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At @sydneycontemporary opening night with some of my favourite artworld people and artwork highlights. I’ll be at my gallery @mcontemporary tomorrow morning for the collector breakfast from 9am-11am. Always feels like the artworld Mardi Gras.

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Jin Sha: The Blue Veil
Opening Saturday 29 August, 5-7PM

REDBASE Art Sydney is proud to present our second solo exhibition with renowned gongbi artist Jin Sha. The exhibition coincides with our presentation of Jin Sha’s work at @sydneycontemporary

In “The Blue Veil”, Jin Sha paints the moment before the curtain opens, or just after it has begun to close. Working in gongbi — the meticulous fine-brush silk painting tradition — he quietly empties figures out of Renaissance masterpieces. He leaves only garments and accessories floating in what he calls this his liubai, the intended blank through which the viewer enters the work

It features paintings made specifically for Sydney, and it is the first time an Australian image has entered Jin Sha’s tribute to the masters. He has placed Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly — known as Australia’s own faceless figure, disguised in a helmet that has haunted the Australian imagination — into dialogue with Renaissance masters. In doing so, he unravels a greater, more nuanced conversation on the stretch of time and art history. This act of recontextualising art history into the Chinese context and tradition through gongbi complicates Australian mythmaking in a playful, yet inexplicable way

Exhibition period 29 August - 3 October, 2026

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@lihongboart is among the best-known paper sculptors working today. Drawing on the honeycomb “paper-gourd” techniques of Chinese folk toys, he glues thousands of sheets into dense blocks and carves them into forms of timber and steel — that can be pulled and reshaped, cascading like an accordion

@redbaseau will be exhibiting Li Hongbo’s paper sculptures at @sydneycontemporary, booth D01

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“we all come from vagina” @liu.xi

@redbaseau will be exhibiting a special 16 piece gold-plated presentation of femininity in @sydneycontemporary at booth D01

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PhD @unswartanddesign Class of 2022, plus a couple of 2021, at a little PhD reunion dinner party at mine tonight. The last cohort to start before AI and the last not to have to do an oral examination.

With Dr. Daniel Press @danielpressart , Dr. Monika Cvitanovic @monikazart and soon-to-be Dr. Eva Nolan @evanolanartist , Dr. Sarah Eddowes @sedzedz , Dr. Jeremy Smith, Dr. Jane Cameron @jane_michaele_cameron , and Dr. Kristy Gordon @kristygordon_art.

PhDs can be a lonely experience. I’m so lucky I did mine in fine arts, in a studio setting, sharing a space with these friends for four years. But really, a PhD was never about the thesis, it’s about who you become along the way. And sharing it with these lovely friends made all the difference, countless studio chats, lunches on the balcony, encouraging each other to the finish line.

We’ve been through it together, forged in fire, and now we get to sit around a table and reminisce about old times.

Cohort for life.

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“Eastern Abstraction” — group exhibition at @redbaseau opens Friday, July 31, 5–7PM.
Opening remarks by Nicholas Tsoutas, independent curator and writer

Featuring Tian Longyu @longyutianlongyu, Paul Bai @paulbai_brisbane, Sungmin Park @sungmin_park_ice, Li Kezheng, and Tifani Anggun @tfanggun. Catalogue essay by @danielpressart

The practice of @sungmin_park_ice is devoted to hyperrealist oil painting, best known for the ongoing “Ice Capsule” series begun in 2002, in which flowers, vines and fruit appear suspended inside blocks of ice. Yet the ice he paints cannot exist; stems pass freely through solid forms, rendering impossible objects with photographic precision. Park uses the mutability of water — shifting between solid, liquid and gas — as a device to examine states of the in-between, memory, and the boundary between reality and illusion. More recently he has turned to the textures of ceramic surfaces, where abstraction arrives by pushing hyperrealism until it flows.

