JD Reforma has recently been included in Hyper-linked, an online exhibition of Together In Art New Work by seven contemporary Australian artists organised by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Created specifically for the digital space, the exhibition confronts the realities and tensions between our private selves and our online personas. Social media and the internet have […]
SWAB Barcelona – Art Fair
COMA is pleased to be participating in the virtual edition of SWAB BARCELONA Contemporary Art Fair in the Swab Seed section of the fair. COMA will be exhibiting work by Jordan Azcune, Jack Lanagan Dunbar and Justin Williams. Swab Seed showcases eleven independent and artist-run spaces that share experimentation as a common denominator. This program seeks […]
Justin Williams – UK Gallery Representation
Justin Williams has recently announced representation in the UK by Vigo Gallery. The gallery represents emerging and established international artists, curating shows in both the public and private arenas as well as placing numerous historic and contemporary works into the collections of prominent museums and Foundations including amongst others TATE Modern, The British Museum, MoMA, […]
Jordan Azcune – Brisbane City Council Lord Mayor’s Young and Emerging Artist Fellowship
Jordan Azcune has been awarded the Lord Mayor’s Young and Emerging Artists Fellowship through Brisbane City Council. The fellowship supports young and emerging Brisbane artists and arts workers aged between 17 and 30. The program aims to develop creatives who wish to join national or international training and development programs through participation in training programs, mentorships […]
JD Reforma – Studio Interview
COMA recently visited the studio of JD Reforma and discussed about his life during the isolation, interpretation of pop culture, race relations and continuing construction of identity. Reforma will have a solo show in the gallery early next year. COMA: Hi JD, how have you been recently? Have you found anything captivating you in your […]
Jordan Azcune – Studio Interview
COMA recently sat down with Jordan Azcune to discuss his studio life and literary, audio and visual inspiration during his time in isolation. COMA: What have you been reading? Have any of these books or writers inspired your latest collection or had a broader influence on your artistic practice? Jordan Azcune: Living with artists I’m not […]
Nabilah Nordin – City of Melbourne Grant
Nabilah Nordin, who recently exhibited a new body of work in the main gallery space earlier this year, has been awarded a City of Melbourne grant to make Sculpture House – a home exhibition responding to her living and working environment during isolation. Nordin will be working on new large scale sculptural pieces in the […]
Adam Stone – Studio Interview
COMA recently sat down with Adam Stone in the lead up to the opening of his solo presentation in the gallery, Concrete Islands, to discuss his studio life and literary, audio and visual inspiration for the exhibition. COMA: What have you been reading? Have any of these books or writers inspired your latest collection or had […]
These Days – Interview with Curator Sebastian Goldspink
To coincide with These Days, the current group exhibition presented both physically and digitally with COMA, curator Sebastian Goldspink has spoken with gallery director Sotiris Sotiriou and gallery assistant Chengyang Yu regarding his motivations when curating the show. The conversation covers Goldspink’s investigations into problem-solving while painting, time and it’s relation to memory in art-making, and other sources […]
Jordan Azcune – Interview with Bradley Vincent, HOTA Home of the Arts, QLD
On the occasion of Jordan Azcune’s recent solo presentation with COMA the artist has been in discussion with Bradley Vincent, curator at HOTA Home of the Arts, QLD. The two discuss Azcune’s practice as a whole, investigations into intersections between architecture and religion and the idea of ‘queer, post-Christian abstraction’. BV: Hi Jordan. Congratulations on Fishers […]