Booth C4
Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert is thrilled to return to Melbourne Art Fair (MAF) in 2025.
Our presentation in booth C4 will feature two gallery artists, Prue Venables and Fernando Do Campo, who are master technicians in their respective mediums, making work that is both significant and glorious.
Venables creates refined, sculptural work made from one of the oldest mediums known to artists – clay, specifically for Venables, Limoges porcelain. Do Campo's artworks celebrate story-telling painting, holding within them true narratives that explore complex histories of migration. While each artist has continued to exhibit globally, MAF marks their first solo exhibition in Melbourne in over a decade.
For MAF 2025, Venables explores new ideas and processes, creating fine, sophisticated vessels that challenge our perspective on ceramics. The resulting works are magnificent, contemporary forms enhanced by the glazes Venables chooses for each piece or group.
Venables' work will be presented on specially curated plinths. Some high to experience the way the light catches and interacts with the glazed forms, creating lovely luminosity, and others low to allow you to look into the vessels and discover the complexity of each form – forms that, to most ceramists, defy possibility.
Do Campo presents a new series of paintings titled Lilac Hour, which focuses on his relationship to the presence of introduced flowering trees across temperate and subtropical Australia. Do Campo’s paintings are technically involved; every brushstroke and colour has a reason. His paintings have purposeful layers of unexpected patterns and refined relationships between colours, which brings a contemporary and fresh perspective to the greater Australian story.
About Melbourne Art Fair
Australasia’s most progressive forum for contemporary art and ideas the biennial Melbourne Art Fair presents work from new and iconic artists. With a focus on solo shows and works of scale and significance, experience a fair that is instrumental in shaping the future of art in the region.
Melbourne Art Fair is a seminal fixture on the Australasian cultural calendar, stimulating critical and commercial attention for galleries and their artists for over 30 years. The biennial fair supports and promotes Australasian living artists through the staging of a world-class platform for contemporary art, showcasing iconic and new works by artists from the region’s most respected galleries.
With this global creative city as a backdrop, the fair returns in 2022 to take up residence at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, continuing its lead role in the region for fostering the development of new audiences for contemporary art.
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.
