First Light - Contemporary Australian Art
Live-streamed online auction
July 20th 2025 @ 6:30 pm AEST
First Light - Contemporary Australian Art
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Bids starting from: $300
First Light
A Live-Streamed Auction of Contemporary Australian Art
Artbid is pleased to present First Light, a live-streamed auction event featuring 144 works by 82 contemporary Australian artists. This carefully curated collection highlights the range and depth of artistic practice in Australia today—from expressive abstraction to refined studies of form, nature, and place.
With works starting from $300, First Light offers an accessible entry point for new collectors while showcasing pieces of significance for seasoned buyers. Every lot has been selected to reflect the evolving conversations in contemporary art, offering moments of quiet introspection, bold experimentation, and everything in between.
Auction Details:
144 original works across a range of mediums and styles
82 artists from across Australia
Live-streamed auction with professional auctioneer and real-time bidding
Bidding starting from $300
Join us live from 6:30pm AEST on Sunday July 20th.
Browse the full catalogue, place your bids, and experience the next chapter in contemporary Australian collecting.
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Height 105cm x Width 79cm
Estimate: $3,500 - $3,900
Starting Bid: $2,300
The End of the Rainbow, 2025
mixed media on board, framed in tasmanian oak. (framed)
Height 43cm x Width 43cm
Estimate: $850 - $1,100
Starting Bid: $700
Height 51cm x Width 46cm
Estimate: $1,400 - $1,900
Height 152cm x Width 122cm
Estimate: $3,000 - $3,400
5
Flow 22, 2025
acrylic (framed)
Height 33cm x Width 33cm
Estimate: $650 - $950
Starting Bid: $550
51cm x Width 40cm
Estimate: $950 - $1,200
Height 120cm x Width 100cm
Estimate: $2,100 - $2,500
After the Rain, 2025
oil on canvas (framed)
Height 40cm x Width 30cm
Estimate: $900 - $1,200
Starting Bid: $600
Height 50cm x Width 50cm
Estimate: $900 - $1,200
Starting Bid: $700
Height 76cm x Width 61cm
Estimate: $1,400 - $1,800
Height 35cm x Width 64cm
Estimate: $750 - $1,000
Lot 13
How do you like them
2022 acrylic paint, marker and oil pastel on stretched canvas
Height 60cm x Width 60cm
Estimate: $1,200 - $1,600
Starting Bid: $800
Height 90cm x Width 90cm
Estimate: $1,400 - $1,600
Starting Bid: $1,000
15
Young Somewhere Far Away, 2025
mixed media on paper, mounted on board, framed in tasmanian oak. (framed)
Height 55cm x Width 33cm
Estimate: $900 - $1,200
Starting Bid: $700
Lot 16
Height 79cm x Width 79cm
Estimate: $1,300 - $1,600
Starting Bid: $900
Height 33cm x Width 33cm
Estimate: $700 - $900
Starting Bid: $500
Lot 18
New Joy, 2025
mixed media on canvas,
framed in natural oak (framed)
Height 43cm x Width 43cm
Estimate: $750 - $1,000
Starting Bid: $550
Height 44cm x Width 34cm
Estimate: $600 - $800
Starting Bid: $400
Lot 20
Xander Holliday
All I See, 2025
acrylic on canvas (framed)
Height 50cm x Width 65cm
Estimate: $750 - $1,100
Starting Bid: $450
Lot 21
Pav spencer
Feeling The Sun, 2024
mixed media (framed)
Height 93cm x Width 63cm
Estimate: $2,200 - $2,500
Starting Bid: $2,000
Height 35.5cm x Width
25.5cm
Estimate: $500 - $700
Starting Bid: $350
Height 120cm x Width 90cm
Estimate: $2,600 - $3,000
Starting Bid: $1,400
24
My kind of spread, 2025 oil on wood, framed in light wood (framed)
Height 30cm x Width 40cm
Estimate: $650 - $850
Starting Bid: $450
25
Height 60cm x Width 60cm
Estimate: $1,100 - $1,200
Starting Bid: $850
