MARS is delighted to return to Melbourne Art Fair in 2025 to exhibit Poems and Portraits by Melbourne-based artist, Kenny Pittock. For Pittock’s first participation in the Melbourne Art Fair, Pittock will present a series of sculptural works that finds both the humour and the human in the seemingly mundane.
Pittock’s playful practice draws on the iconography and nostalgia of quotidian Australia. Hand-crafting the everyday ephemera and experiences of collective memory, Pittock’s works are humorous microcosms of the greater anxieties that face our world today. By creating tangible representations of transient objects and encounters, Pittock’s visual language reminds the viewer to locate a constant in the fleeting, melding the timeless with the timely.
Poems and Portraits reminds us to see the beauty in the mundane.
