SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR 2024
.M Contemporary is delighted to return for our 11th edition of the Sydney Contemporary Art Fair with a presentation of works by Hannalie Taute, Suzanna Vangelov, Luke Thurgate, Elefteria Vlavianos, Anya Pesce and Rick Carlino.
Join us at Booth I10 from 5th – 8th September.
Register for priority access to receive .M Contemporary’s preview catalogue.
FAIR HOURS
Thursday September 5:Â 11am – 9pm
Friday September 6:Â 11am – 8pm
Saturday September 7:Â 11am – 6pm
Sunday September 8:Â 11am – 5pm
Sydney-based artist Rick Carlino has spent the past decade developing a distinctive practice centred on epoxy resin, exploring the fluidity, viscosity and unpredictability of a notoriously demanding medium. Working at scale, Carlino creates luminous abstract compositions that balance disciplined structure with the natural behaviour of resin, producing works defined by depth, colour and controlled movement.
Through still life paintings of Indigenous flowers, birds, and insects, Guthleben uses the traditions of vanitas and its messages of the transience of life to present a painted vernacular that spans humour, kitsch, historical and environmental themes.
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.
Elefteria Vlavianos was born in Zimbabwe of mixed Armenian and Greek heritage and now lives in Sydney. She is an abstract painter whose visual practice has developed through an ongoing investigation into the process of abstraction, its vocabulary and conventions. Elefteria, works across mediums in painting that include oil, acrylic and wax mediums.  Imagery in her paintings is derived from her on going research into Armenian textile crafts, gospel paintings and inherited cultural objects. Continued conceptual themes within her practice, are time, presence, renewal 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 and space; and between idioms in painting as well as cultural practices.
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’s exhibition history includes recent projects at Grafton Regional Gallery, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Backwoods Gallery, Burra Regional Art Gallery, National Art School and Adelaide Central Gallery. He has been a finalist multiple times in the Dobell Drawing Prize, the Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, and in 2020 was a finalist in the Tom Bass Figurative Sculpture Prize.
Andrzej Urbanski is an established Cape Town-based artist prized for his immaculate hard-edged abstract art. The clean, precise forms defining it belie its relationship to memory, sensory and spatial encounters, emotions and psychic states, which are channelled most often into overlapping colourful geometric shapes, implying resolution. The bold shards of colour characterising his art may recall objects, places, experiences from his youth, the colour of a building or a room, or encompass the state of mind he is in as he steps into his Woodstock studio. As such his painted art is described as ‘high’ or ‘low frequency’, referring to either a complex matrix of influences shaping intricate compositions, or in the latter instance, quieter, ‘less busy’ forms often united by a subdued colour palette.
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.
I am an Australian artist, based in Sydney on the land of the Eora nation.