Art Collector 50 Things Issue
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94.9 Main FM Radio Interview, 3 Feb 2025
This hour-long interview with Martin Lee is on Still Life With Pansy, a weekly show focusing on queer artists. “One of the ongoing themes in my work has been the home… the only place that me and my husband have been able to feel like we’ve been able to be our real selves is within the house, where no one else can see us.”
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NGV Magazine, Jun 2024
‘…Piecing together cues from across continents, the artist challenges traditional conventions of composition to create dreamscapes that are simultaneously familiar and foreign. Offering moments of warmth, solace and retreat, the exhibition encourages us to imagine more boundless ways of wandering the world…’
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Art Collector, Oct 2024
‘…Exploring themes of borderless territories and transcendence, Chin's work will intersect inverted landscapes, blending domesticity with wild landscapes evoking a sense of parallel dimensions and portals to other worlds… "With this series" says Chin, "I want to open a meditative space to channel the metaphysical."
Top 100 Artists 2025
Kevin has been named as one of Australia’s Hottest 100 Artists, in this annual list curated by a group of artists, academics, former gallery owners and art collectors. Showcasing artists making a significant impact and receiving critical recognition, he is alongside Reko Rennie, Louise Hearman, Gareth Sansom, and Tracey Moffatt.
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Sorrento Prize, 28 Jun - 31 Aug 2025
This new $125,000 prize provides a life changing financial reward to one of Australia’s most celebrated artists.
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St Columba’s Prize, 2-7 May 2025
Kevin is shortlisted in the first year of this prize, held in the Blue Mountains of NSW.
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Collie Art Prize WA, 2 Mar - 27 Apr 2025
Held in Western Australia, the $50,000 Collie Art Prize is one of regional Australia’s richest awards. Taking place every two years, the exhibition theme is Identity.
Creative Boom (UK) Jan 2023
Your most recent exhibition featured inverted landscapes. What motivated this creative decision?
I'm largely influenced by contemporary magic realist literature and authors like Haruki Murakami. This poetic way of creating worlds that resemble our own but are slightly awry – and using this to step outside ourselves and re-examine the way things are. This genre also emphasises the voices of minority groups, so inverting landscapes also provides a different perspective to question dominant narratives and the societal structures we take as given.
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Len Fox Award, 27 Sep 2024 - 2 Mar 2025
The $50,000 Len Fox Painting Award is a biennial acquisitive painting prize and is awarded to a living Australian artist to commemorate the life and work of Emanuel Phillips Fox.
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Paddington Prize Sydney, 12 - 22 Oct 2023
Outstation is a finalist in this $30,000 prize for Australian landscape painting.
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Fisher's Ghost Award, 28 Oct – 8 Dec 2023
This $50,000 award is across all artforms, with Afield shortlisted this year.
Artist Profile Oct 2021
‘..So many of the places in Chin’s work are pictured on the verge of becoming non-places: repetitious, non-specific, characterised only by their partaking of a global network of capital that leaves a legacy of homogenisation in its wake wherever it reaches. The paintings also feel, to me, to be “about” what happens in the space between these things of the world, and the kind of feeling and thinking about this space that painting itself opens up. Space in these pictures, like place, also unfurls into something self-confounding...'