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2023

Press Release: 3 October
Melbourne Art Fair Announces Gallery List, Program Highlights and Reveals $100,000 Commission Recipient for the Now Annual Summer Fair

2021-22

Press Release: 28 April
Melbourne Art Foundation 2022 Commission in partnership with ACMI awarded to First Nations artist, Kaylene Whiskey

Press Release: 21 September
Melbourne Art Fair announces gallery list and program highlights for the summer 2022 edition

Press Release: 3 November
Arts sector boosted as Bennelong Funds Management announces Principal Partnership with Melbourne Art Fair

2019-20

Press Release: 28 April
Melbourne Art Fair Announces Free Virtual Art Fair for June 2020

Press Release: 29 August
Melbourne Art Fair names inaugural artistic director for 2020

Press Release: 10 July
Melbourne Art Fair: Australasia’s most progressive forum for contemporary art announced 18-21 June 2020

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Five Must-See Solo Presentations at Melbourne Art Fair 2024

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October 2, 2023

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October 2, 2023

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📣WORK WITH US 📣 Australasia's progressive f

📣WORK WITH US 📣

Australasia's progressive forum for contemporary art and ideas, Melbourne Art Fair will showcase solo shows and works of scale and significance from 60 galleries and Indigenous art centres, 22-25 February at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.

Melbourne Art Fair is owned and operated by the Melbourne Art Foundation, an Australian non-profit arts organisation dedicated to the support of living artists.

Applications are now open to join the 17th iteration of Melbourne Art Fair focusing in the areas of:
-Front of House
-VIP and Events Programming
-Fair Operations

Both paid and volunteer positions are available. Visit the link in bio for more information and to apply now. 🔗
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Melbourne Art Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity in the workplace. As such we encourage and support applications from people from diverse backgrounds for any jobs that might currently be available.

The acutely observed detail of Ebony Truscott’s

The acutely observed detail of Ebony Truscott’s paintings and works on paper reveal the artist’s interest, not only in describing the visible, but also in depicting tactile and spatial experience. Truscott’s subjects are drawn from her immediate surroundings and include contemporary objects related to the body and the home: Ventolin inhalers, earplugs, bricks, fruit and light bulbs are repeated motifs.

@niagaragalleries will exhibit a new body of work by @ebony_truscott work at Melbourne Art Fair in 2024. Tickets available at the link in bio 🔗

Image: Ebony Truscott, Wrecked drum with jar, 2023, oil on linen, 61.5 x 77cm. Photo by Matthew Stanton
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#art #contemporaryart #niagaragalleries #ebonytruscott #melbourneartfair

One of Australia's foremost contemporary artists w

One of Australia's foremost contemporary artists with a career spanning more than 40 years, Bill Henson's photography employs a stark, signature aesthetic characterized by chiaroscuro lighting and bokeh blurred backgrounds. His photographs range from portraits of adolescents to emotive landscapes, providing viewers with the opportunity to contemplate the ambiguous and transcendent qualities of his works.

Henson will be presented by 1301SW and STARKWHITE at Melbourne Art Fair 2024, alongside Tim Bučković, Simryn Gill, Jonny Niesche, Fiona Pardington, Coen Young and Michael Zavros.

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Melbourne Art Fair takes place at @mcec from 22 -25 February. Tickets available at the link in bio 🔗

Pictured: Bill Henson, Untitled, 2000-01, JPC SH141 N32A, Type C photograph, 127 x 180cm, courtesy of the artist and STARKWHITE, Auckland & Queenstown.

#art #contemporaryart #billhenson #starkwhite #1301sw #melbourneartfair #maf24

Jess Johnson's work reflects ideologies of technol

Jess Johnson's work reflects ideologies of technology and flesh, both ancient and futuristic. Extending into installation, video, VR, and fashion, her fictional world is initially developed by hand through her drawings.

Her complex drawings combine references to classical mythology and cult science-fiction with her personal troupe of humanoid characters into portal-portraits of another world.

@darrenknightgallery (Gadigal Country/Sydney) returns to Melbourne Art Fair 2024, presenting works by Jess Johnson and Ronnie van Hout. The Fair takes place at the bookend of the Victorian summer from 22 - 25 February at @mcec. Tickets are available at the link in bio 🔗

Pictured: Jess Johnson, In the Face of Annihilation, 2023, pen, fibre tipped markers, acrylic paint, and gouache on paper, 76 x 56cm (paper size), 82.6 x 62.2cm (framed).