Height 44cm x Width 54cm
Estimate: $750 - $1,000
Starting Bid: $550
sense’, 2025
Height 101cm x Width 76cm
Estimate: $1,600 - $2,100
Starting Bid: $1,200
Height 152cm x Width 122cm
Estimate: $3,000 - $3,400
Starting Bid: $1,700
acrylic, ink, pastel and gold leaf with a sprinkle of coffee on wooden board framed in recycled timber. (framed)
Height 34cm x Width 34cm
Estimate: $750 - $1,000
Height 74cm x Width 100cm
Estimate: $2,600 - $3,000
Starting Bid: $1,900
Spring Dawn, 2024 oil on wooden panel - framed in tasmanian oak (framed)
Height 64cm x Width 85cm
Estimate: $2,000 - $2,400
Starting Bid: $1,500
Height 68cm x Width 138cm
Estimate: $1,800 - $2,400
Starting Bid: $950
Lot 33
CLARISSA
MIGLIORANZA
Multidão, 2025
acrylic and innk on canvas (framed)
Height 121cm x Width 91cm
Estimate: $2,100 - $2,500
Starting Bid: $1,500
Lot 34
The painted meadow,
acrylic on canvas (framed)
Height 40cm x Width 30cm
Estimate: $600 - $900
Starting Bid: $400
Height 52cm x Width 42cm
Estimate: $600 - $800
Starting Bid: $450
Estimate: $2,000 - $2,300
Still Life - Daffodil Trio, 2024
oil on canvas (framed)
Height 43cm x Width 53cm
Estimate: $650 - $850
Starting Bid: $450
Height 27cm x Width 58cm
Estimate: $750 - $950
Starting Bid: $550
Height 100cm x Width 140cm
Estimate: $3,000 - $3,400
Starting Bid: $2,500
Height 43cm x Width 54cm
Estimate: $700 - $900
Starting Bid: $550
Estimate: $2,200 - $2,600
Height 102cm x Width 76cm
Estimate: $2,800 - $3,200
Starting Bid: $2,300
When spring comes again, 2024
oil on canvas (framed)
Height 51cm x Width 61cm
Estimate: $1,800 - $2,200
Starting Bid: $1,400
The Australians, 2025
Height 51cm x Width 40cm
Estimate: $950 - $1,200
Starting
Arrival, 2024
Height 39cm x Width 48cm
Estimate: $800 - $1,000
Starting Bid: $600
oil on linen, framed in tasmanian oak. (framed)
Height 50cm x Width 40cm
Estimate: $800 - $1,200
Starting Bid: $500
Height 121cm x Width 152cm
Estimate: $3,500 - $4,000
Starting Bid: $2,700
Height 23cm x Width 28cm
Estimate: $500 - $700
Starting Bid: $250
Height 60cm x Width 45cm
Estimate: $1,200 - $1,700
Starting Bid: $600
Height 115cm x Width 100cm
Estimate: $2,400 - $2,800
Starting Bid: $2,100
oil on canvas (framed)
Height 51cm x Width 41cm
Estimate: $1,100 - $1,400
Starting Bid: $850
Height 20cm x Width 25cm
Estimate: $600 - $800
Starting Bid: $450
Height 80cm x Width 60cm
Estimate: $1,800 - $2,200
Starting Bid: $1,500
Height 43cm x Width 33cm
Estimate: $850 - $1,100
Starting Bid: $650
55
Tea for Two, 2025
oil on board, shadow framed in tasmania oak. (framed)
Height 27cm x Width 21cm
Estimate: $500 - $700
Starting Bid: $350
acrylic on canvas, framed in oak (framed)
Height 54cm x Width 74cm
Estimate: $1,900 - $2,300
Starting Bid: $1,500
Height 70cm x Width 60cm
Estimate: $1,300 - $1,700
Starting Bid: $950
Height 91cm x Width 91cm
Estimate: $2,000 - $2,400
Height 85cm x Width 130cm
Estimate: $2,900 - $3,400
Starting Bid: $2,500
Height 60cm x Width 60cm
Estimate: $900 - $1,200
Starting Bid: $700
Height 120cm x Width 100cm
Estimate: $2,900 - $3,300
Starting Bid: $1,800
mixed media on framed canvas (framed)
Height 62cm x Width 92cm
Estimate: $2,400 - $2,800
Starting Bid: $2,000
The Hoses Are Hung, Let's Go To The Knights, 2023
oil and acrylic on wooden board (framed)
Height 83cm x Width 124cm
Estimate: $3,700 - $4,200
Starting Bid: $1,200
Height 32cm x Width 42cm
Estimate: $600 - $800
Starting Bid: $450
Long Weekend, 2025
Height 60cm x Width 51cm
Estimate: $900 - $1,200
Starting Bid: $550
Height 61cm x Width 76cm
Estimate: $2,000 - $2,400
