Comber Street Studios

31/08/2024

Kerri Kennewell ‘The Faces of Waves’


Exhibition Hours
Wed-Fri: 12 - 6pm
Sat-Sun: 10am - 5pm
Fri 30 Aug - Sun 8 Sep

17/08/2024

A flower in the shade, exhibition by Benjamin Ross

Opening 17 August 5-9pm

Beer and wine supplied.

21/06/2024

“Animal Selves,” a solo show by , opens tonight at 6pm. This multimedia exhibition features a sculpture, a short film premiere, and prints.

Open daily, 9am-5pm
June 22-25, 2024

02/06/2024

‘The East is for Lovers’ and present ‘Throb and hum’, an afternoon of music by Oliver Series, Kid Soma and Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson

Sunday June 2nd, 3-5pm

Free event, come one come all x

Oliver Series
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=qhcpoSxzphI

Kid Soma
https://kid-soma-website.vercel.app/

Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson
https://sebastiansequoiah-grayson.bandcamp.com/album/construction-improvisations

Sound system by

22/05/2024

A Colour Exploration by
.bright and sumptuous coastal landscapes.. inspired by the NSW Coastline..

Open every day until Sunday 26 May 9.30am - 5.30pm

02/12/2023

‘Eleven’ open today 1-4pm

A group show by Kylie Brennan, Cheryl Collier, Katrina Collins Louisa Dawson, Michaela Gleave, Chris Gleisner, Heidi Jackson, lan Lever, Lilli Stromland, Anita Tesoriero, Louise Willems

21/11/2023

color+ by Sarah Fordham

Open until Wednesday 5pm

12/11/2023

'The Stick'
You are invited to my 'private view' Sunday afternoon at Comber street Studios Paddington, 12th Nov 3pm-8pm. In conjunction with the Australian HeadOn Photo Festival and Ethiopiaid. This large scale black and white exhibition explores the value of a stick in a landscape without trees and may question your possessions.
Please come, bring a friend and share Sunday afternoon 12th Nov with some fine wine, beautiful Ethiopian food and see these large scale art prints up close.
All profits from print sales go to Ethiopiaid charity for Women and Children.

03/11/2023

NOW THEN runs 3-9 November

Zella Caseybrown
Wayne Chick
Aaron Crothers
Dion Horstmans
David Mckay
Jason Rogers

14/10/2023

ARTISTIC DIALOGUES by and

Open today until 2pm until Wednesday 18th October.

04/09/2023

Mark Andrews’ prolific new Exhibition titled “Reflection” combines a love of travel and colour. Mark’s works span each of the 3 gallery spaces and is open now. His works can also be viewed online at www.markandrews.co … but so much better ‘in the flesh’.
Beautifully framed - each artwork is available to purchase and hang straight away - at your home, boutique or office boardroom walls.

The exhibition runs until 12 September

17/08/2023

Blake Wilson is a mad, q***r and disabled artist using visibility, the doubled edge sword, as an instrument of transformation. Embracing being an outsider clowns are central to his work, they are entwined with circus, humour, and horror, becoming a vessel for play and self-representation. Delusional Maniac is Blake Wilson's first solo exhibition, featuring photography, textiles, and performance, following his win of the Kudos Emerging Artist & Designer Award in 2022.

17/08/2023

[Beyond the Dream]
Curated by Elaine Kim

Dreams that can only be seen when you close your eyes are wistful and mysterious. Sleep and dreaming occur together at every stage of slumber, except when you believe you didn't dream, but rather don't remember it.

From the moment you wake up from a dream, the afterimage of the dream is naturally forgotten in your brain.

Unbelievable situations that cannot happen in real life are sometimes entangled in nonsensical stories. For some, dreams are often terrifyingly strange nightmares. That is why dreams are mysterious, bizarre, and frightening. Dreams serve as a medium for expressing untamed thoughts, and the possibilities are endless.

This exhibition presented endless possibilities for artists to explore a deeper and wider world of the unconscious by crossing realistic and illusory spaces through their works.

