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Artist 🖼 and 🎤Podcaster . See link tree below for my website, and a short film about my practice

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Last weekend to see DRAWING NOW
DRAW Space at Airspace
Open 10-4 Saturday and Sunday
10 Junction Street Marrickville

Featuring William Potanin

This group exhibition is shaped by the board members of DRAW Space, each of whom has invited one artist to participate. DRAW Space board member Fiona Vertity selected the work of William Potanin.

Fiona
Drawing interests me because it is the closest we come to seeing how another person thinks. A mark can be hesitant, bold, awkward, controlled or searching; it tells us something about the person who made it. Drawing does not need to be polished, monumental or confined to pencil on paper. It can be stitched, scratched, printed, erased, walked or made in space. It can describe the world, but also test, question, and imagine it. Potanin’s expanded drawing practice has caught my attention because his approach ignites my interest in drawing’s endless possibilities.

William
A drawing can be anything linear in nature; it marks when something starts and ends. A drawn line memorialises an action; it represents a temporal junction between nothing and completion, a suggestive journey of process, and the death of an action. Drawing, like many art forms, is performative in nature because of its relation to gesture. When somebody says a work of art is gestural, they often describe loose curved marks, but I think this definition is a disservice to the word. It flattens the relationships between body and material, material and matrix, matrix and site. A gestural drawing is a line that sits in relation to the mechanics and limitations of the human body, and the human body in relation to the space it occupies. A line, a gesture, is a product of a biomechanical system. A way of mapping both physical and subjective relationships.

Read the artists’ statements on the DRAW Space website - link in bio.

#drawingnow #drawspace #airspace #dontmissit #seeyouthere

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In the palm of my hand my granny is still laughing. She is at the centre of this small sepia photograph from one hundred years ago. On the beach, in England my granny is in the centre in a stripped bathing suit and hat perched mischievously on the back of a friend. My grandpa Fred walks into the circle of fun. This photograph has been the hook for my whole honours research paper. This research begins with that act of holding. Through walking, drawing, stitching and repetition, I trace how thought unfolds through the moving body and how memories remain within materials. A drawn or stitched line becomes a way of following what cannot be fully recovered: a walk taken, a woman remembered, a thought passing through the hand. #fionaveritywrite

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Last weekend to see
DRAWING NOW
DRAW Space at Airspace
Open 10-4 Saturday and Sunday
10 Junction Street Marrickville

Featuring Megan Kennedy

This group exhibition is shaped by the board members of DRAW Space, each of whom has invited one artist to participate. Monika Cvitanovic, selected the work of Megan Kennedy.

Monika - I work with thread as a drawing medium, a practice shaped by problem‑solving within textile processes that unsettle art‑historical expectations of pictorial space. Used to bind and secure cloth, in my work thread subverts the role of the pencil, becoming the structural agent of drawing itself. I recognise this expanded agency of thread in Megan’s work, where labour‑intensive stitching generates abstract compositions with open‑ended potential, evoking patchwork while allowing line to assert itself and tell a story.

Megan - Hand, tool, surface, mark. Like a strand of drawn graphite, thread sets out as one linear stitch. Relying on tension, extension and tensile strength, accumulation rewards persistence and care. Although many drawing forms can claim the immediacy of mark-making, stitching and sewing slow creative production and impose unique parameters. Each threaded mark is a determined action of piercing, pulling and returning or advancing. Like Monika’s approach, I apply thread as a drawing medium. Sewing is drawing with both the freedom and constraint of technology - the conditions of making become part of the mark. As both structure and feature, the stitch is labour spun visible. The SLEEP series is an endeavour to give material form to my experience of chronically disordered sleep. Early in my textile career, I collaborated with my mum’s old Singer sewing machine. My frustrated lines - guided, fed, forced, pleaded and bargained for - contend as both seam and scar, a parallel to the testing experience of navigating somnipathy. Binding and marking a ground of bedclothes and sleepwear, the drawn thread in SLEEP sustains a candid window of deconstruction, subversion and crude repair - offering a gentle capacity for problem solving.

#megankennedy #monikacvitanovic #drawspace #airspace #lastweekend

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Artist talks from  12noon Saturday 19 September 2026
with Lana Ardere, Emma Regner and Kevin Wong

Featuring a drawing performance by Kevin Wong

DRAWING NOW
DRAW Space at Airspace
10 Junction Street Marrickville

This group exhibition is shaped by the board members of DRAW Space – an artist run initiative committed to experimental drawing – each of whom has invited one artist to participate. Participating board members are Monika Cvitanovic, Sarah Eddowes, Melinda Hunt, Fiona Verity and Belinda Yee.

