Exhibitions.

Aidan Hartshorn: On whose authority.

N.Smith Gallery 6 - 22 Aug 2026 Aidan Hartshorn and N.Smith Gallery present On whose authority , a new exhibition spanning installation, sculpture, and etchings that examines the institutional collection and storage of ancestral & cultural material. Working with stone collected across Wolgal/Wiradjuri Country, Hartshorn vacuum seals each piece, referencing the ethnographic methods used to package Aboriginal... Read more

Kate Vassallo: Soft Modulation.

N.Smith Gallery 30 Jun - 25 Jul 2026 Kate Vassallo’s new exhibition brings together a luminous body of paintings shaped by process, repetition, and the subtle interplay of colour, tone, and texture. “I am motivated by the power visual abstraction has to communicate in ways other language can’t. I see my practice as an ebb and flow of... Read more

Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro: The Village Idiom.

N.Smith Gallery 30 Jun - 25 Jul 2026 The Village Idiom brings together new works by Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro that emerge from everyday life and their encounters with the landscape surrounding their Blackheath studio. Moving between the natural and the manmade, the exhibition considers how objects, pathways, and language shape the ways we observe and inhabit... Read more

Friday Late: Rituals of Becoming.

V&A South Kensington 26 Jun 2026 As part of the event, Joan’s animated films I give you a mountain and Let’s party like it’s 1815 will be screened on loop in The Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre, Level 2, from 20:15–21:15. Across the two works, Joan's journeys through Australia’s colonial past, employing fluorescent high-vis colours... Read more

Vipoo Srivilasa: If We're Being Honest.

Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania 10 Jun - 9 Aug 2026 If We're Being Honest invites audiences into a tactile realm of clay, sound, and ritual, where making, offering, and confessing reveal what the subconscious longs to surface. Presented across a series of participatory gatherings at the gallery, the work transforms ceramic practice into a collective act of reflection, connection, and... Read more

Under the same constellation: A group exhibition.

N.Smith Gallery 3 - 27 Jun 2026 Under the Same Constellation brings together artists in a collective gesture that marks the gallery’s fifth year. Spanning painting, sculpture, photograph, and installation, the exhibition reflects the breadth of practices that have shaped the programme since its inception. Like stars held within a shared field, each artist maintains a distinct... Read more

Manawan.

VIVID, Circular Quay 22 May - 13 Jun 2026 Manawan is ode to Bardi Jawi Country in Western Australia’s Kimberley region, the work reimagines the towering tropical gum trees, known as woolybutts, that shape the landscape and cultural life of the north. Installed between Circular Quay and The Rocks, Manawan forms a forest of seven steel poles, each illuminated... Read more

Casey Chen: Merciful Navigation

Mosman Art Gallery 16 May - 9 Aug 2026 Casey’s ceramics practice references historical illustrations drawn from an eclectic mix of folklore, mythology, classical literature, and contemporary pop culture. Blending childhood nostalgia with long-standing East Asian ceramic traditions, his works move fluidly between the historical and the contemporary, creating a visual language that feels at once playful, layered, and... Read more

2026 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize.

Ravenswood School for Girls, Gordon, Sydney 15 - 31 May 2026 Positioned within this national platform, Savannah and Louise’s inclusion marks a significant moment in their practices, situating their work within a broader conversation that champions and elevates women artists. As part of the Exhibition of Finalists, their work is presented alongside a diverse range of emerging and established voices, contributing... Read more

Salon des Refusés

S.H. Ervin Gallery 9 May - 26 Jul 2026 Selected for the exhibition, Zanko's work reflects his ongoing engagement with the Australian landscape. Through a considered approach to colour, light and atmosphere, the work captures a quiet sense of place, inviting contemplation of the shifting relationship between memory, observation and the natural environment.⁠ ⁠ Presented annually by the S.H.... Read more

The Interior II.

N.Smith Gallery 7 - 30 May 2026 The Interior II brings together a group of represented artists whose practices move through the space of the interior, both as a physical environment and as a psychological condition. Here, the interior is not fixed, but shaped by memory, perception, and lived experience. Across the exhibition, rooms dissolve into fragments,... Read more

Sally Scales: New Works.

