Starkwhite at Sydney Contemporary 2019

Starkwhite will participate in Sydney Contemporary from 12-15 September 2019 with two presentations in adjacent spaces. In one space we'll present new works by Martin Basher (US/NZ) and Rebecca Baumann (AUS) and in the other a group show of works by represented artists including  Whitney Bedford (US), Ani O'Neill (CI), Fiona Pardington (NZ), Gordon Walters (NZ) and Michael Zavros (AUS).

Image: Installation view of Martin Basher's work at Starkwhite in February 2019 showing how his new work will be installed at Sydney Contemporary

Clinton Watkins at Sydney Contemporary

Clinton Watkins' video Hawk (2013) has been selected for the video section of Sydney Contemporary 2017 curated this year by Serena Bentley, curator at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne. 

Image: video still of Hawk (2013) by Clinton Watkins 

Starkwhite at Sydney Contemporary

With two fairs under our belt this year (Art Los Angeles Contemporary, January 2017 and Art Basel Hong Kong, March 2017), we are looking forward to Sydney Contemporary in September where we will present an exhibition of works by Fiona Pardington and Michael Zavros.

Image: Carriageworks, the venue for Sydney Contemporary, 7-10 September 2017.

Starkwhite at Sydney Contemporary

Next week we'll be at the second edition of Sydney Contemporary, the new fair launched by ART HK founder Tim Etchells in 2013 and directed by former gallerist Barry Keldoulis. This year we have taken one of the larger booths, which will be divided to create an exhibition space for a group show, which we will change over the course of the fair, and a smaller room, more akin to a stockroom, with a salon hang of artworks. We will also be represented in Installation Contemporary, the curated section of the fair, with a piece by Melbourne-based artist Laith McGregor.

Image: one of the spaces in Sydney's historic Carriage to be converted to exhibition space for Sydney Contemporary which runs from 10-14 September with a Collectors preview on 13 September.

Sydney Contemporary hits the ground running

You get one chance to make a good first impression and Sydney Contemporary nailed it with the first edition of Australia's newest art fair. Staged at Sydney's historic Carriageworks, it was launched last week with a vernissage attracting over 12,000 guests and a final attendance figure of just under 30,000. Galleries reported better-than-expected sales over the three-day event and gallerists were saying they would be back for the second edition in 2015.

Sydney Contemporary will be staged every two years, alternating with the Melbourne Art Fair, but Melbourne will now be under pressure to lift its game as many of the gallerists at Sydney Contemporary said the fair at Carriageworks should be an annual event.
Image: Seung Yul Oh's Huggong (Variation 1), Installation Contemporary, curated by Aaron Seeto for Sydney Contemporary

Australia's new art fair launched tonight

Sydney Contemporary gets underway this afternoon with a collectors preview followed by the  vernissage. Located in Sydney's historic Carriageworks, the fair includes two curated sections - Video Contemporary curated by Artspace's Mark Feary and Installation Contemporary curated by Aaron Seeto, the director/curator of 4A centre for Contemporary Asian Art.
Images: Grant Stevens' Supermassive and Clinton Watkins' Continuous Ship #1, presented by Starkwhite in Video Contemporary curated by Mark Feary

Sydney launches new art fair in September

Tim Etchells, founder of ART HK (now Art Basel Hong Kong), will launch Sydney Contemporary in September. Unlike the Melbourne Art Fair, which has struggled to realise its international aspirations, Sydney Contemporary opens with a mix of 40% international and 60% Australian-based galleries. The new fair also includes two sections developed in partnership with Artspace and 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art - Contemporary Video curated by  Mark Feary and Installation Contemporary curated by Aaron Seeto. The fair runs at Sydney's historic Carriageworks from 19 - 22 September.
Image: Carriageworks, venue for the inaugural edition of Sydney Contemporary

Sydney Contemporary announces lineup of galleries

Sydney Contemporary has announced the lineup of galleries for the first edition of the fair, which takes place at Carriageworks from 20-22 September. Seventy three galleries from twelve countries have been confirmed with one-third international and two-thirds Australian based. The full list of participating  galleries is published here.

Image: Seung Yul Oh, RaMyun (2011). Starkwhite will present a group show at Sydney Contemporary, including work by Oh 

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

Art Fairs Australia announces new CEO

Australian gallerist Barry Keldoulis has been appointed CEO and Group Fairs Director of Art Fairs Australia Pty, the company behind the new Sydney Contemporary art fair and the Melbourne Art fair. Keldoulis takes up the reins from Francesca Valmorbida who laid the foundations for Sydney Contemporary, which launches in September.
Image: Barry Keldoulis

ART HK founder to launch new fair in Sydney

Tim Etchells, the founder of ART HK and most recently A13 London, is launching Sydney Contemporary next April with a view to making it a biennial event. The inaugural edition of the fair will take place at the Horden Pavilion and Royal Hall of Industries at Moore Park on 12 - 14 April 2013.

The establishment of the new fair is likely to ensure that the Melbourne Art Fair's plans to move to an annual event will stay on the backburner. Melbourne's plans to become annual were announced in 2008, in part to stave off the need for a Sydney event in its off year. However they were were shelved in the light of the global economic crisis and concerns that Australia could not sustain a high-end art fair every year.
Image: Sydney's Horden Pavilion and Royal Hall of Industries