Affordable Art Fair
6-9 Nov 2025
Alan Harding
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Alan lives in Yass. Visual art has always been a passion and occupation in one form or another: he trained as a Secondary School Art teacher, studied art history and curatorship, and later graphic design.
As well as teaching, he has run a retail business for over 20 years specialising in Australian craftwork.
Although he has always drawn and painted, recently he has been able to devote an increasing amount of time to his own art practice.
Alan paints with oils - still lifes, landscapes, streetscapes and abstracts.
Alan Harding has had two sold out shows at Tyger.
Aleks Crossan
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Born in Vienna in 1976, Aleks Crossan has cultivated a life rich in artistic exploration.
As a Swiss-American, her diverse heritage infuses her work with a blend of global perspectives and grounded realism. Aleks honed her artistic talents at Zurich-Tanz-Theater-Schule (ZTTS) from 1997 to 2000, setting the stage for a vibrant, multi-disciplinary career.
Aleks’s professional journey is marked by versatility and innovation. She founded the successful Earthphish Dance company in 2001, leading it until 2006. Simultaneously, she delved into the world of music composition with her band Earthphish, which has been active since 2002.
Now residing in Hobart, Tasmania, Aleks’s artistic focus has shifted to painting, where she excels in contemporary abstract art. Her work is a dynamic blend of instinct and relationship, often drawing from her musical background to enhance the visual experience.
Her notable exhibitions include the solo show “LOUD” at the Social Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, and “Dreamwork,” a live art performance at Contemporary Art Tasmania.
In 2022, Aleks furthered her artistic development through a mentorship program with MONA curator Trudi Brinckman.
Her work is held in collections in Belgium, Switzerland, and Australia.
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Aleks will be on the Tyger Gallery stand, A18, throughout Thursday and Friday.
Ben Randall
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Ben Randall is an Australian abstract artist based in Sydney.
“I am deeply inspired by the intricate beauty of nature & the complexities of humanity. I endeavour to encapsulate these core themes, using shapes and colours to evoke emotions and provoke contemplation,” he says.
“Each painting I create is imbued with personal meaning and emotional depth, yet I am wary of imposing my interpretation onto the viewer.”
“Instead, I aim to provide a canvas for individual reflection and exploration. I believe that true artistry lies in the ability to elicit diverse interpretations and resonate uniquely with each observer.”
“In essence, my paintings serve as conduits for self-discovery and introspection, inviting viewers to imbue their own experiences and perspectives into the abstract tapestry of colours and forms.”
“Ultimately, I strive to evoke a sense of wonder and curiosity, allowing each new viewer to uncover their own meaning within the layers of my art.”
Read about the making of Ben’s epic work Somehow, Somewhere, here.
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Ben will be on the Tyger Gallery stand, A18, throughout the Sydney Affordable Art Fair.
Carmonn French
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Carmonn French is an Australian artist whose work spans painting and sculpture.
Growing up in the Riverina region of New South Wales, she has built a career that bridges her rural upbringing with the pulse of city life. Based in Sydney, French has held thirteen solo shows, including at her own Darlinghurst gallery, and her practice continues to evolve with a distinct signature she calls Visual Perfume.
Her work captures the essence of memory and imagination, drawing not from reference but from lived experience, dreams, and sensory impressions. French’s art is defined by its layered approach colour, texture, and form interwoven to hold the presence of a place, a person, or a fleeting feeling. Through this, she transforms everyday moments into something timeless and atmospheric. -
Carmonn will be on the Tyger Gallery stand, A18, on Thursday afternoon, and Friday afternoon and evening.
Chantal de Kock
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Chantal is an Australian artist who grew up in outback and small country towns throughout Australia in an era where outdoor play was the mode of life. She now calls the Gippsland region with its beautiful natural landscapes home.
