CONTEMPORARY ART STOCKROOM *GUEST ARTIST - Sid Pattni

We welcome Sid Pattni as a guest artist to FLG.

Pattni will present his first solo exhibition with Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne in August 2025.

Pattni was the winner of the EXPLORATION 24 ART AWARD, with a solo exhibition scheduled with FLG in 2025. The award was judged by Kelly Gellatly, Curator and Writer, & Myles Russell-Cook, then Senior Curator, Australian and First Nations Art, National Gallery of Victoria.

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Myles Russel-Cook noted : "Sid's work intertwines resilience and identity, inviting viewers to delve into the complexities of personal and cultural heritage. The piece is also very well-resolved, employing camp aesthetics to explore politics of identity and culture."

Sid Pattni is an award-winning Australian artist of Indian heritage whose practice explores the intricacies of identity, culture and belonging within a post-colonial framework. Working as a multi-disciplinary artist, Pattni merges iconography found from a range of sources including Mughal miniatures, Company paintings and botanical drawings to critically examine the legacy of empire and the complexities of diasporic identity. Themes of hybridity, erasure, and belonging recur throughout his work.

He was the recipient of the 2023 Kennedy Prize for his embroidered portrait of Mostafa “Moz” Azimitabar, and was invited to participate in the International residency program (in partnership with Perth Institute of Contemporary Art) at Khōj (New Delhi, India) in 2024. Further recent accolades include being selected as a finalist in the Archibald Prize (2025), the Lester Prize (2025, 2024 and 2020), the National Emerging Art Prize (2024), the Len Fox Painting Prize (2024) and the Blake Prize (2021), amongst others. His work is in the collection of Artbank, Australia.

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A fly in the milk I 2024
oil, synthetic polymer on canvas
101cm x 76cm
$7,000 AUD

A fly in the milk II 2024
oil, synthetic polymer on canvas
101cm x 76cm
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A fly in the milk III 2024
oil, synthetic polymer on canvas
76cm x 61cm
Reserved