Affordable Art Fair Sydney 2023

15 June – 18 June 2023

The Royal Randwick Racecourse

Winx Pavilion Gate E Booth G-C24

Steve Rosendale

Nostalgia and atmospheric drama are captured with a gripping reality in Steve Rosendale’s recognizable retro oil paintings.

The seemingly simple photographic realism leads you into an engaging narrative whilst the cinematographic lighting enhances the true essence of the moment. It’s impossible not to fall into the glamour of a bygone era that hints of a vague recollection of vintage film and memories past.

The subjects alone do not tell the whole story, it’s the carefully considered palette with enhancing light effects that adds the final magical impact.

A Steve Rosendale artwork is more than a painting, it is a doorway into the realms of remembrance, a trigger for past times, escapism with a hint of glamour .

Michell Cheesman

Mitchell Cheesman is beginning his artistic career and the future looks bright. With thoughtfulness and a thirst for knowledge as he immerses himself in the arts, music, literacy and resonating artistic practices, which seem unstoppable at this juncture in his life.

Luscious, oozing impastos are recognisable in an instant. With subtle nuances in colour and texture, the florals have melted into the surroundings, the backgrounds become the forefronts. Exciting architectural elements with geometrical edges juxtapose the rounded swathes of oils. Soft, edgy, delicious and bold, relatable and immersible. Less obvious, but so, so much more.

To own a Mitch Cheesman is to have a painting, a sculpture, a story and even some music playing lightly somewhere in the distance.

David Hinchliffe

David has been painting for over five decades and sold his first painting at the age of twelve. Alongside his successful and colourful life as an artist, David had a thirty-year career in public service in Brisbane Queensland, only becoming a full-time dedicated professional artist after he retired from politics some years ago.

To watch David paint live is to observe a talented genius at work. With no obvious external reference to work from, just the image from within his mind, the painting will take form uniquely and instantly. David’s work ethic and practice are finely tuned and impressive. The “Contemporary Impressionist” paintings have a unique quality that is completely recognizable as a “ David Hinchliffe” There is nostalgia for a city you love, serenity for a calming landscape, excitement and warmth for a rainy day and a splattering of romance in many of his works!

To travel the world with David Hinchliffe is to see the world through the wonderful images he creates along the way. The richness of his life is shared with the viewer and the energy he exhibits is palpable in the paintings. Subjects from around the world are recognizable in all his collections. With a love of commissions, David craves to capture the image and the essence of a destination for the client. He listens and watches and turns a painting into an emotional beauty.

Teal

Acrylic on Canvas

91cm x 122cm

$5,800

Lemon Yellow

Acrylic on Canvas 122cm x 91cm

$5,800

New York Blue Acrylic on Canvas 51cm x 101cm $3,300

Peloton

Acrylic on Canvas

61cm x 92cm

Study – Four Chefs

Acrylic on Canvas

26cm x 26cm $1,500

Anne – Marie Zanetti

Anne-Marie Zanetti uses simple, flowing elements, as well as rich colour, tone, and detail to create her contemporary, expressive oil paintings. Her figurative and still-life paintings are inspired by beauty, saturated in light, and rendered in layers of fine smooth brushstrokes so as not to distract from the overall drama of the composition.

Through her conversation with paint, she is continuously exploring and transforming her emotional landscape. In her works, she aims to highlight the preciousness of objects and moments in time that might otherwise seem insignificant… creating an intimate atmosphere of the artist’s own personal experience and inviting the viewer to share in her unique vision.

From which do we attain our maturity - inside out or outside in?

Jo Young

“In the development of my compositions, I derive inspiration from the art of the Dutch Baroque, Flemish and French 18th Century still life painters. The classical painting technique of this period involves a slow process including a sepia tonal underpainting, followed by consecutive layers of local colour and finally transparent glazes.”

“Like characters in theatre, objects are carefully staged in an intimate space… Drama is created by emphasis, highlights, reflections and shadows. In the depiction of silk, porcelain, fruit, silver and wood, I wish to explore the intrinsic qualities of the objects through tone, texture, mood and atmosphere.”

Radicchio and Vase I Oil on Linen

30cm x 30cm Framed $2,500

Radicchio and Vase II Oil on Linen

30cm x 30cm Framed $2,500

Ben Hedström

Ben Hedström’s body of work responds to environments that have become familiar over a long period of time. A relationship with the landscape is developed through everyday encounters and experiences.

This rapport reinforces memory and serves as a documentation of somatic grounding, the psychological importance of the physicality of feeling your feet on the ground. Landscape images transcend their aesthetic value and become insights into the metaphysical –principles of being, identity, change, space and time.

Hedström’s work represents fleeting vignettes of contemplation, suggesting a conflation between the ebullience of connecting with the natural world and melancholy meditations on the fragility of existence.

