Kirstie Rea’s In the Company of Nature at Melbourne Art Fair 2025 explores the Australian landscape through kiln-formed glass sculptures. Her artworks capture nature’s fluidity and subtle beauty, inviting reflection on humanity’s connection with the environment through delicate forms and textures.
Staged photography replaces spontaneity with intention. Through artists like Crewdson, Wall, and Schude, it blends cinema, theatre, and design to build rich, narrative scenes—inviting viewers to pause, reflect, and imagine new possibilities.
Vermilion Art, Sydney's Chinese contemporary art pioneer, showcased Chen Wenling's satirical sculptures and Gao Ping's fusion of Eastern/Western styles at Melbourne Art Fair 2025.
Neon Parc's Melbourne Art Fair 2025 stand featured Damiano Bertoli, Diena Georgetti, and Janet Burchill/Jennifer McCamley, showcasing their engagement with Modernism, abstraction, and the concept of time.
Australian artist Hannah Gartside’s exhibition Bunnies in Love, Lust & Longing at MAF 2025 transforms vintage leather gloves into sculptures exploring intimacy, desire, and vulnerability. Her textile practice thoughtfully invites reflection on identity, memory, and repurposed materials.
At the 2025 Melbourne Art Fair, Hugo Michell Gallery, under Jenna Pippett's direction, showcased artists Sam Gold and Zaachariaha Fielding. Gold, a queer non-binary artist, uses ceramics to explore the body and identity. Fielding, of Mimili, blends Aboriginal traditions with contemporary themes.
Meg Cowell is a Melbourne-based photographic artist known for her ethereal images of submerged garments. Her work explores femininity, transformation, and the interplay of light and water, where she creates dreamlike, sculptural forms that evoke a sense of otherworldliness.
"Negotiating This World," curated by Jane Devery at NGV (2012), surveyed contemporary Australian art through 100 works by 40 artists. The exhibition explored globalization, identity, and technology, emphasizing Indigenous perspectives and Australia's position in the Asia-Pacific region.
Andrew Browne continues to expand and refine his visual investigations, maintaining his position as an artist who bridges multiple domains – between photography and painting, observation and imagination, the specific and the universal – with remarkable sensitivity and skill.
A dynamic painting practice, influenced by his time in New York City, capturing movement and energy through layered compositions. He builds up surfaces with acrylic and resin, creating a palimpsest of visual information that reflects the passage of time and the accumulation of experiences.
Sam Gold creates sculptural ceramic vessels that challenge traditions through experimental techniques and textured surfaces. Based in Adelaide and represented by Hugo Michell Gallery, Gold's ecological practice was recently showcased at Melbourne Art Fair.
As Cyclone Alfred approaches, Brisbane’s arts institutions are enacting flood plans refined since past disasters. Their response highlights the need for cultural venues to prepare for more frequent and severe weather events.
Ali Yeldham’s Arthouse Gallery showcased Robyn Sweaney’s architectural paintings and Kendal Murray’s whimsical tableau miniatures at the Melbourne Art Fair 2025, thoughtfully highlighting rich and diverse artistic narratives in Australian contemporary visual art.
First Nations art is central to Australia’s identity, evolving from ancient traditions into a dynamic contemporary force. Celebrated artists and major exhibitions showcase its power to challenge, heal, and reimagine through deeply rooted cultural expression.
Andrew Rogers creates monumental geoglyphs across seven continents in his "Rhythms of Life" project, employing local communities to build massive stone structures that merge contemporary artistic vision with ancient techniques and cultural symbols visible from aerial perspectives.
Marion Borgelt's 2012 exhibition "To See a World in a Grain of Sand" explores cosmic patterns through diverse media, merging mathematical precision with sensory experience to transform abstract concepts of time and celestial movement into visually arresting artworks.