Her works are of a semi abstract nature where she uses loose and gestural brushstrokes to evoke a feeling of the bush and landscape that she calls home. Chantal likes to use loose expressive marks to describe the landscape and earth that we live on.
She is interested in how we live on the earth in a way that reduces our impact and cares about this in both her work practices and the way she lives. Chantal loves using colour and texture in her work to build up layers as she tells the story of the Australian landscape. She often uses natural ochres and pigments that are native to the places that hold deep meaning for her. Her paintings tell a beautiful story of the Australian landscape as works of poetry in paint.
Her use of ground earth pigments connect her work in a physical way as they are worked into the paintings. These works are landscapes that hold deep meaning for her as she celebrates the collaboration of nature and art making.
Chantal believes we are of nature and as such should work to live in harmony with it. In it and of it rather than trying to control it. By using loose gestural marks she hopes to convey this sense of letting go of control and allowing ourselves to be within the cycles and imperfect systems of nature.
Read more about Chantal here.
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Chantal will be on the Tyger Gallery stand, A18, on Thursday evening, Friday morning, Saturday afternoon, and Sunday morning.
Geoffrey Odgers
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Geoffrey Odgers was born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria 1948.
Odgers is primarily an oil painter, but works across a variety of media including drawing, collage, mosaic and mixed media.
His creative journey has always been involved in the formal aspects of painting, most notably seeking the essence of the motif rather than any narrative.
He was profoundly affected by the bushfires of 2020 and was consequently forced to confront his own response to landscape.
He draws en plein air, takes photos and then uses black and white photocopies to guide his composition and structure.
Odgers’ recent exhibitions include Basil Sellers Gallery Moruya, NSW and Tacit Gallery Abbotsford, Vic. Odgers was selected as finalist in the Elizabeth Bermingham Watercolour Prize, Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize and Michael Beaver Prize.
He was one of 25 International artists chosen to be exhibited and published by Italian Collagists Collective in Omnia Vincit Amor.
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Geoffrey will be on the Tyger Gallery stand, A18, on Friday afternoon.
Greg Mallyon
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Greg Mallyon is a painter and printmaker who works from his studio in rural Australia. His abstract topographical images are inspired by an aerial perspective of the landscape below.
Greg has held over 40 solo exhibitions throughout Australian capital cities as well as Singapore and Honolulu. He has participated in over 80 group exhibitions in locations such as Barcelona, Venice, and Taipei and also locally at The National Gallery of Victoria, University of Melbourne and the Next Wave and Antipodes festivals.
Greg has been represented in 14 international art fairs in Hong Kong, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Singapore.
Greg holds a Masters degree in Art (majoring in painting) UNSW, a Diploma in Fine Art (majoring in printmaking) QCA and a Post Graduate Diploma in Art Education QUT.
Media publicity about Greg's career has included over 80 magazine, newspaper, television and radio interviews and in flight videos for QANTAS and the former ANSETT airlines. Greg's previous homes and renovation projects have been featured in lifestyle magazines including Vogue Living Australia, House and Garden, Home Beautiful and others.
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Greg will be on the Tyger Gallery stand, A18, Thursday afternoon and evening, Friday 3-7pm, and Saturday 10am-12pm.
Greta Hounslow
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Greta Hounslow is an Australian artist known for her evocative paintings that draw deeply from her connection to nature and her extensive travels.
Her work, which blends abstract forms with elements of Australiana and colourful patchwork landscapes, invites viewers into a rich, immersive experience that transcends time and place.
Greta grew up in a creative family, waking up at sunrise to the rhythmic sound of her father forging and hammering in his shed. Her love for drawing transformed into a passion for painting after her grandmother took her along to an oil painting class at the age of ten. Greta's artistic journey expanded as she studied painting, ceramics and photography in college, earning awards in all three disciplines.