Starting Bid: $1,800
90cm x Width 75cm
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,400
Height 59cm x Width 41cm
Estimate: $700 - $900
Starting Bid: $500
Height 61cm x Width 41cm
Estimate: $1,200 - $1,500
Starting Bid: $1,200
Height 35.5cm x Width
25.5cm
Estimate: $500 - $700
Starting Bid: $350
Height 53cm x Width 53cm
Estimate: $900 - $1,200
Starting Bid: $650
media on canvas. (framed)
Height 52cm x Width 84cm
Estimate: $1,200 - $1,500
Starting Bid: $900
Height 102cm x Width 77cm
Estimate: $2,600 - $3,000
Starting Bid: $2,000
Height 53cm x Width 43cm
Estimate: $900 - $1,200
Starting Bid: $750
Height 91cm x Width 61cm
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,200
Starting Bid: $850
Height 53cm x Width 53cm
Estimate: $1,200 - $1,500
Starting Bid: $1,000
Lot 77
All The Places We Hide, 2025
acrylic and oil stick on canvas (framed)
Height 33cm x Width 33cm
Estimate: $700 - $900
Starting Bid: $500
Lot 78
In Good Company, 2025
oil on canvas board (framed)
Height 23cm x Width 23cm
Estimate: $300 - $450
Starting Bid: $250
Height 52cm x Width 42cm
Estimate: $650 - $850
Starting Bid: $500
Height 45cm x Width 45cm
Estimate: $700 - $900
Starting Bid: $550
Height 43cm x Width 43cm
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,300
Starting Bid: $500
acrylic on canvas (framed)
Height 40cm x Width 40cm
Estimate: $750 - $900
Starting Bid: $600
mixed media collage
Height 102cm x Width 76cm
Estimate: $1,400 - $1,800
Starting Bid: $1,000
textured acrylics and oil
pastels (framed)
Height 102cm x Width 102cm
Estimate: $2,000 - $2,400
Starting Bid: $1,600
Lot 85
The Shed, 2024
acrylic on board
Height 42cm x Width 32cm
Estimate: $600 - $800
Starting Bid: $500
86
The Otway's Pulse V, 2024
oil on wooden panel- framed in tasmanian oak (framed)
Height 43cm x Width 68cm
Estimate: $1,200 - $1,500
Starting Bid: $900
SURROUNDINGS,
Height 95cm x Width 125cm
Estimate: $2,400 - $2,800
Starting Bid: $2,000
Lot 88
spencer
Blood Moon Catch, 2025
mixed media (framed)
Height 93cm x Width 63cm
Estimate: $2,200 - $2,500
Starting Bid: $2,000
mixed media on canvas, framed in natural oak (framed)
Height 83cm x Width 83cm
Estimate: $2,200 - $2,500
Starting Bid: $1,900
Bord de forêt au crépuscule, 2025 oil on linen, professionally framed in natural oak. (framed)
Height 38cm x Width 48cm
Estimate: $900 - $1,200
Starting Bid: $700
Where the Water
Listens, 2025
acrylic on canvas, framed in oak (framed)
Height 49cm x Width 64cm
Estimate: $1,500 - $1,900
Starting Bid: $1,200
mixed media on framed canvas (framed)
Height 73cm x Width 53cm
Estimate: $1,300 - $1,600
Starting Bid: $1,100
Lot 93
acrylic and ink on canvas, sealed with a uv protection
varnish
Height 46cm x Width 36cm
Estimate: $600 - $800
Starting Bid: $450
Height 76cm x Width 101cm
Estimate: $1,700 - $2,000
Starting Bid: $1,200
Height 40cm x Width 30cm
Estimate: $650 - $850
Starting Bid: $450
Height 60cm x Width 60cm
Estimate: $1,200 - $1,600
Starting Bid: $800
Height 51cm x Width 76cm
Estimate: $900 - $1,100
98
oil on board (framed)
Height 61cm x Width 81cm
Estimate: $1,600 - $2,100
Starting Bid: $1,200
Height 23cm x Width 23cm
Estimate: $500 - $700
Starting Bid: $350
Height 64cm x Width 84cm
Estimate: $1,500 - $1,900
Starting Bid: $850
Height 42.5cm x Width
52.5cm
Estimate: $750 - $1,000
Starting Bid: $550
Height 61cm x Width 41cm
Estimate: $1,500 - $1,800
Starting Bid: $1,200
Flow 36, 2025
Height 52cm x Width 42cm
Estimate: $900 - $1,200
Starting Bid: $750
Height 76cm x Width 100cm
Estimate: $1,800 - $2,200
Starting Bid: $1,500
