SELECTED FOR SUMMER SOLSTICE EDITION - OBSCYRA MAGAZINE - BASEL SWITZERLAND LAUNCHING SOON - 2026

I’m delighted to share that I have been selected for inclusion in the Summer Solstice edition of Obscyra Magazine, an artist-first contemporary art magazine founded in Basel, Switzerland 🇨🇭✨✨✨

Chosen through an international open call, my work appears in this issue alongside invited artists from around the world in response to the theme “Brise + Surrealm”…a poetic fusion of architecture and fever dream, where the boundaries between the built and imagined worlds begin to dissolve.

I’m especially grateful to the Obscyra team for embracing my work so wholeheartedly. I was humbled and genuinely surprised to learn that this upcoming Summer Solstice edition will feature an entire double-page spread dedicated to my artwork.

Founded by Arlo Jake Lagmay and Emy Vicencio, Obscyra champions raw, unfiltered and powerful artistic voices across surrealism, expressionism, abstraction and lowbrow art. Launching on the summer and winter solstices, the magazine is accompanied by exhibitions in unique and unexpected spaces.

This Summer Solstice edition launches on 21 June in Basel, coinciding with the final day of Art Basel, with the exhibition taking place in the Gundeli district.

My sincere thanks to founder and owner Arlo Jake Lagmay, curatorial partner Emy Vicencio, and the entire Obscyra team for their generosity, support and belief in the work. I never expected this much love and encouragement, and I am incredibly appreciative of the opportunity.

I’m so grateful to be included in this international publication and to be part of a conversation that celebrates artists working beyond conventional boundaries.

Pre-Order your copy online here!

The magazine features:
108 pages of stories, features and articles.
5 Artist Feature
5 Art Stories
25 selected artists from all over the world.

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Front cover of this Summer Solstice edition of Obscyra Magazine launches on 21 June in Basel coinciding with the final day of Art Basel, with the exhibition taking place in the Gundeli district.

TO APPROACH THE UNKNOWABLE - A CURATED GROUP EXHIBITION - GRACE COSSINGTON SMITH GALLERY - IN COLLABORATION WITH THE HASSALL COLLECTION - 2025

I’m thrilled to share that I’ll be exhibiting in a curated group exhibition at the Grace Cossington Smith Gallery called ‘To Approach the Unknowable’ opening Sat 1 Nov 2-4pm .

This exhibition brings together four Australian contemporary artists whose works, guided by a surrealist inclination, engage in a fascinating dialogue with personal ideas and with works selected by the artists themselves from the Hassall Collection. The juxtaposition creates a rich exploration of the surrealist inspiration within the Australian context.

The exhibition features works by James Gleeson, Peter Booth, Sidney Nolan, Joy Hester and Louise Hearman - artists whose imaginative force continues to resonate deeply within Australian art.

My works form an installation in response to personally selected pieces from the Geoffrey Hassall Collection by Sidney Nolan, James Gleeson, and Louise Hearman. Among them are Gleeson’s final, unfinished drawing and a Nolan painting composed into my own work, alongside other selected pieces from the collection that converse with recent ceramics and newly created drawings, paintings, and mixed media works.

These works inspired a poem exploring thirst as a metaphor for life cycles, creativity, and water as a vital force. The installation embodies the poem’s rhythm and subterranean thought, unfolding as a theatrical and spiritual dialogue between image and word — tracing how inspiration flows between absence and renewal, presence and transformation.

The exhibition title is taken from a 1976 poem by Australian artist James Gleeson in which he states:

The aim of Art
is to approach the unknowable;
and the only approach
is by way of the known, to use it
as a springboard.

🗓️ Please join us on Saturday 1 November, 2–4pm
for the opening of the exhibition.

✨ To be officially opened by Simon Weir
Artist and Academic Sydney School of Architecture, Design & Planning, The University of Sydney

The artists will be present.

RSVP appreciated

📍 Grace Cossington Smith Gallery
✨ Works generously lent from the Hassall Collection

Image credit: Louisa Chircop ‘Tongue against the Cactus’, mixed media and photomontage on watercolour paper, 76cm x 56cm (paper dimensions).