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September 7 – 10
Visit us at Booth H08 during Sydney Contemporary Art Fair 2023
Fair Hours
Thursday September 7: 11am – 9pm
Friday September 8: 11am – 8pm
Saturday September 9: 11am – 6pm
Sunday September 10: 11am – 5pm
.M Contemporary is excited to present a dynamic group exhibition featuring a collection of emerging and established represented gallery artists.
Please note, artworks listed below will be dispersed between the gallery and the booth for viewing. Not all works will be hanging at the booth.
Browse catalogue below
Cameron Haas began studying fine art at the University of Tasmania and completed his studies at the National Art School in Sydney where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours in 2010. He now lives and works in the Sydney Area.
Luke Thurgate is an artist living and working on Gadigal Land (Sydney). He teaches drawing and painting at the National Art School, where he graduated in 2021 with a Master of Fine Art. Luke has an extensive exhibition history including recent exhibitions at Grafton Regional Gallery, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Backwoods Gallery, Burra Regional Art Gallery, National Art School and Adelaide Central Gallery. He was a finalist in the 2019 Dobell Drawing Prize, the 2020 Tom Bass Figurative Sculpture Prize and the 2022 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award.
Since graduating from the National Art School in 2020, light and shadow have remained integral to Suzanna Vangelov’s artistic practice. Working predominantly with abstract painting, she is deeply influenced by the natural environment that surrounds her.
“Nephros,” – meaning Kidney in Greek.
Hannalie Taute (b. 1977) started her life’s journey in a small town called Fochville in Gauteng, South Africa. In 2000, she obtained a National Higher Diploma in Fine Art at PE Technicon (now the NNMU). A decade ago she started working with rubber and particularly repurposed rubber inner-tubes, and in 2012 she added embroidery to her list of preferred media.
Finnish born, Australian based artist Agneta Ekholm’s work is by definition abstract and built entirely from imagination and engagement with her technical process. Each painting evolves on the canvas: no working drawings exist. The paintings result from the exploration and discovery inherent in a technique honed over the last 20 years.
Galia Gluckman creates large-scale, multi-dimensional artworks through the layered use of hand-cut strips of paper. Born in 1973 in Tel Aviv, Gluckman initially studied and worked as a Fashion Designer in London and New York, before focusing solely on Fine Art from 2004. The intuitive process of cutting and pasting paper takes the viewer on an oscillating journey between order and disorder. Each strip of paper is painted, cut and attached, layer upon layer. Gluckman is mostly instinctively guided to form shapes and structures that build upon themselves to become new forms. Unveiling the intricacies, the viewer is invited to observe both minute details and majesty of scale. The artist has developed an intimate relationship with her material, working rhythmically with the meditative construction of each work. In a world increasingly driven by automation and syntheticism, Gluckman is intent on exploring and amplifying the human qualities that machines cannot replicate. It is the unveiling of the intricacies that create a sense of stillness and quiet that capture interest. The cutting and reassemblage of the artist’s material is reflective of the shifting binary perceptions of all things; we are creatures of balance and imbalance. Living requires us to construct, deconstruct and to then rebuild our existence constantly.
Mark Howson was born in Staffordshire, England and arrived Australia in 1969. He was a founding member of Roar Studios – one of Melbourne’s earliest (fiercest) artist-run-initiatives. Howson’s art practise encompasses drawing, painting and sculpture. His work is highly regarded for it’s meditative, cubist style, which developed from vigourous expressionism into avant-garde abstraction. Popular representations include simple, textural forms in carefully balanced, bright compositions.
I am an Australian born, Sydney-based artist.
German/Australian artist Simone Rosenbauer lives and works on the lands of Awabakal and Worimi in Awabakal country (Newcastle/Australia). She studied Photography at the University of Applied Sciences in Dortmund (Germany), where she received her BA and MA in 2006. In 2008 she received the European Endeavour Award from the Australian Government to study for her MFA in Photography at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, which she completed in 2010.
Sydney epoxy resin artist Rick Carlino has been creating large scale works which explore the fluidity and viscosity of a notoriously rebellious medium for the last decade. Drawing on his diverse creative and professional career, which has included music composition and brand design, Rick creates vivid contemporary artworks which showcase his love of colour.
Elefteria Vlavianos was born in Zimbabwe of mixed Armenian and Greek heritage. She is an abstract painter who’s visual practice has developed through an ongoing investigation into the process abstraction, its vocabulary and conventions as a visual translation of a displaced cultural aesthetic. Her paintings draw on her multi-cultural Armenian and Greek heritage. Imagery in her paintings is derived from her current research of thirteenth century Armenian Manuscript Paintings and the tradition of Armenian textile crafts. Continued themes within her practice and paintings, are time, silence, presence and memory as they tie into a dialogue between representation, visibility and abstract painting. In this framework issue such a colour, structure, and mark making are key concerns as they translate across time, space and between two idioms in painting.
Michael Taylor mimics the immediate and expansive nature of the drawing process in order to develop scenes and characters in his painted work. Removed from its purely observational qualities, drawing becomes a projection of the artist’s intuition, imagination and memory. Representational and figurative elements in Taylor’s paintings create narrative frameworks that are unravelled to varying degrees through abstract marking.
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