Opening night: August 17th, 6pm - 9pm
Location: Comber St Studios, Paddington

🖤
.faint .gurl .ceramics 🖤🖤🖤

17/08/2023

[Beyond the Dream]
Curated by Elaine Kim

Dreams that can only be seen when you close your eyes are wistful and mysterious. Sleep and dreaming occur together at every stage of slumber, except when you believe you didn't dream, but rather don't remember it.

From the moment you wake up from a dream, the afterimage of the dream is naturally forgotten in your brain.

Unbelievable situations that cannot happen in real life are sometimes entangled in nonsensical stories. For some, dreams are often terrifyingly strange nightmares. That is why dreams are mysterious, bizarre, and frightening. Dreams serve as a medium for expressing untamed thoughts, and the possibilities are endless.

This exhibition presented endless possibilities for artists to explore a deeper and wider world of the unconscious by crossing realistic and illusory spaces through their works.

Opening night: August 17th, 6pm - 9pm
Location: Comber St Studios, Paddington

🖤
.faint .gurl .ceramics 🖤🖤🖤

31/03/2023

Opening tonight from 6pm Friday 31 March is a show by . The show will run through until Sunday 2 March 10am - 6pm.

For some years now, my paintings have been exploring a connection to the New Zealand landscape, that, as someone from a colonial heritage, I didn’t feel was mine to fully embrace – but then I received some surprising DNA results…

It turns out, I have a different biological father than I thought, revealing Māori ancestry that connects me to the Ngāi Tahu people of Te Waipounamu, the South Island of New Zealand, an area with some of the most glorious, mountainous landscapes in the country.

The sense of belonging I was searching for, through the repeated motif of the lines and shapes of the hills in my work, was finally realised. This flipped my point-of-view, from that of an outsider looking in, to someone with a genuine ancestral connection to the hills of New Zealand.

27/02/2023

A much anticipated exhibition of Ross Watson's latest artworks, presented as part of Sydney WorldPride Pride Amplified Program, this event will quickly become a WorldPride festival favourite.

See for yourself why his last WorldPride NYC exhibition garnered extensive media coverage from the NY Times and ABC TV America. Meet the artist, who will be in attendance daily to share his inspiration and stories behind the artworks.

Available for purchase are Paintings, Limited Edition Prints and books - signed by the artist.

Open daily until Sunday from 11am to 5pm

Contact for more information

03/12/2022

Ways of Seeing' is an art exhibition of work conceived while on a fine arts field trip to Fowlers Gap - an arid zone 1251 km northwest of Sydney and the land of the Wilyakali and Pakanjti People.
The works are as diverse as the eleven creatives contributing to this exhibition.

Artist, mentor, and senior lecturer Peter Sharp from the School of Art, Design, and Architecture, UNSW said, '...the field trip … isn't really just about the landscape, it's about the (artist's) vision'; and poses the question, 'Is it an internal or an external landscape that enables the artist's work?'

On visiting the exhibition, you will be viscerally immersed in both worlds and transported to Fowlers Gap, an extraordinary place.

The exhibition will be held at the Comber Street Studios in Paddington the first week of December and features artists; Blake Wilson, Cecilia Boyd, Gavin Jowitt, Henrietta Richardson, Holly Siles, Libby Blainey, Lucy Whitelaw, Matti, Sally Cooper, Toby Castles & Yao Chen. Opening hours are 11 am – 4 pm.

Peter sharp for your generous essay contribution to the exhibition catalogue
Peter Sharp for teaching and mentoring us through our Fowlers Gap experience.
Jane Harris at Comber Street Studios
Contributors; Blake Wilson, Cecilia Boyd, Gavin Jowitt, Hen Richardson, Libby Blainey, Lucy Whitelaw, Matty, Sally Cooper, Toby Castles, Yao Chen
Catalogue design by Libby Blainey

25/11/2022

ABOVE BELOW is a group show showcasing mixed media and photographic works by , , and

ABOVE BELOW invites a shift in perception, coalescing around the notion that the most common way we view is only one way to look. Through a cumulation of lived experiences, the artists invite you to explore the unprecedented connectivity between the outer and unseen.

