Barry Keldoulis talks about the Melbourne Art Fair

Barry Keldoulis, the CEO and Group Fairs Director of Art Fairs Australia, the presenters of Sydney Contemporary and the Melbourne Art Fair (on behalf of the Melbourne Art Foundation), will talk about the upcoming Melbourne Art Fair at Starkwhite at 5pm today. He will cover public and collector programmes, and the three new exhibition sections that have been introduced to this year’s edition of the Melbourne Art Fair - MAF Platform, MAF  Video, and MAF Edge. Curated by Simone Hine and Kyle Weise, the co-founding directors of Screen Space, MAF Video includes Grant Stevens’ Auric Variations.
Image: Barry Keldoulis

Sydney's new international art fair on track to launch at Carriageworks in September

An upbeat Tim Etchells hosted a function last week to promote the launch of Sydney Contemporary. Directed by well-known Australian gallerist Barry Kedoulis, the first edition of the fair will take place September in a refurbished train shed at Sydney's historic Carriageworks. Etchells says the fair will feature 65 galleries and that it has already secured the participation of 48 galleries, including 20 from overseas. He is also confident the fair will attract art buyers despite tougher market conditions that saw last year's Melbourne Art Fair report sales of $8 million, down from $11 million in 2010.
Image: Tim Etchells at ART HK