2025

Yona Lee
Smart Sculpture
Stainless steel, smart objects, found objects, Wi-Fi dimensions and configuration variable. 
Awarded one of two major commissions in 2025, Yona Lee is known for her large-scale site-specific installations which unfold in rhythmic compositions of tubular steel.
 
Smart sculpture responds to the work of 20th century Aotearoa artist Len Lye and his enduring interest in choreographing movement, evolving technologies, and kinetic sculpture using found objects.
 
Here, Lee questions what it means to make sculpture from found objects in the networked digital age, one where the Internet of Things — such as Smartphones, Smart Homes, and Smart Cities are increasingly pervasive. Where domestic objects are no-longer passive companions but behave instead like an ‘eye’ or an ‘ear’ in the home — always on, watching and listening, sequestering data about the intimate patterns of our lives.
 

2025 Melbourne Art Fair Commission in partnership with Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre (Aotearoa). Supported by Artwork Transport. Yona Lee is represented by Fine Arts, Sydney (Gadigal Country). 

Dawn Ng
The Earth is an Hourglass
4K res moving image work, h265 4:2:2 10bit Dolby Vision HDR, 38m: 33s Edition of 5 plus 2 artist’s proofs.

Dawn Ng’s work across a wide range of contemporary media is unified by subtle gradations of colour, which function as a way of exploring the passage and experience of time. Since 2018, Ng has filmed and photographed stages in the disintegration of frozen blocks of coloured pigment. The Earth is an Hourglass, 2024 documents the time-adjusted melting of one such block of ice with the hypnotic effect. Her video compresses the entire 20-hour process of decomposition into a mesmerising 20 minutes.

Dawn Ng is a multi-hyphenate visual artist, who has worked across a breadth of mediums, motives and scale, including sculpture, photography, light, film, collage, painting and large-scale installations. Her practice deals with time, memory and the ephemeral. 

https://melbourneartfair.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/20250222-melb-art-fair-141.jpg Yona Lee, Smart Sculpture, installation view. Commissioned by Melbourne Art Foundation in partnership with Govett Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre and supported by Artwork Transport.
https://melbourneartfair.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/DN_The-Earth-is-an-Hourglass-Main-video_3-1.jpg Dawn Ng, The Earth is an Hourglass, 2024. Commissioned by Melbourne Art Foundation in partnership with Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art and supported by The Ritz-Carlton, Melbourne.