COMA’s new flagship home opens among buzzing crowd

With guests spilling out onto the streets at its opening, COMA is positioning itself for a new chapter.
A large crowd gathers inside a gallery space with white walls, talking to each other.

On 31 January, a large crowd gathered at a former coffee warehouse in the inner western Sydney suburb of Marrickville for the opening of COMA‘s new flagship space, a gallery spanning 490 square metres and touted as one of the largest commercial galleries in the city.

While eccentric collectors, industry peers, stylish artists and well-behaved doggy companions mingled over free wine (human consumption only), the quiet, yet profoundly expressive paintings of Melbourne-born Santa Fe-based Justin Williams took on another quality.

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Celina Lei is ArtsHub's Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_