Exhibitions.

Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro: The Village Idiom.

N.Smith Gallery 30 Jun - 25 Jul 2026 The Village Idiom brings together new works by Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro that emerge from everyday life and their encounters with the landscape surrounding their Blackheath studio. Moving between the natural and the manmade, the exhibition considers how objects, pathways, and language shape the ways we observe and inhabit... Read more

Kate Vassallo: Soft Modulation.

N.Smith Gallery 30 Jun - 25 Jul 2026 Kate Vassallo’s new exhibition brings together a luminous body of paintings shaped by process, repetition, and the subtle interplay of colour, tone, and texture. “I am motivated by the power visual abstraction has to communicate in ways other language can’t. I see my practice as an ebb and flow of... Read more

Vipoo Srivilasa: If We're Being Honest.

Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania 10 Jun - 25 Jul 2026 If We're Being Honest invites audiences into a tactile realm of clay, sound, and ritual, where making, offering, and confessing reveal what the subconscious longs to surface. Presented across a series of participatory gatherings at the gallery, the work transforms ceramic practice into a collective act of reflection, connection, and... Read more

Archibald, Wynne & Sulman Prizes 2026

Art Gallery of New South Wales 9 May 2025 - 16 Aug 2026 We are delighted to announce Casey Chen, Natasha Walsh, Louise Zhang, Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro, and Joan Ross are finalists in the Archibald, Wynne & Sulman Prizes. ⁠ Casey Chen is a finalist in the Wynne Prize with his painting of --. ⁠ Natasha Walsh is a finalist in... 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

Casey Chen: Merciful Navigation

Mosman Art Gallery 16 May - 9 Aug 2026 Casey’s ceramics practice references historical illustrations drawn from an eclectic mix of folklore, mythology, classical literature, and contemporary pop culture. Blending childhood nostalgia with long-standing East Asian ceramic traditions, his works move fluidly between the historical and the contemporary, creating a visual language that feels at once playful, layered, and... 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

Super Nature.

Art Gallery of New South Wales, 7 February 2026 - February 2027 Humans are indivisible from nature – we are dependent on its systems and rhythms, and subject to its whims. Artists have long engaged with nature as a place where we seek solace and meaning. This exhibition from the Art Gallery’s collection charts the adventure of human immersion in nature. Across... 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

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

AGSA Screen Wavelength

Art Gallery of South Australia 13 Feb 2026 - 4 Jul 2027 AGSA Screen Wavelength tours moving image works of art from the Art Gallery of South Australia’s time-based media collection. This focused yet significant collection of works by Australian and international artists illustrates this medium’s dynamism and the diverse nature of acquisitions within the AGSA’s collection. Wavelength draws on past and... Read more

MOTHER: Stories from the NGV Collection

National Gallery of Victoria 27 Mar - 12 Jul 2026 The depiction of mother and child is one of the oldest and most enduring themes in art history. From ancient cave paintings and Egyptian tombs to Renaissance frescos and contemporary depictions, artists have long engaged with the complex experiences of motherhood.  Traversing geographies, cultures and mediums, MOTHER presents diverse stories... Read more

Edge City.

Wollongong Art Gallery. 28 Mar - 18 Oct 2026 Featured works include Regent I–V (2024), a series of acrylic on wood relief carvings that reflect on the enduring presence of the Regent Theatre within Wollongong’s cultural memory.⁠ ⁠ Edge City explores suburbia as a shifting threshold between city and coast, domesticity and industry, bringing together works that consider how... Read more

Joan Ross: Colonial Grab.

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia 18 May - 8 Nov 2026 Colonial Grab is an animation of scenes traversing time and place, peopled by an aristocratic couple who time-travel from pokie parlour, to desert, to sitting room, to colonial landscape. The sequence starts with a well-to-do European woman, whose flamboyantly feathered hat and dress are coloured in Ross’ signature fluorescent yellow,... Read more

Dylan Mooney: Intertwined.

Redland Art Gallery 21 Jun - 25 Aug 2026 Drawn from his Intertwined series, the artworks Grevillea Venusta – Grevillea , Graptophyllum Excelsum – Scarlet Fuchsia , and Phaius Australis – Swamp Orchid reflect Mooney’s exploration of connection, identity and the significance of native flora. Intertwined continues Dylan Mooney’s practice of speaking to resilience, resistance, and connection, shifting the... Read more

Friday Late: Rituals of Becoming.

V&A South Kensington 26 Jun 2026 As part of the event, Joan’s animated films I give you a mountain and Let’s party like it’s 1815 will be screened on loop in The Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre, Level 2, from 20:15–21:15. Across the two works, Joan's journeys through Australia’s colonial past, employing fluorescent high-vis colours... Read more