Sydney Contemporary
September 11 – 14th, 2025
Carriageworks
KEISUKE MATSUURA
Since the 1990s, Japanese artist Keisuke Matsuura has been developing a practice that explores geometry and natural phenomena. Born in Kyoto in 1970, he studied at Tama Art University, Tokyo, before relocating to Germany in 1997 to complete his studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Christian Megert and Daniel Buren. Now based in Düsseldorf, Matsuura regularly exhibits across Europe and Asia, presenting both gallery exhibitions and ambitious outdoor installations. His work engages with the subtle interplay of structure and contingency, revealing form through its interaction with light, air, and environmental conditions.
Sean Hogan
A pigment sprayed. A colour looking for a friend. A painting unseen. A language spoken backwards.
Hogan typically begins with a single word, image, or gesture—a poetic kernel that sparks his thinking. From this, he develops a framework rooted in system theory and complexity science, drawing on geometry, colour, proportion, and materiality. His works explore dualities such as complexity/simplicity, order/disorder, and connection/disconnection.
Spring 1883 Art Fair
Room 322 | Hotel Windsor, Melbourne
August 13 – 16th, 2025
For SPRING1883 IX, Five Walls Gallery thoughtfully considers the Victorian-era furnishings and historical setting of the Hotel Windsor. In dialogue with the ornate interiors, the gallery introduces a compelling mix of painting and sculpture that both complements and contrasts the surrounding space.
The presentation features a focused selection of contemporary painting and sculpture by artists engaging with abstraction, materiality, and spatial dialogue. Featuring represented and associated artists Shuhei Fukuda, PJ Hickman, Sean Hogan, Zhejun (Joyce) Huang, David Sequeira & Tim Johnson, Emma Langridge, Sarah Robson, Lachlan Stonehouse, Michael S. L. Vandorpe, and Ian Wells, the presentation highlights diverse approaches to minimalist and process-driven practices. Each work reflects a rigorous engagement with formal language, perceptual experience, and material processes—articulating the gallery’s ongoing commitment to critical inquiry and the evolving discourse of contemporary abstraction.
MELBOURNE ART FAIR
Lachlan Stonehouse
February 20 – 23, 2025
Lachlan Stonehouse (b. 1999, Scottsdale, Tasmania) is an emerging artist whose practice spans painting, drawing, and collage, exploring themes of recurrence, pattern-making, and surface manipulation. Deeply engaged with the legacies of Modernism, Minimalism, and Post-Minimalism, his work navigates the intersection between structure and spontaneity.
At the core of Stonehouse’s practice is an inquiry into the fundamental elements of painting, particularly its structural supports—most notably, the woven grid, which he careful and meticulously constructs by hand. This recurring motif serves as both a stabilising force and an optical challenge, generating rhythms that can appear almost mechanical. While his work adheres to a systematic approach, it also embraces play and unpredictability, disrupting the rigidity of the grid and modernist aesthetics. His process incorporates both fabricated and hand-constructed techniques, allowing imperfections to emerge within a controlled framework.
SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY
Emma Langridge
Lachlan Stonehouse
September 05 – 08, 2024
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……
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…..
MELBOURNE ART FAIR
PJ Hickman
February 22 – 25, 2024
PJ Hickman is renowned for his conceptual approach and witty articulation of a reductive Minimalist aesthetic, combined with a formalist conceptual approach to painting. He uses a playfully sophisticated blend of art historical references, wit, and contemporary revisionism, while simultaneously extending the arguments surrounding objective and non-objective painting. The paintings are essentially an art of quotations, translations, satire, limitations, and double takes…….
UPCOMING
Announcement coming soon….
PAST
MELBOURNE ART FAIR
FEBRUARY 19th – 22nd, 2026
SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY
SEPTEMBER 11th – 14th, 2025
SPRING 1883
AUGUST 13th – 16th, 2025
MELBOURNE ART FAIR
FEBRUARY 20th – 23rd, 2025
SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY
SEPTEMBER 5th – 8th, 2024
MELBOURNE ART FAIR
FEBRUARY 22nd – 25th, 2024