Exhibitions.

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

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

Folio: Contemporary Australian Drawing & Print.

N.Smith Gallery 20 Nov - 13 Dec 2025 Folio: Contemporary Australian Drawing & Print brings together a cross-section of Australian artists whose works on paper reveal the continued relevance and range of the medium today. Alongside guest artists Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin and Kate Vassallo the exhibition features both artists long associated with drawing and others not typically known... 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

Return to Sender.

New Farm, Brisbane 4 - 9 Nov 2025 In the heart of New Farm, within the quiet spaces of an architecturally significant home, N.Smith Gallery presents an exhibition shaped by a special resonance. Our roots in Queensland run deep, and returning to present this exhibition feels both like a homecoming and a continuation – a way of tracing... Read more

Vipoo Srivilasa: Cats, Ghosts, & Other Stories.

N.Smith Gallery 30 Oct - 13 Nov 2025 Cats, Ghosts, & Other Stories invites viewers into Vipoo Srivilasa’s world of whimsy and reflection — where myth, memory, and emotion converge. Through intricately detailed ceramics and intimate self-portraits, Vipoo weaves stories of love and longing, and the superstitions that connect them. Accessible, positive, and beautiful, Vipoo’s work celebrates connection... 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

Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro: Psychopomp

Samstag Museum of Art 16 Oct - 5 Dec 2025 Artistic collaborative duo and Samstag Scholars Sean Cordeiro and Claire Healy’s practice reflects a preoccupation with the dynamics of global mobility — the networks, standards and financial systems that enable and restrict the movement of people and goods in the modern era. In this ambitious new work, Healy and Cordeiro... Read more

Tom Blake: index of a stream.

N.Smith Gallery 16 Oct - 15 Nov 2025 'To index is to fix, to point out, to sort, to organize, to categorize into meaning. The index signifies, it indicates, it declares. The pointing of the index finger is a milestone in early child development, a primal communicative signal. When a child points she directs the gaze of her... Read more

Awakening Histories

Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA 4 Oct - 6 Dec 2025 Darrell Sibosado is included in Awakening Histories with his works Niman Aarl (Many Fish) and Umbun (Eagle Ray). Awakening Histories traces the deep connections between First Nations peoples and Southeast Asian seafarers from the port of Makassar in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, celebrating enduring relationships that remain prominent in art, language... Read more

Kindling: A group exhibition.

N.Smith Gallery 25 Sep - 11 Oct 2025 Fire promises many things. From the first signs of smoke, a stray wisp carries an acute warning of danger. Fire lines that blindly march through tree filled valleys leave trails of destruction, summers of grey skies, and red suns. And yet, through this consumption – fire welcomes into the space... Read more

Miriam Charlie: Getting to Borroloola.

N.Smith Gallery 25 Sep - 11 Oct 2025 Miriam Charlie’s first major exhibition with enlarged Polaroids marks a profound step in her practice — expanding the scale of a medium often held close, intimate, and fleeting. In these works, what was once hand-sized now stretches into presence, carrying the weight of story, memory, and return. Tracing her journey... Read more

Ripples through Time

Artspace Mackay 20 Sep - 14 Dec 2025 Kyra Mancktelow is included in Ripples through Time with her work Unconstitutional Love II , 2025, recently acquired by Artspace Mackay. Unconstitutional Love || is a wedding dress: a powerful symbol of union, devotion, and tradition. As a garment imbued with generations of cultural significance Mancktelow challenges us to look... Read more

Mason Kimber: A Caressing Gaze.

UNSW Galleries 29 Aug - 16 Nov 2025 A Caressing Gaze’ brings together a collection of recent works, including new textural paintings that extend into wall relief and a site-specific installation that gleans impressions from the surfaces of the built environment. Using iterative processes of moulding, casting, and framing, Kimber looks at the painted surface not simply as... Read more

Savannah Jarvis: The sword doesn't drop.

N.Smith Gallery 28 Aug - 20 Sep 2025 Jarvis’s exhibition The sword doesn’t drop reimagines the ancient metaphor of the Sword of Damocles through the lens of chronic pain. Across fourteen oil paintings and a field of suspended cement swords, metaphors of pain—often sharp, looming, and fearful — are rendered visible, solid, and still. Balancing figuration and suggestion,... Read more

Natasha Walsh: The Window.

N.Smith Gallery 28 Aug - 20 Sep 2025 The Window reveals an ambitious new chapter in Natasha's practice. At its centre is her largest work to date — a commanding, luminous work that anchors the exhibition and the artist's ambition. Smaller paintings echo and refract its presence, each bound together by the use of a deep, resonant cobalt... Read more

Joshua Charadia: Seconds turn to minutes turn to seconds.

N.Smith Gallery 31 Jul - 23 Aug 2025 Developed during a 2024 residency in Berlin, Seconds turn to minutes turn to seconds marks a significant shift in Joshua Charadia’s practice. Known for his precise, almost architectural paintings of industrial landscapes, Charadia here loosens his grip on representation, pushing into a more abstract and emotionally attuned space. This series... Read more

Thea Anamara Perkins: memory mirage.

