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An icon of the Perth arts scene since 2017, @moore An icon of the Perth arts scene since 2017, @moorecontemporary (Boorloo/Perth) was founded by arts veteran, Margaret Moore. Having previously worked at the Art Gallery of NSW, the National Gallery of Australia (NGA), and the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA), Margaret opened the gallery with ambitions to support contemporary art in her home state. Decades of experience has allowed her to forge meaningful relationships with artists, arts workers, and collectors alike. “I’m someone who likes to keep moving forward and progress in life. In a way, you are always reinventing yourself. You invent your own interests and stimulus. When I started the gallery, it was the right time for me and the right time for Perth.” – Margaret Moore speaking with @artcollector
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Moore Contemporary has since become a familiar presence at Melbourne Art Fair, having exhibited since 2022. Swipe to discover their past presentations, including @jacobus_capone’s solo in 2022 with his Perdition & Prayer paintings; @abdul_rahman_abdullah’s incredible
wooden sculptures in 2024; and in 2025, paintings by Ian Williams @ianwils_ and sculpture by Joshua Webb @jlwstudio in dialogue. ​
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The gallery returns to MAF in 2026 with a solo show of works by @tovekjellmark. ​
Melbourne Art Fair, 19 – 22 February 2026 at the @mcec
EXHIBITING 2026 | @moorecontemporary (Boorloo/Pert EXHIBITING 2026 | @moorecontemporary (Boorloo/Perth)

MOORE CONTEMPORARY returns to Melbourne Art Fair 2026 to showcase a solo presentation of works by @tovekjellmark 

Kjellmark’s experimental practice allows her to move freely between different media and materials. Through her interests in motion capture, robotics and a merging of natural and artificial form, Kjellmark creates spaces of critical reflection about techno-scientific acceleration.

Her artworks ask questions about the nature of human and non-human agency in a highly ‘indoctrinated’ post-human world. Her work often possesses a certain fragmentation that appears to be a visual bridge between the digitised art-making and ancient relic.

Don’t miss her solo show at Melbourne Art Fair 2026, 19 – 22 February. 
Tickets at the link in bio. 🔗

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Images: 
1.	Tove Kjellmark, Blue Horse, 2025, mixed media, 26 x 33 x 10 cm, Courtesy the artist and MOORE CONTEMPORARY.
2-3. The artist working in a foundry. Courtesy the artist and MOORE CONTEMPORARY.
4. Tove Kjellmark, Lean Back, 2025, mixed media, 23 x 25 x 19 cm. Courtesy the artist and MOORE CONTEMPORARY.
EXHIBITING 2026 | @artcollectivewa (Boorloo/Perth) EXHIBITING 2026 | @artcollectivewa (Boorloo/Perth) 

In her latest body of work, Dr. Vanessa Russ draws on childhood memories of the Kimberley’s rivers, gorges, and flooded plains. Her expressive charcoal and ink drawings depict the land’s renewal during the wet season, when hidden waterways surge to life, spilling through ancient fissures to mix with rainwater. Each piece reflects the artist’s connection to Country, and her longing to be immersed in its transformation. Through her raw, layered technique, Vanessa Russ evokes the beauty, power and joy of the Kimberley landscape after the early rains.

Her works will be showcased in a solo presentation by Art Collective WA at Melbourne Art Fair 2026. 
Established in 2013, Art Collective WA has become significant player in the Australian contemporary art scene. Run by artists, the Collective focuses on creating opportunities that involve and benefit significant Western Australian artists. 

We can always trust Art Collective WA to bring a great solo presentation. Swipe to discover their most recent exhibitions at MAF, including @olga_cironis in 2025 exploring the notions of belonging, identity and cultural globalisation; and @lamb.joanna in 2024 and her large-scale botanical-inspired series. 

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Images: 
1-2. Vanessa Russ, 𝘊𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥-𝘶𝘱, 𝘋𝘦𝘳𝘣𝘺 – 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮 5, 2025, Indian ink on paper, 38 x 56cm. Courtesy the artist and Art Collective WA.
3- Melbourne Art Fair 2025. Photo: Will Hamilton-Coates.
4- Melbourne Art Fair 2024. Photo: Griffin Simm.
What lies beyond the soaring ceilings and taut ste What lies beyond the soaring ceilings and taut steel walls that shape @acca_melbourne’s iconic space? What goes on behind the scenes, where the team types away, quietly scheming their next big exhibition?

