornate mahogany furniture, crystal glassware, an old milkshake glass and milk bottle, porcelain bowls, cane chairs, and a radiator. There are many indicators of the past but no clear discernible signs of the day. Only one vague exception is offered in the work ‘Life Stilled’ where an object resembling a plastic bottle hinted at by the small blue disk on top is found – this however is ambiguous.
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Minnici’s rooms possess a dense fervour, though an absence is perceivable. The dustless reflections of the tabletops, polished timber floors, arrangements of blooming flowers, and scattered books on the side table give the impression that someone was just there. Other times the spaces appear as though they’ve been deserted for decades and preserved somehow. They inspire a pensive engagement and Minnici’s own curiosity is from where many of the images emerge.
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Image: Peta Minnici, 'Last Day of the Roses', 2021, ink on Fabriano paper, 108cm x 105cm
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Kawita Vatanajyankur, 'Knit' (still), 2019, single

Kawita Vatanajyankur, 'Knit' (still), 2019, single channel video, 25.53 mins. Artist represented by @weareantidote
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Thai-Australian artist Kawita Vatanajyankur creates works that offer a powerful examination of the psychological, social and cultural challenges faced by women in relation to everyday labour. In endurance performances, Vatanajyankur undertakes physical experiments that playfully, and often painfully, test her body’s limits. These staged scenarios are both unavoidably compelling and also uncomfortable to watch. The alluring, luminous colours in Vatanajyankur’s work are distinctive of her aesthetic and tap into the visual language of a globalised and digitally networked world in which consumption and instant gratification often prevail.
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#contemporaryart #art #kawitavatanajyankur #antidote @kawitav

#Exhibition @jamesmakingallery over 30 artists in

#Exhibition @jamesmakingallery over 30 artists in 'Chapter Three' until August 8
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Marking 3 decades of James Makin Gallery and the opening of a third location, 'Chapter Three' brings together an edit of exceptional artists to present new and recent works, both bold and refined. Featuring works of significance from an edit of the gallery's represented artists, this exhibition is a testament to the history of James Makin while also standing as a celebration of what is to come. An eclectic, colourful and vibrant curation defines this exhibit, available for viewing online with pending adjustments to restrictions in Naarm/Melbourne.
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Image: James Lemon, 'God Awful', 2021, stoneware, glaze, epoxy, cubic zirconia, kiln brick, oil pastel, 36 x 12 x 16cm
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#Exhibition Elizabeth Newman, new works at @neon_p

#Exhibition Elizabeth Newman, new works at @neon_parc until August 21
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Presenting a new body of works, this series of paintings by Elizabeth Newman traverse the landscape of geometric abstraction, colour field painting and text driven art practice. Deep diving into social and formalist intervention, Newman focuses in on the phenomenological experience of colour expressed through oils on canvas.
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These threads of her practice intersect for this exhibition as she thoughtfully considers what emerges at the nexus of these formalist concerns. The result is a culmination of work that speaks to the arc of the artists ongoing interests. This liminal exploration is pushed to new heights in this exhibition where she considers multiplicities present within her own practice. These nod in a playful way towards the artist’s fascination with the liminal space between things.
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Image: Elizabeth Newman, 'Untitled', 2021, oil on linen, 80 x 70 cm
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#contemporaryart #art #elizabethnewman #neonparc