One for the books!

Hey there!

Do you ever find yourself looking for a sign? I know I do. A sign that you're making the right choice, going the right way or that something good's going to happen.

I'm always on the lookout for a sign, and so to make my life a little easier, and hopefully yours too, I started painting them.

IT MUST BE A SIGN (Blue)
46cm x 22.8cm
Acrylic on board with hand-sculpted ceramic bolts
2025

If you happen to be in Sydney this week you can find a few of my new sign paintings on display at Sydney Contemporary, in the MARS Gallery booth stockroom from September 11 to 14.

EVERY THING SEEMS LIKE A SIGN (Green)
46.4cm x 22.8cm
Acrylic on board with hand-sculpted ceramic bolts
2024

If you're interested in snapping up one of these new paintings, please send an email to embie@marsgallery.com.au

ALL SIGNS POINT TO YES (Yellow)
46cm x 22.8cm
Acrylic on board with hand-sculpted ceramic bolts
2025

In other exciting news, I'm so pleased to share that my ceramic series titled Life Is Like A Box Of Crayons (2020), which was bought by Artbank, has been featured in a book!

The book's titled On Display, The Story of Artbank. Huge thanks to Laura Couttie, Zoë Rodriguez, and everyone at Artbank for including me in such a cool book.

Photo courtesy of Artbank

If you'd like to view my work in the Artbank collection, click here!

Life is like a box of crayons (detail)
Ceramics
2020
Acquired by Artbank in 2020

In other exciting news, as of this week you can now find my bronze sculpture Throw Caution To The Wind on display at Orange Regional Gallery, as part of the Wynne Prize touring exhibition, from September 6 to November 19.

For more info click here!

Throw caution to the wind
57.5cm x 29.6cm x 42cm
Enamel and synthetic polymer paint on bronze
2025
Image courtesy of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Diana Panuccio

In other news, I recently gave a talk about my art to a class of very talented grade 6's who made some fantastic sculptures in response to my work. Big thanks to Montrose Primary School for having me!

And in some non-art related news, I recently ran my first half marathon!

Thanks so much for reading, hope to run into you sometime soon!

The Wynne beneath my wings

Hi there, hope you're going well!

I'm so pleased to share that two of my works have recently gone into new collections!

My big aluminium shopping list Raspberry Iced Tea has been acquired into the brilliant Deakin University art collection.

Discarded Shopping List (Raspberry Iced Tea)
120cm x 90cm
Enamel and synthetic polymer paint on aluminium
2025
Photo by Emmy Clifton

And my bronze sculpture Hold Your Horses (6 of 6) has been acquired by the wonderful Nillumbik Shire Council.

Hold Your Horses
20cm x 16cm x 8cm
2023
Bronze
Edition 6 of 6 (plus 2AP)
Photo by Emmy Clifton

So happy for both these pieces to have found such great new homes.

Big thanks to Deakin University, Nillumbik Arts and MARS Gallery.

Photo by Emmy Clifton, at the opening of the 2025 Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art.

In other exciting news, if you're in Sydney you can find my new bronze sculpture Throw Caution To The Wind on display in the Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales!

Throw caution to the wind
57.5cm x 29.6cm x 42cm
Enamel and synthetic polymer paint on bronze
2025
Image courtesy of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Diana Panuccio

I'm so honoured for this piece to be a finalist in such a special exhibition alongside such fantastic work. 

The Wynne Prize is on now until August 17. For more info click here!

Photo by Emmy Clifton at the Art Gallery of New South Wales

And in other exciting news, a big thanks to Katya Wachtel at Broadsheet for writing about my ceramic shopping list sculptures. You can read their article by clicking here!

I was also recently invited onto ABC Radio National to talk about shopping lists with the awesome Julian Morrow, you can listen to our discussion by clicking here!

Discarded Shopping List (Fancy Feast)
120cm x 90cm
Enamel and synthetic polymer paint on aluminium
2025
Photo by Emmy Clifton

Thanks so much for reading, hope you're having a nice start to the week and hope to see you soon!

Throw caution to the Wynne!

Hi there, hope you're going well!

I'm so pleased to share that my new bronze sculpture 'Throw caution to the wind' has been selected as a finalist in the Wynne Prize!

Huge congrats to the other finalists and entrants. It's a bit of a dream come true to be showing this new piece alongside so many great artists at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Here I am putting the finishing touches on the piece before I drove it up to Sydney to enter.

Throw caution to the wind
57.5cm x 29.6cm x 42cm
Enamel and synthetic polymer paint on bronze
2025
Photo by Emmy Clifton

"Re-imagining the ubiquitous yellow caution sign, 'Throw caution to the wind' playfully speaks to the courage we find in moving forward despite the uncertainty ahead. Unlike the plastic, mass-produced sign, this sculpture was made slowly by casting and hand-painting heavy bronze, giving it more weight, both conceptually and physically, to elevate the seemingly mundane object."

