EMMA LANGRIDGE

Emma Langridge is a Melbourne-based artist.

She acquired Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Western Australia in 1996. This was followed by a practice-led PhD from the Australian National University in 2022, the subject of which is the investigation of irregular outcomes arising from regimented painting systems, with a particular focus on glitch and fracture.

Her work is held by the Janet Holmes à Court Collection, Artbank, Bankwest, Benalla Art Gallery, Geelong Art Gallery, the Edith Cowan University Collection, and the Centre for Contemporary Non-Objective Art in Brussels.

She has held numerous solo and two-person exhibitions, and participated in curated group exhibitions across Australia, the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Germany, United States of America, in the fields of both painting and drawing.

Langridge has been shortlisted for several art prizes, has created a number of site-specific wall paintings, and jointly curated the group exhibition ABSTRACTI?N, at Five Walls in 2023. Her work was most recently included in Abstraction 23, at Charles Nodrum Gallery in Richmond, and Structured Visions, at cbOne Gallery, curated by Cathy Blanchflower.

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Swerve, 2023, acrylic on wooden support, 51 x 40.7cm

LACHLAN STONEHOUSE

Lachlan Stonehouse, an artist working across painting, drawing, and collage, his works explore themes of recurrence, pattern making, and the controlled alteration of surface. In his paintings he delves into the fundamentals of painting, particularly its support structures, using the woven grid form to develop optical rhythms and create repetitive patterns that appear almost mechanical. Stonehouse’s works draw on the legacies of Modernism, Minimalism, and Post-Minimalism to explore and develop new and innovative painting methods.

Stonehouse was born in Scottsdale, Tasmania, in 1999. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, in 2023.

Stonehouse has exhibited in group shows at artist-run spaces and galleries throughout Melbourne, including Caves ARI, Blindside ARI, Oigall Projects, George Paton Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Photography, and Arts Projects Australia. His work has also been shown in Tasmania at Sawtooth ARI and Poimena Gallery. In 2021, he received the George Paton Gallery Artist’s Residency Award from Melbourne University.

Stonehouse’s work is held in collections at UMSU Melbourne University Parkville VIC, Melbourne University Southbank VIC, Belvedere Apartments Main Beach QLD, and various private collections across Australia. Sydney Contemporary will be his debut appearance at an Art Fair.