Bartley & Company Art In Ocula Magazine

With the physical fair rescheduled for February next year, organisers have partnered with Ocula to offer an alternative online.

Melbourne Art Fair has certainly achieved its goals of supporting contemporary art and living artists, while admirably staying grounded in its locality.

I am attempting to draw analogies between photography as a kind of bruise or impression left behind on the film or pixels, and relating that to a sense of bodies holding the impression of memory or of events that circulate throughout my work.

My work is much more about drawing; it is about looking and seeing, less about 'expressing'. I'm using gesture only in the sense that a gesture can communicate something.

Personally, I need to put some kind of order on experience for sake of sanity and negotiation.

We have a need for images and stories to make meaning of human experience. This universal need for artistic experience requires constant interrogation and renewal.

Being a new art fair Sydney has a real buzz about it and the new management feels positive and exciting. It’s great to be part of the inaugural event.