Australian Embassy Berlin 12 Jul - 15 Dec 2025 Thea Anamara Perkins' memory mirage presents a deeply personal yet universally resonant exploration of memory’s fluidity. In this body of work, Thea continues her m emory mirage series to draw on fragments of lived experience, found imagery, and imagined spaces to create layered compositions that blur the boundaries between past... Read more

Louise Zhang: Celestial Tapestry

Fairfield City Museum & Gallery 12 Jul - 15 Nov 2025 Louise Zhang’s solo exhibition Celestial Tapestry centres the rich connection between physical and spiritual healing, drawing on botanical symbols and mythology. Taking inspiration from Chinese market gardens and communal courtyards – offering both sustenance and belonging - this new body of work interweaves traditional and contemporary practices to establish a... Read more

Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro: Cheese Grease Geomancy.

N.Smith Gallery 3 - 26 Jul 2025 Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro’s Cheese Grease Geomancy draws the divine from the disposable. Transforming used pizza boxes into recreations of tarot cards from the Rider Waite Smith deck, the artists ask: in a world defined by convenience and consumption, what tools might we now use to divine the future?... Read more

Sally Scales: Atunmananyi munu Kanyini - Holding and Protecting Country.

N.Smith Gallery 3 - 26 Jul 2025 Atunmananyi munu Kanyini - Holding and Protecting Country honours the role of women in the continuation and evolution of cultural practices. Through vibrant paintings and pitis (coolamons) made from reclaimed road signs, her artworks connect her to the personal and intergenerational practices within Pitjantjatjara knowledge. Read more

Yesterday: A group exhibition.

N.Smith Gallery 5 - 28 Jun 2025 What triggers nostalgia? It carries the warmth of memories, the weight of longing, and the bittersweet recognition of our lives lived. Yesterday is a group exhibition by the gallery's represented artists that explore nostalgia as an emotional and cultural force. As visitors move through this exhibition, they are invited to... Read more

Joan Ross: Heads or tails.

N.Smith Gallery 8 - 31 May 2025 Known for her incisive explorations of Australia’s colonial legacy, Joan Ross returns with a vibrant new series comprising paintings, works on paper, and a major new animation commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery. In this body of work, Joan deepens her long-running investigation into the tensions between past and present,... Read more

The Interior.

N.Smith Gallery 3 Apr - 3 May 2025 The exhibition The Interior invites viewers into a world of intimate spaces, where the boundaries between inside and outside begin to dissolve. Through a constellation of mediums and artistic approaches, the exhibition considers how the rooms we inhabit, the environments we cultivate, and the private worlds we construct both mirror... Read more

Kyra Mancktelow: Unconstitutional Love.

N.Smith Gallery 3 Apr - 3 May 2025 Kyra Mancktelow's solo exhibition Unconstitutional Love centres around a family wedding dress that pays tribute to the Kyra's ancestors. Through this central work, Kyra continues to examine the historical significance of garments in Australia, using them to highlight the lasting effects of colonisation. 'Until the 1960s, Indigenous Australians could only... Read more

Aidan Hartshorn: Altered Currents.

N.Smith Gallery 27 Feb - 22 Mar 2025 Aidan Hartshorn’s debut exhibition, Altered Currents , reflects on the environmental and cultural consequences of the Snowy Hydro-Electric Scheme in Australia’s high country. Growing up in Tumut, Hartshorn’s connection to Walgalu Country has been shaped by the scheme, which submerged sacred sites. The exhibition features diamond shield forms with photographic... Read more

James Tylor: Tapa-arra Through the Landscape.

N.Smith Gallery 27 Feb - 22 Mar 2025 James Tylor’s final photographic series, Tapa-arra Through the Landscap e, highlights the historical Indigenous roads, songlines, and trade routes across Australia, with a focus on the Kaurna people of South Australia. For thousands of years, these paths facilitated travel, trade, and cultural exchange between Aboriginal nations. The series explores key... Read more

Louise Zhang: Moving in Quiet.

N.Smith Gallery 30 Jan - 22 Feb 2025 Beauty and desire can exist within the fields of death and the threats of bad luck. Moving in Quiet offers a rich and layered exploration of cultural heritage, personal identity and transformation, unfolding through a delicate blend of tradition, symbolism and surrealism. Inspired by Louise’s recent trip to China, the... Read more

Casey Chen: Another Jingdezhen Car Boot Sale.

N.Smith Gallery 30 Jan - 22 Feb 2025 Casey Chen’s Another Jingdezhen Car Boot Sale brings together traditional Chinese ceramics and the exuberance of global pop culture in a playful yet incisive exploration of storytelling, myth and nostalgia. Drawing on the history and reputation of Jingdezhen – the centuries-old porcelain capital of China – Chen blends Qing dynasty... Read more

Summer '25.

N.Smith Gallery 5 Dec 2024 - 25 Jan 2025 Our Summer ’25 exhibition brought together a vibrant cross-section of artists whose practices signal the ideas, energies and directions shaping the year ahead. Presented as a moment of gathering and reflection, the exhibition offered an early glimpse into the evolving themes that would come to define our 2025 program: renewed... Read more