Exhibitions.

Summer '26.

N.Smith Gallery 18 Dec 2025 - 24 Jan 2026 Each summer, N.Smith Gallery takes a moment to pause and to look back on the year that was and to acknowledge the shared effort that makes our program possible. Summer ‘26 brings together artists from across the gallery community in a celebration of collective achievement: the works made, the exhibitions... Read more

Holly Anderson: Some things too bright to see

Redland Art Gallery 30 Nov 2025 - 27 Jan 2026 Some Things Too Bright to See marks Holly Anderson’s first solo museum exhibition. This new body of work centres on her long-standing fascination with the glitter path — the fleeting line of reflected sunlight that shifts and moves with the viewer across bodies of water. Treating the glitter path as... Read more

5th National Indigenous Art Triennial: After the Rain

National Gallery of Australia 6 Dec 2025 - 26 Apr 2026 The 5th National Indigenous Art Triennial: After the Rain features 10 large-scale, immersive and multidisciplinary installations that celebrate intergenerational legacies and cultural warriors of the past, present and future. The National Indigenous Art Triennial brings together commissioned work by established and emerging First Nations artists from across Australia, creating an important... Read more

High Colour

Art Gallery of New South Wales 31 May 2025 - 9 Aug 2026 Influenced by history, culture and family, Dylan Mooney's works are influenced by his rich cultural upbringing. Translating the knowledge and stories passed down to him, his artworks are in a high-impact illustrative style with bright, saturated colour that reflects his experiences with keen political energy and insight. High Colour is... Read more

Ode: Margaret Olley and Sally Anderson

Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre 12 Sep 2025 - 8 Mar 2026 Ode: Margaret Olley and Sally Anderson is a celebration of important still life paintings by Margaret Olley together with new work by Gadigal/Sydney-based artist Sally Anderson. During her 2025 residency at the Nancy Fairfax Artist in Residence Studio, Sally Anderson embarked on a new body of work that responds not... Read more

Too Deadly: Ten Years of Tarnanthi.

Art Gallery of South Australia 17 Oct 2025 - 18 Jan 2026 A major new exhibition celebrates Tarnanthi’s first decade. Too Deadly: Ten Years of Tarnanthi assembles more than 200 diverse works of outstanding contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art seen in previous Tarnanthi Festivals. The exhibition both revisits key Tarnanthi works acquired by AGSA and revitalises them with fresh insights... Read more

Mud to Masterpiece: Australian Contemporary Ceramics

Maitland Regional Art Gallery 25 Oct 2025 - 1 Feb 2026 Far from the traditional utilitarian uses of clay, Mud to Masterpiece is an exhibition that delves into the world of contemporary ceramics, where the boundaries of tradition and innovation are pushed to their limits. Presenting a dynamic collection of works by bold artists, this exhibition celebrates the transformative power of... Read more

Darrell Sibosado: GALALAN.

Fondation Opale, Switzerland Darrell Sibosado’s sculptural installations can be traced back to the traditional designs on Riji – or etched pearl shells – of the Bard people in Western Australia’s Kimberley region. This installation is the artist’s tribute to the story of Galalan, the first Bard Creator Ancestor that took human form. Galalan... Read more

Louise Zhang: You are forgiven (Lotus)

National Gallery of Victoria 20 Dec 2026 Acquired through the NGV x MECCA partnership, the work brings together Zhang’s interest in cultural symbolism and personal history, drawing on the visual language of traditional Chinese motifs while reflecting on the lasting imprint of her strict Christian upbringing. Centred on the lotus, a symbol associated with purity, rebirth, and... Read more

Archibald & Wynne Prizes 2025

Touring Nationally 10 May 2025 - 21 Jun 2026 We are delighted to announce Joan Ross, Fiona Lowry, Natasha Walsh, Vipoo Srivilasa, Holly Anderson, and Casey Chen are finalists in the Archibald and Wynne Prizes.⁠ ⁠ Joan Ross is a finalist in the Archibald Prize with her portrait of Coby Edgar, Kidjerikidjeri.⁠ ⁠ Fiona Lowry is a finalist in... Read more

Snap Blak: Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island photography from the Collection

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art 30 Aug 2025 - 13 Sep 2026 James Taylor is featured in Snap Blak: Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island photography from the Collection, a compelling exhibition that brings together dynamic examples of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island photography. The works in this series champion Indigenous self-representation, asserting visual sovereignty that resists prevalent stereotypes and re-presents... Read more

Vipoo Srivilasa: Express Yourself

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Children's Art Centre 11 Oct 2025 - 13 Sep 2026 How do you feel on the first day of school? Or when you win a really hard game? What about when someone you love is upset? Vipoo Srivilasa invites children to explore their emotions through drawing, dancing, and digital activities as part of the QAGOMA Children’s Art Centre exhibition. The... Read more

Exposition générale

Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris 25 Oct 2025 - 23 Aug 2026 Grounded in the renewal of Māori aute, Hindin’s practice is a rigorous, living return to ancestral technologies, where material, process, and whakapapa are inseparable. Working with bark cloth and natural pigments, her works carry the intelligence of making, each surface holding the pressures of hand, time, and breath, and each... Read more

Aidan Hartshorn: Yiramir Mayiny (River People)

Art Gallery of New South Wales 1 Nov 2025 - 31 May 2026 Yiramir Mayiny (River People) , 2024 extends Hartshorn’s ongoing engagement with water as both living presence and ancestral archive. Moving between mapping and memory, the work gathers the rhythms of river systems, the traces of community, and the quiet authority of Country, holding them in a composition that feels at... Read more

And Still I Rise

Art Gallery of New South Wales 8 Nov 2025 - 8 Nov 2026 Named after Maya Angelou’s famous collection of poetry, And Still I Rise brings together a group of culturally diverse women artists living in Australia, many of whom are internationally recognised, if less familiar at home. The exhibition spans generations with artworks encompassing textiles, painting, metalwork, installation and video – are... Read more

The Pool Show

Penrith Regional Gallery 8 Nov 2025 - 14 Feb 2026 An often-repeated claim is that swimming pools are democratic spaces of inclusion in Australia, and that a summer here just wouldn’t be summer without a dunk in one of the cool blue oases dotted throughout our towns and suburbs. But in Penrith – which on one day in January 2020... Read more

Objective

Town Hall Gallery, VIC 12 Nov 2025 - 24 Jan 2026 This bold new exhibition challenges traditional concepts of still life, showcasing a diverse range of artists who push the boundaries of the genre. With a focus on contemporary expression, the exhibition offers an exciting departure from the conventional, using painting, video, sculpture​ and installation to explore everyday objects and scenes... Read more

Foreshore.

Mosman Art Gallery 15 Nov 2025 - 15 Feb 2026 Foreshore is an exhibition focused on where the land and harbour meet in Mosman and looks at elements from its history, including stories about its Indigenous, military industrial and leisure of the past. This exhibition draws together the work of contemporary artists, with historic works from the Mosman Art Collection.... Read more