• COMA is pleased to present the group exhibition titled The World As Glass, on view from 16 January, 2026 to 21 February, 2026 at 37 Chapel Street, Marrickville, Sydney, NSW, 2204. Exhibiting artists include Steven Bellosguardo, Eleanor Louise Butt, Renée Estée, Anna May Kirk, Shivanjani Lal, Alice Martin, Nick Modrzewski, Jenny Watson, Justin Williams, and Yangamini Collective.

     

    Featuring all-Australian artists, The World As Glass investigates the opacity of human intention, revealing how easily certainty can splinter under pressure. Pulling from a case history recorded in the autobiography of Carl Jung, the meeting point between a psychologist and patient who confesses some twenty years ago she committed a murder, that was then readopted in a novel by Morris West titled The World is Made of Glass (1983). This exhibition looks at how a layering of the act of presenting fact provides multiple points for reality to fracture and shatter. At the meeting point of a confrontation of will and personal truth, morals are tested and examined while reality itself becomes skewed. The World As Glass brings together a group of Australian artists that seek contemporary art-making as not only a retelling of truth and reality, but how it may break or hold when we do.

  • Steven Bellosguardo
    As I stagnate, I ponder silent waters, 2024
    stainless steel, silicone
    180 x 120 x 85cm
  • 'Transparency promises honesty but delivers vulnerability' Edward West, The World Is Made of Glass

    "Transparency promises honesty but delivers vulnerability"

    Edward West, The World Is Made of Glass

     

     

  • Artworks
    • Steven Bellosguardo As I stagnate, I ponder silent waters, 2024 stainless steel, silicone 180 x 120 x 85 cm 70 7/8 x 47 1/4 x 33 1/2 in
      Steven Bellosguardo
      As I stagnate, I ponder silent waters, 2024
      stainless steel, silicone
      180 x 120 x 85 cm
      70 7/8 x 47 1/4 x 33 1/2 in
    • Yangamini Collective Mapurtiti Nonga: Evil Ass Dreaming, 2024-2025 worm eaten mangrove root, acrylic paint 84 x 25 x 16 cm 33 1/8 x 9 7/8 x 6 1/4 in
      Yangamini Collective
      Mapurtiti Nonga: Evil Ass Dreaming, 2024-2025
      worm eaten mangrove root, acrylic paint
      84 x 25 x 16 cm
      33 1/8 x 9 7/8 x 6 1/4 in
    • Renée Estée We held on, we said "so long, it's time to begin again", 2026 oil paint, mica, charcoal on canvas 162 x 182 cm 63 3/4 x 71 5/8 in
      Renée Estée
      We held on, we said "so long, it's time to begin again", 2026
      oil paint, mica, charcoal on canvas
      162 x 182 cm
      63 3/4 x 71 5/8 in
    • Anna May Kirk Whale Fall (II), 2025 Flameworked borosilicate glass, Pacific Ocean water, stainless steel, paint, steel wire, nickel crimps 290 x 55 x 75 cm 114 1/8 x 21 5/8 x 29 1/2 in
      Anna May Kirk
      Whale Fall (II), 2025
      Flameworked borosilicate glass, Pacific Ocean water, stainless steel, paint, steel wire, nickel crimps
      290 x 55 x 75 cm
      114 1/8 x 21 5/8 x 29 1/2 in
    • Shivanjani Lal I am remembering, 2024 single channel video 7 minute 43 second duration
      Shivanjani Lal
      I am remembering, 2024
      single channel video
      7 minute 43 second duration
    • Alice Martin Hollow, 2024 plaster, wood, dust and debris 66 x 91 x 58 cm 26 x 35 7/8 x 22 7/8 in
      Alice Martin
      Hollow, 2024
      plaster, wood, dust and debris
      66 x 91 x 58 cm
      26 x 35 7/8 x 22 7/8 in
    • Alice Martin Stone Shoe, 2024 wood, resin, beeswax, dust and debris 104 x 90.5 x 64 cm 41 x 35 5/8 x 25 1/4 in
      Alice Martin
      Stone Shoe, 2024
      wood, resin, beeswax, dust and debris
      104 x 90.5 x 64 cm
      41 x 35 5/8 x 25 1/4 in
    • Nick Modrzewski Discipline and Punish and Lightly Feather, 2024 acrylic and charcoal on linen 220 x 200 cm 86 5/8 x 78 3/4 in
      Nick Modrzewski
      Discipline and Punish and Lightly Feather, 2024
      acrylic and charcoal on linen
      220 x 200 cm
      86 5/8 x 78 3/4 in
  • “Contemporary environmental change fractures assumed truths about our relationship to the world and to ourselves. Whale Fall (II) employs glass...

    Anna May Kirk, Whale Fall (II), 2025, flameworked borosilicate glass, Pacific Ocean water, stainless steel, paint, steel wire, nickel crimps, 290 x 55 x 75 cm.

     

     

    “Contemporary environmental change fractures assumed truths about our relationship to the world and to ourselves. Whale Fall (II) employs glass and Pacific Ocean water in a sculpture composed of hundreds of blown lenses, fragmentating our perception into overlapping, unstable, and multiplied viewpoints.”

    - Anna May Kirk

  • Installation Images