The Wynne Prize is on display at the Art Gallery of New South Wales from May 10 to August 17. For more info click here!

In other news, I'm so pleased to share that my piece Discarded Shopping List (Fancy Feast) has been selected as a finalist in the 2025 Bayside Painting Prize!

Discarded Shopping List (Fancy Feast)
Enamel and synthetic polymer paint on aluminium
120cm x 120cm
2024
Photo by Emmy Clifton

"I first began collecting discarded shopping lists when I was 15 and got a part time job at a supermarket. Despite their anonymity, found shopping lists read like poetry, and act as portraits of the people we pass in the aisles.

Most shopping lists are written quickly and without aesthetic consideration, and it's through the act of slowly recreating them that I allow myself the time and space to appreciate these seemingly mundane everyday objects, creating a permanent record of a fleeting moment."

Discarded Shopping List (Fancy Feast)
Enamel and synthetic polymer paint on aluminium
120cm x 120cm
2024
Photo by Emmy Clifton

Huge congrats to the other finalists and entrants, the Bayside Painting Prize is on display at Bayside Gallery from May 9 to June 22. For more info click here!

Discarded Shopping List (Fancy Feast)
Enamel and synthetic polymer paint on aluminium
120cm x 120cm
2024
Photo by Tobias Titz

And in other news, I'm so pleased to donate a new little painting to the upcoming Incognito Art Show fundraiser exhibition.

All proceeds go towards funding programs at Studio A and The Art Factory, both of which are amazing organisations that support professional development for artists working with disability.

The Incognito Art Show is on display at the Garden Gallery in the Sydney Royal Botanical Gardens from May 31 to June 1. For more info click here!

Photo by Emmy Clifton

Thanks so much for reading, really appreciate your support and hope to see you soon!

Horsing around!

Hi, hope you're going well!

In exciting news, I'm so pleased to share that my first bronze sculpture Hold Your Horses has been selected as a finalist in the Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art!

Hold Your Horses
Bronze
20cm x 16cm x 8cm
Edition of 6 plus 2AP
2023

Hold Your Horses encourages reflection on the art of slowing down.

While slowing down can feel like a daunting prospect when we have such anxiety about falling behind, Hold Your Horses playfully allows us to shift our focus away from what may be lost towards what we stand to gain.

Huge congrats to the other finalists and entrants! The Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art opens from April 4 to May 25. For more info click here!

In other exciting news, I'm so pleased to share that my piece Discarded Shopping List (Corn Thins) has been selected as a finalist in the Muswellbrook Art Prize!

Discarded Shopping List (Corn Thins)
Enamel and synthetic polymer paint on aluminium
120cm x 120cm x 4cm
2024
Photo by Tobias Titz

I first began collecting discarded shopping lists when I was 15 and got a part time job at a supermarket. Despite their anonymity, found shopping lists read like poetry, and act as portraits of the people we pass in the aisles.

Most shopping lists are written quickly and without aesthetic consideration, and it's through the act of slowly recreating them that I allow myself the time and space to appreciate these seemingly mundane everyday objects, creating a permanent record of a fleeting moment.

Discarded Shopping List (Corn Thins)
Enamel and synthetic polymer paint on aluminium
120cm x 120cm x 4cm
2024
Photo by Tobias Titz

Huge congrats to the other finalists and entrants! The exhibition opens at the Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre in NSW on March 29. For more info click here!

In other news, it's the final week to see my 100 ceramic sculptures of ice-creams, on display in the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery in Townsville, Queensland.

Image Courtesy of Townsville City Galleries. Photo by Roslyn Budd

On loan from Bendigo Art Gallery, this series is included in the group exhibition Yucky Yum Yum, curated by Holly Arden and on now until March 9.

Image Courtesy of Townsville City Galleries. Photo by Roslyn Budd

In other news, a big thanks to the website Top 100 artists for including me in their list of Top 100 Collectable Artists!

It's so nice to be in there alongside so many great artists I admire. To read the full list click here!

And lastly but not leastly, thanks so much to everyone who said hello back in January at the Quarantine Art Fair!

Here's a photo of my inflatable sculpture The World's Gone Pear Shaped, which was selected to be installed at Point Nepean, overlooking the Mornington Peninsula.

The World's Gone Pear Shaped
300cm x 200cm x 200cm
Durable PVS coated vinyl, fan, internal lighting 
2022

The World's Gone Pear Shaped uses humour as an entry point to looking at anxieties, both on a global scale and on a personal level, and serves as a hopeful reminder that despite going pear shaped things can still be fruitful.

Thanks so much for your support and hope to see you soon!

All's Fair!