We joined Myles Russell-Cook @myzrc, now firmly settled into his role as Artistic Director and CEO, to chat about his love for ACCA, some of the new changes he’s set in motion (including a very personal donation to the gallery which may or may not be his old couch), and what lies ahead. These are Myles’ 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘵𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴. 

We’re also excited to continue our cultural partnership with ACCA for Melbourne Art Fair 2026. With shared ambitions to support contemporary Australian and international artists, and the fact that we’re both 80s babies, it’s a pretty perfect match.
Spotted at Melbourne Art Fair 2004 (bottom left): Spotted at Melbourne Art Fair 2004 (bottom left): Beverly Knight, Director of @alcaston_gallery (Naarm/Melbourne).

You can’t talk about a Melbourne Art Fair staple without mentioning Alcaston Gallery, founded in 1989, just one year after the very first MAF by Beverly and Anthony Knight.

Known for her eagle eye for emerging talent, Beverly has spent decades championing artists, particularly First Nations artists, throughout their careers. Early highlights include her inaugural 1989 exhibition featuring Emily Kame Kngwarreye and Ginger Riley Munduwalawala. More recently, Alcaston presented the landmark Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori survey at @fondationcartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris and @triennalemilano, before Gabori’s works returned to MAF 2024 alongside iconic pieces by Tiger Yaltangki.

This year, the gallery brought an extraordinary presentation of works by Aileen Napaljarri Long, Ada Pula Beasley, Shirley Macnamara, Louise Robertson, and Rhonda Sharpe, the scale of the booth practically dwarfing the MCEC itself.

Beyond the gallery walls, Beverly is a passionate AFL supporter (Bombers, strictly). She served as a director of the Essendon Football Club from 1993–2010, the first woman ever elected to an AFL club board. Who said art people can’t be sports people too?

We’re looking forward to their booth in 2026 in collaboration with @papunyatulaartists featuring works by Ray JamesTjangala, Bobby WestTjupurrula and AdrianJurraTjungurrayi.
EXHIBITING 2026 | Alcaston Gallery:  𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘉𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘈𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦: 𝘙𝘦𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘞𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘈𝘳𝘵.

In compelling intergenerational dialogue, three creative and cultural leaders will exhibit their works, presented by @alcaston_gallery (Naarm/Melbourne) in collaboration with @papunyatulaartists. In curatorial dialogue, Ray James Tjangala, Bobby West Tjupurrula and Adrian Jurra Tjungurrayi interrupt the temporal continuum of Western Desert art, objecting the notion that art and artist are historically fixed and critically isolated.

Instead, their works are satellites within an inherently connected cultural matrix that converse, unseen and unbroken, between the past and the present - transhistorical and objectified mnemonics. Art as a living site of cultural memory. Art as cultural blockchains across time.

The presentation includes paintings by all three artists, an important short documentary film on Bobby West’s return to his Country, and his new sculpture - a first in almost 55 years for Papunya Tula Artists, the company entirely owned and directed by Aboriginal people since 1972.

Melbourne Art Fair, 19 – 22 February 2026 at the @mcec 

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Images:
All images courtesy the artist, Alcaston Galley, and Papunya Tula Artists.
1.	Ray JamesTjangala, 𝘒𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘢, 2010 (AK23697), Synthetic polymer paint on linen, 122 x 122 cm © The Artist, Papunya Tula Artists, and Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne.
2.	Ray James Tjangala, 𝘠𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘢, 2021 (AK23696), Synthetic polymer paint on linen, 153 x 122 cm.
3.	Artist Portrait –Bobby West Tjupurrula
4.	Bobby West Tjupurrula, 𝘛𝘫𝘶𝘭𝘺𝘶𝘳𝘶, 2025 (AK23801), Synthetic polymer paint on linen, 61 x 55 cm.
5.	Artist Portrait, Adrian Jurra Tjungurrayi.
6.	Adrian Jurra Tjungurrayi, 𝘠𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘢, 2024 (AK23572), Synthetic polymer paint on linen, 152 x 122 cm © The Artist, Papunya Tula Artists, and Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne.
7-8. Film Still, 𝘕𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘺𝘢 © Francis MacIndoe
Andy Dinan @andy_dinan founded Melbourne Art Rooms Andy Dinan @andy_dinan founded Melbourne Art Rooms (now known as @marsgallery) in 2004 and it seems they haven’t taken a breath since. More than two decades in and the team continues to charge ahead, having easily exhibited over 250 shows featuring 330+ artists to date. This year alone, they’ve added The Huxleys @garretthuxley, and @jdavies.studio to their roster, doubling down on their ambitions to back mid-career artists and the next generation.

