‘State of the Union’ – over 30 artists and collectives exhibit contemporary and historical works, while panel discussions will further explore their themes....
State of the Union
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Meredith Turnbull: Closer
‘Closer’ is a newly commissioned exhibition by Meredith Turnbull exploring adornment and excess, decoration and utility. ...
Stieg Persson: Polyphonic
'Polyphonic' charts Stieg Persson’s thirty-year career as a well-known Melbourne-based painter, whose practice invites viewers to contemplate the question of authenticity in relation to art among other pertinent issues....
Basil Sellers Art Prize: Tony Albert Takes the Gong
The $100,000 ‘Basil Sellers Art Prize’ has been awarded to Indigenous artist Tony Albert for his work titled Once upon a time… The work consists of a painted target over which are hung 23 small framed works comprising watercolours on paper, photographs and collage, and small...
Stephen Bush: Steenhuffel
The display of works with shared subject matter or treatment en masse offers the audience the opportunity to reflect on the artist’s ongoing concerns, as well as to appreciate the virtuosity within Bush’s oeuvre....
Transformations: early bark paintings from Arnhem Land
This exhibition features early works that embody a significant transition in Indigenous art practice, the first representations on bark of important ancestral beings, sacred clan designs and totemic animals made specifically for outsiders....