What’s On: Art Events and Openings

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Close Encounters – Birds of the Blue Mountains

NPWS BLUE MOUNTAINS HERITAGE CENTRE End Govetts Leap Rd, Blackheath

A photographic exhibition of birdlife found in the Blue Mountains of NSW. Showing great detail these images capture the unique characteristics of birds that make the Blue Mountains their home.

Free
Ongoing

Gurindji Freedom Banners

Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House 18 King George Terrace, Parkes

Mumkurla-nginyi-ma parrngalinyparla – from the darkness into the light. The Gurindji freedom banners are a collection of 10 hand-painted banners created in 2000 by the Gurindji to share the community’s version of the historic 1966 Wave Hill walk-off. The walk-off, or Gurindji strike, led by Gurindji man Vincent Lingiari was an important event in Australia’s land rights movement. Many of the 35 Gurindji people involved in the [...]

Wayne Youle: Back in Five

The Dowse Art Museum 45 Laings Road, Lower Hutt

Back in Five surveys twenty years of one of Aotearoa’s most bold and distinctive contemporary artists. Wayne Youle’s sculptural practice charts the passage of time not just as a theme but as a material that shapes, stretches, and reframes meaning. With his trademark playfulness and wit and working across a broad range of media, schoolboy pranks meet sharp cultural critique. Youle tackles big ideas—masculinity, fatherhood, colonial legacy, and [...]

Ans Westra: Jeetje

The Dowse Art Museum 45 Laings Road, Lower Hutt

Jeetje is an invitation to re-examine the work of Ans Westra (1936–2023), one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most significant documentary photographers. