MELISSA BOUGHEY | Entangled Curiosities
Discover an expansive showcase of original artworks by emerging and established artists, spanning Australia and beyond.
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 […]
With equal measure of fascination and concern, William Versace began ‘Future Unearthed’ with his own creations of plastiglomerates. Known colloquially as ‘plastic gems’, these naturally fused anthropogenic rocks are made from a mixture of natural debris and plastic, and are found embedded in the earth’s surface. As a physical marker of human impact on the […]
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Hannah Quinlivan’s practice has been recognised for its skilful exploration of ideas around human movement, emotional cognition and time’s flowing passage. Through various methods of exploring line and form – via traditional drawing techniques and weaving methodologies using wire, adhesive tape or LED lighting – Hannah challenges the way we expect line to operate and be presented.
Says Quinlivan, "Ripples spread outward from moments of impact, tracing how water meets rock and releases its energy. These movements collide and dissolve, carrying both immediacy and deep time. Years gather in each mark, water responding to surface, wind responding in turn. Heat shifts the drawing, sometimes carving inward, sometimes pulling outward. The work is shaped by continual exchange, never settling into a single state."
Follow the link in bio to explore more about Hannah Quinlivan and her work.
Featured artwork: `Beneath the Breath of Things III`, 2025, acrylic, anodised aluminium, rubber, 77 × 60 × 8 cm
@hannahquinlivan
Artist photography by Holly Grace
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"I accumulated photographs of transitional landscapes such as rubble, weeds, fences, and empty plots of land in the Sydenham/Marrickville area surrounding my studio," says Jasmine Mowbray of this work. "I enjoyed how the grid of the construction fence sat in contrast with the untamed weeds in the surroundings, determined to grow through the slabs of concrete and rubble. This material evolved into unexpected shapes in the studio. The green flames and lights bring a third element, maybe a sense of procession or ritual to the work."
To explore this work further, click on the link in bio.
Featured artwork: `Chimera`, 2026, oil, acrylic, wax on canvas, 152.5 × 122 cm
@jasminemowbray_studio
Artist photography by Erin Neville
We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Litsa Veldekis to Associate Director – Gallery at Curatorial+Co.
Litsa is distinguished art advisor whose career spans senior leadership, curatorial practice, artist mentorship, and the Australian art market. Former CEO of Menzies Art Brands, Head of Australian and International Art at Bonhams, as well as Director of her eponymous gallery, Litsa is recognised for her sophisticated understanding of artists, collections, and the evolving contemporary art landscape.
To Curatorial+Co. Litsa brings extensive primary-market expertise and a deeply engaged approach to working with artists, where she`ll support the development of our artists’ practices, positioning, and long-term goals, while leading our Gallery team through this time of growth and expansion.
Litsa serves on the board of Liverpool Powerhouse and is President of the Art Consulting Association of Australia. She holds a Masters in Curatorship and Modern Art from the University of Sydney, together with a Bachelor’s degree majoring in Art History and Theory.
Welcome Litsa!
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"`Iron Stain, Rose Tint` explores the romanticisation and reshaping of memory," says Isabelle de Kleine. "The rose-tinted lens of nostalgia, and the degradation of recall that occurs in the passing of time. In particular referencing the journey of revisiting a place of significance in the East Pilbara region of Western Australia. Hours along a dusty desert road to a place that holds memories of love and loss. This painting intends to portray a softer lens, finding peace in the settled dust."
For more of de Kleine`s evocative paintings, click on the link in bio.
Featured artwork: `Iron Stain, Rose Tint`, 2025, watercolour, gouache, acrylic on paper, 136 × 136 cm
@isabelledekleine
Artist photography by @ro___zana
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We are delighted to present Katarina Wells’ new solo exhibition, ‘Marks, Tracks, and Traces’, at the Woolloomooloo gallery from 21 October to 7 November.
Katarina Wells’ sculptural ceramics find beauty in the imperfect, impermanent and incomplete. Her latest body of work traces the quiet passage of time through the natural world: layers of compressed sediment, leaves decaying into the earth, animal tracks fading in the sand and tangled seaweed washed ashore.
