MARS Gallery will be returning to Hong Kong in March 2019 for the third consecutive year to showcase new work from MARS Gallery artists: Daniel Agdag, Stephen Haley and Tony Lloyd. The announcement comes after a successful 2018 Art Central exhibition where MARS sold artwork to collectors both nationally and internationally.
MARS Director Andy Dinan is confident to exhibit for a third year at Art Central. Dinan states, “We love coming to Art Central and can't wait to attend for our third year in March. The majority of international enquiries in the last 12 months have been from collectors in Hong Kong. We see the fair as a great opportunity to connect with these new collectors and get the change meet with them face to face. We herald Art Central each year as an important opportunity to promote our artists internationally”.
Daniel Agdag is exhibiting for the third time at Art Central Hong Kong, off the back of his exhibition in London. Agdag’s intricate sculptures, made entirely from boxboard, trace paper and PVA glue. His works often examinecomplex machinery and the over engineering of simple tasks with convoluted technologies. Agdag’s works speak of intricate systems hidden in sculptural narratives; they reveal detailed stories embedded within the framework of his structures. “This couldn’t be more apt for what is a more vibrant and detailed city like Hong Kong, with its laneways filled with endless ducting and cables, set against the maze of elaborate trusses holding up bright neon lights. The streets harbouring a multitude of wonderful and magical items held inside narrow shops and dwellings, which seem to always permeate in my mind, finding their way to manifest into the secret whimsical mechanics behind the tiny doors and hatches of my work,” says the artist.
Stephen Haley will exhibit a new series of light jet photography and a new video work. Haley is a painter and digital media artist who has an extensive exhibition history- both nationally and internationally- and has won a number of national art prizes for painting. Selected awards and research grants include Australia Council’s New Work Grant, their LA Residency, an Arts Vic Project Grant and most recently The Rupert Bunny Fellowship in 2016. Haley is also a writer and is published in a wide range of forums.
Tony Lloyd is a painter and explorer of highways and mountains. His realist paintings have a cinematic illustriousness and a dreamlike familiarity to them. His works are often epic visions of landscapes captured at singular moments in time; sunrise creeping across a rock face, a car’s headlights illuminating the darkness and a weightless asteroid hovering in empty space. Lloyd’s paintings are held both public and private collections and he has received recognitions for his work such as the John Leslie Art Prize, the Belle Arti Prize, the SulmanHighly Commended prize, the RMIT Post Graduate Award as well as Development Grants from the Australia Council for the Arts.