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“There’s a real emphasis on wanting there to be a connection between the known and unknown. Reaching out and noticing these signs feels like a way to really ground yourself and feel like you can move through things with a bit more sense and understanding.”

Renée Estée’s third solo presentation with COMA, ‘One for Sorrow, Two for Joy’, opens tonight from 6pm at 37 Chapel Street, Marrickville, Sydney. taken in COMA by @comagallery

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Opening tomorrow night, Friday 9 October, from 6pm, is Australian artist Renée Estée’s third solo presentation with COMA, titled ‘One for Sorrow, Two for Joy’.

“I’ve long been interested in the ways we navigate life through signs and superstition. I find myself looking for them everywhere; in birds and animals, chance encounters, or small coincidences that suddenly seem to carry a little more meaning. A butterfly flying into the studio can feel like a good omen, or seeing a particular bird can change the feeling of a day. I noticed when making these works I do something similar when I paint, where chance and intuition are always becoming entangled during the painting process.”

37 Chapel Street, Marrickville, Sydney.

Renée Estée, I saw you searching for joy, 2026, flashe, oil paint, charcoal on canvas, 183 x 172.5 cm, 72 x 67 7/8 in. Renée Estée, It felt like I was falling through the sky, where the birds above had flown, 2026, oil paint, oil bar, charcoal on canvas, 183 x 172.5 cm, 72 x 67 7/8 in. Renée Estée, Signs Whispered (between clouds, between each other), 2026, oil paint, charcoal, oil bar on canvas, 183 x 172.5 cm, 72 x 67 7/8 in. taken in COMA by @comagallery

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Congratulations to Kieren Karritpul, on being selected as a finalist in the 2026 Koori Mail Indigenous Art Award, for his work ‘Five Fish Traps’ (2025).

Presented by Lismore Regional Gallery in partnership with Koori Mail, the biennial award celebrates contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artistic practice from across Australia, bringing together emerging and established artists working across a diverse range of mediums.

The finalist exhibition will be on view at Lismore Regional Gallery from 7 November 2026 through 14 February 2027.

Kieren Karritpul, Five Fish Traps, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 139.5 x 122.5 cm, 54 7/8 x 48 1/4 in. Portrait, Kieren Karritpul, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2022. Image Courtesy of the Artist and Art Gallery of South Australia. by @comagallery

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Recently featured in a group presentation at COMA, KV Duong is currently included in Never The Same River at the Ford Foundation Gallery, New York.

Curated by Dexter Wimberly, the exhibition brings together six artists exploring bodily autonomy, migration and the shifting nature of identity. Duong presents Family Portrait (2026), a five-panel work in ink and acrylic on latex that draws upon family imagery to consider histories of migration, memory and belonging.

Never The Same River is on view at the Ford Foundation Gallery, New York, through 5 December 2026.

Image credits: Courtesy Ford Foundation Gallery, Photo: Sebastian Bach. by @comagallery

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What if coincidence isn’t random? Renée Estée’s upcoming exhibition with COMA inhabits the space between folklore and contemporary life, where memory, ritual and superstition become ways of making sense of the unknown.

Estée’s third solo exhibition with COMA, ‘One for Sorrow, Two for Joy’, opens next Friday, 9 October, 6pm - 8pm, at 37 Chapel Street, Marrickville, 2204.

Renée Estée, in her Melbourne studio, 2026. by @comagallery

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Last chance to see Justin Williams solo exhibition, Pentimento, at COMA. On view through 3 October, at 37 Chapel Street, Marrickville, 2204.

Marking the artist’s fifth solo presentation with the gallery, the exhibition takes its title from the art historical term ‘pentimento’, which describes the trace of an earlier image or brushstroke that remains visible beneath the surface of a painting. For Williams, the term reflects both the way he works and the way he thinks about identity. Nothing is ever entirely erased. Each mark, decision and experience leaves something behind.