#art #contemporaryart #jessjohnson #darrenknightgallery #melbourneartfair #maf24 @flesh_dozer

Curating a solo presentation of new works by Argen

Curating a solo presentation of new works by Argentinian artist, Ariel Hassan, MAF welcomes @gagprojects to the Fair in 2024.

The exhibition's title, 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘚𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦, is taken from chapter 37 of the 道德經 Daodejing by 老子 Laozi. The sentence can also be found on one of the assemblages compiled from fragments, scales, shards or puzzle pieces, which hold the planet together as tectonic plates, and eventually shatter it.

Along with the fragment text panels, @hassan_hassan_raw will show work from his 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘧𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘢 (eating humans) series. A current and ongoing series of detailed, often large and almost monochromatic paintings, 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘧𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘢 references the 'Manifesto Antropófago' published in 1928 by writer Oswald de Andrade, a key figure of Latin-American Modernism. “Tupi, or not to Tupi: That is the question“ – is the second sentence of the manifesto. Andrade offers Shakespeare up to the ritual cannibalism of the native tribe of the Tupi. Through the works, remnants of postcolonial, post-digital and post-discoursive worlds collide and produce a new visual universe.

Image: Ariel Hassan, 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘧𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘕5 [𝘈𝘯𝘯𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯], 2018, acrylic on canvas, 200 x 150cm.

#art #contemporaryart #gagprojects #arielhassan #MAF24 #melbourneartfair

Until recently, Matilda Davis has created painting

Until recently, Matilda Davis has created paintings at an intimate and small scale. Her exhibition at Melbourne Art Fair in 2024, presented by @futures_gallery will be her first solo show of large paintings.

Providing immersive encounters, @tildy_davis' paintings are personal constructions, imbued with peculiar characters, lush darkness and latent narrative. Extending from the magical realism genre, complex psychological landscapes composed of particular lexicons come together with forms of molten fluidity.

A curated selection of Davis' works will be available to purchase at Melbourne Art Fair in February 2024. Tickets available at the link in bio 🔗

Image: Matilda Davis, 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘚𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵, 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺, 𝘚𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦, 2023, oil on canvas and board, velvet trim, 180 x 120cm.
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#art #contemporaryart #matildadavis #futures #melbourneartfair #maf24

@nicholasthompsongallery returns to Melbourne Art

@nicholasthompsongallery returns to Melbourne Art Fair in 2024 with a solo presentation of works by painter and sculptor, James Drinkwater.

@drink_water_james's work has been included in exhibitions throughout Australia and internationally in Berlin, Leipzig and London. He has been awarded the Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship (2014), the John Olsen National Art School Life Drawing Prize (2002) and has been a finalist in the Wynne Prize, Sulman Prize, John Glover Art Prize, Paddington Art Prize, Doug Moran Portrait Prize, Dobell Drawing Prize and the Salon de Refuses.

Melbourne Art Fair takes place from 22 - 25 February 2024. Tickets are available at the link in bio🔗

Image: James Drinkwater, 𝘏𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘸𝘴, 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦, 2023, oil on linen, 70.2 x 122cm.

#art #contemporaryart #nicholasthompsongallery #jamesdrinkwater #maf24 #melbourneartfair

One of Australia's most innovative contemporary ar

One of Australia's most innovative contemporary artists, Tiger Yaltangki is renowned for his intersectional practice which merges inherited Aṉangu cultural knowledge with pop culture iconography.

Yaltangki’s bold, bright and often wild canvases are immediately striking - a compelling blend of the artist’s depiction of the Aṉangu concept of Mamu (spirit beings), and his enthusiasm for rock and roll music including Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Credence Clearwater Revival, and science fiction television, including Doctor Who and The Mighty Boosh.

@alcaston_gallery returns to Melbourne Art Fair in 2024 to present new works by Yaltangki and Sally Gabori. The artists' works will be available to purchase at the Fair from 22 - 25 February at @mcec. Tickets available via the link in bio 🔗

Image: Tiger Yaltangki, ACDC, 2021 (AK23221), synthetic polymer paint on digital print and paper, 122 x 76cm. © The Artist, Iwantja Arts, South Australia and Alcaston Gallery.

#art #contemporaryart #alcastongallery #melbourneartfair #maf24