N.Smith Gallery 7 - 30 May 2026 Sally Scales' new exhibition brings together a powerful body of work shaped by Country, memory, and the enduring presence of Tjukurpa. 'This show is really special to me – it feels like I'm stepping into a whole new chapter as an artist. Each piece is an opportunity to push further... Read more

Aotearoa Art Fair

Viaduct Events Centre 30 Apr - 3 May 2026 Held at the Viaduct Events Centre on the edge of Auckland Harbour, Aotearoa Art Fair brings together 60 leading galleries presenting work by more than 200 artists from across Aotearoa, Australia and beyond. Across four vibrant days, the fair transforms the waterfront into a dynamic meeting place for artists, galleries,... Read more

Thread: Connecting Stories and Community.

Logan Art Gallery 18 Apr - 13 Jun 2026 Thread: Connecting stories and community is an exhibition developed collaboratively between the National Portrait Gallery and Logan-based artists and community. Featuring historical and contemporary portraits alongside new works created by local artists, the exhibition reflects Logan’s diverse cultural landscape and fosters deeper cross‑cultural understanding. The project is supported by the... Read more

Old Days, New Days | Arlta-imankinya, Arlta-errama.

Ngununggula Regional Art Gallery 18 Apr - 14 Jun 2026 These works capture Nyinta, Doris, Sally, Grace, and Betty with a directness that sits at the foundation of Thea’s practice. In them, portraiture becomes a space of trust and exchange, grounded in long-standing relationships and a shared sense of place. Seen now, they offer a clear insight into the beginnings... Read more

Sally Anderson: Holding Pattern, River Hug.

N.Smith Gallery 9 Apr - 2 May 2026 Sally Anderson’s Holding Pattern, River Hug unfolds as an intimate meditation on care, memory, and the cyclical rhythms that shape a life. Drawing from her own experience of motherhood, domestic space, and profound personal change, Anderson brings together painting, still life, and art historical reference to explore what it means... Read more

Marilyn Russell: New works.

NSG Shop 2 Apr - 28 May 2026 Handcrafted by Bidjigal artist Marilyn Russell, these miniature boomerangs, slippers, and Sydney Harbour Bridges are adorned with intricate shell designs, continuing the long and celebrated tradition of La Perouse shellwork. La Perouse shellwork holds deep cultural and historical significance, passed down through generations of Aboriginal women who have sustained and... Read more

MOTHER: Stories from the NGV Collection

National Gallery of Victoria 27 Mar - 12 Jul 2026 The depiction of mother and child is one of the oldest and most enduring themes in art history. From ancient cave paintings and Egyptian tombs to Renaissance frescos and contemporary depictions, artists have long engaged with the complex experiences of motherhood.  Traversing geographies, cultures and mediums, MOTHER presents diverse stories... Read more

Christopher Zanko: The Traps.

N.Smith Gallery 5 Mar - 4 Apr 2026 Christopher Zanko’s new body of work continues his interest in disappearing architectural homes across the Australian landscape. Drawing on a visual language shaped by geometry, repetition, and surface, Zanko documents buildings that sit at the threshold of use and obsolescence, structures marked by time, weather, and shifting social priorities. Among... Read more

Return to Sender.

Adelaide 25 Feb - 1 Mar 2026 Return to Sender is N.Smith Gallery’s offsite exhibition series, conceived as a way to place artworks into unexpected contexts and new conversations. For our Adelaide presentation, the series brings together local artists James Tylor and Sally Scales, alongside guest artist Carly Dodd, with gallery artists Joan Ross, Fiona Lowry, Holly... Read more

An Offering, A Burning, A Prayer.

4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art 13 Feb - 29 Mar 2026 Bringing together artists Casey Chen, Choy Ka Fai, WeiZen Ho, Emma Pham, Jason Phu and Savanhdary Vongpoothorn, the exhibition explores how fire exists and transforms within ritual and ceremony. Drawing on traditions surrounding Lunar New Year, acts of burning – from incense offerings to the smoke of cleansing woods –... Read more

No place for mannequins: Remaking the fashion archive.

UTS Gallery, Gadigal Nura/Sydney 12 Feb - 24 Apr 2026 In fashion, the archive has long operated as a site of authority, shaping narratives of dress, design, and consumption. Bringing together local and international artists and designers, the exhibition unsettles this authority, foregrounding critical practices that reimagine what is preserved, valued, and remembered.⁠ ⁠ Curated by Dr Todd Robinson (UTS)... Read more

Between Earth and Moon: A Lunar New Year Exhibition.

N.Smith Gallery 12 - 28 Feb 2026 Between Earth and Moon is N.Smith Gallery’s Lunar New Year exhibition, marking the Year of the Horse through a considered gathering of artists from across and beyond the gallery program. Anchored in ideas of movement, transition, and vitality, the exhibition reflects the Horse’s symbolic association with energy, independence, and forward... Read more

Awakening Histories.

