What to see at Sydney Contemporary 2023

With a record number of galleries at this year's art fair, ArtsHub takes the pulse of who’s showing what.

The seventh edition of Sydney Contemporary boasts a record number of participating galleries and is its largest fair to date, with works from more than 500 artists and 96 galleries. The annual calendar event for galleries, collectors, artists and visitors alike is presented at Carriageworks from 7-10 September.

At the media preview on 6 September, Sydney Contemporary Founder and co-owner Tim Etchells said, ‘Sydney Contemporary has grown from strength to strength each year, generating the largest concentration of art sales annually in Australia.’

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Celina Lei is the Diversity and Inclusion Editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. 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. Most recently, Celina was one of three Australian participants in DFAT’s the Future of Leadership program. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_