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Privileged to work and live on Gumbayngirr Country.
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6 Artists. 5 Galleries. Carefully selected to bring colour, scale and a point of view at our Malvern project. Some sit quietly and allow a moment to admire, others deliberately disrupt it. Thank you to Josh at @specc_installations for an epic install yesterday. We can’t wait for our Clients to come back from holidays and enter into their new home. Art curation - @studio_esar Art installation - @specc_installations #studio_esar #art #contemporarystyle #australianinteriors #archmelbourne
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⁠ ACCOLADES 🏆️⁠ ⁠ ADAM OSTE⁠ ⁠ FINALIST ⁠ HORNSBY ART PRIZE, 2026⁠ ⁠ Sophie Gannon Gallery would like to congratulate Adam Oste on his Finalist nomination for the Hornsby Art Prize, 2026. The Hornsby Art Prize Finalists’ Exhibition will be held at Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Hornsby, running from 16 October – 1 November.⁠ ⁠ ARTIST STATEMENT⁠ ⁠ A short drive west of where I live and work lies a graveyard of dumped cars. The cars accumulate steadily, a new one appearing almost monthly amongst the debris of a recently harvested stand of Eucalyptus grandis. Submerged in foliage and rusted beyond recognition, this one sits askew on its roof. Thrust onto the landscape like a child's collage, its belly is bare and exposed. Silently painting amidst the call of the bell miner and catbird, I imagine the violence and speed of its final moments as it careered through the bushland. The noise, long since forgotten, to rust and lantana. ⁠ ⁠Pictured⁠ Wreck Study 7, 2025⁠ oil on canvas⁠ 61 x 51 cm⁠ ⁠ #sophiegannongallery #adamoste #hornsbyartprize2026 hornsbycouncil⁠
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VELVET LOBSTER Distance between two orchids Adam Oste’s recent works examine the intimacy of the familial and domestic alongside the brutality and silence of wreckages of stolen cars dumped in the local bushland. These vehicles—once violent objects of speed, now stilled and overtaken by lantana—become sites where fragility, violence, and resilience coalesce. Painting exclusively from life, Oste turns his eye to beauty and brokenness alike, examining the grace and privilege of calm at home alongside the lived realities of his wider community navigating disadvantage, disconnection and survival. Oste reflects: “Through the act of painting directly from life, I’m led to a state of fear, wonder, and exultation. Floored by the immensity of death and life in flux before me, I’m afforded an opportunity to consider my own mortality, my own place in it all, painting as prayer.” Through his practice, Oste creates spaces of contemplation where beauty and brokenness are seen not as opposites, but as intertwined truths of life. Adam Oste Creek side Ute study, 2026 oil on polyester 38 x 31 cm Level 1-45 Hutchinson Street Surry Hills, Sydney, 2010 Enquiry Info@velvetlobster.com.au ---------------- @adamoste #Distancebetweentwoorchids
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VELVET LOBSTER would like to thank everyone who came to 'Distance between two orchids'. The exhibition features works by @joel_arthur_ @adamoste and @tia_madden . VELVET LOBSTER Level 1-45 Hutchinson Street Surry Hills, Sydney, 2010 Enquiry Info@velvetlobster.com.au ----------------------' #Distancebetweentwoorchids
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VELVET LOBSTER Distance between two orchids 31 March - 25 April Adam Oste’s recent works examine the intimacy of the familial and domestic alongside the brutality and silence of wreckages of stolen cars dumped in the local bushland. These vehicles—once violent objects of speed, now stilled and overtaken by lantana—become sites where fragility, violence, and resilience coalesce. Painting exclusively from life, Oste turns his eye to beauty and brokenness alike, examining the grace and privilege of calm at home alongside the lived realities of his wider community navigating disadvantage, disconnection and survival. Oste reflects: “Through the act of painting directly from life, I’m led to a state of fear, wonder, and exultation. Floored by the immensity of death and life in flux before me, I’m afforded an opportunity to consider my own mortality, my own place in it all, painting as prayer.” Through his practice, Oste creates spaces of contemplation where beauty and brokenness are seen not as opposites, but as intertwined truths of life. Adam Oste Magna by the Creek, 2026 oil on canvas 71 x 56 cm Level 1-45 Hutchinson Street Surry Hills, Sydney, 2010 Enquiry Info@velvetlobster.com.au --------------------- @adamoste #adamoste #Distancebetweentwoorchids
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VELVET LOBSTER Distance between two orchids 31 March - 25 April Adam Oste’s recent works examine the intimacy of the familial and domestic alongside the brutality and silence of wreckages of stolen cars dumped in the local bushland. These vehicles—once violent objects of speed, now stilled and overtaken by lantana—become sites where fragility, violence, and resilience coalesce. Painting exclusively from life, Oste turns his eye to beauty and brokenness alike, examining the grace and privilege of calm at home alongside the lived realities of his wider community navigating disadvantage, disconnection and survival. Oste reflects: “Through the act of painting directly from life, I’m led to a state of fear, wonder, and exultation. Floored by the immensity of death and life in flux before me, I’m afforded an opportunity to consider my own mortality, my own place in it all, painting as prayer.”Through his practice, Oste creates spaces of contemplation where beauty and brokenness are seen not as opposites, but as intertwined truths of life. Adam Oste Dreaming, 2026 oil on canvas 61 x 51 cm Level 1-45 Hutchinson Street Surry Hills, Sydney, 2010 Enquiry Info@velvetlobster.com.au --------------------------- @adamoste #Distancebetweentwoorchids #adamoste