MARS has exhibited at a whole lot of iterations of Melbourne Art Fair since 2010, making them a series regular. Swipe to see the most recent highlights, including solo shows featuring @kennypittock’s playfully tender ceramic sculptures inspired by discarded shopping lists, and @dani_mckenzie_’s paintings that explore the intrigues of everyday life, making the small moments the most significant. 

We’re already looking forward to MARS’ 2026 presentation, 𝘛𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘓𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴. The curated group show will feature artists @jenna.mlee (also spotted at MAF 2022 in pic 2), @damienshen, @cassiesullivan_._, @georgiaboseley___art, and Madi Mercer @_ghostgum, spotlighting works deeply imbued in recontextualising Country. 

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Images: 
1.	Andy Dinan, Director, MARS Gallery. Courtesy MARS Gallery. 
2.	Jenna Lee at Melbourne Art Fair 2022.
3.	Andy Dinan next to Dani McKenzie, MARS, Melbourne Art Fair 2024. 
4.	Melbourne Art Fair 2024. Photo: Griffin Simm. 
5.	Melbourne Art Fair 2025. Photo: Will Hamilton-Coates.
Here at Melbourne Art Fair, we are thrilled to wel Here at Melbourne Art Fair, we are thrilled to welcome @marsgallery (Naarm/Melbourne) in 2026. For their seventh-year exhibiting, they will present 𝘛𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘓𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴, a curated group show spotlighting works deeply imbued in recontextualising Country and investigating the complexities of First Nations heritage through each artist’s unique perspective.

The exhibition will present exceptional and arresting new works by artists @jenna.mlee (Larrakia), @damienshen (Ngarrindjeri), @cassiesullivan_._ (lutruwita/Tasmanian), @georgiaboseley___art (Central and Eastern Arrernte) and Madi Mercer @_ghostgum (Wadawurrung).

Award-winning Indigenous author and activist, Tony Birch, recognised for his powerful, compassionate storytelling and his exploration of Aboriginal history, identity and resilience proudly introduces MARS’ Temporal Legacies in a new catalogue essay titled 𝘚𝘰𝘧𝘵 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳.

Birch writes, “Each of the artists involved in 𝘛𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘓𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴 assert their sovereignty with their work. But they also do so through their identities. By this, don’t be mistaken. These artists are not on display. They are not articulating an essentialist version of Aboriginality, to satisfy the white gaze. These remarkable people are activists in the true sense of the work. Their works are acts of First Nations speech.”

Melbourne Art Fair, 19 – 22 February 2026.
Tickets at the link in bio 🔗

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Images: 
1.	Jenna Lee, 𝘚𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘦𝘶𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘱𝘵𝘶𝘴 (detail), 2025, 60 x 90cm, edition of 25 + 2 AP, 100 x 150cm. Courtesy the artist and MARS Gallery. 
2.	Damien Shen, 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘪𝘯 𝘛𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘴, 2025, five hand etched tintype, 4 x 5inch each, edition of 5 + 2AP. Courtesy the artist and MARS Gallery. 
3.	Georgia Boseley, 2025. Courtesy the artist and MARS Gallery.
4.	Madi Mercer, top: approx. 30cm width x 20cm height x 17cm depth. Bottom: approx. 30cm x 14cm. Courtesy the artist and MARS Gallery.
5.	Cassie Sullivan, 𝘢 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘭, 𝘢 𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦 (𝘪), Fine copper wire weaving, dimensions approx. 80 x 120 x 100cm (Dependent on how low the artwork hangs). Courtesy the artist and MARS Gallery.
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