Gareth Edwards

Gareth Edwards is a British contemporary landscape painter.

Gareth is a graduate of Goldsmiths College, an elected RWA Academician, and is a long-time resident of St Ives’ historic Porthmeor Studios, previously occupied by luminaries of British painting such as Patrick Heron and Ben Nicholson. He is a sessional tutor at the Newlyn School of Art and a prominent member of the Newlyn Society of Artists.

Demonstrating a powerful approach to process and the materiality of paint, his work invites us to contemplate ideas of the human ‘journey’ - our physical journey through time and space, and our psychological journey of existence. At their heart, his paintings aspire to a state of beauty and to what the artist describes as ‘emotional weather’, exploring equivalents in external environment and internal atmosphere.

“Contemporary Landscape painting has its detractors, but I believe it remains full of potential. My work considers the meaning and metaphor of natural forces, in the tradition of Constable and Turner, artists who recognise the power, beauty and grace of nature and our relationship with it.”

Rhonda Cao

Rhonda works exclusively with the human form in bronze . She has discovered an original language in her personal response to the nude form. The human body is a subject much explored in the history of art, she feels confident that she has developed something totally new and original. Rhonda focuses on its abstract qualities, reducing the form to elegant curves and angles making each body appear simultaneously both weightless and grounded.

Rhonda loves working with the human form and find the shape, movement and expression that can be achieved by stylising this form exciting and inspirational. she feels the blend of movement, abstraction and balance challenging and loves exploring where this challenge will lead.

Rhonda considers her work to be stylised and am very much influenced by the classical heroic figurative form. Her desire is for her work to be about form and mood and hopefully viewers are compelled to touch and feel the lines for themselves. Working with the male form is a particularly interesting challenge – how to stylise without parody and how to simplify shape the movement that is uniquely male.

Rhonda rarely uses any armatures or structure when creating her pieces as they are too restricting. Often the piece she has been working on has been triggered by a scribble and it does not really have form until she plays around and develops it. There is a price to pay for this – there have been many a morning when Rhonda has come back into her studio to find the piece has broken or tipped over during the night. Rarely does it destroy the piece – it just creates a new version and even a different direction.

Sunburnt – Bruce and Barry Bronze

5cm x 35cm x 48cm Edition 1/19

$6,000

Dai Li

Dai Li’s inspiration is drawn from everyday life, art and culture and the observation of people’s responses to the world around them.

Her work focuses on situational responses with human emotional states observed, how these manifest externally, and the mystery of how they arrived at this point. This is manifested in her ceramic characters which may seem humorous and childish but at the same time thought-provoking.

Often the works explore everyday situations, with normal activities but always evoking an intriguing window into the quirkiness of individuals and often including a cheeky, knowing expression. So much can be expressed through the smallest glance or the coolest accessory.

Mireia Serra

Through contemporary bronze and iron sculpture, I have achieved my own style, personal iconography and methodology. My universe includes symbolic elements: maps, globes, staircases, seas of methacrylate, books... The details of my characters present situations and frames that are to be read in depth and complicity, which allows me to capture abstract concepts, feelings, sensations and everything that flows inside my inner world.

Sometimes I try to transform everyday dilemmas into something beautiful: with a little artwork, that captures the beauty of a moment. I confess that a point of intrigue can be breathed in some of my sculptures. They show stories, dreams and illusions and I try to approach them subtly. The main character of my stories are very everyday elements and situations that show snapshots full of emotions and feelings of the journey of life: women taking their time to decide at a crossroads of their life, men enjoying their moments of relaxation, small pleasures, moments of pause, meditation, little epiphanies... Behind a precise description of reality, there is a meditated story, which each one can read his own way...

Romeo and Juliet

Bronze and Iron

15cm x 34cm x 3cm

Edition 3 /18

Erin Conron

Erin Conron completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts, with a major in glass, at the Canberra School of Art in 2007 and her Honours year in 2008.  Since graduating, she has participated in numerous group exhibitions nationally and internationally. In 2008, she was a finalist in the Ranamok Glass Prize and in 2012 was awarded the McGrath Emerging Artist Award from the Capital Arts Patrons Organisation.  Most recently she was the winner of the Queanbeyan City Art Prize, and a finalist in the 2021 Byron Arts Magazine Prize, the 2018 Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize and the 2017 Hindmarsh Glass Prize.

Erin’s work has been acquired by Australia’s National Art Glass Collection as well as the European Museum of Modern Glass in Germany, and the Kaplan-Ostergaard Glass Collection at Palm Springs Art Museum.

Lune Blown Glass with Multi Fired Enamel 23cm x 22cm x 22cm $1,900

Web Blown Glass with Multi Fired Enamel 23cm x 22cm x 22cm $1,900

Flux Blown Glass with Multi Fired Enamel 16cm x 16cm x 16cm $1,500