Sydney Contemporary 2025

"For me, colour is a way of speaking - it can vibrate, clash, soothe, or shout. The works in Mirror States are about rhythm and resonance, how bold forms and repeated motifs can guide us like signposts, not just through physical space, but through memory and emotion."

- Elliott Routledge

"I think of painting as a process of emergence. Images arrive through chance, layering, and tension - marks colliding until something begins to hold. With Thresholds, the forms break through the surface, crossing into objecthood, like they’re insisting on existing in more than one dimension."

- Christopher Jewitt

"I’m fascinated by what materials can endure, how steel warps, stone resists, grids bend but still hold. My works test those limits, creating structures that seem fragile yet persist. In In each the trace of each, strength and vulnerability sit side by side, always in flux."

- Luca Lettieri

Elliott Routledge. Luca Lettieri. Christopher Jewitt.

Elliott Routledge (b. Tokyo, Japan) is a Sydney-based contemporary artist whose work spans painting, sculpture, and large-scale public art. Known for his bold use of colour, expressive mark-making, and geometric forms, his practice draws on the symbolic language of signage, graffiti, and abstraction to create works that feel both immediate and timeless. Routledge’s murals and installations can be found across Australia and internationally, while his studio works ranging from intimate paintings to large-scale canvases - engage with ideas of human experience, facades, and mortality. His work is represented in numerous public and private collections worldwide, and he continues to play a significant role in shaping the visual culture of contemporary Australian art.

Luca Lettieri is a multidisciplinary artist based on Peramangk Country (Strathalbyn, South Australia), working across sculpture, painting, and design. His practice investigates materiality and form, reinterpreting artisanal and industrial processes through a contemporary lens. Lettieri trained at the Sturt Craft Centre and completed JamFactory’s prestigious Furniture Associate Program before undertaking an Italian Australian Federation Fellowship in Italy, where he studied violin making and bronze casting. This deep engagement with craftsmanship informs his visual language, which often incorporates steel, aluminium, chain, stone, and galvanising techniques. His works explore balance, tension, and endurance, often referencing cultural memory through symbolic motifs drawn from ex-voto traditions. Lettieri’s work has been exhibited across Australia and is held in private and public collections.

Christopher Jewitt is a Melbourne-based artist whose practice embraces spontaneity, transformation, and material experimentation. Working between painting and sculpture, his works combine bold colour, tactile surfaces, and gestural mark-making that shift between abstraction and figuration. Jewitt’s practice has been shaped by immersive residencies across China, Europe, and Japan, including his time at Nankai University, where he was awarded Top Documentary Photographer. His paintings and sculptural works often explore the tension between chaos and harmony, playful improvisation and meticulous construction. Jewitt has exhibited widely across Australia and internationally, with his works held in both private and public collections.