LON Gallery proudly presents a selection of new work by Stephen Benwell, Adrienne Gaha and Kate Ellis at the 2026 edition of Sydney Contemporary.

Find us in booth D6.

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Stephen Benwell's figures subtly illustrate the male nude, touching on the nature of contemporary desire, whilst remaining situated within historical traditions and notions of masculinity. In recent years, Benwell has predominantly focused on a series of ceramic statues; inspired by an investigation into 18th-century figurines and the poise and grandeur of Greco-Roman statuary.

Benwell’s internationally renowned oeuvre spans five decades and extends across ceramics, drawings, works on paper and paintings. Long recognised for his trailblazing approach to the medium, he is heralded as one of the most significant figures in contemporary ceramics in Australia.

Coinciding with Sydney Contemporary 2026, Stephen Benwell’s work will be featured in Bundanon’s touring Fantastic Forms exhibition at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery and from the 12th of September at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Near at Hand: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial.

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As one of the Australia's most exciting and inventive painters, Adrienne Gaha’s mirage-like dreamscapes are an emotional and intuitive response to the world. Working with glazes, she layers and rubs colours into each other in a process of putting on and wiping off, letting the drips of paint and turpentine create detail in the surface. Her idiosyncratic painting process produces artworks that are ethereal, evocative and romantic.

Fresh from recent sell-out exhibitions, our Sydney Contemporary presentation will include an exquisite suite of new paintings that embody the artist’s masterful handing of oil paint.

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Over three decades, Kate Ellis has built a compendium of hybrid forms that blur the line between human and animal. Her works are often simultaneously alluring and repulsive: disembodied limbs, uncertain boundaries and liminal states.

As an artist living with chronic illness, Ellis embraces the ambiguity of her arrangements which confound our sense of rationalised, ‘natural’ order.

Our Sydney Contemporary presentation will include a new and unique sculpture, continuing Ellis’ psychologically charged series of poodle-human forms.

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Sydney Contemporary 2026

3 – 6 September 2026

Carriageworks

Find us in Booth D6

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Image: Adrienne Gaha, Cupids, 2026, Oil on linen, 40 x 40cm