MELISSA BOUGHEY | Entangled Curiosities
Discover an expansive showcase of original artworks by emerging and established artists, spanning Australia and beyond.
You Get Me began with a desire to follow things wherever they went—to be curious, playful and contradictory, while still searching for a resolve, even if it felt temporary. The body became the terrain. Drawn from life and pulled apart, its contours loosen into fragments: lines, limbs, openings and edges that shift, repeat and find […]
There is an essential alchemy to the way Emily Ebbs creates – foraging, boiling, preparing, mixing, and dyeing. Below, we enter her inner landscape to discuss ritual, Irish Folklore, and embodied practice. Your process blends traditional painting techniques with what might be considered ‘unconventional’ materials in contemporary Western painting. How did materials like beeswax, wintergreen […]
Courtney McClelland navigates the complicated experience of existing within a body — the restlessness under the skin, the poetics of sensation. Familiar in its form yet multifarious in its translations, the body is a repository of histories, desires, intimacies, and vulnerabilities that articulate our corporeal being. Sometimes celebratory, sometimes escapist, McClelland’s figures reveal their connective […]
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ART PRIZE.
Congratulations to Curatorial+Co. artist Lynn Savery, who has been selected as a finalist in the 2026 Basil Sellers Art Prize with her painting ‘We Agreed He Wouldn`t Be Allowed on the Bed’.
Presented by the Basil Sellers Exhibition Centre in Moruya, the biennial acquisitive prize celebrates excellence in Australian painting, drawing, and printmaking, with a major prize of $50,000.
The finalists` exhibition will run from 5 December 2026 to 30 January 2027, with the winner announced at the opening celebration on 4 December.
Featured artwork: ‘We Agreed He Wouldn`t Be Allowed on the Bed’, 2026, oil on canvas, 148 × 120 cm
@lynnsavery
NEW ARTIST | DAMIEN SHEN.
We are thrilled to announce that Damien Shen is now represented by Curatorial+Co.
Shen, an artist of Ngarrindjeri, Kaurna and Chinese descent living and working on Kaurna land, Adelaide, creates art that deeply reflects his dual heritage and personal identity. Through his work, Shen challenges traditional views of Australian identity and Aboriginal art, using his talent to explore contemporary issues around race, history, and politics.
It’s been a remarkable year for Shen, with ten finalist selections in art prizes nationally, including the Koori Mail Indigenous Art Award, Fisher’s Ghost Art Prize, and the Artbank Art Prize. His moving image work, ‘My Cuzzy Nate and the 654 Club’, 2025, received the $10,000 First Nations Artist Prize at the 2026 Gosford Art Prize.
We’re thrilled to have Damien Shen join our stable of artists and look forward to sharing more of his work.
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Featured artwork:
1. ‘Art of War’ (detail), 2020, etched tintype, unique state tintype image made from collage
2. ‘Entombed in Joy (Triptych of Little Dragon, Astro Boy, Gundum Style)’, 2024, acrylic on bark (eucalyptus dalrympleana), 95 × 35 × 3 cm
3. ‘Uncle Chook’, 2020, etched tintype, unique state tintype image made from charcoal drawing, 12.8 × 10.2 cm
4. ‘My Cuzzy Nate and the 654 Club’, 2025, Video and Sound, 5:32mins
5. ‘The Opportunity of Defeating the Enemy is Provided by the Enemy Himself’, 2020, etched tintype, unique state tintype image made from collage
@damienshen
WHAT’S ON NOVEMBER.
Curatorial+Co. Woolloomooloo Gallery:
MELISSA BOUGHEY | Entangled Curiosities
21 October – 7 November
KATARINA WELLS | Marks, Tracks, and Traces
21 October – 7 November
CHARMAINE DAVIS | Tapestry of Country
11 November – 28 November
CHARMAINE DAVIS Opening Reception
Wednesday, 11 November, 5:30–8pm
Gallery hours:
Monday–Friday: 9:30am to 5:30pm
Saturday: 10am to 5pm
Are you on the list? Sign up for our VIP Newsletter and get access to event invites, new collections, and artist news via the link in bio.
1. @katarinawellsceramics, Curatorial+Co. Gallery, until 7 Nov.
