ART

All the fun of the art fairs.

More than 80 leading Australian and international galleries will converge at Carriageworks for Sydney Contemporary, presenting work by a spectacular array of artists across seven vast exhibition spaces. Showing at Gallery 9, Tonee Messiah observes the haphazard shape of ordinary life, manipulating paint to express moments of fleeting beauty, quietude or loneliness, while multimedia artist Kai Wasikowski at Interlude Gallery investigates new ecologies by enabling nature and technology to entwine on a beguiling, seemingly three-dimensional plane. Fair director Barry Keldoulis and his team have devised a program to complement the gallery line-up, including curated spaces for video, installation and performance, as well as a speaker series, a children’s play area by artist Hiromi Tango, ‘Night Cap’ parties for post-fair imbibing and a range of artist collaborations extending beyond the site to the city’s creative precincts. “It will be an even more elegant affair, and collectors, curators and the public can expect to see what artists are doing says Barry. September 7-10.