Saturday 26th Nov from 10am-6pm
Sunday 27th Nov from 10am-4pm

10/11/2022

Opening 11 November 6-8pm is a group show by Rob Valenti, Simon Ross and Marty Walker as part of the 2022 Head On Photo Festival. The show runs from 11-19 November.

The diverse show comprises of Rob Valenti’s work ‘UnF**k’ that captures the urgency and emotion of an exploding protest landscape, Simon Ross who with ‘The Transit Lounge’ explores the experience of seeing the small moments in the passing of time, and Marty Walker whose work ‘Katoomba’ dives into the emotional landscape of the age.

15/07/2022

launching tonight from 5-8pm, runs through to Sunday.

08/07/2022

Open this weekend, ‘A real estate of mind’ by with the postponed opening on Wednesday night 13th of July. See you there!

28/04/2022

Immerse yourself in the exceptional work of 13 emerging, and established artists (In the Flesh) over 3 days in Paddington.
Experience art in a new accessible way, chat with artists, enjoy a drink and watch freshly conceived performance art at the opening party, Friday 29th April 6pm — 8pm.

Opening Friday 29th April 6 — 8 pm
Friday 29th April 10.30am — 6pm
Saturday 30th April 10.30am — 6pm
Sunday 1st May 10.30am — 8pm

Email [email protected] for more information.
www.artoure.com (online and In the Flesh)


Artists:
Michelle Connolly, Kathryn Cowen, Rhonda Dee, Adrian De Giorgio, Carol Hudson, Monique Lovering, Jo Mellor, Libby Mewing, Katya Petetskaya, Anna Seymour, Brooke Thompson, Michael Wolff.

In the Flesh is a unique, social way to experience, learn and be moved by art. In the Flesh events are produced by Artoure Contemporary Art, an online gallery — where art is loved. Studios visited. Art made and bought. Stories and ideas shared. Things imagined. And new artists are met, and collections begin.

09/04/2022

Opening tonight ‘Moonlighting’ by Jason Farrow 5-8pm running through to Sunday.

25/03/2022

‘Ceramics and Emotions’ curated by Elaine Kim will open 29 March 5-8pm, continuing 30 March - 2 April (11am-6pm weekdays and 10am - 4pm Saturday).

The exhibition will investigate the unique characteristics of clay, expressing interests, bodies and passions. Visually and tactfully articulating invisible emotions and textures, the artists aim to create a rich and extensive visual and tactile experience.

Artists: Joseph Turin, Elizabeth Lewis, Remy Faint, Annie Shin, Ella Tindal, Kirsty Collins, Brigitte Podrasky, Savana Hopkinson, Harry Copas, and Tika Robinson

Elaine Kim is a Sydney-based Curator and Artist of Korean background. She sees the world through two cultures of Korea and Australia, giving her perhaps a broader scope with how she perceives the particularly visual world. She currently studying Masters of Curating and Cultural Leadership at UNSW where she got a Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours degree.

06/03/2022

Open Sunday 6 March through to Wednesday 9 March, “Pomegranate City” by Modya Del Monte

24/02/2022

‘The Big Dance’ by opens tonight from 6-8pm, Thursday 24 February.

This exhibition combines the chaos of cancer with the ostentatious and bedazzling kitsch history of the Soviet Union. Utilising a punk-luxe aesthetic, Bec’s work takes an experimental approach in presenting cancer as a bodily glitch, while critiquing discoveries about her Russian cultural heritage.

11/12/2021

10/12/2021

10/12/2021

Now open for two weeks till December 23rd!

A pop-up of Archival & Directional High Fashion!

Find a unique selection of wearable art by the most revolutionary avant-garde designers of the last half century including COMME des GARÇONS, Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Alexander McQueen, Jean Paul Gaultier and John Galliano.

10:30am - 5pm daily.