Looking forward to sharing my new works!
Whitewall Art Projects
10 Jellore Street, Berrima NSW Australia
Email gallery@whitewallartprojects.com.au or tel. +61 420 718 775.
Interconnected is the first museum exhibition in Australia curated by international contemporary art magazine Beautiful Bizarre. The exhibition is a diverse showcase bringing together contemporary artists from around Australia working across a broad range of mediums and styles.
Interconnected at New England Regional Art Museum (NERAM)
Opening Friday 13 May, exhibiting from 13 May to 26 June 2022
106 – 114 Kentucky Street, Armidale NSW Australia
If you follow me on Instagram @steve.salo, you’ll know how much I love Michael Harding handmade oil colours. The soft buttery consistency, the blending of one hue into another, the vibrancy and the fact I can paint for hours without getting a headache — they are the best paints in the world.
A few years ago I was fortunate to join a workshop by Michael Harding when he visited Melbourne and this week a dream came true when I was included as one of the featured artists on the Michael Harding website.
I’m currently creating new works for a solo exhibition at Whitewall Art Projects in May. I had a great time painting my plein air series in March 2021 and can’t wait to get back to the Southern Highlands.
Saatchi Art’s Vincent-inspired NFT project ‘The Other Avatars’ went live to the public on 24 January and sold out in 20 minutes. For Saatchi Art updates and future NFT drops, keep an eye on saatchiart.com/nft
While I’ll always be a painter first and foremost (nothing beats experimenting with the physical mediums of painting), I was excited to be selected as one of the artists for Saatchi Art’s first NFT project. NFT (Non-Fungible Token) collectors purchase a one-of-a-kind blockchain-enabled digital artwork. It’s another art universe, which I don’t quite understand yet. What I can say is the works I’ve seen created by the artists in this project are pretty freakin’ amazing.
The Other Avatars is the first NFT project of its kind, a collection of handmade, originally-designed and stylistically-varied avatars created by 154 international artists selected by Saatchi Art curators. The subject matter is what made me give this a go, the avatars are “inspired by the self-portraits of Vincent van Gogh and the NFT landscape in 2021”.
To create works for the project I took my original portrait paintings of Van Gogh then played with them digitally to make unique NFTs. Actually, I just did the art side and thankfully Saatchi have been taking care of all the tech stuff. The amazing Saatchi Art NFT team has connected curators, artists and technology experts on Discord, provided us with a template and ‘traits’ checker, are minting the ‘tokens’, doing the ‘drop’, helping us set up our ‘wallet’ and answering a gazillion questions.
The Other Avatars | A Saatchi Art NFT Collection goes live on 24 January 2022. saatchiart.com/nft
Paintings currently available at Art2Muse Gallery can be viewed online or visit the gallery when they reopen on 11 January.
Paintings available from Art2Muse Gallery
234 Jersey Road, Woollahra Sydney NSW Australia
Enquiries: Email Katrina Hampton, Gallery Director katrina.hampton@art2muse.com.au or tel. +61 424 809 849
Like many people, I can’t wait to see the back of 2021. But it’s also had some upsides, I finished the year with three unexpected and exciting secret-squirrel projects, which I can now reveal.
I was selected to participate in Saatchi Art’s first NFT collection The Other Avatars.
Two portraits I’ve painted of actor Mark Deans (2016 and 2021) are featured in the set of the Back to Back Theatre production Entity.
‘Passerby Rutland Street’ will be the cover artwork for a book being published by Penguin Random House in South Africa. I did a somersault across the loungeroom when I heard this one!
I’m honoured to be connected with each of these projects.
The Passerby series (2015) I have great memories of creating this show with Metropolis Gallery.
Following a wonderful experience painting the Back to Back Theatre actors and artistic director in 2016, I was commissioned to paint a second portrait of Mark Deans in late 2021. The two portraits of Mark are featured in the set of his solo show Entity.