acrylic applied with palette knife on canvas in a raw floating frame. (framed)
Height 62cm x Width 62cm
Estimate: $800 - $1,100
Starting Bid: $650
Height 60cm x Width 60cm
Estimate: $1,200 - $1,500
Starting Bid: $900
Height 50cm x Width 50cm
Estimate: $900 - $1,100
Starting Bid: $650
Saturday, 2025
51cm x Width 40.5cm
Estimate: $1,300 - $1,600
Starting Bid: $900
An owl on a plinth, 2024 watercolour, gouache, and acrylic on board
Height 51cm x Width 41cm
Estimate: $750 - $1,000
Starting Bid: $300
acrylic on canvas, framed (framed)
Height 43cm x Width 43cm
Estimate: $1,100 - $1,400
Starting Bid: $800
Height 60cm x Width 50cm
Estimate: $1,500 - $1,900
Starting Bid: $1,200
Height 31cm x Width 40cm
Estimate: $1,300 - $1,700
Starting Bid: $950
Height 30cm x Width 30cm
Estimate: $500 - $700
Starting Bid: $300
Height 50cm x Width 60cm
Estimate: $1,500 - $1,900
Starting Bid: $1,200
Height 80cm x Width 80cm
Estimate: $1,600 - $2,000
Starting Bid: $1,200
Height 43cm x Width 43cm
Estimate: $750 - $1,000
Starting Bid: $550
Height 80cm x Width 100cm
Estimate: $3,100 - $3,500
Starting Bid: $2,600
oil on gallery canvas
Height 60cm x Width 60cm
Estimate: $1,200 - $1,500
Starting Bid: $900
Height 61cm x Width 61cm
Estimate: $850 - $1,000
Starting
Height 101cm x Width 76cm
Estimate: $1,600 - $2,000
Starting Bid: $1,200
These changes aren't changing me, 2024 oil on canvas, framed in blackwood (framed)
Height 54cm x Width 43cm
Estimate: $700 - $900
Starting Bid: $550
Height 91cm x Width 46cm
Estimate: $750 - $1,000
Starting Bid: $600
60cm x Width 90cm
Estimate: $1,200 - $1,500
Height 124cm x Width 83cm
Estimate: $3,700 - $4,200
Starting Bid: $1,200
Resilience, 2023
oil on canvas board (framed)
Height 52cm x Width 42cm
Estimate: $650 - $850
Starting Bid: $400
Lot 126
This and That, 2025
acrylic and soft pastels on canvas (framed)
Height 61cm x Width 41cm
Estimate: $1,200 - $1,500
Starting Bid: $900
Starting Bid: $500
Height 42cm x Width 42cm
Estimate: $700 - $900
oil on board (framed)
Height 61cm x Width 81cm
Estimate: $1,600 - $2,100
Starting Bid: $1,200
oil on 5mm masonite board, framed (framed)
Height 24cm x Width 28cm
Estimate: $900 - $1,200
Starting Bid: $550
Height 92cm x Width 92cm
Estimate: $1,600 - $2,200
Starting Bid: $1,400
Height 79cm x Width 79cm
Estimate: $1,200 - $1,500
Starting Bid: $950
Five Pears, 2025
oil on panel, shadow framed in tasmanian oak. (framed)
Height 42cm x Width 42cm
Estimate: $800 - $1,000
Starting Bid: $600
Height 32cm x Width 42cm
Estimate: $1,200 - $1,500
Starting Bid: $750
Height 92cm x Width 92cm
Estimate: $3,300 - $3,700
Starting Bid: $2,600
135
Page
Height 122cm x Width 62cm
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,200
Starting Bid: $650
Height 104cm x Width 104cm
Estimate: $2,600 - $3,000
Starting Bid: $2,200
The Rice Field, 2024 oil on canvas
Height 75cm x Width 50cm
Estimate: $1,100 - $1,400
Starting Bid: $900
Height 94cm x Width 64cm
Estimate: $1,800 - $2,300
Starting Bid: $1,500
61cm x Width 45.5cm
Estimate: $1,500 - $1,800
A canary on a plnith, 2024
watercolour, gouache, and acrylic on board
Height 51cm x Width 41cm
Estimate: $750 - $1,000
Starting Bid: $300
Height 123cm x Width 103cm
Estimate: $2,900 - $3,400
Starting Bid: $2,500
stitched detail in cotton thread
Height 90cm x Width 90cm
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,200
Starting Bid: $850
Height 76cm x Width 62cm
Estimate: $700 - $900
Starting Bid: $500
Height 31cm x Width 26cm
Estimate: $500 - $650
Starting Bid: $300
First Light - Contemporary Australian Art