Select Exhibitions
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2025 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize
Celebrating its twenty-fourth edition, the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize continues to highlight the dynamic and diverse creativity that defines contemporary sculpture. The 2025 finalist exhibition showcases the work of fifty-five artists – chosen from 736 local and international entries – exploring the transformative potential of materials, including ceramic, matchboxes, neon,...
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All That is Alive
Bringing together twelve Australian artists and collectives working with living systems, this exhibition responds to local conditions, allowing artworks to speak not just of place, but from it, and in doing so, consider survival, cohabitation, and adaptation as aesthetic and political acts. Regeneration is a refrain throughout many of the...
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金 (Metal)
Bringing together Chinese ink, cement, titanium, and incense ash collected from Taoist temple censers in New South Wales, alongside fragments of the artist’s earlier works, Kien Situ creates an environment of rupture and reincarnation. Titanium needles and planes puncture the gallery like acupuncture points or tools of extraction. Ink flows...
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Ode: Margaret Olley and Sally Anderson
This exhibition honours the still-life paintings of Margaret Olley (1923–2011) with new work by Gadigal/Sydney-based artist Sally Anderson. During her 2025 residency at the Nancy Fairfax Artist in Residence Studio, Anderson embarked on a new body of work that responds not only to Olley’s still life paintings but also to...
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A Tear in the Fabric
A Tear in the Fabric, presented in partnership with 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, shows new and existing works from nine Asian and Asian Australian artists, embracing distortion as a mode of disruption. Representing a radical shift in conceptual methodology and aesthetic treatment, through this idea of distortion, artists...
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David Rosetzky: Plural Selves
Known for his exploration of the plural self and the diversity of human identity, David Rosetzky’s works investigate how individuals see themselves in relation to others, often through intimate, collaborative portraits of LGBTQIA+ and marginal identities. The exhibition features some of Rosetzky’s most iconic works alongside a newly commissioned series...
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Will Lynes: Oily Water
Will Lynes has been working with sheet glass, gold leaf, and enamel paints for over twenty years. His practice draws on intricate decorative techniques, such as cut glass, silver mirroring, and reverse glass painting. In Oily Water, Lynes reimagines these eighteenth and nineteenth century traditions, shifting focus away from material...
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Shapeshifting: Art of Helen Wright
Spanning over four decades of creative inquiry, Shapeshifting explores Helen Wright’s remarkable capacity for enduring transformation. Wright’s work responds to a world marked by ecological unease and existential fragility through motifs such as vessels, birds, and ruinous landscapes. Working across painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture, Wright embodies the archetypal shapeshifter...
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Melville Contemporary 2025
Melville Contemporary is a biennial art commissioning program for experimental art. The 2025 Western Australian commissioned artists include: Amy Perejuan-Capone, who honours bees as keystone species; Andrew Varano, who presents new explorations in installation; Bennett Miller reimagining the optimism of the space race through sculptural works; Brighde O’Hara transforming textiles...
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Girra: Fraser Coast National Art Prize 2025
This biannual prize was borne out of the enduring cultural and social importance of the natural environment in the Fraser Coast region. Home of the Butchulla people, the region’s unique natural features include the world’s largest sand island K’Gari and its surrounding waters, recognised as the world’s first Whale Heritage...
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JamFactory ICON 2025 Aunty Ellen Trevorrow: Weaving Through Time
Weaving Through Time is a celebration of Aunty Ellen Trevorrow’s unwavering dedication to culture, community, and innovation in contemporary Ngarrindjeri weaving over the past forty years. Curated by Carly Tarkari Dodd, the exhibition visually and textually documents Aunty Ellen’s evolution as an artist, from her early traditional baskets and fish...
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Eternal Oblivion: death and the afterlife
Unfolding in four thematic chapters – The Threshold, Heaven, Hell: A Realm of Judgement and Suffering, and The Void: Worlds in Limbo –, audiences are invited to explore the mysteries of death, memory, and what may lie beyond. Inspired by the legacy of Annie May McClelland, the gallery’s benefactor, works...
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