When Can Yavuz chose to locate his eponymous gallery in Sydney’s Surry Hills, it was about “being embedded in the community”. That was in September 2022, and the savvy Yavuz roster of edgy Australian artists – including Patricia Piccinini, Abdul Abdullah and Karen Black – quickly became a neighbourhood attraction. When, in June this year, he opened a second space just a few hundred metres up the road, it was to “deepen the dialogue” with a rapidly expanding audience of collectors and connoisseurs.

“The first gallery is more of a ‘white cube’ commercial space,” he explains, “while the new gallery is more of an experimental platform with a mixture of works. The idea is to add significantly to the cultural conversation in a free-spirited yet ambitious manner.”