ARTISTS IN ACTION

Robert Delves

Robert Delves is a Melbourne based sculptor who has been practising for over 30 years in a variety of media. He holds fine art degrees from RMIT and VCA.

Robert has participated in many important solo and group exhibitions including the Montalto Sculpture Prize exhibition, Yering Station Sculpture exhibition, Contemporary 2, Docklands and the McClelland Gallery Grounds for Sculpture exhibition. Recently, a finalist in the Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award 2017. In 2008 he was the recipient of the Riddoch Gallery Wood Sculpture Award and the Yering Station Sculpture Award. Delves then won the Prometheus Visual Art Award in 2009, the Yering at Heidi Sculpture Award in 2012, the Dame Elizabeth Murdoch Sculpture Award in 2013, and exhibited at Heidi Sculpture park in 2013.

Robert Delves’s sculptures are part of high-profile public, corporate and private collections in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, UK and the USA.

Ben Liney

Ben Liney brings unwounded natural beauty into the everyday, with the live painting of a new work from his onsite studio.

This new painting will feature his signature, realistic imitations of moss growth on rock formations, all situated within an intimate composition that highlights the awe of the natural landscape.

Jackie Case

Internationally renowned, Jackie Case is a Melbourne based artist who specialises in intricate drawings. With a BA Graphic Design RMIT (Australia), she is a gallery represented artist with Rebecca Hossack Gallery London and New York. She has had solo exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, London and New York and exhibits in art fairs around the globe.

She’ll be returning for Affordable Art Fair Melbourne 2023, cleverly hidden within a custom-built ATM where you can purchase a five-minute sketch. Simply purchase yourself a limited-release novelty-sized credit card at the nearby cashier and insert. Jackie will be waiting to generate your ‘withdrawal’, a unique sketch which she creates. You have the opportunity to request a subject.

David Hinchliffe

David Hinchliffe has been painting, exhibiting and selling his work in galleries since the age of 12. He has won numerous competitions as a young artist (Sunday Mail Art Prize, ABC Argonauts Award, Atlantic City Sculpture Award, Toowoomba Gemini Prize) and is a regular finalist in the Tattersalls Landscape Prize.

He has exhibited at galleries in Brisbane and the Gold Coast as well as at Harrods in London and at Village Art gallery in Greenwich Village 1996, at the Australian Consulate, New York and at Michael Ingbar Gallery on Broadway in Soho, New York and in Paris.

Josh Fartch

Josh Fartch is a painter who also exhibits drawing and photography. He has an interest in both modern and contemporary painters, tackling traditional subjects where clouds, mountains and still life objects are common motifs.

Recent painters of interest include Constable, Richter and Hockney, in particular the latter’s approach to technology. Josh has a Masters in Fine Art, Painting.