Exhibitions

Savannah Jarvis: The sword doesn't drop.

N.Smith Gallery 28 Aug - 20 Sep 2025 Savannah Jarvis: The sword doesn’t drop marks her debut exhibition with the gallery. Through suspended sculptures and evocative paintings, Jarvis transforms the language of chronic pain into a striking visual vocabulary that is both vulnerable and defiant. Artwork: Savannah Jarvis Untitled , 2025 oil on polycotton 150 x 120 cm Read more

Natasha Walsh: The Window.

N.Smith Gallery 28 Aug - 20 Sep 2025 Natasha Walsh: The Window presents her most ambitious series to date — intimate, luminous works that capture the stillness of time and the quiet tension between interior life and the world outside. Opening celebration: Thurs 28 Aug 5 – 7pm In conversation w/ Natasha Walsh and Savannah Jarvis: Sat 30... Read more

Joshua Charadia: Seconds turn to minutes turn to seconds.

N.Smith Gallery 31 Jul - 23 Aug 2025 Seconds turn to minutes turn to seconds marks a confident new chapter in Joshua Charadia’s practice — one shaped by time, distance, and deep reflection. Developed during and after his recent residency in Berlin, the series expands his visual language with new complexity. Comprising a major suite of new oil... 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