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COMA

COMA is a contemporary art gallery and advisory located in Sydney, Australia. COMA aims to bring a dynamic and engaging focus to contemporary international art.

In addition to an attentive curatorial approach it is characterised by a comprehensive understanding of artists exhibited and represented. The gallery was designed to not only exhibit and promote emerging and established artists but to simultaneously concentrate on the conceptual aspects of their practice relating to these exhibitions, and foster an educational environment for the viewer. Through

this formula COMA aspires to create a culture of quality for both the public and the exhibiting artists.

29/05/2026

Please join us tomorrow for an artist talk tomorrow with Australian artist Eleanor Louise Butt, in conversation with artist Tonee Messiah and COMA Associate Director Chloe Morrissey.

Saturday 30 May, 11am - 12pm, at 37 Chapel Street, Marrickville, 2204.

Installation view, Eleanor Louise Butt, Unfolding Fields, 2026, COMA, Sydney.

28/05/2026

Nick Modrzewski’s ‘Jiggery-pokery at the Scriptorium’ and Eleanor Louise Butt’s ‘The Garden’s Embrace’ are currently on view as part of the Bayside Painting Prize at Bayside Gallery.

Held annually in Melbourne, the Bayside Painting Prize brings together a broad range of artists from across Australia, celebrating the breadth and diversity of painting practice today.

On view through to Sunday 14 June, 2026.

Bayside Painting Prize 2026, Bayside Gallery installation view. Photo: Mark Ashkanasy

26/05/2026

Continuing in the gallery this week is Australian artist Eleanor Louise Butt’s first solo exhibition with COMA, titled ‘Unfolding Fields’.

These paintings operate as sites of embodied experience and entangled encounters. They are connected, open-ended events in which no mark feels final, and clarity is intentionally held at bay. In the studio, works are improvised in the moment, allowing intention and ambiguity to unfold through the embodied process of painting. They reflect a desire for immersion within a scene, or within the painting itself. In this way, the paintings function as worlds of their own, connected to the all-at-onceness of lived sensation, unfolding at varying scales and intensities.

On view through 27 June, at 37 Chapel Street, Marrickville, 2204.

Installation view, Eleanor Louise Butt, Unfolding Fields, 2026, COMA, Sydney.

25/05/2026

During Art After Hours at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australian Artist Shan Turner-Carroll will be leading a hands-on workshop, as part of the new exhibition ‘Proximate Cosmologies’.

Running from 6pm on Wednesday 3 June, Turner-Carroll invites visitors to create dream like sculptures using found objects, crystals, rocks and repurposed materials, like “making a soup” for the imagination.

Shan Turner-Carroll, Blue sky ahead, 2026, digital inkjet print on paper, 130 x 87 cm. Shan Turner-Carroll in his studio, Wonnarua Country, Lovedale, Australia, 2026.

22/05/2026

Please join us in the gallery on Saturday 30 May, from 11am - 12pm, for an Artist Talk with Australian artist Eleanor Louise Butt, in conversation with Tonee Messiah and COMA Associate Director Chloe Morrissey.

Marking her first solo exhibition with COMA, Eleanor will discuss painting, process, and abstraction.

Saturday 30 May, 11am - 12pm
37 Chapel Street, Marrickville, 2204

Eleanor Louise Butt, Within motion (blue and brown), 2026, oil on linen, 86 x 102 cm, 33 7/8 x 40 1/8 in.

19/05/2026

COMA Founder Sotiris Sotiriou walks us through ‘Unfolding Fields’, Eleanor Louise Butt’s first solo presentation with the gallery.

On view through 27 June, 2026. At 37 Chapel Street, Marrickville.

17/05/2026

Currently on view at Espace Louis Vuitton Venezia in parallel with the 61st International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia, Lu Yang’s solo presentation DOKU The Illusion brings together original sculptures and a new video work centred on the artist’s latest film.

As the fourth chapter in the ongoing DOKU series, the exhibition extends Lu Yang’s long-running exploration of consciousness, identity, and the constructed body across physical and virtual space. First initiated in 2019, the DOKU series continues to unfold as an expansive narrative project. Curated by Claire Staebler

DOKU The Illusion, exhibition view at Espace Louis Vuitton Venezia, 2026, © Ludovica Arcero / Louis Vuitton. Photo of Lu Yang at Espace Louis Vuitton Venezia, © Ludovica Arcero / Louis Vuitton.

15/05/2026

Opening tonight from 6pm, Australian artist Eleanor Louise Butt presents her first solo exhibition with COMA, titled Unfolding Fields, on view at 37 Chapel Street, Marrickville.

These paintings operate as sites of embodied experience and entangled encounters. They are connected, open-ended events in which no mark feels final, and clarity is intentionally held at bay. In the studio, works are improvised in the moment, allowing intention and ambiguity to unfold through the embodied process of painting. They reflect a desire for immersion within a scene, or within the painting itself. In this way, the paintings function as worlds of their own, connected to the all-at-onceness of lived sensation, unfolding at varying scales and intensities.

Installation view, Eleanor Louise Butt, Unfolding Fields, 2026, COMA, Sydney.

11/05/2026

Opening this Friday, Unfolding Fields, a solo exhibition by Australian artist Eleanor Louise Butt.

“This new body of works evokes a sensation of being bodily surrounded by light and shade, by a density of colours and forms. By unearthing the analogy of the garden, I have come to experience the paintings themselves as sites of physical immersion and embodied encounter.”

Friday 15 May, 6 - 8pm, 37 Chapel Street, Marrickville.

Eleanor Louise Butt, Untitled (exuberant/dankness), 2026, oil on cotton, 76.5 x 71.5 cm, 30 1/8 x 28 1/8 in. Eleanor Louise Butt, Echoed encounter, 2026, acrylic on cotton, 167.5 x 152.5 cm, 66 x 60 in. Eleanor Louise Butt, Interwoven warmth, 2026, oil on linen, 28 x 35.5 cm, 11 x 14 in.

05/05/2026

We would like to wish Australian artist Shan Turner-Carroll (b. 1987) happy birthday! In celebration we would like to take a look back at some of Turner-Carroll’s exhibition highlights.

Deeply fascinated with unearthing tacit knowledge, his practice integrates mediums including photography, sculpture, performance and film. Turner-Carroll’s practice interrogates both human and non-human nature, alternative forms of social exchange and interactions between art, artist and viewer: sending and receiving signals.

Shan Turner-Carroll, in his studio, Wonnarua Country, Lovedale, Australia, (2026). Photo by Dominic Bleijie. Installation view, Shan Turner-Carroll, Bless You, Bless Me, Bless the Mountain, COMA, Sydney, Australia, 2026. Shan Turner-Carroll, Waiting for night to jump, 2024, archival digital ink jet print. Shan Turner-Carroll, Ancestors , 2026, digital inkjet print on archival paper, 130 x 87 cm. Portrait, Shan Turner-Carroll, Sydney, 2024. Photo by Shen Osaki. Courtesy of The Substation, ACE Hotel, Sydney and the artist. Installation view, Shan Turner-Carroll, Bless You, Bless Me, Bless the Mountain, COMA, Sydney, Australia, 2026. Shan Turner-Carroll, Edge Of The Garden, Dad, 2020, archival digital ink jet print.

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37 Chapel Street
Marrickville, NSW
2204

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Tuesday	10am - 6pm
Wednesday	10am - 6pm
Thursday	10am - 6pm
Friday	10am - 6pm
Saturday	10am - 4pm

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http://www.comagallery.com/

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