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Melbourne art fair
20 – 23 February, 2025
Booth m5
Nanda\Hobbs brings together David Fairbairn, Lottie Consalvo and Yoshio Honjo—each investigate a sense of self through differing visual vocabularies, seeking truths beyond humanity's surface.
Fairbairn is regarded as one of Australia’s most accomplished drawer/painters. His intensely layered and robust portraits drawn from life peel away the secrets of the sitters to reveal personal sensitivities and narratives through meticulous line and tone.
Consalvo's tonal abstractions—meditative ruminations that search for a language beyond the verbal—are informed by her performance, installation and video work. Consalvo's practice is deeply introspective; her surface and mark-making guided by these mediums. She works to make links to the natural world and how we address our existence within it. Longing, loss and desire—all that is seemingly ungraspable in our everyday existence.
Honjo has risen to prominence by morphing Japanese ink painting traditions—inviting us to witness his transposition of traditional Japanese fables into contemporary contexts. An exploration of materialism, beauty and desire; he hand-paints using suihi enogu on Kozo Washi paper.
Each artist evocatively explores the human condition, weaving history and self together. It is real and mythological, shared and personal. They pose the question: how do we truly see ourselves within the context of society?
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