The work of fourteen Australian women artists are spotlighted in The Intelligence of Painting, a show that throws light on the dynamism and energy of contemporary Australian painting.
Showing in the Macgregor Gallery on Level One, the presentation, curated by Suzanne Cotter and Manya Sellers, includes recent acquisitions as well as new and recent paintings by Karen Black, Angela Brennan, Eleanor Louise Butt, Prudence Flint, Maria Madeira, Thea Anamara Perkins, Kerrie Poliness, Jude Rae, Jessica Rankin, Julie Nangala Robertson, Gemma Smith, Jelena Telecki, Jenny Watson and Nyapanyapa Yunupingu.

Eleanor Louise Butt, Within the Garden (Autumn Painting 2), 2022, oil on linen. Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, purchased with funds provided by the MCA Foundation, 2023. © the artist. Photograph: Jessica Maurer. Courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
28 February to 20 July 2025
Sydney