Her adventurous spirit took her travelling across Australia for a decade, where she always had a sketchbook and a guitar within reach. However, it wasn’t until she became a mother and returned to her hometown of Hobart, Tasmania, that she felt the compelling urge to paint again. Her sunny home studio by the sea now serves as a sanctuary where she translates her connection to Mother Earth and extensive travels through remote Australia into her paintings.
Working intuitively, Greta often enters a meditative state, invoking old memories and emotions, drawing viewers into an ephemeral narrative that transcends the layered canvas. Nature serves as her foremost muse, with the vibrant and earthy hues, textures, and inherent magic of the beach and bushland profoundly influencing her daily rituals and artistic practice.
Greta received third place in Revival Art and Design Gallery's Emerging Artist Prize 2024 and was a Finalist for the same prize in 2023 and 2025. She was selected as a Bluethumb rising star 2025, a Finalist in Corner Store Gallery’s ‘Inside This Box’ Art Prize consecutively 2022-2025. She was also a Finalist in Leda Gallery and The Non Gallery Art Prizes 2024. She has also participated in numerous group shows across the country.
Kelsie White
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Kelsie White is a painter based in Canberra, Australia.
With a background in surface and product design, visual art, and workshop facilitation, her multidisciplinary practice reflects a deep commitment to both creative expression and community engagement.
Over the past decade, Kelsie has developed a distinct visual language through emotionally resonant acrylic and watercolour works, often inspired by themes of nature, motherhood, and personal transformation.
Her recent work explores large-scale abstracted landscapes as a means of processing life’s transitional moments, particularly her ongoing experience of early motherhood.
Her work has been exhibited across Victoria and the ACT. She is currently working on artwork exploring the theme of home and motherhood.
In both her studio practice and community involvement, Kelsie invites others to explore their own emotional landscapes and embrace creative exploration as a way to connect, reflect, and grow.
Solo shows
Exploring, 2025 at The Front Cafe
New Beginnings, 2024 at Ross Creek GalleryGroup shows
Wazygoose 2024 at MegalowKelsie photo by Tim Harrap.
Kylie Fogarty
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Connecting to the sublime in nature and the landscape, Kylie Fogarty embraces the organic flow of liquid inks to evoke a sense of the poetry she sees in the world.
Traditional processes of drawing with dip pens are met with extended experimentation with various nibs, bamboo reed pens, contemporary pigmented ink pens and limited brush work to embrace a balance between delicate fine lines and expressive bold mark making.
Exhibiting across Australia and Internationally, Kylie has been a finalist and invited artist in the Kedumba Drawing Award 2023 & 2020, Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize, Grace Cossington Smith Art Award, and the Lynn McCrae Memorial Drawing Prize.
Her works are housed in many collections, including being archived in the National Gallery of Australia in the Animalia International Print Exchange 2013 and 2015.
A commission of two large-scaled works on paper of the Gum Tree series, Stringybark Study 2 and the Grand Duo are permanently held in the Quest Canberra City Walk Apartment Foyer.
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Kylie will be on the Tyger Gallery stand, A18, on Thursday afternoon and evening.
Lauren Esplin
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Beach culture is deeply entrenched in human nature and Lauren’s contemporary paintings combine abstracted coastal landscapes featuring emotive markings with detailed figures that echo the familiar.
This intriguing juxtaposition is a signature of the artist’s style, drawing the viewer effortlessly into the paintings, wrapping them in innate understanding.
The merging of impressionist, abstract and figurative styles form a response to the landscape that connects deeply to the human psyche.
Sandstone pinks, dove greys, verdigris, teal and turquoise form a soft background, while the colour of hot sun on sea-splashed skin finely realised in perfectly created human form is the active subject of each work.
Lauren lives and works on Guringai country in Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
This emotion is captured in the figures Lauren paints, their response to the environment a central theme in her work, the joy of human connection with the living world.
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Lauren will be on the Tyger Gallery stand, A18, on Saturday morning.