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts 6 Feb - 29 Mar 2026 Awakening Histories explores the deep and enduring connection between First Nations Peoples across the north of this continent (now known as Australia) and the Makassan seafarers of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Re-positioning Australia’s pre-colonial international relations from a global south perspective, this powerful exhibition reflects on the legacies of these early... Read more

Louise Zhang: The Galeries.

The Galeries, Sydney⁠ 1 - 23 Feb 2026 Commissioned earlier this year by The Galeries and Dot Dot Dash to coincide with Lunar New Year, Zhang’s new body of work embraces the fluidity, translucence and sensitivity of silk. Long associated with Chinese culture, ceremony and exchange, the material becomes both a symbolic and physical foundation for works that... Read more

Thea Anamara Perkins: reverie.

N.Smith Gallery 30 Jan - 7 Feb 2026 ‘Reverie’ evokes the state of daydreaming, of being adrift between dreams and wakefulness. In Thea Anamara Perkins' new exhibition, the artist draws on archival images of her family, treating the photograph as a threshold rather than a fixed record. The exhibition ties to 'the glimmer', a central motif in her... Read more

Searcher: Graffiti and Contemporary Art

National Art School, Sydney 17 Jan - 11 Apr 2026 Searchers: Graffiti and Contemporary Art brings together over thirty of Australia’s most dynamic artists, from underground graffiti writers to celebrated contemporary artists – united by one charged medium: spray paint. Introduced as a commercial product in the mid-twentieth century, spray paint quickly caught the attention of artists who recognised its... Read more

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

5th National Indigenous Art Triennial: After the Rain

National Gallery of Australia 6 Dec 2025 - 26 Apr 2026 Their inclusion signals not only the strength of their individual practices, but a generational shift in First Nations storytelling, sovereignty and representation. Together, Perkins and Mooney represent a powerful, future-focused moment in Australian art, one shaped by cultural inheritance, unapologetic self-representation and a refusal to be confined. Their inclusion in... 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

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

Aidan Hartshorn: Yiramir Mayiny (River People).

Art Gallery of New South Wales 1 Nov 2025 - 31 May 2026 Yiramir Mayiny (River People) , 2024 extends Hartshorn’s ongoing engagement with water as both living presence and ancestral archive. Moving between mapping and memory, the work gathers the rhythms of river systems, the traces of community, and the quiet authority of Country, holding them in a composition that feels at... Read more

Exposition générale

Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris 25 Oct 2025 - 23 Aug 2026 Grounded in the renewal of Māori aute, Hindin’s practice is a rigorous, living return to ancestral technologies, where material, process, and whakapapa are inseparable. Working with bark cloth and natural pigments, her works carry the intelligence of making, each surface holding the pressures of hand, time, and breath, and each... 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

Ode: Margaret Olley and Sally Anderson

Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre 12 Sep 2025 - 8 Mar 2026 Ode: Margaret Olley and Sally Anderson is a celebration of important still life paintings by Margaret Olley together with new work by Gadigal/Sydney-based artist Sally Anderson. During her 2025 residency at the Nancy Fairfax Artist in Residence Studio, Sally Anderson embarked on a new body of work that responds not... Read more

High Colour

Art Gallery of New South Wales 31 May 2025 - 9 Aug 2026 Influenced by history, culture and family, Dylan Mooney's works are influenced by his rich cultural upbringing. Translating the knowledge and stories passed down to him, his artworks are in a high-impact illustrative style with bright, saturated colour that reflects his experiences with keen political energy and insight. High Colour is... Read more

Archibald & Wynne Prizes 2025

Touring Nationally 10 May 2025 - 5 Jul 2026 We are delighted to announce Joan Ross, Fiona Lowry, Natasha Walsh, Vipoo Srivilasa, Holly Anderson, and Casey Chen are finalists in the Archibald and Wynne Prizes.⁠ ⁠ Joan Ross is a finalist in the Archibald Prize with her portrait of Coby Edgar, Kidjerikidjeri.⁠ ⁠ Fiona Lowry is a finalist in... Read more

Archibald, Wynne & Sulman Prizes 2026

Art Gallery of New South Wales 9 May 2025 - 16 Aug 2026 We are delighted to announce Casey Chen, Natasha Walsh, Louise Zhang, Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro, and Joan Ross are finalists in the Archibald, Wynne & Sulman Prizes. ⁠ Casey Chen is a finalist in the Wynne Prize with his painting of A pretty kettle of fish. ⁠ Natasha Walsh... Read more