2. @melissa_boughey_art, Curatorial+Co. Gallery, until 7 Nov.
3. @charmainedavis.artist, Curatorial+Co. Gallery, 11 Nov - 28 Nov.
4. @lilliwaters, @hellenic_museum, 13 Nov - 25 Mar 2027.
5. @katebanazi, @pymbleartprize, until 20 Nov.
6. @kerryn.levy.ceramics, @hahndorfacademy, until 6 Dec.
7. @jasmine_poole + @chrismsewell, ‘I Have More to Say’, @singletonartsandculturalcentre, until 15 Nov.
8. @chloe.caday + @saffron_newey, 2026 John Leslie Art Prize, @gippsartgallery, until 22 Nov.
9. @katebanazi + @damienshen, @campbelltownartscentre, until 4 Dec.
10. @damienshen, @gosfordgallery, until 22 Nov.
CERAMICS WORKSHOP WITH KATARINA WELLS
Join us for a special afternoon with ceramic artist @katarinawellsceramics, celebrating the final day of her exhibition, `Marks, Tracks, and Traces`.
Create your own ceramic tile using textures and forms from the natural world. Bring along a leaf, gumnut, twig, or meaningful object to press into clay, making a unique piece inspired by nature and your own connection to place.
No experience necessary! Katarina will fire your finished piece for you to collect at a later date. Refreshments will be provided, and friends are very welcome.
Saturday, 7 November | 2–4pm
Curatorial+Co. Gallery
80 William St, Woolloomooloo
Places are limited, so book yours via the link in bio!
Featured artwork: ‘What the Tide Left Behind I`, 2026, mid-fire ceramic, iron oxide, 33 × 41.5 cm
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 🎃
It’s no tricks and all treats with our Halloween curation! From the creepy and the spooky to the mysterious and macabre, these nine artworks conjure up dark imaginings, supernatural encounters, and a little memento mori.
Witches, veiled figures, serpents, and strange creatures abound in this collection of works that celebrate the darker side of art.
Happy haunting!
Featured artwork: Courtney McClelland, ‘Three Witches’, 2024, oil, acrylic on canvas, 122 × 101 × 3 cm
@courtneymcclelland_
Aleisa Miksad
@aleisamiksad, ‘Elysian Nocturne IV’, 2025, black mid-fire clay, 29 × 33 × 33 cm
Lilli Waters
@lilliwaters, ‘The Veiled Woman II’, 2020, archival pigment print on platine fibre rag paper, 102 × 102 cm
Saffron Newey
@saffron_newey, ‘The Killing Moon’, 2025, oil, pearlescent pigment on canvas, 25 × 40 cm
Karlien Van Rooyen
@karlien_vanrooyen, ‘Cocodrillo II’, 2023, stoneware clay, 34 × 26 × 23 cm
Lynn Savery
@lino_savery, ‘I Know Someone’, 2025, oil on canvas, 43 × 54 cm
Lynn Savery
@lino_savery, ‘I Know Someone’, 2025, oil on canvas, 43 × 54 cm
William Versace
@william_versace, ‘Between Light’, 2026, plaster, handmade and powdered pigments, ink, rabbit skin glue, resin, 29 × 25 × 4.5 cm
Katrina O’Brien
@trinamobrien, ‘Overtones of the Undercurrent’, 2025, acrylic, ink, oil pastel, graphite on Arches paper, 240 × 324 cm
Deborah Kelly
@deborahkellyartist, ‘Serpentine’, 2020, paper collage, watercolour, gouache on found paper, 28.5 × 28.5 cm
INTERIOR INSPIRATION.
You can almost smell the sea air in these images from @_sequencestudio`s Maroubra family home project, featuring artworks by Theresa Hunt and William Versace that complement the home`s relaxed, coastal character.
Interiors and Architecture: @_sequencestudio
Photography: @jacqui_turk
Editorial styling: @laurareesstylist
Builder: @waller_corp
Featured artworks:
1. @theresahuntartist, `The Land Speaks`, 2023, oil on canvas, 102 × 102 cm
2. @william_versace, `The Deck`, 2023, plaster, board, 41.5 × 31 × 5.5 cm