What’s On: Art Events and Openings

Browse upcoming art events, exhibitions and gallery openings

Ongoing

Barbara Dawson: Becoming Now

Belconnen Arts Centre 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen

Barbara Dawson’s work is a contemplation of senescence — ageing seen not as decline, but as a layered experience shaped by growth, memory, and renewal. Using the life cycles of plants as metaphor, she explores the human journey: its fragility, quiet strength, and continual transformation. These works trace the parallel landscapes of inner and outer worlds, finding beauty in both blossoming and fading, in change, endurance, and [...]

Brian Hincksman: Abstract Connotations

Belconnen Arts Centre 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen

In Abstract Connotations, Hincksman explores human nature and our interactions with the natural environment., in the face of rapid changes due to the advancement of technology and social change. Hicksman’s practice allows the simplicity of everyday thoughts and experiences to inspire the paintings. The process can be quite dynamic between contemplation and the use of colour, form and tone, along with the fluidity of paint with various forms [...]

Steve Roper: Works

Belconnen Arts Centre 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen

Focussing on line rather than tone, this exhibition features drawings on paper in a variety of media including pencil, crayons, ink, and watercolour. These are not necessarily drawings of things; they are abstract works but may evoke subjects. As clay dries, it hardens, and each stage creates a different engagement with the drawing process. Roper says, “Line drawing has been much on my mind of late as [...]

Jenny Topfer

Fox Jensen Gallery Cnr Brennan St & McEvoy St, Alexandria,

Jenny Topfer makes paintings that operate in a world of whispers and patient disclosure. Their communicative intent is held — undemonstrative. Such discretion remains rare but for Topfer, consideration and judgement have quietly accumulated over a long arc of time. There is simultaneously much more and much less at stake in these recent paintings. Made on either side of calamitous fires in Tasmania, fire that took many of [...]

Elle Wickens: Skin After Successive Skin

Ames Yavuz 114 Commonwealth Street, Surry Hills

Skin after Successive Skin is born of a story of feminine transformation, rebirth and embodiment; a story that led Elle Wickens to imagine how they felt language of the body can be recorded through material, how sensation can paint, and how painting itself speaks of, from and to the body. In this exhibition, Wickens creates an environment that echoes her own sensory tones, a space where interpretation is embodied, co-produced, [...]

Timothy Cook: Parlingarri Jilamara

Alcaston Gallery Level 3, 50 Market Street, Melbourne

Alcaston Gallery presents a significant private collection of paintings from 2003-2007 by the esteemed Tiwi artist Timothy Cook. This collection of historical significance and provenance exemplifies a moment in time when the collector focused on the emerging artist and his career development at Jilamara Arts and Crafts in Milikapiti on Melville Island, north of Darwin in the Arafura Sea. Timothy Cook’s art practice is now celebrated worldwide [...]

Kent Morris: FLOWER POWER

Vivien Anderson Gallery 284/290 St Kilda Rd, St Kilda

Barkindji artist, Kent Morris, creates a new series of works starring a very small yellow flower with an incredibly powerful story. For thousands of years, the tubers of the murnong (yam daisy) were a staple food for First Peoples throughout the southeast of Australia, cultivated and harvested in the millions from abundant yellow fields. Following the forced introduction of European farming practices, the murnong almost became extinct and [...]

Michelle Anderson: Kanpala

Vivien Anderson Gallery 284/290 St Kilda Rd, St Kilda

Michelle Anderson‘s Kanpala, presented in association with Spinifex Arts Project, brings together a new suite of paintings that depict her grandmother’s Country at Kanpa. “The old people would walk from rockhole to rockhole, collecting wild foods on the way. They knew the bush plants that were good to eat, how to make flour by grinding the small millet seeds they collected and then baking bread on the fire. [...]

Zory McGrath: Fragments of Urban Essence

Brunswick Street Gallery Level 1 and 2/322 Brunswick St,, Fitzroy

Explore ‘Fragments of Urban Essence’, where the vibrant pulse of city life is revealed through a striking collection of works painted on repurposed plaster walls sourced from the artist’s urban explorations. Transforming discarded materials into textured surfaces, this exhibition reflects the shifting nature of our urban environment, inviting viewers to uncover layered histories in familiar streets and consider their connection to the evolving urban landscape.

Group Exhibition: At The Centre

At The Centre brings together artists from Central and Western Desert Art Centres, sharing stories both old and new from the heart of Central Australia. Drawing on their surroundings, the works depict lush bush medicine plants, vast desert landscapes, playful scenes of contemporary Town Camp life, and powerful Tjukurpa. Together, they reflect enduring connections to Ngura—home, place, and Country. Even across great distances, these works invite audiences to [...]

Lottie Consalvo: Of the Night

NandaHobbs 12-14 Meagher St, Chippendale

“Lottie Consalvo’s exhibition, Of the Night, is an invitation to cross between worlds. It is in the night, where the air has a different texture, one Consalvo says she can touch, that the space between the world we inhabit day-to-day and the spiritual world blurs. Her paintings animate that precipice and what lives beyond it — the effigy you reach for in the dark, the blurred image that [...]

Ara Dolatian: In Between Forms

THIS IS NO FANTASY 108-110 Gertrude St, Fitzroy

THIS IS NO FANTASY presents In Between Forms, the first solo exhibition by Ara Dolatian since joining the gallery. The exhibition explores unstable states between human, animal and the monstrous, drawing on Mesopotamian female deities, queens and poetic traditions — particularly the voice of Enheduanna and The Exaltation of Inanna. Through sculpture, Dolatian reimagines ancient acts of invocation as contemporary forms of transformation. Influenced by feminist and queer readings of Mesopotamian [...]

The Neighbour at the Gate

New England Regional Art Museum 106-114 Kentucky Street, Armidale

The National Art School (NAS) presents a major exhibition, The Neighbour at the Gate, curated by a guest curatorium led by Clothilde Bullen OAM (Wardandi Noongar and Badimaya Yamatji), with Micheal Do and Zali Morgan (Whadjuk Balladong and Wilman Noongar). Bringing together newly commissioned works by leading Australian artists Jacky Cheng, Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson, Dennis Golding (Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay), Jenna Mayilema Lee (Gulumerridjin (Larrakia), Wardaman, KarraJarri), James Nguyen and James Tylor (Kaurna, Thura-Yura language region), the exhibition reckons with the echoes of immigration policies and the legacies [...]

Grace Wood: Petal as Pixel

LON Gallery 136a Bridge Road, RICHMOND

Petal as Pixel draws on an enduring fascination with Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s The Roses of Heliogabalus (1888), reimagining its themes of seduction, excess, and latent violence through a contemporary lens. Comprising over 80 works, the exhibition centres on a large suspended mobile of mirrored surfaces, chains, and collaged imagery, precariously assembled in situ. As elements shift, reflections fragment and multiply, enveloping the viewer in a disorienting visual field.

Group exhibition: Stormy Weather

Art Collective WA 565 Hay St, Perth

A group exhibition that invites us to look toward the soaring skies above. While Western Australia is well known for its vast blue horizons, this exhibition turns to the darker moments – luminous clouds thickening, rain pending, storms breaking without warning. Across painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and video, the artists consider the unfolding drama of shifting weather patterns and the moods they carry with them.