Melbourne Art Fair 2026

Being in the southern capital for a week I made time to see this show. Attendance was hardly exceptional, I queued up at morning with the doors opening. Not surprisingly I fixed on the colour, such as (below) Lydia Wegner.

I also really liked (below) Cassandra bird's work. Again colour features strongly in these works.

Alex Walker's (below) photoprints also strongly use colour. The out of focus really drew my eyes.

From New Zealand Christian Dimick (below) reminded me of a Sydney artist and I mentioned this to the gallery staffer on the booth. We chatted for a minute or two.

First nations artist Janet Koongotema (below) offered some more strong colour.

Keturah Zimran is another First nations artist (below) and she uses the famous Basquiat crown in her compositions, which have a sort of pop sensibility which I liked. Once again coilour is strong.

Another artist I liked was Henry Lewis (below) who sort of uses the same patch effect as me in my paramontages, or at least some of them. But Lewis instead of using images of things, just uses patches of pink colour.

The weather was fine during my stay. The conventions centre is close to the city across a bridge, about 20m walk from my hotel. Like I said the attendance was not spectacular but I think they try to limit attendance. I bought the ticket online as they suggested at the customer counter.