On view 31 July – 19 August

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“Eastern Abstraction” — group exhibition at @redbaseau opens Friday, July 31, 5–7PM.
Opening remarks by Nicholas Tsoutas, independent curator and writer

Featuring Tian Longyu @longyutianlongyu, Paul Bai @paulbai_brisbane, Sungmin Park @sungmin_park_ice, Li Kezheng, and Tifani Anggun @tfanggun. Catalogue essay by @danielpressart

Abstraction emerging from Asia has a very different temporality than that of the West, and is still finding innovations through Eastern thought and aesthetics. To arrive at Eastern openings in abstraction, one must first reckon with the East–West binary that pervades the field and the ways painters navigate and disrupt these terms. Artists from Seoul to Yogyakarta, Beijing to Brisbane, occupy positions independent of these binaries, which artist @paulbai_brisbane has termed the Third Spatial Position. Here, abstraction becomes a living, in-between language

On view 31 July – 19 August

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Last exhibition in this location before we move, reopening early 2027.

DRAW ME NEWTOWN
Opening 6-8pm Thursday 16 July
Show runs until 5pm Sunday 19 July

Want to own a contemporary Australian drawing? We have hundreds of amazing small drawings in our DRAW ME NEWTOWN fundraiser.

The show opens 6-8pm Thursday 16 July and will run until 5pm Sunday 19 July. All drawings will be for sale for $20; all proceeds go to DRAW Space, Australia’s only artist-run, non-profit contemporary drawing gallery.

Open Thursday, Friday, Saturday 11-5 and Sunday 12-5
31A Enmore Road Newtown Gadigal

#drawmenewtown #postcardshow #drawspace #newtown

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DRAW ME NEWTOWN
Opening 6-8pm Thursday 16 July
Show runs until 5pm Sunday 19 July

Want to own a contemporary Australian drawing? We have hundreds of amazing small drawings in our DRAW ME NEWTOWN fundraiser. Here’s a sample of just a few of the recent submissions.

The show opens 6-8pm Thursday 16 July and will run until 5pm Sunday 19 July. All drawings will be for sale for $20; all proceeds go to DRAW Space, Australia’s only artist-run, non-profit contemporary drawing gallery.

Open Thursday, Friday, Saturday 11-5 and Sunday 12-5
31A Enmore Road Newtown Gadigal

#drawmenewtown #postcardshow #drawspace #newtown

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German artist @stephankaluza.art held his first solo exhibition in Australia last Saturday. The exhibition was officially opened by Klaus Wunderlich of the German Consulate in Australia @germanyinsydney, followed by an engaging Q&A between the artist and Jochen Gutsch @hinterlandt of @goetheinstitut_australien

His hyper-realistic oil paintings frequently depict rainforests as fading, vanishing motifs to signal nature’s looming demise. Here, the natural world is withdrawing from humanity to develop its own separate life amid its own collapse. The familiar themes surface: climate change, environmental exploitation, and the question of how, or whether, we can relearn to live alongside nature. Through his paintings, Kaluza states that humanity seems to have built its own bubble on this planet, looking down indifferently, sometimes arrogantly, on the forests it once came from.

Open until 27 July

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“The Disappeared and the Lost” @stephankaluza.art debut solo presentation in Australia opens Saturday 27 June, 5–7PM
Guest of honour speech by Klaus Wunderlich, Deputy Consul General @germanyinsydney, followed by Stephan Kaluza in conversation with Jochen Gutsch @hinterlandt, Cultural Program Coordinator at @goetheinstitut_australien

DM for catalogue essay by @danielpressart. Referring to the Impact series, he writes they are a “visceral stripping of the natural world towards abstraction. The horizontal blurs resemble the sync distortions of old television sets, where nature ‘cuts-out’ moments before whatever annihilation awaits us”

23 June – 27 July, 2026

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Last few days to see“Fishing for Golden Snappers” at @beachescouncil Curl Curl Creative Space until this Sunday June 21. The gallery opens 12-5.30pm, Thursday to Sunday.

The exhibition is curated by Dr Daniel Press @danielpressart and supported by Northern Beaches Council Arts & Creative Grants Program @magamnsw

@magamnsw
@danielpressart

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