Exhibitions

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

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

Kindling: A group exhibition.

N.Smith Gallery 25 Sep - 11 Oct 2025 Coming out of the ritualistic hibernation of the cooler seasons, Kindling is an exhibition that explores the duality of fire: the destructive and the regenerative, alluding to the warmth of community and the necessity for collective change. Featuring works by artists from Mimili Maku Arts alongside represented artists, Kindling explores... Read more

Miriam Charlie: Getting to Borroloola.

N.Smith Gallery 25 Sep - 11 Oct 2025 Miriam Charlie traces the journey home — a path that is as much about memory and identity as it is about geography. Known for her intimate, hand-held Polaroids, this series captures fragments of travel and return — the open road, the shifting sky, the signs and symbols that mark the... 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, Jarvis’s practice... 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

Louise Zhang: Celestial Tapestry

Fairfield City Museum & Gallery 12 Jul - 15 Nov 2025 Louise Zhang’s solo exhibition Celestial Tapestry centres on 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... Read more

Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro: Cheese Grease Geomancy.

N.Smith Gallery 3 - 26 Jul 2025 Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro: Cheese Grease Geomancy playfully pulls the divine from our world of conveniences, recreating tarot cards from the Rider Waite Smith Tarot deck with pizza boxes. Constructing the illusion of spontaneity, the duo use Japanese sampuru (fake plastic food) and paint to create oil stains that... Read more

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

N.Smith Gallery 3 - 26 Jul 2025 Sally Scales in her solo exhibition 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... 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 series of new paintings, works on paper, and a new animation commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery. Marking a bold new direction with her signature use of fluorescent yellow and digital forging of colonial paintings,... 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 the interior and the exterior blur. Through diverse mediums and artistic practices, this exhibition explores how our internal environments, both literal and metaphorical, shape and reflect our experiences, memories, and connections to the world... 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 Moving in Quiet offers a rich exploration of cultural heritage, personal identity, and transformation through a delicate blend of tradition and surrealism. Inspired by her recent trip to China, the exhibition invites viewers to slow down, lingering in a space of contemplation where the familiar and foreign, past and present,... Read more

Casey Chen: Another Jingdezhen Car Boot Sale.

N.Smith Gallery 30 Jan - 22 Feb 2025 Another Jingdezhen Car Boot Sale combines traditional Chinese ceramics with pop culture in a playful and thought-provoking exploration of storytelling, myth, and nostalgia. Drawing inspiration from the porcelain capital of Jingdezhen, Chen's ceramics blend Qing dynasty aesthetics with characters like Sun Wukong and Goku, alongside pop icons like Bugs Bunny... Read more

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