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!

All Shapes and sizes

Hi, hope you're having a nice day!

Here's a photo of my artwork titled Tomatoes. This piece was featured in my recent solo show at MARS Gallery, and is now hanging in its wonderful new home. It's always so special getting to see where my works end up.

Tomatoes
120cm x 120cm
Enamel and synthetic polymer paint on enamel
2024
Photo by Angela Westcott

In other news, I'm so pleased to invite you to a couple of group shows featuring my work. First up is an exhibition titled Word Up! Art, Text and Design which is on now until February 13 at the Margaret Whitlam Galleries in Western Sydney University. For more info click here!

My work in the show is this ceramic sculpture titled One Step Forward Ten Steps Back (The Daily Dance). 

One Step Forward Ten Steps Back (The Daily Dance)
41cm x 31cm x 3cm
Synthetic polymer paint on ceramic
2023

To accompany the exhibition, I was recently invited to come to Sydney to give a talk about my work at Western Sydney Uni. Huge thanks to the exhibition curator Margaret Hancock for organising the event, and to all the students who came along to hear me speak. Here's a couple of photos from the day.

Photo by Sally Tsoutas at University of Western Sydney

Photo with curator Margaret Hancock and Dr. Leo Robba, by Sally Tsoutas at University of Western Sydney

The other exhibition I'd love to share with you is titled Dusk of Nations, on now until December 14 at the UQ Art Museum in the University of Queensland. 

My work in this show is titled Every Kind of Shape, it's a series I made in 2019 in which I made a ceramic sculpture of every flavour of Arnott's Shapes that was available at the time.

Every Kind of Shape
Acrylic on ceramic 
2019
Courtesy of the University of Queensland art collection
Photo by Joe Ruckli

In exciting news, Every Kind of Shape has been acquired into the University of Queensland art collection. 

Every Kind of Shape
Acrylic on ceramic 
2019
Courtesy of the University of Queensland art collection
Photo by Joe Ruckli

Dusk of Nations is an exhibition that looks at ideas around identity and nationhood, and how these concepts are defended and maintained, resisted and subverted.

For more info click here!

Installation view of Dusk of Nations exhibition at UQ Art Museum
Photo by Joe Ruckli

Thanks so much for reading, hope you're going well and hope to see you soon!