The absolute first thing that grabbed our attention was the plexi-glass sculptures of Roh Singh at the Dianne Tanzer Gallery stand:
Roh builds his 3-dimensional pictures by placing holes at various points on perspex sheets and slowly builds this up ... its amazing stuff ... you sit there and go "now why didn't I think of that" ... it just seems so obvious but the results are magical ... unfortunately I didn't take any photos ... so the images above are sourced off google images ... but you get the drift ... this gallery stand also had these plywood cockies in plain and black .... good stuff.
The other gallery that really caught our eye was Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art. In fact I overheard one of the stand members say that they had sold every single piece that they exhibited this time round ... no mean feat ... but whoever does the buying here truly understands diversity and eclecticism ... I would certainly love to pick their creative brains ... the minute I saw this sequined chihuahua amongst the heavily satirical china figurines I knew we were in good hands ...
Penny Byrne's wildly satirical figurines ...
Juan Ford's hand of God reaching out of a branch of eucalyptus leaves ... VR Morrison's take on fashion copy ...
Sam Leach's highly Varnished paintings of animals ...
all here and all welcome in my home if I had the cash.
Some of our other highlights ...
HK gallery - 10 Chancery Lane Gallery
especially the photos of old chinese theatres by Muchen and Shao Yinong:
and the action shots of Li Wei - stunning!!
M was taken by the noir-ish set pieces by Peter Neilson at the Australian Galleries stand:
We liked the bone pictures at the Despard Gallery by Patrick Hall:
I loved the floating figures in Denis Darzacq's work at Goddard de Fiddes:
We laughed at the marble statues of ordinary objects covered in dust shrouds ... Jan Murphy gallery had a number of these Kirra Jamison works:
In terms of painting .. this was a new discovery for me ... and one artist I will be keeping an eye on ... Joanna Lamb ... part of the Johnston Gallery stand:
Chuckles galore and memories of Shibuya at MEM with some great photos that provided much needed respite from all the po-faced symbolism going round:
Sophie Gannon had some luminescent miniatures by Michael Zavros who also painted some wonderfully chic centaurs:
Always a sucker for animals particularly dogs Petrina Hick's photos were a revelation at Stills Gallery:
I'm officially in love with paul davies' cool retro housescapes represented at the Tim Olsen gallery stand .. most of these were sold ... round about the $10000 - $25000 mark ... small change babe!!!
As far as prints and block paintings were concerned .. I'm not sure why this one appealed to me so much .. maybe it was the naive quality to it, the muted colours, the japanese lines and paper .. who knows ... but I dug Wilson Shieh's work especially the swimmer series which hung at L.A. Galerie Lothar Albrecht:
LA galerie also had some amazing photoworks by Peter Bialobrzeski ... large panoramic naturescapes ...
Still on the photoart tip, the John Buckley Gallery was showing Simon Strong:
And craziest artwork - hands down it was Ian Burns ...
I'm not quite sure how to describe this ... installation pieces with cameras and household items ... bolted together to give an illusion of something other that is displayed on the screen .. for example .. an ordinary plastic chopping board .. shaved and chiselled to look like Uluru .... its visual ... its installation ... apart from the 2 second wow factor at having a piece of tarp turned into the ocean ... the contraptions themselves are ugly ... BUT ... its oddly appealing and it made us smile ...
What I can't remember ...
Random snaps ... and if I figure out who where and what I will append ...Ok Art lesson is over .. you can wake up now.
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