Exhibitions.

Aotearoa Art Fair

Viaduct Events Centre 30 Apr - 3 May 2026 Held at the Viaduct Events Centre on the edge of Auckland Harbour, Aotearoa Art Fair brings together 60 leading galleries presenting work by more than 200 artists from across Aotearoa, Australia and beyond. Across four vibrant days, the fair transforms the waterfront into a dynamic meeting place for artists, galleries,... Read more

Sally Anderson: Holding Pattern, River Hug.

N.Smith Gallery 9 Apr - 2 May 2026 Sally Anderson’s Holding Pattern, River Hug unfolds as an intimate meditation on care, memory, and the cyclical rhythms that shape a life. Drawing from her own experience of motherhood, domestic space, and profound personal change, Anderson brings together painting, still life, and art historical reference to explore what it means... Read more

Christopher Zanko: The Traps.

N.Smith Gallery 5 Mar - 4 Apr 2026 Christopher Zanko’s new body of work continues his interest in disappearing architectural homes across the Australian landscape. Drawing on a visual language shaped by geometry, repetition, and surface, Zanko documents buildings that sit at the threshold of use and obsolescence, structures marked by time, weather, and shifting social priorities. Among... Read more

Return to Sender.

Adelaide 25 Feb - 1 Mar 2026 Return to Sender is N.Smith Gallery’s offsite exhibition series, conceived as a way to place artworks into unexpected contexts and new conversations. For our Adelaide presentation, the series brings together local artists James Tylor and Sally Scales, alongside guest artist Carly Dodd, with gallery artists Joan Ross, Fiona Lowry, Holly... Read more

An Offering, A Burning, A Prayer.

4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art 13 Feb - 29 Mar 2026 Bringing together artists Casey Chen, Choy Ka Fai, WeiZen Ho, Emma Pham, Jason Phu and Savanhdary Vongpoothorn, the exhibition explores how fire exists and transforms within ritual and ceremony. Drawing on traditions surrounding Lunar New Year, acts of burning – from incense offerings to the smoke of cleansing woods –... Read more

No place for mannequins: Remaking the fashion archive.

UTS Gallery, Gadigal Nura/Sydney 12 Feb - 24 Apr 2026 In fashion, the archive has long operated as a site of authority, shaping narratives of dress, design, and consumption. Bringing together local and international artists and designers, the exhibition unsettles this authority, foregrounding critical practices that reimagine what is preserved, valued, and remembered.⁠ ⁠ Curated by Dr Todd Robinson (UTS)... Read more

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

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

Thea Anamara Perkins: reverie.

N.Smith Gallery 30 Jan - 7 Feb 2026 ‘Reverie’ evokes the state of daydreaming, of being adrift between dreams and wakefulness. In Thea Anamara Perkins' new exhibition, the artist draws on archival images of her family, treating the photograph as a threshold rather than a fixed record. The exhibition ties to 'the glimmer', a central motif in her... 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

Summer '26.

N.Smith Gallery 18 Dec 2025 - 24 Jan 2026 Each summer, N.Smith Gallery reopens with a moment to reset and to gather momentum for the year ahead. Summer ’26 brings together artists from across the gallery community in a shared opening gesture: works that don’t close a chapter, but set the tone for what’s next. Rather than looking back,... Read more

5th National Indigenous Art Triennial: After the Rain

National Gallery of Australia 6 Dec 2025 - 26 Apr 2026 Their inclusion signals not only the strength of their individual practices, but a generational shift in First Nations storytelling, sovereignty and representation. Together, Perkins and Mooney represent a powerful, future-focused moment in Australian art, one shaped by cultural inheritance, unapologetic self-representation and a refusal to be confined. Their inclusion in... Read more

Garden Variety

Manly Art Gallery 5 Dec 2025 - 15 Feb 2026 Garden Variety presents the work of 5 contemporary Australian artists exploring the garden as a theme. Including a curated selection of works from the Art Gallery of NSW and MAG&M collections, Garden Variety creates a hanging garden of art within the gallery. Through motifs associated with gardening, horticulture, and landscaping,... 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

Unfolding: First Nations Works on Paper

Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery 29 Nov 2025 - 15 Feb 2026 Unfolding is a major exhibition celebrating the diversity and dynamism of works on paper by First Nations artists. Featuring prints, drawings, paintings on paper and sculptural works from the MPRG permanent collection, the exhibition unfolds to reveal the many ways First Nations artists engage with paper as a medium. Curated... 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

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

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

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

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

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