DRAW Space board member, Sarah Eddowes, selected the work of Kevin Wong.
Sarah
I understand drawing as a channeling of a certain existing energy into linear form. This energy could be movement, the formation of thoughts or the relationship between objects, places or people. I’m interested in contemporary forms of drawing which explore unusual ways of achieving this.
Kevin Wong uses his own body in a very direct way as an instrument for tracing out its own battle between stability and aberration.
Kevin
Drawing, to me, is the transformation of the intangible into observable remnants. The traces left by gesture, line and mark are expressive records of the imperceptible and unseen, whether that be a thought, an emotion, an observation or a sensation. To draw is to document and visualise a response to stimuli through action.
I am drawn to the substances of what remains and the memory consecrated within them. In my practise I collect marks and debris to preserve lived experience. Pain, endurance, fatigue and failure are archived within what is left behind.
In Simple Strain, time and the body are used to illustrate the toll of performing a simple action. Holding my arm outstretched towards paper for as long as I can, trembling dots of graphite time-stamp the battle between exhaustion and determination.

#drawingnow #artisttalks #drawspace #drawingperformance #seeyouthere

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Artist talks from  12noon Saturday 19 September 2026
Featuring Lana Ardere, Emma Regner and Kevin Wong

DRAWING NOW
DRAW Space at Airspace
10 Junction Street Marrickville

This group exhibition is shaped by the board members of DRAW Space – an artist run initiative committed to experimental drawing – each of whom has invited one artist to participate. Participating board members are Monika Cvitanovic, Sarah Eddowes, Melinda Hunt, Fiona Verity and Belinda Yee.

DRAW Space board member, Melinda Hunt, selected the work of Lana Ardere.

Melinda
If all art can be regarded as a self portrait of its maker, I believe that the intimacy and immediacy of drawing has a capacity, beyond other media, to expose the artists’ inner life, stripping back and revealing the psyche.
For Lana Ardere, the 24-hour news cycle is tipped into a simmering stew of memory, trauma and imagination in her meticulously detailed and surreal graphite drawings, the making of which serves therapeutic ends.

Lana
Drawing, at its basics, offers the most direct transfer of an idea and energy from an artist into an artwork. In every moment, the contact between pencil, surface and mind concentrates into a single point. As the movement continues, that point of friction between a pencil and a paper unfolds into a line or a tone. And when a drawing truly takes shape, all these dots, lines and tones create the illusion of a window into another world.
In my practice, the initial idea for a drawing emerges as a mixture of imagined and real events, collected images, memories of feelings, and associations. I choose the most strange elements for my compositions. This blend awakens an obscure shape in my mind, and through drawing, I aim to bring that figure into this world.
Many of my drawings are labour‑intensive, multi‑detailed and meticulous in execution. I approach them as both a mental and physical challenge, similar to a spiritual practice. The prolonged physicality of drawing allows me to reach a state where subconscious knowledge prevails — not by eliminating self‑reflection, doubt, or awkwardness of the creative process, but by working through them.
#drawingnow #artisttalks #drawspace #

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DRAWING NOW
Artist talks by Lana Ardere, Emma Regner, William Potanin and Kevin Wong.

Drawing performance by Kevin Wong.

Please join us at the artist talks and an endurance drawing performance by Kevin Wong, as part of our current exhibition, DRAWING NOW, at Airspace, Marrickville.

12-1.30pm Saturday 19 September
10 Junction Road Marrickville

This group exhibition is shaped by the board members of DRAW Space – an artist-run initiative committed to experimental drawing – each of whom has invited one artist to participate. Participating board members are Monika Cvitanovic, Sarah Eddowes, Melinda Hunt, Fiona Verity and Belinda Yee.
Conceived as an informed glimpse into the diverse ways drawing is being approached today, the exhibition grows from conversations between curators and artists about how drawing is understood, practiced and reimagined in the present moment.

#drawspace #airspace #drawingnow #artisttalks #performancedrawing

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OPENING TONIGHT!

DRAWING NOW
DRAW Space at Airspace  
Featuring work by Lana Ardere, Megan Kennedy, William Potanin, Emma Regner and Kevin Wong

Join the artists and DRAW Space board members to celebrate at the opening
6-8pm Friday 4 September at AIRspace
10 Junction Street Marrickville

This group exhibition is shaped by the board members of DRAW Space – an artist run initiative committed to experimental drawing – each of whom has invited one artist to participate. Conceived as an informed glimpse into the diverse ways drawing is being approached today, the exhibition grows from conversations between curators and artists about how drawing is understood, practiced and reimagined in the present moment.

DRAWING NOW features work by:  Lana Ardere, selected by Melinda Hunt  Megan Kennedy, selected by Monika Cvitanovic  William Potanin, selected by Fiona Verity  Emma Regner, selected by Belinda Yee  Kevin Wong, selected by Sarah Eddowes

Emma Regner is represented by Eloise Cato Gallery @cato__gallery

#groupshow #drawingnow #airspace #drawspacenomadicmode #seeyouthere

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We’re busy installing
DRAWING NOW
DRAW Space at Airspace  
Featuring work by Lana Ardere, Megan Kennedy, William Potanin, Emma Regner and Kevin Wong

Join the artists and DRAW Space board members to celebrate at the opening
6-8pm Friday 4 September at AIRspace
10 Junction Street Marrickville

This group exhibition is shaped by the board members of DRAW Space – an artist run initiative committed to experimental drawing – each of whom has invited one artist to participate. Conceived as an informed glimpse into the diverse ways drawing is being approached today, the exhibition grows from conversations between curators and artists about how drawing is understood, practiced and reimagined in the present moment.

