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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NEW ARTIST | JILLIAN NALTY
We are excited to announce that Jillian Nalty is now represented by Curatorial+Co.
Jillian Nalty is an emerging artist living and working on Gadigal land (Eora/Sydney). Her practice is grounded in the strange and uncanny, often beginning with observed forms and textures that carry a visceral, sensual allure. She is interested in material ambiguity; how wax can appear wet, or marble can suggest softness. Her work seeks to create forms that are visually arresting, oscillating between the beautiful and the grotesque.
She graduated from the National Art School in 2025. Her work has been exhibited in Australia and the United States, with recent exhibitions including ‘Doll Factory’ at Schmick Contemporary (2026) and the National Art School Graduation Show (2025). She was a finalist in the Gosford Art Prize (2022) and Sculpture at Sawmillers (2022) and has exhibited internationally at Leimin Space, Nous Tous, Dab Art and Gallery 66NY.
A new collection of work by Nalty is available to view in our Woolloomooloo gallery and online via the link in bio.
Featured artwork:
1. `Milk Teeth`, 2026, birch ply, pine, paraffin wax, 123 × 67 cm
2. `Protection, Strength, Beauty`, 2026, stainless steel, birch plywood, freshwater pearls, 160 × 175 cm
3. `Underbelly`, 2026, polyester, pine, 173 × 52 × 36 cm
4. `Nailed Again`, 2026, cornice cement, wire, acrylic nails, aluminium, 85 × 55 × 22 cm
5. `Shadows` (detail), 2026, polyester fabric, pine, 80 × 100 cm
6. `Milk Teeth`, 2026, birch ply, pine, paraffin wax, 123 × 67 cm
LAST DAYS.
Melissa Boughey`s delight in the Australian landscape is evident in every stroke of her latest artworks. With broad, confident swathes of colour, Boughey plays with her subject, creating works that are simultaneously abstract and instantly recognisable.
`Entangled Curiosities` is on view until Saturday, 7 November, alongside `Marks, Tracks, and Traces` by ceramic artist Katarina Wells.
Gallery hours:
Monday–Friday: 9:30am to 5:30pm
Saturday: 10am to 5pm
A preview of the exhibition is available via the link in bio.
@melissa_boughey_art
ART PRIZE.
We are thrilled to share that Kerryn Levy has been selected as a finalist in the 2026 Heysen Prize for Landscape at Hahndorf Academy in South Australia.
Her multi-part sculptural wall installation, `Metamorphosis: Sky (II)` is on view in the finalists` exhibition until 6 December 2026.
Established in 1997, the biennial prize celebrates Australian artists and their connection to landscape and place, with a particular focus on environmental awareness and conservation.
Congratulations Kerryn!
@kerryn.levy.ceramics
This home on Sydney`s Northern Beaches, featured in @vogueliving, proves that you don`t have to wait until the kids grow up to have nice things.
Says designer Jillian Dinkel, “I wanted the house to demonstrate that you can have a beautifully considered and sophisticated interior while still having a home that functions effortlessly for a family with small children and everything that comes with that stage of life.”
Click the link in our bio to take the full tour.
Design @jilliandinkel
Build @built_by_salt
Styling @tommymesk_
Writer @rebeccatay
Photography @dave_wheeler
Featured artworks:
1. @andredevanny, `San Gimignano`, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 125 × 215 cm
2. @katarinawellsceramics, `In The Shallows`, 2026, mid-fire sandy raku clay, layered glaze, 15 × 32 × 32 cm
3. @katarinawellsceramics, `Purple Rain`, 2026, mid-fire sandy raku clay, earthenware slip, engobe, glaze, 30 × 34 × 34 cm
4. @jilliannalty, `Wipe Away`, 2026, aluminium, renaissance wax, 90 × 90 × 3 cm
5. @amandaschunker, `Continental Crust I`, 2026, acrylic and soft pastel on canvas, 38.5 × 26 cm
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