Penny Verdich
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Penny Verdich is a contemporary artist from Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
Inspiration for her abstract landscape paintings is taken from landscapes both close to home and further afield. Drawing and painting on location is central to Penny’s practice, providing the foundation for work completed in her home studio.
2022 Northern Beaches Art and Environment Prize Finalist
2022 Fishers Ghost Art Award Finalist
2021 Northern Beaches Art and Environment Prize Finalist
‘I aim to create a feeling of place through colour, tone, line and shape, drawing the viewer into the work and offering them a sense of the landscape that has so stirred my imagination.’
Penny Verdich, 2025.
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Penny will be on the Tyger Gallery stand, A18, on Friday afternoon and Saturday afternoon.
Ray Monde
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Ray Monde is a contemporary paper artist who primarily works with paper-mâché and collage.
Ray uses a technique called ghostworking where he over-paints fragments of paper sourced from magazines with thin glazes of synthetic polymer paint so the texture and images of the magazines ghost through the paint, adding depth and complexity to his work.
Ray grew up on a farm in a dairying region on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales where he plastered his bedroom wall with cutouts from glossy magazines. He completed a Bachelor of Arts in 1993 and later studied at the National Arts School, Sydney in 2012.
After a successful career in advertising in Sydney, London and New York, Monde returned to his fascination with paper.
In 2022, Monde had his first major solo exhibition in a public gallery which brought to the fore the artist’s personal experience of queerness in regional Australia.
An artist-in-residence at Bundanon in 2024, he has recently been commissioned to create public hoarding in the ACT as part of the City Renewal Authority and has a solo exhibition at Maitland Regional Art Gallery in 2026.
He has exhibited widely and his works are in collections in the USA and internationally. Twice finalist in the Blake Prize, Doug Moran Portrait Prize, National Works on Paper Award and Paddington Art Prize. He’s also recently been a finalist in the National Still Life Award and the Naked & Nude Art Prize.
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Ray will be on the Tyger Gallery stand, A18, on the mornings of Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Sally Rasmussen
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Sally Rasmussen is a fibre artist who grew up on Worimi Country by the ocean in Forster. She now lives and works in Yass, on Ngunnawal country with her family.
Sally completed a Bachelor of Arts (textiles) at ANU in 2003 and since then has been raising a family, worked in Steiner Education, and a Transpersonal Art Therapist.
Her love of making art with fibre, explores natural forms and human connection. Working primarily with reclaimed and sustainable fibres.
One of the Sally’s signature materials is copper wire reclaimed from electrical wire, which, when manipulated, takes on a life of its own.
As light interacts with the work, it casts intricate shadows that imbue the pieces with a dynamic presence and an evolving relationship to their environment.
The pieces act as metaphors for the way humans relate to each other and the world around them—constantly shifting, interwoven, and in constant dialogue with their surroundings.
Through these works, Sally seeks not only to highlight the potential of sustainable art-making but also to invite the viewer to pause and reflect on the way light, shadow, and texture can tell stories about the world and our place within it.
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Sally Rasmussen will be on the Tyger Gallery Stand, A18, throughout the Sydney Affordable Art Fair.
Sam Suttie
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Sam Suttie works from her home studio perched on the South Eastern side of Mount Tamborine, Queensland.
Her work mainly depicts elements from nature composed as still life arrangements. These arrangements are created in her imagination with the use of reference material and sometimes three dimensional objects.
She has a keen interest in political, religious, climate and social topics and hopes to incorporate more of these elements into her work going forward.
“When I approach a canvas I am driven by a need to release and process the world around me. Over the last few years I have used the framework of a still life arrangement to contain and maintain focus,” she says.
“My style is relaxed realism that leans towards the surreal.”
“Botanical elements and special guests from the natural world work together to narrate the story I need to tell. These stories are usually inward looking but almost always have a parallel with the world at large.”
“My medium of choice is oil paint on canvas. I started using oil paint in 2019 and a love affair with the medium is still ongoing.”
