Join emerging artist Oliver Abbott as he shares his innovative approach to memory and architecture through digital world-building tools and painting. With a background in filmmaking, animation, and architecture, Abbott’s process presents recollection as a creative act, reconstructing remembered environments to offer a unique perspective on how memory distorts and reshapes our perception of place. The artist will also share his recent experiences at Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Centre as the recipient of the Nancy Fairfax Residency award.
Hosted by Dominik Mersch Gallery.
Location: Booth G08 – Dominik Mersch Gallery, Carriageworks.
“Join exhibiting artist Zac Langdon-Pole at STATION Booth G06 for an artist talk. Langdon-Pole will offer insights into how he reconfigures personal and planetary histories through material, narrative and process.
This event forms part of STATION’s presentation at Sydney Contemporary Art fair 2025.”
Hosted by STATION.
RSVP to STATION Gallery via [email protected].
Location: Booth G06 – STATION, Carriageworks.
“In September 2025, DRAW Space presents a new drawing performance by STATION artist Laith McGregor in collaboration with Joel Cooper, curated by Belinda Yee – a large scale drawing, an elusive portrait, a silent conversation. The drawing performance will begin at 4pm and continue until late.
The outcome of the performance will be exhibited until 14 September, 5pm. This event coincides with Laith McGregor’s solo exhibition Ain’t No Sunshine at STATION Gadigal/Sydney during Sydney Contemporary Art Fair week, 2025.”
Hosted by STATION.
Location: DRAW Space, 31A Enmore Road, Newtown
McClelland’s paintings feel like an excavation – a digging out of parts of the body, carving out fragments and reassembling them – a constant negotiation between honouring the chance textures of the paint and bringing the bodies into focus. Figures are suspended in a state of entanglement as the narrative emerges. Forms intertwine and separate, and moments of tenderness are revealed, becoming sensations and histories of desire, vulnerability, intimacy and spirituality. “When I paint,” explains McClelland, “I feel a nostalgia for a past I haven’t known, and as though I am seeking something ethereal that exists outside my familiar world. Amidst this uncovering, my works seek to discover how we operate together in relationships and communities, and are an ode to the romance of it all.”
Hosted by Curatorial+Co.
Location: Booth J15 – Curatorial+Co., Carriageworks.
Join emerging painters, Nicole Zhang and Martin Claydon for a stimulating discussion on figurative painting, the isolation of the artist studio, and what it means to be an emerging artist
Many artists incorporate their everyday lives and mundane actives into their work, providing a nuanced insight into the simultaneously banal and ever-changing nature of everyday life. Nicole Zhang and Martin Claydon both embody the chaotic, dense, profound, and intricate balance that is experienced within the everyday. Through the medium of figurative painting, both artists are able to convey these complexities, in ways that are concurrently joyful, humorous, macabre and serious.
Join CBD Gallery for an engaging conversation between artists on figurative painting, the isolation of the artist studio, and what it means to be an emerging artist, moderated by assistant curator, Jenny van Ratingen.
Hosted by CBD Gallery
Location: Booth J08, CBD Gallery
