Carriageworks
Booth C04
Catalogues:
View Atong Atem's Exhibition Catalogue
View MIRANDA HINE's Exhibition Catalogue
View TELLY TUITA's EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
VIEW MARS STOCKROOM EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
VIEW ALEXANDRA COPELAND's EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
MARS Gallery will present new works by artists Atong Atem, Miranda Hine and Telly Tuita for Sydney Contemporary 2025. Atong Atem, Miranda Hine and Telly Tuita share a compelling commitment to storytelling from a deeply personal lens that challenges dominant narratives.
Atong Atem
Developing her medium, practice and her voice as an Australian artist, Atem's new series 'This Happened To You' expands on her ongoing exploration of family, lineage and mythology.
Also presenting works from the the artist's archive as light-works, the 2025 iteration of Sydney Contemporary will recall the iconic textiles, compositions and elements that have characterised Atem’s work over the last ten years.
Miranda Hine
MARS is proud to present Gander, a series of new paintings by Brisbane-born, London-based artist Miranda Hine, marking the artist’s debut at the fair. Hine will return to Australia this September to present Gander at the MARS booth in Carriageworks.
Through her small-scale oil paintings, Hine’s practice researches and reflects on the act of collecting, preserving and assigning value to material culture, building on the artist’s fascination with British narrative formats and ‘cosy’ TV programmes.
After completing her Master of Museum Studies at the University of Queensland in 2022, Hine received the 2022 Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship and Kangaroo Valley residency, courtesy of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. In 2023, Hine was also named a finalist in the Art Gallery of NSW’s prestigious Wynne prize.
Telly Tuita
Telly Tuita, whose vibrant, culturally rich practice has garnered international attention for its bold exploration of diasporic identity and neo-Pacific expression, will also make his debut at Sydney Contemporary 2025.
True to Telly's trademark performative self portrait practice, the series features images of the artist presented as the figure of Mai, the first Polynesian to visit Britain in 1774, arriving with Captain James Cook's expedition. Mai’s motive for his journey to Europe was to seek support to overthrow neighbouring island, Bora Bora. However, history did not grant him this and instead, he became an influencer. Known for his charm and sophistication, Mai challenged European stereotypes of Polynesian people.
