Exhibitions.

Between Earth and Moon: A Lunar New Year Exhibition.

N.Smith Gallery 12 - 28 Feb 2026 Between Earth and Moon is N.Smith Gallery’s Lunar New Year exhibition, marking the Year of the Horse through a considered gathering of artists from across and beyond the gallery program. Anchored in ideas of movement, transition, and vitality, the exhibition reflects the Horse’s symbolic association with energy, independence, and forward... 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

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

Searcher: Graffiti and Contemporary Art

National Art School, Sydney 17 Jan - 11 Apr 2026 Searchers: Graffiti and Contemporary Art brings together over thirty of Australia’s most dynamic artists, from underground graffiti writers to celebrated contemporary artists – united by one charged medium: spray paint. Introduced as a commercial product in the mid-twentieth century, spray paint quickly caught the attention of artists who recognised its... Read more

Awakening Histories.

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts 6 Feb - 29 Mar 2026 Awakening Histories explores the deep and enduring connection between First Nations Peoples across the north of this continent (now known as Australia) and the Makassan seafarers of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Re-positioning Australia’s pre-colonial international relations from a global south perspective, this powerful exhibition reflects on the legacies of these early... Read more