THIS IS NO FANTASY
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FEATURED STORIES AND EXHIBITIONS
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Ellen Dahl: The Edge of Time
THIS IS NO FANTASY presents Ellen Dahl's first exhibition in the gallery 'The Edge of Time'.
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Oliver Watts: The Return
THIS IS NO FANTASY presents Oliver Watts' 'The Return'
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Haji Oh: Grand-Mother Island Project – Chapter 1, Nautical Map
THIS IS NO FANTASY presents work by Haji Oh.
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Alexandra Standen: Shiny Objects
THIS IS NO FANTASY presents work by Alexandra Standen.
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Joel Arthur: Plots and Grounds
THIS IS NO FANTASY presents Joel Arthur's first solo with the gallery.
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Ali Tahayori and Alexandra Standen: Melbourne Art Fair Presentation
THIS IS NO FANTASY presents new bodies of work by Ali Tahayori and Alexandra Standen at the Melbourne Art Fair 2024.
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Yhonnie Scarce: PHOTO 2024 presentation, Shroud of Secrecy
THIS IS NO FANTASY presents work by Yhonnie Scarce for PHOTO 2024.
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Juan Ford: First Principles
THIS IS NO FANTASY kicks off 2024 with work by Juan Ford.
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Slippage: Vessels That Leak From The Top
THIS IS NO FANTASY presents new work by Slippage, the collaborative practice of Phuong Ngo and Hwafern Quach.
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Artist Profile: Ali Tahayori
Ali Tahayori finds safety in darkness. It's curious, then, that his work relies on light.
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Ali Tahayori at Unseen Amsterdam: Solo Exhibition
THIS IS NO FANTASY presents Ali Tahayori at Unseen Amsterdam 2023.
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Yhonnie Scarce and Johnathon World Peace Bush at The Armory Show: Dual Exhibition
THIS IS NO FANTASY presents Yhonnie Scarce and Johnathon World Peace Bush at the Armory Show, New York.
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Ali Tahayori: Looking at Me Looking at You
THIS IS NO FANTASY presents Ali Tahayori's first solo with the gallery.
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THIS IS NO FANTASY Welcomes Haji Oh to Their Stable
Textile artist joins Melbourne gallery.
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Spring1883 Is Back
The contemporary art fair Spring1883’s eighth edition will be held at The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne.
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Group Exhibition: ORBIT
THIS IS NO FANTASY presents ORBIT, a group exhibition of gallery artists.
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Debutantes: Johnathon World Peace Bush
Artists who leading gallerists have thrown their weight behind with a recent debut exhibition.
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Zeitgeist: A Shift Away From Bricks and Mortar
The art world issues influencing our times.
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Jo Plank: Nulla dies sine Linea
THIS IS NO FANTASY presents second solo exhibition by Jo Plank.
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Neil Haddon: When The Smoke Clears
THIS IS NO FANTASY presents works by Neil Haddon's in When The Smoke Clears.
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Oliver Watts: At Redleaf
THIS IS NO FANTASY presents At Redleaf by Oliver Watts.
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Victoria Reichet: Predictive Text
THIS IS NO FANTASY presents 'Predictive Text' a new series by Victoria Reichelt
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Kevin Chin: Within Region
THIS IS NO FANTASY presents Kevin Chin 'Within Region'.
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Juan Ford: Dearthlings
THIS IS NO FANTASY presents new body of work by JUAN FORD 'Dearthlings'
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Phuong Ngo: Lost and Found – Prayer, Plantation, Pastiche
THIS IS NO FANTASY presents PHUONG NGO: LOST AND FOUND - Prayer, Plantation, Pastiche in the gallery.
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Michael Cook: Enculturation
THIS IS NO FANTASY presents Michael Cook's 'Enculturation'
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Badra Aji: Foreign Objects
This is No Fantasy presents Badra Aji
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Simon Degroot: Oblique Variations
THIS IS NO FANTASY presents a new series of works by Simon Degroot, Oblique Variations
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Art Collector x MAF 2022: THIS IS NO FANTASY
THIS IS NO FANTASY presents work by Vincent Namatjira at the Melbourne Art Fair 2022.
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Australian galleries featured in Art Basel’s Online Viewing Rooms
THIS IS NO FANTASY and Jan Murphy Gallery invited to participate.
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THIS IS NO FANTASY picks up Badra Aji
The Melbourne gallery announces representation of the Indonesian-born drawer and videographer.
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THIS IS NO FANTASY now representing Ezz Monem
Melbourne gallery picks up Egyptian photographic artist Ezz Monem.
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Debutantes: Charlie Ingemar Harding
We look at those artists who gallerists have thrown their weight behind with a recent debut premier commercial exhibition.
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VIDEO: Pull Focus with Kevin Chin
What makes this particular artwork WORK as a work of art?
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Vincent Namatjira awarded an OAM
Celebrated South Australia-based artist awarded for his service to Indigenous arts.
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Oliver Watts: Real Made Strange
Oliver Watts’ latest suite of seductive paintings explore spaces of retreat, sanctuary and exclusion in Sydney.
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Michael Cook: Keeping up with the Joneses
Michael Cook’s latest photographic series mines the inherent racism toward Indigenous people, and the impact of materialism on community.
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Yhonnie Scarce wins Yalingwa Fellowship
Melbourne-based artist takes out $60,000 Yalingwa Fellowship.
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Benjamin Aitken joins THIS IS NO FANTASY
Melbourne gallery welcomes the playful and acerbic practice of Benjamin Aitken.
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Australian female photographic artists take over the NGV
Two survey shows from Petrina Hicks and Polixeni Papapetrou at the NGV celebrate contemporary Australian photographic practice.
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SPRING 1883: Art Luxe
The sixth iteration of Spring 1883 sees 24 handpicked galleries take over the luxurious Establishment Hotel in Sydney.
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Art Basel returns to Hong Kong
The region’s largest art fair, Art Basel Hong Kong, kicks off another round at the end of March.
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Installation Contemporary thinks outside the booth
Sydney Contemporary’s Installation Contemporary program returns to the fair this September with a diverse array of ambitious installation works presented throughout Carriageworks.
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Sydney Contemporary Announces 2018 Gallery List
Sydney Contemporary has stepped up its program for its first year as an annual art fair.
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Curator’s Radar: Yhonnie Scarce
Yhonnie Scarce’s work is about the here and how, and the ongoing effects of colonisation on Indigenous peoples.
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Victoria Reichelt: Endangered
Victoria Reichelt’s highly finessed mark-making evokes the changes encroaching on both contemporary art and modern life.
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Natasha Bieniek: Natural Magnetism
Attuned to the natural world, Natasha Bieniek relays the minutia of the outdoors in her paintings.
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Jacqui Stockdale: From Where I Stood
Jacqui Stockdale's latest series draws on the enduring legend of the notorious bushranger Ned Kelly.