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Represented in Australia by @otomys
15 - 26 Oct : show @otomys Sydney

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Five Works, five details - a closer look at the paintings I’ll be showing in Sydney this month.
I’m very happy to be part of VANTAGE POINT presented by @otomys.

Part of Otomys’ In Residence programme, the exhibition moves beyond the conventional gallery setting and explores how artworks respond to architecture, place and context.

Here are a few close-ups from the five works heading into the show.

Swipe through.

VANTAGE POINT
Paddington, Sydney
15-24 October 2026
#VantagePoint #Otomys #SydneyArt #SydneyExhibition #ComptemporaryPainting by @hermentaire

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VANTAGE POINT, SYDNEY
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Hermentaire

Hermentaire’s series ‘Elsewhere Within’ took shape over long stays in the Cyclades, much of it in spring, when the light drew him to a brighter, more vivid palette than before. He treats landscapes less as fixed places than as presences, almost characters; his figures, in turn, are spaces crossed by passing emotion. Windows, eyes, trees, mountains and plant forms recur, setting up a dialogue between interior and exterior. The title names the way a distant place becomes an inner one: remembered, transformed and carried within.

“Something distant can become intimate,” he writes, “while a character can begin to feel like a place.”

152 - 154 Jersey Road, Paddington Sydney 2021
Thursday 15 - Sunday 25 October 2026

Enquire via info@otomys.com

#Otomys #VantagePoint #Hermentaire #SydneyArt taken in Otomys by @hermentaire

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12 days ago

LIMITED RELEASE –

Exhibited at Otomys from 16 September - 02 October
Enquire via info@otomys.com

Damien de Medeiros (Hermentaire) is a French artist living and working between Paris, France and Paros, Greece whose practice integrates painting, drawing, music composition, filmmaking and photography.

‘These works grew out of time spent in the Cyclades, though I was never really interested in painting specific landscapes. What drew me in was what remains afterwards - fragments of memory, atmosphere, emotion and imagination, lingering long after the place itself has been left behind. Over time, the figures and landscapes in these paintings began to feel connected, almost as if they could become one another.

The most noticeable shift in this body of work has been colour. Working under the light of a Greek spring, my palette turned brighter and more vivid, arriving quite naturally from the atmosphere around me. Alongside this, I noticed figure and landscape merging further into each other - I’ve become less interested in separating what is inside from what is outside, and more drawn to the way they move into one another.’

Photographed by Anu Kumar

#Otomys #OtomysArt #Hermentaire taken in Otomys by @hermentaire

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21 days ago

Winter Solstice, acrylic on canvas, 120 x 89 cm. Part of my Limited Release in @otomys in Melbourne from Sept 16th to October 2nd. taken in Otomys by @hermentaire

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22 days ago

taken in Otomys by @hermentaire

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JOIN US IN SYDNEY

Otomys is proud to present Vantage Point - a group exhibition bringing together seven artists in Paddington, Sydney
from 15 - 25 October 2026.

Meg Walters
Helen Redmond
Frances van Hasselt
Greg Wood
Caroline Collom
Hermentaire
Madisyn Zabel

Seven artists, seven vantage points, one room - close enough to compare, distinct enough to hold their own. Vantage Point is the second exhibition in the Otomys In Residence programme, following Still Point at Villa Alba Museum in 2025.

152 - 154 Jersey Road, Paddington, Sydney, 2021
Register interest via info@otomys.com

#Otomys #VantagePoint #OtomysInResidence #ContemporaryArt #SydneyArt by @hermentaire

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Through the Window, by @hermentaire, acrylic on canvas, (81 x 65 cm) part of the Limited Release @otomys from Sept 16th to Oct 2nd.
Edited by @alexaroundtheworld taken in Otomys by @hermentaire

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a month ago

LIMITED RELEASE –

Exhibited at Otomys from 16 September - 02 October
Enquire via info@otomys.com

Damien de Medeiros (Hermentaire) is a French artist living and working between Paris, France and Paros, Greece whose practice integrates painting, drawing, music composition, filmmaking and photography.

‘These works grew out of time spent in the Cyclades, though I was never really interested in painting specific landscapes. What drew me in was what remains afterwards - fragments of memory, atmosphere, emotion and imagination, lingering long after the place itself has been left behind. Over time, the figures and landscapes in these paintings began to feel connected, almost as if they could become one another.

The most noticeable shift in this body of work has been colour. Working under the light of a Greek spring, my palette turned brighter and more vivid, arriving quite naturally from the atmosphere around me. Alongside this, I noticed figure and landscape merging further into each other - I’ve become less interested in separating what is inside from what is outside, and more drawn to the way they move into one another.’

Photographed by Anu Kumar

#Otomys #OtomysArt #Hermentaire taken in Otomys by @hermentaire

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a month ago

LIMITED RELEASE –

Exhibited at Otomys from 16 September - 02 October
Enquire via info@otomys.com

Damien de Medeiros (Hermentaire) is a French artist living and working between Paris, France and Paros, Greece whose practice integrates painting, drawing, music composition, filmmaking and photography.

‘These works grew out of time spent in the Cyclades, though I was never really interested in painting specific landscapes. What drew me in was what remains afterwards - fragments of memory, atmosphere, emotion and imagination, lingering long after the place itself has been left behind. Over time, the figures and landscapes in these paintings began to feel connected, almost as if they could become one another.

The most noticeable shift in this body of work has been colour. Working under the light of a Greek spring, my palette turned brighter and more vivid, arriving quite naturally from the atmosphere around me. Alongside this, I noticed figure and landscape merging further into each other - I’ve become less interested in separating what is inside from what is outside, and more drawn to the way they move into one another.’

The Rain Within, Acrylic on Canvas, 78 x 101cm
Winter Solstice, Acrylic on Canvas, 80 x 120cm

#Otomys #OtomysArt #Hermentaire taken in Otomys by @hermentaire

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a month ago

In the making… coming soon. ☀️ by @hermentaire

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2 months ago

Dedales n.1.
Acrylic on canvas, 129 x 96 cm. taken in Paris, France by @hermentaire

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2 months ago

Look my in the Eye, acrylic on canvas, 146 x 114 cm, in an interior project in Paris by @emmanuelle_simon.
Jean Touret chairs from @desprez_breheret_gallery
Table, stool & sconce by Emmanuelle Simon. Flowers arrangements by @sashadeboheme.
📷@damiendemedeiros taken in Paris, France by @hermentaire

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