Sydney Contemporary
NO FANTASY will present a curated exhibition by standout Australian artists, each of whom has been showcased by NO FANTASY at international art fairs such as The Armory Show, New York; Frieze No.9 Cork St, London; Paris Photo; Art Basel Miami Beach; Art Basel Hong Kong; and Unseen Amsterdam.
Venue
Carriageworks
Sydney, Australia
on view
Sep 2 — Sep 6
Carriageworks · Sydney, Australia
NO FANTASY at Sydney Contemporary 2026 - Booth #C04
Australasia’s premier art fair returns to Carriageworks from 3–6 September 2026, celebrating its landmark 10th edition. Bringing together more than 100 galleries and over 500 artists from Australia, New Zealand, Asia and beyond, Sydney Contemporary offers an unparalleled platform for discovering ambitious contemporary art, from emerging voices to internationally acclaimed practitioners. NO FANTASY presents a curated selection of new works by leading Australian and international artists whose practices engage with contemporary questions of identity, materiality and cultural exchange. Bringing together established and emerging voices across a range of media, the presentation reflects the gallery’s commitment to ambitious, conceptually driven contemporary art. Presenting Works by: JOHNATHON WORLD PEACE BUSH | ELLEN DAHL | JACKSON FARLEY | YHONNIE SCARCE | ALI TAHAYORI
Johnathon World Peace Bush
Burke and Wills
2025
medium
locally sourced earth pigment/ochre on linen
dimensions
120 x 120 cm
price
AUD 15,000
Artworks
19
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NO FANTASY
(THIS IS) NO FANTASY is a boutique gallery offering representation to a select group of artists shaping Australia’s art discourse locally and internationally. Resolutely committed to keeping our gallery small and rigorously curated, the gallery draws on decades of experience to strategically champion artists, building their profiles internationally. Central to our vision is a focus on international art fairs, off-site projects and exhibitions both in Australia and abroad.
Website
https://thisisnofantasy.com/Phone
0394177172Address
108-110 Gertrude Street Fitzroy Melbourne VIC 3065 AU
Sydney Contemporary
Time and Time (Again), 2025
Hahnemühle metallic photo rag, framed
86 x 120 cm
Ed. 1 of 5 + 2AP
AUD 5,700
This body of work brings together recurring concerns that shape Ellen Dahl’s practice: time, place, and the entanglement of human and more-than-human histories. The works move between the monumental and the intimate, drawing together sites and objects shaped by vastly different temporal scales. Rather than offering fixed representations, they function as points of encounter where endurance, vulnerability, and transformation are held in tension. Dahl is drawn to subjects that already carry time within them. Hellenic-inspired Roman sculptures bear centuries of touch, weathering, displacement, and cultural reframing. Caves register mineral accretion and erosion across immense geological durations. Ecological objects collected during fieldwork operate at a more intimate register, where planetary processes are encountered through the studio still life. Her practice evolves through an expanding image archive that becomes artworks through reinterpretation and dialogue across geographical place, time, and ecological connection. Photography here is not approached as neutral documentation, but as a method of world-making. The camera’s relationship to time - its promise to arrest a moment - becomes unstable under challenging conditions of low light and extended exposure. In these moments, photographic time falters: detail slips, surfaces soften, colours shift, and duration becomes visible within the image itself. Like rain on a mountain, momentary yet transformative over millennia, the exhibition proposes time as layered, relational, and always in the process of becoming.