MELBOURNE ART FAIR 24: MELBOURNE CONVENTION AND EXHIBITION CENTRE

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Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert is pleased to annouce it’s particitpaion in Melbourne Art Fair 2024. 

 

The Gallery will present three solo exhibitions of new works by significant Australian women artists, Donna Marcus, Tammy Kanat, and Ivana Taylor. The artists coalesce through their process of working in their respective mediums of aluminium, textile and bronze which collectively address social and ecological issues specific to the development of their practices. 

 

 

Tammy Kanat presents a suite of tapestries from a new series Breathe alongside a large bronze. Kanat’s artwork references colour field painting through her unique style of weaving and knotting. Each tapestry is hand-framed in brass. The bronze work is an exciting interpretation that translates the detail of the textiles, including Kanat's knots, and echos the organic quality of the original textile it is cast from, which is lost in the process. Kanat has several works in the collection of the NGV and is found in private collections both in Australia and abroad. 

 

 

Ivana Taylor is an artist who creates tactile sculptures focused on the relationship between textiles and timber. Through the genesis of watercolour, Taylor plays with these relationships turning the 2D into a 3D artwork. Taylor’s practice distils the process, texture and aesthetic qualities that have evolved from a long-standing fixation on wrapping. Her sculptures are both fascinating and intriguing in form and colour. Taylor’s knowledge of fabric dying results in beautiful soft colours which enhance the form. Taylor was featured in Triennale Milano 2022, Lines of Affection 2022, Hybrid 2022-2023 Powerhouse Museum and is found in private collections internationally. 

 

 

Donna Marcus’s work is curated in juxtaposition to the solo presentations, being a practice that focuses on minimalism, colour and pattern through the repurposing of discarded aluminium kitchenware. A process of assemblage and the modernist impulse to regularity and, repetition as opposed to Kanat and Taylor's process of working intuitively and often with an element of chance. The presentation of Marcus coincides with HOTA’s survey exhibition Donna Marcus - Radiate 2000-2023. The HOTA exhibition follows IMA’s previous survey exhibition of Marcus in 2004. Marcus’s work can be found in private and museum collections internationally, and she is also known globally for her major public work.

 

 

 

 

Melbourne Art Fair is supported by government partners The Australia Council for the Art and Creative Victoria.

 

The Foundation 

Established in 2003, Melbourne Art Foundation is a not for profit organisation established to promote and support contemporary art and living Australian artists.  Committed to servicing the needs of artists, galleries, collectors and visitors, the Foundation leads the way in building national and international audiences and markets for the work of Australia’s living contemporary artists, bringing together the commercial, social, cultural and environmental threads that underpin and sustain the vibrant Australian visual arts ecology.

 

Melbourne Art Foundation produces the biennial Melbourne Art Week and flagship event Melbourne Art Fair. 

 

The Foundation sponsors a range of programs during Melbourne Art Week for the benefit of living artists, to facilitate public discussion and develop new audiences for contemporary art. These programs include major commissions, project rooms featuring emerging and independent artists, and art spaces, public talks, collector programs, guided tours and the celebrated Art Fair opening night; Vernissage.