Using clay to map the physical evidence of existence, Wells builds these organic forms slowly and intuitively. Raw oxides, porcelain slip and repeated glaze firings create richly tactile surfaces and unpredictable depths of colour and texture, preserving fleeting moments in nature within enduring ceramic forms.
Join us for the opening reception on Wednesday, 21 October, from 5:30pm–8pm.
The exhibition catalogue for ‘Marks, Tracks, and Traces’ is available via the link in bio.
@katarinawellsceramics
Featured artwork: ‘Between Earth and Sky’, 2026, mid-fire clay, slips, oxides, glaze, 39 × 38 × 38 cm
Left: @katarinawellsceramics, ‘Sediment II’, 2026, mid-fire clay, slips, oxides, glazes, powder coated steel, stainless steel, plywood plinth, 178 × 40 × 40 cm
Right: @katarinawellsceramics, ‘What the Tide Left Behind I’ (detail), 2026, mid-fire ceramic, iron oxide, 33 × 41.5 cm
@katarinawellsceramics, ‘What the Tide Left Behind I’ (detail), 2026, mid-fire ceramic, iron oxide, 33 × 41.5 cm
For more about @katarinawellsceramics, click on the link in bio.
@katarinawellsceramics, ‘Cascade’, 2026, mid-fired ceramic, glazes, slips, 33 × 33 × 33 cm
@katarinawellsceramics, ‘Sediment’, 2026, mid-fired ceramic, glazes, slips, terra siggillata, stainless steel, 169 × 30 × 30 cm
For more about @katarinawellsceramics, click on the link in bio.
@katarinawellsceramics, ‘Enveloped’, 2026, mid-fire ceramic, porcelain slip, stainless steel, 161 × 46 × 46 cm
@katarinawellsceramics, ‘Drifting’ (detail), 2026, mid-fire clay, porcelain slip, oxides, glaze, 32 × 32 × 32 cm
@katarinawellsceramics, ‘Tracks’, 2026, mid-fire clay, oxide, glaze, 27 × 32 × 32 cm
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OPEN NOW.
We are delighted to present Melissa Boughey’s new solo exhibition, ‘Entangled Curiosities’, at the Woolloomooloo gallery from 21 October to 7 November.
Melissa Boughey’s practice is grounded in landscape, shaped equally by the daily surrounds of her Western Australian vineyard and explorations undertaken during the fallow season. Her latest body of work moves between representation and abstraction: river gums emerge in exuberant swathes of paint, cliff faces come alive through bold colour and lively brushwork.
Brimming with wonder and vitality, these paintings reflect a reciprocal relationship with the natural world — caring for the landscape and being nurtured by it in turn.
Join us for the opening reception on Wednesday, 21 October, from 5:30pm–8pm.
The exhibition catalogue for ‘Entangled Curiosities’ is available via the link in bio.
@melissa_boughey_art
Artist photography by @nic_duncan_photographer
Featured artwork: @melissa_boughey_art, ‘Morning Buzz’, 2026, oil on board, 40 × 30 cm
@nic_duncan_photographer
For more about @melissa_boughey_art, click on the link in bio.
@melissa_boughey_art, ‘Bilung Pool - Dappled Late-Light’ (detail), 2026, oil on clear primed linen, 97 × 210 cm
@melissa_boughey_art, ‘Bilung Pool - Dappled Late-Light’ (detail), 2026, oil on clear primed linen, 97 × 210 cm
@melissa_boughey_art, ‘Bilung Pool - Dappled Late-Light’ (detail), 2026, oil on clear primed linen, 97 × 210 cm
@nic_duncan_photographer
@nic_duncan_photographer
For more about @melissa_boughey_art, click on the link in bio.
@nic_duncan_photographer
@nic_duncan_photographer
‘Flickering Light’, 2026, oil on board, 40 × 30 cm
‘Gorge Swims - Strata Surrounds I’, 2026, oil on linen, 100 × 90 cm
@nic_duncan_photographer
Left: ‘Gorge Swims - Strata Surrounds I’ (detail), 2026, oil on linen, 100 × 90 cm
Lower right: ‘Held, Faceted Channel’ (detail), 2026, oil on linen, 75 × 75 cm
@nic_duncan_photographer
‘River Gum - Pilbara’, 2026, oil on linen, 138 × 107 cm
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