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VELVET LOBSTER Distance between two orchids 31 March - 25 April Level 1-45 Hutchinson Street Surry Hills, Sydney, 2010 Enquiry Info@velvetlobster.com.au ----------------------- @tia_madden @joel_arthur_ @adamoste
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Opening tomorrow, Thursday, 9 April, 6 - 8 pm VELVET LOBSTER Distance between two orchids 31 March - 25 April Adam Oste is an Australian artist based on Gumbaynggirr Country, on the North Coast of New South Wales. He graduated from UNSW Art & Design in 2016 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Education (Hons), receiving the Lindsay Prize. He was awarded the 2019 Waverley Woollahra Art Prize and has been a finalist in the 2025 National Still Life Award, the 2021 Northern Beaches Art Prize, the 2019 Macquarie Emerging Artist Prize, and the 2017 Kilgour Prize. His work is held in public and private collections in Australia and internationally. Adam Oste’s recent works examine the intimacy of the familial and domestic alongside the brutality and silence of wreckages of stolen cars dumped in the local bushland. These vehicles—once violent objects of speed, now stilled and overtaken by lantana—become sites where fragility, violence, and resilience coalesce. Painting exclusively from life, Oste turns his eye to beauty and brokenness alike, examining the grace and privilege of calm at home alongside the lived realities of his wider community navigating disadvantage, disconnection and survival. Oste reflects: “Through the act of painting directly from life, I’m led to a state of fear, wonder, and exultation. Floored by the immensity of death and life in flux before me, I’m afforded an opportunity to consider my own mortality, my own place in it all, painting as prayer.” Through his practice, Oste creates spaces of contemplation where beauty and brokenness are seen not as opposites, but as intertwined truths of life. Adam Oste Burned in the shade of the tallowwoods oil on canvas 142 x 118 cm Level 1-45 Hutchinson Street Surry Hills l, Sydney, 2010 Enquiry Info@velvetlobster.com.au --------------------- @adamoste @velvet.lobster #Distancebetweentwoorchids
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Opening this Thursday, 9 April, 6 - 8 pm VELVET LOBSTER Distance between two orchids 31 March - 25 April Level 1-45 Hutchinson Street Surry Hills, Sydney, 2010 Enquiry Info@velvetlobster.com.au -------------------- @tia_madden @joel_arthur_ @adamoste Photo: @mimimalism @velvet.lobster
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VELVET LOBSTER is proud to present "Distance between two orchids" a group show features works by Joel Arthur, Tia Madden and Dam Oste from 31 March until 25 April. Opening reception: Thursday 9 April from 6 pm. Level 1-45 Hutchinson Street Surry Hills, Sydney, 2010 Enquiry Info@velvetlobster.com.au --------------------- @joel_arthur_ @tia_madden @adamoste #Distancebetweentwoorchids #velvetlobstergallery
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CLOSING TODAY⁠ ⁠ ADAM OSTE⁠ Grace⁠ ⁠ Adam captures moments. Both the moment that is shared with his subject, but also what has just happened, the moments before Adam put brush to canvas, and all the moments before that. Likewise, Adam’s mark-making is a suggestion of what is there in front of him, around him but more importantly, it suggests what is not there. Like the early Australian Impressionists, he⁠ captures an impression, light and absence of light, but instead of an obvious yearning for European approval, he has cut out the nonsense, the unnecessary flare, the ego; he has cut through and carefully uncovered a more honest and, importantly, more Australian observation. One of admiration, acknowledgement and curiosity as opposed to one of ownership and acquisition. His monotone approach is also a nod to Adam’s study of printmaking; the understanding and use of positive and negative can make his paintings feel like a screen print, but with more human touch. The inside moments of home and family are tackled with the emotional intimacy of a Joy⁠ Hester ink drawing, gentle, considered and beaming with admiration.⁠ This collection of works is a gift from Adam, a freeze frame of calm, an opportunity to be still, reflect and glimpse Grace.⁠ ⁠ Please email any queries to via link in profile.⁠ ⁠ #sophiegannongallery #adamoste
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UP NEXT ADAM OSTE ‘Grace’ ONLINE EXHIBITION 24 FEB - 7 MARCH Opening on Tuesday 24th February, our first online show for 2026, ‘Grace’ by Adam Oste. Pictured Up Ended 2025 Oil on canvas 142 x 118cm Contact us via email in bio for further information. #sophiegannongallery #adamoste
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