“I work on a couple of works at the same time, this helps me not to fixate on the technique but rather to get the story told. I am never sure about where the painting is going. I begin a journey with a feeling and paint until I am satisfied.”
Sara Phemister
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Sara Phemister is a painter based in Yass who completed an associate diploma of fine arts in 1995.
She has exhibited in group and solo shows every year since 1997 in the Yass, Canberra and South Coast region, including her 2024 show at Tyger - At Home With.
In the past two years she has undertaken many commissions and her work is held in private collections in Australia, Sweden, New Zealand, Canada, America and the UK.
Sara has been consumed with drawing in the company of a dog since she was a child. That obsession has only intensified.
Sara is endlessly inspired by capturing and illuminating daily life - her dog asleep in the morning sun, objects on a shelf, her now adult children absorbed in a task. It is a collection of these moments that Sara wants to remember.
Sara’s sketch book is most often the starting point for her paintings - drawing is the basis of her practice. Sara paints in oil, onto board and is increasingly interested in the application of paint – how it suggests line, light and form.
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Sara will be on the Tyger Gallery stand, A18, throughout the Sydney Affordable Art Fair.
Sarah McCullough
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Sarah McCullough (b. 2005) is a young emerging artist based in Sydney, Australia. She is currently undertaking a Bachelor of Visual Arts at the University of Sydney (SCA).
Living in the Sutherland Shire and frequently travelling to Lake Conjola on the South Coast, Sarah draws much of her inspiration from the Australian bush and coastline. She works from her small home studio, often referencing photographs taken during her explorations.
Sarah has a passion for the Australian landscape, with a particular focus on its rich flora and fauna, which are intricately woven into her artistic practice. Through her artmaking, she reflects on her love for the South Coast of NSW, drawing inspiration from the vibrant natural beauty of the coastline and its bush surroundings.
Her work has been showcased in ARTEXPRESS 2024 for her piece Fragility of Life, exhibited at Tamworth and Cowra Regional Galleries and in the ARTEXPRESS Virtual Galleries, recognising excellence in HSC Visual Arts. In August 2024, she held her inaugural solo exhibition Coastal Reflections at Clifton School of Arts (CSA), she has also featured in Tyger Gallery’s group show Life in Colour (November 2024), alongside 30 contemporary artists and most recently has had her solo exhibition, On the Road Again... at CSA August 2025.
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Sarah will be on the Tyger Gallery stand, A18, on the following days and times:
Thursday: all day
Friday: morning
Saturday: afternoon
Sunday: afternoon
Trish Crampton
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The genre of Trish Crampton’s work is still life.
The vintage and everyday vessels she paints from her studio in Sydney all have their own quirks and personalities. They create a dynamic between themselves, and then with the audience.
Trish hopes her work brings a calm joy to the viewers.
Inspired by the subdued colours and the timeless sense of hushed contemplation of Morandi’s still lifes. She also enjoys the work of John Bokor, Bonnard and Cezanne.
The process she enjoys of layering of the paint, capturing the dance of light and working with the familiar and everyday objects and scenes is a daily practice.
Trish studied printmaking at Sydney College of the Arts in 1985 and has been a practicing artist since, exhibiting in solo exhibitions and group shows. She is also a Visual Arts educator in high schools and runs art workshops from her home studio as well as many regional ones. She feels very grateful for being able to pursue her creative path daily.
Trish has been a finalist in many art prizes. In 2025 she was in the Still Life Bowral art prize and in Orange In The Box prize. In previous years she has been in the Ewart Art Prize, Hunters Hill, The Kings School and the 40Under40 in Surry Hills.
She also hangs with the Moree Gallery and Art To Art in Melbourne, where she has been in group shows.
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Don’t miss the chance to meet Trish in person at Sydney Affordable Art Fair. She will be on the Tyger Gallery stand, A18, on Friday afternoon, Saturday, and Sunday afternoon.
