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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, the exhibition looks forward, holding space for new ideas, fresh conversations, and the projects still to come. Each artwork is a point of departure, inviting renewed attention from collectors, artists, arts workers, and the wider communities who sustain contemporary art.
Summer ’26 marks the gallery’s return, and an early glimpse of the year we’re building together — one shaped by curiosity, ambition, and the energy of making. -
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Thea Anamara Perkins ‘It’s about taking charge of representation – I find that painting is a very simple and direct way of communicating things that I want to say.’
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Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin is a senior Pitjantjatjara artist committed to passing on her cultural knowledge to the next generation of Anangu. She is a painter, and director of Mimili Maku Arts.
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Mason Kimber Mason Kimber is a Sydney Gadigal based artist whose practice spans textural painting, sculptural relief and site specific installation, exploring the relationship between architecture and memory, and investigates how built environments can hold personal and collective histories.
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Louise Zhang 'The greatest tool in painting is colour, because colour has the greatest way of manipulating perspective.'
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Holly Anderson From across a room, Holly Anderson’s paintings appear to swim in the brightness of a clear sky. Bursts of sunlight populate familiar subject matter – interiors, figures, skies, and water are monochromic planes pierced with white light...
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Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro Combining a playful sense of humour and an engagement with art historical precedents, the duo's work is characterised by the deconstruction and reinvention of prefabricated structures and objects into extraordinary sculptures and installations.
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Fiona Lowry Lowry’s paintings of the Australian landscape portray the bush as strangely beautiful, alluring and steadfast.
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Natasha walsh 'My practice thrives on experimentation... I actually don’t enjoy confronting my reflection. At times the vulnerability of this can be very disheartening and unpleasant.'
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Matt Bromhead Matt Bromhead is a multidisciplinary artist who's practice is centred on a playful self-referential chronology of his process, each artwork going through a long period of change before completion.
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Neva Hosking These drawings do not wish to place you inside Neva's world, but rather outside it and force you back to your own...
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Kyra Mancktelow Kyra Mancktelow’s multidisciplinary practice investigates legacies of colonialism, posing important questions such as how we remember and acknowledge Indigenous histories.
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Kate Vassallo Kate Vassallo is an Australian visual artist of Maltese heritage, born and based on Ngunnawal, Ngunawal and Ngambri Country in Canberra. Working across painting, drawing and installation, she considers labour, control and time through visual abstraction.
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Tom Blake Tom Blake’s practice draws on fragmented moments, looped imagery and recurring motifs as potential sites for contemplating the psychological, architectural and technological frameworks that surround us.
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Christopher Zanko 'Zanko creates permanence through the action of carving and simultaneously gives these homes and memories an enduring place to survive.'
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Joshua Charadia Joshua Charadia explores the nature of consciousness and perception, ranslating his photographs of the built environment and its inhabitants into paintings and drawings that capturie moments of the sublime in the everyday.
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Sally Anderson 'Deep within, her paintings carry autobiographical elements heavy with memory and meaning...'
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Casey Chen Casey Chen’s ceramics practice references historical illustrations from an eclectic mix of folklore, mythology and pop culture.
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