The exhibition runs until 4pm Sunday 20 September

Emma Regner is represented by Eloise Cato Gallery @cato__gallery

#groupshow #drawingnow #airspace #drawspacenomadicmode seeyouthere

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Coming soon…
DRAWING NOW
DRAW Space at Airspace  
Featuring new work by Lana Ardere, Megan Kennedy, William Potanin, Emma Regner and Kevin Wong

Join the artists and DRAW Space board members to celebrate at the opening
6-8pm Friday 4 September at AIRspace
10 Junction Street Marrickville

This group exhibition is shaped by the board members of DRAW Space – an artist run initiative committed to experimental drawing – each of whom has invited one artist to participate.
Conceived as an informed glimpse into the diverse ways drawing is being approached today, the exhibition grows from conversations between curators and artists about how drawing is understood, practiced and reimagined in the present moment.

Images:
Lana Ardere, Daydream three hours before thunderstorm, 2026, graphite, calligraphy ink and oil on 640gsm Saunders Waterford paper, 228 x 168 cm, 9 parts
Megan Kennedy, SLEEP II, 2021, Reused Textiles,164 cm x 187 cm.
William Potanin, Composition I-IIII (place this face down), 2026, grip tape, acrylic on board, 70 x 50 cm.
Emma Regner, forcefully unfolding, 2026, Oil stick and oil paint on canvas, 120.5cm x 140.5cm
Kevin Wong, Simple Strain Part 2. Endurance performance, 2026, graphite on paper

Emma Regner is represented by Eloise Cato Gallery @cato__gallery

#groupshow #drawingnow #airspace #drawspacenomadicmode #seeyouthere

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Coming soon…
DRAWING NOW
DRAW Space at Airspace  
Featuring new work by Lana Ardere, Megan Kennedy, William Potanin, Emma Regner and Kevin Wong

Join the artists and DRAW Space board members to celebrate at the opening
6-8pm Friday 4 September at Airspace
10 Junction Street Marrickville
Exhibition runs until 4pm Sunday 20 September

This group exhibition is shaped by the board members of DRAW Space – an artist run initiative committed to experimental drawing – each of whom has invited one artist to participate.
Conceived as an informed glimpse into the diverse ways drawing is being approached today, the exhibition grows from conversations between curators and artists about how drawing is understood, practiced and reimagined in the present moment.

Images:
Megan Kennedy, SLEEP II, 2021, Reused Textiles,164 cm x 187 cm.
Lana Ardere, Daydream three hours before thunderstorm, 2026, graphite, calligraphy ink and oil on 640gsm Saunders Waterford paper, 228 x 168 cm, 9 parts.
William Potanin, Composition I-IIII (place this face down), 2026, grip tape, acrylic on board, 70 x 50 cm.
Emma Regner is represented by Eloise Cato Gallery @cato__gallery
#groupshow #drawingnow #airspace #drawspacenomadicmode #seeyouthere

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New Voices 2026 at CBD Gallery

National Art School Emerging Artists Group Show
Fergus Berney-Gibson ｜Mary Benvenuto｜Lei Feng｜India Jablonski｜Fiona Verity｜Daniel He Wang

23 July - 15 August

As New Voices 2026 enters its final days, we would like to thank everyone who joined us for the Artists Talk last Saturday and all those who have visited and supported the exhibition. Your engagement and encouragement mean a great deal to both the artists and the gallery.

Our sincere thanks to the National Art School for its continued commitment to nurturing generations of artists and contributing so significantly to the future of contemporary art in Australia.

To the six artists of New Voices 2026, we hope this exhibition marks another meaningful step in your developing practices and careers, and brings new opportunities, energy and inspiration for the work ahead.

Final day Saturday, 15 August.

@cbdgallerysyd
@nas_au

#cbdgallerysydney #NationalArtSchool #AustralianContemporaryArt #EmergingArtists #SydneyArt

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The Rounds @syrup.contemporary @utopiaartsydney David Aspden @darrenknightgallery @maiswright.gallery @liverpoolstreetgallery @velvet.lobster @schmickcontemporary @cbdgallerysyd @ferguskbg @palas.sydney @kingstreetgallery @dominikmerschgallery @hazelhurstartscentre @foxjensengallery @flindersstgallery @rogue_pop_up @gallery144__ @day01.gallery
#contemporary #art #gallery #fineart #sydney

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