• 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

     

     

  • “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