Sydney Contemporary

It is with great pleasure that The Commercial presents a solo exhibition by Mitch Cairns for Sydney Contemporary 2024, 05.09.24 — 08.09.24. We are located in Booth H02. Mitch Cairns’ figurative painting practice balances a brilliance of improvised pictorial concepts with an unparalleled ability in his oil paint medium, a surprising pairing of wit and discipline. Cairns’ subject matter comes from fragments of the artist’s day both inside and outside the studio, a poetics of domestic/familial life where love, routine, self-reflection, eroticism, melancholy, anxiety provide ample image-ideas. These pictures arrive with clarity like the snapping of fingers that signals an...