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 He uses a playfully sophisticated blend of art historical references, wit, and contemporary revisionism, while simultaneously extending the arguments surrounding objective and non-objective painting.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…….