Exhibitions

Casey Chen: 108 Stars and Spirits.

N.Smith Gallery 1 - 16 Dec 2023 ⁠For Casey Chen, the vessel represents all things enduring. History, family, & customs are recontextualised when childhood nostalgia is blended with long-standing East Asian ceramic traditions. By applying this imagery to hand-thrown plates and vessels, Chen creates a cultural pastiche – a dynamic conversation between traditional craft and contemporary perspective.... Read more

Natasha Walsh: Untitled.

N.Smith Gallery 1 - 25 Nov 2023 N.Smith Gallery is delighted to present Natasha Walsh's second exhibition with the gallery – Untitled . Both performance and exhibition, Untitled opens to the public with no artworks, but an open invitation to visit Natasha's temporary studio.⁠ ⁠ Over the course of 3 weeks, Natasha will create a singular painting... Read more

Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro: Reach for the Sky.

N.Smith Gallery 17 - 28 Oct 2023 N.Smith Gallery is delighted to present five iconic Lego works by Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro via our new online program which offers singular or small bodies of work by the gallery's artists. Reach for the Sky includes Lego wall sculptures that emulate TV images of the Challenger space shuttle... Read more

Joshua Charadia: Nocturnes IV.

N.Smith Gallery 5 - 28 Oct 2023 N.Smith Gallery is delighted to present Nocturnes IV , Joshua Charadia's fourth and final installment in his Nocturnes series, Painted without immediacy, yet capturing a fleeting moment, Charadia’s images look forward while paying homage to the before–in the company of the past but not subservient to it–together with history but... Read more

Thea Anamara Perkins: Atherreyurre.

N.Smith Gallery 13 - 30 Sep 2023 N.Smith Gallery is delighted to present Atherreyurre , Thea Perkins' fourth solo exhibiiton with the gallery. Atherreyurre seeks to push Thea's landscape painting practice further. Thirteen paintings document the sun rising and setting over The Old Telegraph Station outside Mparntwe / Alice Springs, exploring not only time, but colour and... Read more

Sally Scales: Aralya – Nyuna.

N.Smith Gallery 16 Aug - 9 Sep 2023 Each stroke of Sally Scale’s brush holds a story. Building upon her family legacy, these works celebrate their artistic styles and tjukurpa (creation story) deeply rooted in the culture, stories, and connection to the land of the Pitjantjatjara people. Read more

Joan Ross: Imagine if they'd cared.

N.Smith Gallery 5 - 29 Jul 2023 Joan Ross moves between mediums deftly. Whether drawing, print, animation or virtual reality, it is impossible not to recognise her poignant works, not least for the hi-vis yellow which marks them. Imagine if they'd cared is a series of new prints and paintings that asks us to imagine a world... Read more

Cloud 9.

N.Smith Gallery 1 Jun - 1 Jul 2023 Cloud 9 is a thematic exhibition featuring new and recent artworks by nine of the gallery's artists. A loose concept, artists have been given free rein to create works that consider our relationship with clouds.⁠ Tom Blake Joshua Charadia Casey Chen Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro Thea Anamara Perkins James... Read more

Kyra Mancktelow: We’re Marching.

N.Smith Gallery 17 - 27 May 2023 N.Smith Gallery is delighted to present Kyra Mancktelow's fourth exhibition with the gallery – We're Marching . Investigating the history of protest in Australia through legacies of colonialism, We're Marching poses important questions such as how we remember and acknowledge the Indigenous experience and histories of today. Made using Kyra’s... Read more

Danie Mellor: recent works.

N.Smith Gallery 29 Mar - 29 Apr 2023 Images have a powerful way of revealing connections between disparate histories and experiences. Recent Works is an exhibition that assembles, re-assembles and sequences parallel and divergent narratives, curating archival and recent infra-red and visible light photographs in a way that evokes a pictorial and studied chronology. History repeats itself and... Read more