An exhibition of artist Jennifer Tyer’s latest work has just kicked off at Melbourne’s Helen Gory Galerie. Titled ‘Fight’, the works were inspired by the idea that, in tournament fights, where opponents of the same level compete, the person who wins will generally be the one with the stronger spirit. In doing so, she introduces a very human element to the militant contests, capturing the unwavering concentration in the rivals’ faces, their clear focus on winning, as well as the spectacle of the matches. The exhibition runs until February 21.

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Our friend Luke Feldman, the talent behind the very cool and ongoing Skaffs project, has produced a video from his recent solo art exhibition in Melbourne, during which he painted live and displayed his artwork, giant vinyl adhesives and collector toy.

Morgan Allender is a talented young Australian artist already making her mark on the art scene. She was the 2006 recipient of the prestigious Fleurieu Peninsula Youth Scholarship. For her current show called Realm at Melbourne’s Helen Gory Gallery ‘she’s created beautiful abstracted floral studies as a means of exploring our relationship to the natural world’. Of the work, she says: ‘On a personal level, these paintings are an expression of my own feelings of dislocation from nature. In contrast to a rambling childhood in country South Australia, the concrete of inner Melbourne can seem worlds apart. I spend a lot of time in the park’.

The photography of Rohan Hutchinson is amazing, his subject matter of late focusing on the rapidly disappearing back alleyways in China which are being demolished for the Olympics, leaving thousands of people displaced. Hutchinson captures his images on large format negatives, meaning the processed photo can be enlarged almost to the size of a wall in a small room! He has his first exhibition between July 17-31 at the Flinders Lane Gallery in Melbourne.