Exhibitions.

Kyra Mancktelow: Gubagulabu.

N.Smith Gallery 10 Aug - 11 Sep 2022 Gubagulabu presents new work by Kyra Mancktelow featuring new unique bronze sculptures and unique impression prints. The artist's well-used dillies call to the historic nature of a useful item while presenting a contemporary physical presence – bridging the past with her future through the continuation of First Nations culture. In... Read more

Miriam Charlie: Lockdown 2022.

N.Smith Gallery 27 Jul - 6 Aug 2022 N.Smith Gallery is honoured to present a new exhibition of polaroid photographs by Garrwa / Yanyuwa elder Miriam Charlie. Miriam Charlie’s photographs show the reality of her lived experience in a form traversing documentary and art photography. Lockdown 2022 documents Miriam’s time in isolation while recovering from COVID-19. The intimacy... Read more

Joshua Charadia: Nocturnes.

N.Smith Gallery 8 Jun - 2 Jul 2022 Nocturnes explores the nature of consciousness and perception through depictions of the industrial landscape at night. Working from photographs, Joshua Charadia builds up layers of oil paint to capture the peculiar beauty of scenes that rarely earn our attention. As night falls, constellations of lights scatter across coastal ports, and... Read more

Archibald Prize 2022

Art Gallery of New South Wales 14 May - 27 Aug 2022 In this self-portrait, Natasha Walsh celebrates the inner workings of the artist’s studio, while also subverting the historically limiting place of women within this space. ‘Referencing Brett Whiteley’s 1976 Archibald-winning work Self-portrait in the studio , I have repositioned the nude from the bottom left-hand corner, where she lay inert,... Read more

Archibald Prize 2022

Art Gallery of New South Wales 14 May - 28 Aug 2022 Joan Ross is known for her interdisciplinary practice that confronts Australia’s colonial legacy. In this portrait, she has painted herself as a colonial woman holding the stump of a tree with a deep tenderness, or like a lover. ‘There is regret in my eyes as I look back through time,... Read more

Natasha Walsh:
Dear...

N.Smith Gallery 12 - 28 May 2022 Dear... is a series of painted letters to artists who have influenced Natasha's practice. An expression of admiration, each work pays homage through both artists' aesthetics. 'Each work is created as a painted letter which I addressed to the artist. It felt appropriate to make the work in this form... Read more

James Tylor:
Turalayinthi Yarta.

N.Smith Gallery 13 Apr - 7 May 2022 Turalayinthi Yarta is a Kaurna Miyurna phrase 'to see yourself in the landscape'. In a two-year period, James travelled over 300 km of the southern part of the Hans Heysen trail that runs parallel along the Kaurna Yarta nation boundary line in the Mount Lofty ranges. This documentation of Kauma... Read more

Dylan Mooney:
Intertwined.

N.Smith Gallery 6 Apr - 7 May 2022 Intertwined continues Dylan Mooney’s practice of speaking to resilience, resistance, and connection, shifting the still life genre toward something living, watchful, and culturally charged. Rather than depicting cuttings and arrangements, Mooney observes native flora in situ, using the vitality of plants to mirror the endurance of Indigenous culture and the... Read more

Neva Hosking:
The Last Garden on Loftus Crescent.

N.Smith Gallery 10 - 26 Mar 2022 Neva Hosking is an artist who clearly takes great personal delight in the living. Taking her cues from the rich visual delights of her immediate environment, Neva’s still lifes are semi-autobiographical, displaying in their subject matter and aesthetic structure cues from her personal life. In Neva’s work, the paper is... Read more

Casey Chen:
Sentimental Ornaments.

N.Smith Gallery 2 - 26 Mar 2022 Sentimental Ornaments extends upon Casey Chen’s ceramics practice, where historical illustration, folklore, mythology, and pop culture are folded into a visual language that feels both intimate and expansive. Across hand-thrown plates and vases, Chen blends childhood nostalgia with long-standing East Asian ceramic traditions, inviting memory to sit beside material history,... Read more