Aotearoa Art Fair 2026.: Viaduct Events Centre, Auckland

With a bold humanist style, Ross’ cross-disciplinary practice is driven by a desire to examine Australia’s shadowed colonial histories. Fluoro and furious, she reimagines colonial imagery, layering each work with cultural references that reflect shared eras – critiquing the ongoing effects of greed, globalisation and colonisation, all while leaving you with a smile.

Joan Ross recently presented a major career survey at the National Portrait Gallery, Joan Ross: Those trees came back to me in my dreams, selecting portraits from the collection to show alongside her own works – extending her long-standing exploration of collecting and collections.

Her practice spans roles as educator, mentor and judge, with works held and presented by leading institutions. In recent years, Ross has expanded into virtual reality, presenting Did you ask the river? at ACMI, followed by Collector’s Paradise for the National Gallery of Australia and I give you a mountain, projected onto the façade of the Art Gallery of South Australia.

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Fiona Lowry’s practice has explored the complexity of the human condition. Through the use of airbrushed pastels and monochromatic colour palettes, Lowry’s images maintain an overarching softness and ambiguity.

Her paintings of the Australian landscape depict the bush as both alluring and unsettling. Rendered in dreamlike colour and diffused through her distinctive technique, these scenes become surreal theatres for human intervention, charged with unease and quiet menace.

A winner of the Archibald, Moran Portrait, and Fleurieu Landscape Prizes, her work is held in major collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Portrait Gallery, and The University of Queensland Art Museum.

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From across a room, Holly Anderson’s paintings appear to swim in the brightness of a clear sky. Bursts of sunlight populate familiar subject matter – interiors, figures, skies, and water are monochromic planes pierced with white light...

Anderson’s painting practice explores sensory encounters between light and landscape. Moving between figuration and abstraction, her brushstrokes form geometric, often monochromatic compositions whose flatness intensifies their subtle realism. Sunlight is central to her work – flashes of white disrupt gridded surfaces of stripes and squares, bending and scattering form. Familiar subjects emerge through the glare, developing a visual language attuned to the brilliance of the Australian sun.

Recent exhibitions include the Museum of Brisbane and Firstdraft. She has been a finalist in the JADA Prize and Brisbane Portrait Prize, among others, and her work is held in public and private collections. Anderson completed a BFA (Hons) at the Queensland College of Art, where she now teaches sessionally.

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