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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.

Birth, Death, Ghost, Renée Estée’s first publication, is now available to purchase at COMA, Sydney or via the COMA websi...
20/10/2026

Birth, Death, Ghost, Renée Estée’s first publication, is now available to purchase at COMA, Sydney or via the COMA website.

Published in conjunction with COMA, it gathers three bodies of works on paper, made across countries and studios, that return again and again to questions of life, love, death, loss and what comes after. Birth begins with water, Death moves through fire, and Ghost looks towards the stars, forming less a chronology than a cycle where every ending rehearses another beginning.

The publication features essays by Emily McCulloch Childs and Grace Sandles, and words by Renée Estée.

Available to purchase via link in bio.

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Emily McCulloch Childs

Congratulations to Australian artist Shan Turner-Carroll, who’s work ‘Ancestors’ has been elected as a finalist in the 2...
19/10/2026

Congratulations to Australian artist Shan Turner-Carroll, who’s work ‘Ancestors’ has been elected as a finalist in the 2026 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, presented by HOTA, Home of the Arts.

Recognised as Queensland’s richest acquisitive photography prize, the $25,000 award celebrates contemporary photographic practice across Australia, embracing both traditional and expanded approaches to the medium, including sculpture, installation, projection and cameraless photography.

The finalist exhibition will be on view from 28 November 2026 through 7 March 2027.

Shan Turner-Carroll, Ancestors , 2026, digital inkjet print on archival paper, 130 x 87 cm, 51 x 34 in.

Australian artist Anna May Kirk’s new public sculpture ‘Shelf Life’ is currently on view at the Australian National Bota...
13/10/2026

Australian artist Anna May Kirk’s new public sculpture ‘Shelf Life’ is currently on view at the Australian National Botanical Gardens, as part of the 2026 Canberra Art Biennial.

Emerging from Kirk’s participation in a seed deposit at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in October 2025, Shelf Life investigates seed preservation as a strategy for climate resilience, asking what it means to safeguard a life at the scale of a seed.

The sculpture is composed on two planted bronze seed forms, developed in dialogue with botanists and seed scientists, resting upon an aluminium shelf-life base. Suspended between dormancy and growth, archive and organism, Shelf Life positions seeds as living technology for navigating uncertainty, embodying a collective care in futures yet to emerge.

‘Shelf Life’ is on view through 31 October, 2026.

Installation view, Anna May Kirk, Shelf Life, 2026, Australian National Botanical Gardens, 2026 Canberra Art Biennial. Photos: Kiernan May.

Please join us in the gallery this Saturday 17 October, from 11am - 12pm, for an Artist Talk with Australian artist René...
13/10/2026

Please join us in the gallery this Saturday 17 October, from 11am - 12pm, for an Artist Talk with Australian artist Renée Estée and Associate Director Chloe Morrissey, as they discuss Estée’s current solo exhibition ‘One for Sorrow, Two for Joy’.

Saturday 17 October, 11am - 12pm
37 Chapel Street, Marrickville, 2204

Renée Estée

Renée Estée, (detail) Can’t keep holding onto sorrow, 2026, flashe, oil paint, charcoal on canvas, 183 x 163 cm, 72 x 64 1/8 in. Courtesy of the artist and COMA.

09/10/2026

“There’s a real emphasis on wanting there to be a connection between the known and unknown. Reaching out and noticing these signs feels like a way to really ground yourself and feel like you can move through things with a bit more sense and understanding.”

Renée Estée’s third solo presentation with COMA, ‘One for Sorrow, Two for Joy’, opens tonight from 6pm at 37 Chapel Street, Marrickville, Sydney.

Opening tomorrow night, Friday 9 October, from 6pm, is Australian artist Renée Estée’s third solo presentation with COMA...
08/10/2026

Opening tomorrow night, Friday 9 October, from 6pm, is Australian artist Renée Estée’s third solo presentation with COMA, titled ‘One for Sorrow, Two for Joy’.

“I’ve long been interested in the ways we navigate life through signs and superstition. I find myself looking for them everywhere; in birds and animals, chance encounters, or small coincidences that suddenly seem to carry a little more meaning. A butterfly flying into the studio can feel like a good omen, or seeing a particular bird can change the feeling of a day. I noticed when making these works I do something similar when I paint, where chance and intuition are always becoming entangled during the painting process.”

37 Chapel Street, Marrickville, Sydney.

Renée Estée, I saw you searching for joy, 2026, flashe, oil paint, charcoal on canvas, 183 x 172.5 cm, 72 x 67 7/8 in. Renée Estée, It felt like I was falling through the sky, where the birds above had flown, 2026, oil paint, oil bar, charcoal on canvas, 183 x 172.5 cm, 72 x 67 7/8 in. Renée Estée, Signs Whispered (between clouds, between each other), 2026, oil paint, charcoal, oil bar on canvas, 183 x 172.5 cm, 72 x 67 7/8 in.

Congratulations to Kieren Karritpul, on being selected as a finalist in the 2026 Koori Mail Indigenous Art Award, for hi...
05/10/2026

Congratulations to Kieren Karritpul, on being selected as a finalist in the 2026 Koori Mail Indigenous Art Award, for his work ‘Five Fish Traps’ (2025).

Presented by Lismore Regional Gallery in partnership with Koori Mail, the biennial award celebrates contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artistic practice from across Australia, bringing together emerging and established artists working across a diverse range of mediums.

The finalist exhibition will be on view at Lismore Regional Gallery from 7 November 2026 through 14 February 2027.

Kieren Karritpul, Five Fish Traps, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 139.5 x 122.5 cm, 54 7/8 x 48 1/4 in. Portrait, Kieren Karritpul, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2022. Image Courtesy of the Artist and Art Gallery of South Australia.

Recently featured in a group presentation at COMA, KV Duong is currently included in Never The Same River at the Ford Fo...
02/10/2026

Recently featured in a group presentation at COMA, KV Duong is currently included in Never The Same River at the Ford Foundation Gallery, New York.

Curated by Dexter Wimberly, the exhibition brings together six artists exploring bodily autonomy, migration and the shifting nature of identity. Duong presents Family Portrait (2026), a five-panel work in ink and acrylic on latex that draws upon family imagery to consider histories of migration, memory and belonging.

Never The Same River is on view at the Ford Foundation Gallery, New York, through 5 December 2026.

Image credits: Courtesy Ford Foundation Gallery, Photo: Sebastian Bach.

What if coincidence isn’t random? Renée Estée’s upcoming exhibition with COMA inhabits the space between folklore and co...
01/10/2026

What if coincidence isn’t random? Renée Estée’s upcoming exhibition with COMA inhabits the space between folklore and contemporary life, where memory, ritual and superstition become ways of making sense of the unknown.

Estée’s third solo exhibition with COMA, ‘One for Sorrow, Two for Joy’, opens next Friday, 9 October, 6pm - 8pm, at 37 Chapel Street, Marrickville, 2204.

Renée Estée, in her Melbourne studio, 2026.

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

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