Installation view, Justin Williams, Pentimento, 2026, COMA, Sydney. Photo: Jessica Maurer. taken in COMA by @comagallery

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COMA is excited to present a solo exhibition by Australian artist Renée Estée (b. 1992), titled One for Sorrow, Two for Joy, opening Friday 9 October, from 6pm - 8pm at 37 Chapel Street, Marrickville, Sydney, 2204.

Borrowing its title from the traditional magpie counting rhyme, One for Sorrow, Two for Joy presents a new body of paintings by Renée Estée that considers the enduring human impulse to transform chance into meaning. Drawing upon folklore, ritual and inherited superstition, the exhibition explores the stories we construct to navigate uncertainty, asking how coincidence becomes narrative and how ordinary encounters come to feel charged with significance.

Renée Estée, Deadly Nightshade (sometimes you need to walk away), 2026, oil, acrylic on canvas, 183 x 173 cm. by @comagallery

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Opening today is the 2026 Canberra Art Biennial. Australian artist Anna May Kirk will debut a new public sculpture titled ‘Shelf Life’, in collaboration with The Australian National Botanic Gardens and the National Seed Bank.

The sculpture will be on view at The Australian National Botanical Garden through 31 October, 2026.

Take a look at behind the scenes of Anna May Kirk creating the patina across the bronze components of her new sculpture at Urban Art Projects workshop in Brisbane earlier this year.

Image credit: Rachel See. Courtesy of UAP. by @comagallery

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Justin Williams fifth solo exhibition with the gallery, titled ‘Pentimento’ continues at COMA through 3 October, 2026.

Across paintings and ceramics, Williams draws on history, family and personal mythology, using his own body as a reference point and exploring the vessel as both object and metaphor. Together, the works reveal identity as an accumulation of experiences and selves, each leaving a trace beneath the surface.

On view at 37 Chapel Street, Marrickville, 2204.

Justin Williams, Self portrait with vessel, 2026, oil, acrylic and pigment on canvas, 120 x 90 cm, 47 1/4 x 35 3/8 in. Justin Williams, We often said he had a cold stare but it was always filled with warmth, 2026, oil, acrylic and pigment on canvas, 120 x 90 cm, 47 1/4 x 35 3/8 in. Justin Williams, Teacher, vessel and student, 2026, oil, acrylic and pigment on canvas, 120 x 90 cm, 47 1/4 x 35 3/8 in. taken in COMA by @comagallery

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Continuing in the gallery this week is Justin Williams solo exhibition ‘Pentimento’, on view through 3 October, 2026, at 37 Chapel Street, Marrickville, 2204.

Drawing on the idea of pentimento, where earlier marks remain visible beneath the surface of a painting, the exhibition explores identity as something continually formed and reformed over time. Moving between painting and ceramics, Williams brings together references to history, family and personal mythology, often using his own body as a point of departure. The vessel emerges throughout as both a physical object and a metaphor, reflecting how past experiences and former selves remain present, even as they shift and transform.

Installation view, Pentimento, Justin Williams, COMA, 2026, Sydney. Photo: Jessica Maurer. taken in COMA by @comagallery

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Final day to visit COMA at Sydney Contemporary, where the gallery is presenting ambitious work by leading contemporary Australian and International artists.

You can find us at booth C05, at Carriageworks, 245 Wilson St, Eveleigh, 2015.

Puuni Brown Nungarrayi, Kapi Tjukurrpa 5, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 152 x 183 cm, 59 7/8 x 72 in. Steven Bellosguardo, They don’t sing, they just screech in pain, 2026, stainless steel, silicone, 187 x 77 x 60 cm, 73 5/8 x 30 1/4 x 23 5/8 in. Kansas Smeaton, Velvet Morning, 2026, oil on canvas, 35 x 28.5 cm, 13 3/4 x 11 1/4 in. by @comagallery

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MA Art Prize winner Renée Estée walks us through her new body of work being shown at Sydney Contemporary 2026.

Discover the works in person at Booth C05, on view through 6 September. by @comagallery

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