Hi, that’s a wrap on my solo show, Poems and Portraits, at the Melbourne Art Fair!

I'm feeling end-list-ly grateful for the amazing response, and am so pleased that the works are now headed to such lovely new homes!

Photo by Simon Strong

Massive thanks to Andy Dinan for the opportunity, and the wonderful Chrissy and Ruby from the MARS Gallery team. Thanks to everyone at Melbourne Art Fair for being so great to work with too! Special thanks as well to Sculpture Co. and Emmy Clifton 🩵

My Red wine
Enamel and synthetic polymer paint on aluminium
106cm x71cm
2025
Photo by Emmy Clifton

If you're interested in purchasing a work but missed out, you can view my other currently available works by clicking here!

Photo by Emmy Clifton

If you'd like to hear me talking about my work, you can watch a little interview I did by clicking here!

And in other fair related news, big thanks to Art Collector magazine for this nice article they printed about my show!


And big thanks to the Financial Review as well, where you might've seen me popping up in last weeks newspaper, tucked nicely underneath some fancy runners and a Kitchenaid with a fancy pasta attachment!


Here's a photo of me pointing at my work, while doing an artist talk at the fair.

Photo by Andy Dinan

And here's a photo of me pointing at my work, while hosting a studio visit during the fair.

Photo by Chrissy Vakkas

Thanks so much for reading, hope that you're having a fair-ly good weekend!

Ben & Jerrys
Acrylic on ceramic
12.7cm x 7.8cm
2025

Fair-ly excited!

Hi, hope you're going well!

I'm super excited to share that I'll be presenting a new solo show next week with MARS Gallery at the Melbourne Art Fair!

Here's one of three new large-scale aluminium shopping list sculptures I'll be showing, titled Raspberry Iced Tea.

Raspberry Iced Tea
2025
120cm x 90cm
Enamel and synthetic polymer paint on aluminium
Photo by Emmy Clifton

I'll also be exhibiting a new collection of 52 life-sized ceramic sculptures, all of which are replicas of anonymous shopping lists I found while working at a supermarket.

To view the full catalogue of works, click here! 

For all purchase enquiries email andy@marsgallery.com.au

Raspberry Iced Tea
2025
120cm x 90cm
Enamel and synthetic polymer paint on aluminium
Photo by Emmy Clifton

Creating a permanent record of a fleeting moment, these hand-sculpted and hand-painted replicas read like poetry, and are often as revealing as portraiture.

Despite their anonymity the works are extremely intimate, providing a unique insight into the people we pass in the aisles.

The exhibition's titled Poems and Portraits, and invites us to find the humour and the human in the seemingly mundane.

The Melbourne Art Fair opens from February 20 to 23, at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. For more info click here!

Pistacios
16cm x 15cm
Acrylic on kiln fired ceramic
2024

If you're around the art fair be sure to come say hello! Thanks so much for reading, hope to see you fair-ly soon!

Pork Chops
28.4cm x 20.2cm
Acrylic on kiln fired ceramic
2024

It's the end of the year as we know it

Hello, as 2024 says cya later I just wanted to say thanks so much for all your support this year!

It's been a biggie for me, with a solo show at MARS Gallery and painting my largest mural at Shepparton Art Museum, as well as being a finalist in the Sulman Prize, the Bayside Painting Prize, the Deakin Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, and the Darebin Art Prize, to name a few.

I'm feeling super grateful to have had the opportunity to work with so many inspiring galleries, curators, foundries, artists and collectors, and to get to share it all here with you.

And in some nice news to wrap up the year, my piece in the Geelong Contemporary Art Prize was the recipient of the People's Choice Award!

Discarded Shopping List (Cold meat, lettuce, bread)
120cm x 120cm
Enamel and Synthetic Polymer Paint on Aluminium
2024
Photo by Hails and Shine

Kicking off the new year, I'll be showing a couple of works with MARS Gallery in the Quarantine Art Fair, from January 8th to 11th. For more info click here!

Hava Heart
Glazed Earthenware
13.5cm x 8.8cm x 2.5cm
AP2 of edition of 3 plus 2AP's
Framed
2023

If you find yourself in Townsville this summer you can see my work included in the fantastic group exhibition Yucky Yum Yum, presented at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, on now until March 9.

Banner in front of the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery featuring my ceramic Bubble'O Bill sculpture.

To coincide with the exhibition, I'll be hosting a series of fun drawing workshops during January. Come along if you're in Townsville, for more info click here!

Photo by Emmy Clifton

And if you happen to be near Shepparton, be sure to head in to the Shepparton Art Museum where you can find my work Can You Peel The Love Tonight, on now until March 24.

To read more about this work click here!

Photo by Emmy Clifton

Thanks so much again, wishing you all the very best for 2025 and look forward to seeing you soon!