Exhibitions

Summer '25.

N.Smith Gallery 5 Dec 2024 - 25 Jan 2025 Our annual group exhibition Summer '25 features new and iconic works from artists Anderson to Zhang, exhibited at the gallery for the first time. Opening celebration: Thursday 5 December 6-8pm Artwork: Sally Anderson birth plant, GM Bridal Veil, bowl hold, orange jug EV interior , 2024 acrylic on polycotton 122... Read more

Neva Hosking: Behind the wheel, in front of the storm.

N.Smith Gallery 5 Dec 2024 - 25 Jan 2025 'A drawing of a tree shows not a tree but a tree being looked at' - John Berger These works are not about me but I am their transcriber and so we are inextricable. I am the gaze that beholds them. I no longer wish to say 'I was here'... Read more

Vipoo Srivilasa: Deities of Daily Needs.

N.Smith Gallery 7 - 30 Nov 2024 In Deities of Daily Needs , Vipoo Srivilasa’s playful, spirited collection of ceramic figurines celebrates the everyday challenges we all face. Each deity, from the Parking Deity to the Instagram Deity, is crafted with humour and care, offering its own little solution to life’s minor annoyances. Whether it’s finding a... Read more

Jordan Gogos: Time Machine.

N.Smith Gallery 10 Oct - 2 Nov 2024 Consisting of a series of new textile works, Jordan positions his sewing machine as a time machine that brings together personal and donated fabrics from different periods and relationships from his life. These tapestries that weave together moments of the intimate and unknown, explores the way fabric holds the forms... Read more

Natasha Walsh: Our Nude.

N.Smith Gallery 2 - 5 Oct 2024 N.Smith Gallery is delighted to present Our Nude – a portrait begun during Natasha Walsh’s recent exhibition Hysteria, now completed and on view at the gallery for 3 days only. Our Nude is a portrait of acclaimed author Bri Lee that references major artworks by Pablo Picasso. Repositioning the muse... Read more

Louise Zhang: Queen Mother of the West.

N.Smith Gallery 12 Sep - 5 Oct 2024 N.Smith Gallery is delighted to present Queen Mother of the West – Louise Zhang's first solo exhibition with the gallery. Conscious of how cultural symbols have been exoticized by Western cultures, Louise’s new exhibition reclaims the aesthetics of oriental chinoiserie, transforming them again into a powerful medium of healing and... Read more

Thea Anamara Perkins: Dreaming

N.Smith Gallery 15 Aug - 7 Sep 2024 N.Smith Gallery is delighted to present Dreaming – Thea Anamara Perkins' fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. Taking fragments of images and footage from her family archive, Thea's portraits force you to look inward and reflect upon your own lived experience – placing the viewer into a memory that’s not... Read more

Casey Chen: Double Happiness

N.Smith Gallery 8 Aug - 7 Sep 2024 In this series, Chen masterfully weaves together elements of pseudo-historical aesthetics with contemporary pop symbolism. The dragons, floral motifs, and geometric patterns evoke a sense of nostalgia, yet they are presented in a manner that feels fresh and relevant. This juxtaposition creates a dynamic dialogue between the past and the... Read more

Dylan Mooney: The Story of My People.

N.Smith Gallery 11 Jul - 10 Aug 2024 'When Mooney speaks of 'my people' he is not speaking of self in the possessive individualised sense, but of the shared experience of oppression and resistance of Indigenous peoples in a collective sense, from the mainland to the Torres Strait and to the South Pacific.' - Dr Chelsea Watego Opening... Read more

Kyra Mancktelow: No Blak in the Union Jack.

N.Smith Gallery 11 Jul - 10 Aug 2024 Kyra Mancktelow’s series No Blak in the Union Jack takes its title from British Academic Paul Gilroy’s book ‘There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation’. Written in 1987, Gilroy’s book is a powerful indictment of then current attitudes to race in Great... Read more

Natasha Walsh: Hysteria.

N.Smith Gallery 12 Jun - 6 Jul 2024 Known for her intricate self-portraits on copper, Natasha Walsh has turned her gaze to portray members of the creative community through collaborative reinterpretations of canonical art historical paintings. Paintings are accompanied by an installation where the viewer is invited to follow the connecting threads that reinvent classic muses through reflecting... Read more

Sunrise, Sunset.

N.Smith Gallery 30 May - 8 Jun 2024 To celebrate the gallery's 3rd birthday, 15 of the gallery's represented artists are brought together thematically. Holly Anderson Tom Blake Joshua Charadia Casey Chen Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro Fiona Lowry Danie Mellor Dylan Mooney Thea Anamara Perkins Joan Ross Sally Scales Vipoo Srivilasa Natasha Walsh Louise Zhang Read more

Sally Scales: Ngayuku Manta Ngayuku Wangka.

N.Smith Gallery 2 - 25 May 2024 ‘Ngayuku Manta Ngayuku Wangka (My land, my voice) is my first show after the 2023 referendum. It’s full of works filled with emotions dealing with the hurt, sadness that First Nations people were feeling after October 14. The more I painted and dealt with what happened. I painted the love... Read more

Darrell Sibosado: Galalan, Barrinvbarr, Gumiri.

N.Smith Gallery 10 - 27 Apr 2024 Darrell Sibosado is a Goolarrgon Bard man from Lombadina situated on the Dampier Peninsula of the Kimberley coast, Western Australia. His practice explores the innovative potential of the riji (pearl shell) designs within a contemporary context. Passed down over countless generations, the designs represent the detached scales of Aalingoon, the Rainbow... Read more

Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro: EXORCISM AT WENDY'S.

N.Smith Gallery 5 - 27 Apr 2024 'We’re looking at two different ideas of humans’ tendency to want to believe in something other than what is really there...' Exorcism at Wendy's explores the realm of the phantastic. Belief in the phantasms of the past such as The Loch Ness Monster, ghostly spectres, Little Green Men, and Bigfoot... Read more

Holly Anderson: The light inside a grid.

N.Smith Gallery 15 - 30 Mar 2024 From across a room, Holly Anderson’s paintings appear to swim in the brightness of a clear sky. A new body of work presents the artist’s ongoing investigation into painting the Sun. Dazzling bursts of negative space populate her familiar subject matter. Swimming pools, bedclothes and curtained windows become gridded planes... Read more

Natasha Walsh: The Lovers.

N.Smith Gallery 14 Feb - 2 Mar 2024 Hands are things we notice in others, on which we place great reliance as an indicator of character. Like the face, they are prime areas for the expression of individuality. The human hand acts as a conduit to our fifth sense: touch. And with the eye in tow, the hand... Read more