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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 …continue reading

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 …continue reading

Jack Lanagan Dunbar has been included in Art Collector Magazine’s current issue – The 2020 edition of 50 Things Collectors Should Know. Lanagan Dunbar is featured in the Notable Awards section which profiles recipients of grants, awards and residencies boosting artistic practice across the region. In the issue Lanagan Dunbar’s recent Brett Whiteley Travelling Art …continue reading

Zara June Williams has recently completed a residency with the Pilotenkueche in Leipzig. While there Huai-ya Lin wrote a short piece about her current work and conceptual process: Life is like a game. The Australian artist Zara June Williams explores the unexpected and the intuitive of the creative process. Approaches such as combining different individual paintings …continue reading

COMA is extremely pleased to announce that Jack Lanagan Dunbar has been awarded the 2019 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded annually to a young Australian painter aged between 20 and 30 years and includes a three-month residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and $40,000 funding to further the recipients’ art education abroad.  …continue reading