Sue Lovegrove at Sydney Contemporary

Sydney contemporary 2026

FIND US AT BOOTH C09

Discover a selection of artists who are shaping the conversation around contemporary Australian art. We look forward to welcoming you to BOOTH C09 where our artists explore historical visual languages within a contemporary framework, drawing on references such as 17th Century Korean ceramics, 18th Century English Jasperware, the work of 18th Century French cartographer Beautemps-Beaupre, 19th Century Victorian-era portrait photography and centuries of family ancestry.

exhibiting artists:

TIM ALLEN  |  KATE BALLIS  |  KEITH BURT | EVA FERNANDEZ  |  NEVILLE FRENCH  |  JUNKO GO | SUE LOVEGROVE  |  EMA SHIN  |  VALERIE SPARKS

Sue Lovegrove at Sydney Contemporary

Sydney contemporary 2026

FIND US AT BOOTH C09

Discover a selection of artists who are shaping the conversation around contemporary Australian art. We look forward to welcoming you to BOOTH C09 where our artists explore historical visual languages within a contemporary framework, drawing on references such as 17th Century Korean ceramics, 18th Century English Jasperware, the work of 18th Century French cartographer Beautemps-Beaupre, 19th Century Victorian-era portrait photography and centuries of family ancestry.

exhibiting artists:

TIM ALLEN  |  KATE BALLIS  |  KEITH BURT | EVA FERNANDEZ  |  NEVILLE FRENCH  |  JUNKO GO | SUE LOVEGROVE  |  EMA SHIN  |  VALERIE SPARKS

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MARION HARPER | Acts of Incline

Acts of Incline is a series of paintings by Marion Harper using a restrained palette, arranged into pairs. The paintings are part of an ongoing interrogation into the way bodies are held in space. Whether sentient or inanimate, these bodies, these objects, are conceived as morphic forms prone to the will of gravitational forces. A play of wills between objects and space reveals the vital relation between ground and gravity. However, as Marion notes, the intention was to do more than depict figures in space. It was to “test thresholds, shift perspectives”, and produce surfaces that resonate (vibrate) with sensational affect. “Bodies lean, angle, and reorient; they negotiate gravity, architecture and furniture to locate new positions from which to sense and think.”

Subjects are discovered in the throes of bodily/nervy movement (somewhere) between steadiness and dizziness, plasticity and tautness, frailty and strength... It becomes a decisive point towards hopeful growth and transformation, or a slide back into
old, fixed ways.

Catalogue excerpt Jan Bryant, 2026