Press Coverage 2020

Melbourne Art Fair: Online Viewing Rooms
Art Almanac
20 May 2020

Melbourne Art Fair 2020
ASSEMBLE Papers
15 May 2020

Melbourne Art Fair going virtual for 2020 is easel-y this weeks coolest art news
delicious.Travel
8 May 2020

Isolation is changing the face of arts e-commerce
ArtsHub
5 May 2020

Digital Event: Melbourne Art Fair Viewing Rooms
Meanwhile in Melbourne
1 May 2020

The Melbourne Art Fair is going digital this June
RUSSH
29 April 2020

MELBOURNE ART FAIR GOES VIRTUAL
Art Collector
28 April 2020

Melbourne Art Fair announces free Virtual Art Fair for June 2020
Arts Review
28 April 2020

Melbourne Art Fair to go ahead as a free virtual event
Beat Magazine
28 April 2020

Free ‘virtual viewing rooms’ in redrawn Melbourne Art Fair
The Age
28 April 2020

The galleries and museums you can still visit virtually
Vogue Living
28 April 2020

Melbourne Art Fair names inaugural Artistic Director
Arts Review
3 September 2019

On the move: Melbourne Art Fair Director Announced
ArtsHub
29 August 2019

Melbourne Art Fair’s Artistic Director for 2020
Art Almanac
29 August 2019

Art Showcase Ready for a Renaissance
The Age
9 July 2019

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"𝘖𝘳𝘣𝘪𝘵 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘺 is my specu

"𝘖𝘳𝘣𝘪𝘵 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘺 is my speculative vision of a future urban environment, where the boundaries between architecture, environment, society, and the unknown blur. Continuing my explorations in glass, both as material and metaphor, the forms I create draw from architectural language but resist function.

Shapes, structures, and patterns emerge – a skyline built from the dreams of our past and hopes for the future. Its buildings hum with ambiguity; they are monuments, machines, homes, and inclusive societies all at once."

Discover Edward Waring's 𝘖𝘳𝘣𝘪𝘵 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘺, exhibiting at @gallerysallydancuthbert (Gadigal Country/Sydney) until 2 August.

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Images:
1. Edward Waring, Kiss On My List, 2025, vintage crystal and glass, epoxy adhesive, acrylic
paint, 42 x 26 x 26 cm.
2. Edward Waring, Laughter and Forgetting, 2025, vintage crystal and glass, epoxy adhesive, acrylic
paint, 44 x 27 x 12 cm.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦
𝘐𝘴 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘺
𝘐𝘯 𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴
𝘐𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮
- Kate Elsey 2025 (excerpt)

Kate Elsey is renowned for her lyrical paintings, where spirited explorations of texture and colour trace meandering pathways across the canvas. At first glance, her works appear as bold abstract gestures, yet a closer look reveals a deep poetic connection to the natural world.

It is the last week to discover 𝘕𝘈𝘛𝘜𝘙𝘌 𝘚𝘊𝘙𝘐𝘗𝘛, exhibiting at @chapmanbailey (Naarm/Melbourne) until 19 July.

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Image: Kate Elsey, 𝘊𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘐𝘐 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘰𝘰𝘯, 2025, mixed media on paper, 42 x 30cm.

Sally Scales presents 𝘈𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘮𝘢𝘯

Sally Scales presents 𝘈𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘪 𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘶 𝘒𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘪 - 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺, exhibiting at @n.smithgallery (Gadigal Country/Sydney) until 26 July.

The exhibition honours the role of women in the continuation and evolution of cultural practices. Through vibrant paintings and pitis (coolamons) made from reclaimed road signs, her artworks connect her to the personal and intergenerational practices within Pitjantjatjara knowledge.

For his latest exhibition 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘪𝘯 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘯, Jamie Te Heuheu’s process went through several iterations. He was inspired by the scale of Ralph Hotere’s Malady Panels, which eventually evolved into grey colour field diptychs.

“For me,” says Te Heuheu, “these paintings have been a deep dive into colour theory, basic things missed from my art school education. I’ve been learning more about how colours interact, what they evoke, and how to mix and create them. I’ve also been thinking about how to push my practice further by investigating multi-panel paintings.”

𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘪𝘯 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘯 is exhibiting at @starkwhite (Auckland/Tāmaki Makaurau) until 26 July.

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Image: Jamie Te Heuheu, Untitled (detail), 2025, oil on canvas, ganvar varnish.

Pictured: Stieg Persson, 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵 𝘶𝘱, 2024, oil on canvas, 122 x 112 cm.

Exhibiting at @annaschwartzgallery (Naarm/Melbourne) until 16 August, 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘚𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘴 presents works which articulate the dilemmas of creativity using quotes from numerous sources ranging from weighty literary voices to investment brochures.

All the paintings illustrate the same dilemma: when the problems of creativity become the subject itself. This exhibition is about creativity emerging from apparent emptiness or ‘mental block’; art coming not from having ideas but from surrendering the need to have them.

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Exhibiting at @longallery (Naarm/Melbourne) until

Exhibiting at @longallery (Naarm/Melbourne) until 19 July, Ryan Hancock's 𝘞𝘏𝘖𝘙𝘓 is inspirited by the logic of natural forms—spirals, shells, plant structures—through handbuilt ceramic vessels that reflect upon growth and accumulation. Constructed in concentric coils, the vessels are formed intuitively, allowing the shape to emerge whilst resisting inclinations for perfectionism. The process reflects evolution, with form and surface developing in tandem.

Drawing on the ancient tradition of Maiolica, the vessels become both object and image, with continuous narrative loops depicting vignettes of office life, native birds and fish caught in local waters. Each vessel becomes an orbit of lived experience and tradition, where stories spiral without end, reflecting the ever evolving transformation of life and the hand that shapes them.

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Image courtesy LON Gallery.

For 𝘤𝘭ī𝘯ī𝘤, Tyrone Te Waa @tewa.aa h

For 𝘤𝘭ī𝘯ī𝘤, Tyrone Te Waa @tewa.aa has created exuberant and curious screen and bust soft-sculptures consisting of personal mythologies of wit and whimsy. Conceived in Taumarunui, Aotearoa, he imagines an assortment of characters dressed for urban city life, set within a charged gallery space and informed by mātauranga Māori.

Wall works, popping with cartoonish levity and underscored by queer mythology, appear as brightly coloured portraits or lucky talismans. Constructed from felted wool stretched over foam and canvas bars and sometimes fringed, they are irresistibly tactile.

𝘤𝘭ī𝘯ī𝘤 marks the inaugural exhibition at @futures_gallery's new location on Easey Street, Collingwood, exhibiting until 19 July.

Images:
1. Tyrone Te Waa, 𝘛𝘜𝘕𝘈 𝘙𝘖𝘈 (𝘋𝘦𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘦𝘭𝘴), felted wool, stretcher bar, nails, thread, 40 x 34 x 11 cm.
2. Tyrone Te Waa, 𝘙Ō𝘊𝘒𝘠 ///, 2025, felted wool, wool stretcher bar, thread, nails 54 x 32 x 6.5 cm.
3. Tyrone Te Waa, 𝘤𝘭ī𝘯ī𝘤, installation view

Rudi Williams 𝘋é𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘦,

Rudi Williams 𝘋é𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘦, now showing at @haydens.gallery (Naarm/Melbourne), until 12 July.

Considering impermanence and the pervasiveness of imagery, @rudi_will focuses on worn street posters to contemplate the extent advertising imagery reflects, amplifies and sometimes eerily predicts the zeitgeist.

Together the selection of works employ repetition, and an allusion to visual trickery where he has used deliberately crude ‘burning and dodging’ darkroom techniques, to consider erasure and the interpretation of images when taken out of context.

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Images:
1. Rudi Williams, 2017, 𝘍𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘐𝘐, 𝘔𝘦𝘭𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦, 𝘈𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘢, 2025, Hand printed chromogenic print on Dibond, water based ink, E 1/5 + 2 AP, 105 x 69 cm.
2. Rudi Williams, 𝘋é𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘦, 2025, installation view, Haydens (Naarm/Melbourne).