Damien Shen is a South Australian man of Ngarrindjeri and Chinese descent. As an artist, he draws on these cultural influences to create works of intense personal meaning....
Tag Archives: Sydney Contemporary
Sydney Contemporary | D’Lan Contemporary | Paddy Bedford
With an immediate and powerful command of the medium, Paddy Bedford often painted daily. His final works were a shaky series of white gouache on black crescent board....
Sydney Contemporary 2024 | Art Leven | Lily Yirdingali Jurrah Hargraves Nungarrayi
Art Leven presents the work of senior Walpiri artist Lily Yirdingali Jurrah Hargraves Nungarrayi (1930–2018), an overlooked yet prolific artist who painted in the style that embodies the work from Lajamanu, NT....
Sydney Contemporary 2024 | Australian Galleries | Graeme Drendel
Graeme Drendel's 'Static and Silence' comprises oil paintings and mixed media collage works depicting isolated figures of solitude and introspection, even when depicted in groups or clusters....
Artist Feature | William Yang – Sydney Contemporary 2023
William Yang explores issues of cultural and sexual identity; capturing the world as it happens around him as well as revisiting his photographs to recompose their meaning....
Artist Feature | John Vickery – Sydney Contemporary 2023
John Vickery's 1960s and 70s works exemplify the power of the op art genre through the process of perception and its insistence on abstraction fusing art and science....
Artist Feature | Christopher Zanko – Sydney Contemporary 2023
Christopher Zanko captures and records the settings and dwellings of mid-twentieth-century suburban homes, those with humble, noble bones and greater possibilities....
Artist Feature | Janice Stanley – Sydney Contemporary 2023
In washes of colour and meandering line, Janice Stanley captures changes in light and colour; the reflections of the sky and the movement of the water across the land....
Artist Feature | Jessica Loughlin – Sydney Contemporary 2023
Jessica Laughlin creates ethereal glass works evocative of the beauty of emptiness and her extensive research into light and space....
Artist Feature | John R Walker – Sydney Contemporary 2023
Seasonal changes and differences in times of day are captured in John R Walker's new series of paintings depicting Gaanha-bula (Mt Canobolas)....
Artist Feature | Dhambit Munuŋgurr – Sydney Contemporary 2023
Painting with Marwat, Dhambit Munuŋgurr ’s distinct brushstroke and vivid palette of cobalt blues echo depictions of the sky and sea....
Artist Feature | Cannon Dill – Sydney Contemporary 2023
A blend of the familiar and bizarre, Cannon Dill invites viewers “to traverse the paintings as one would meander through the warm blue evening air.”...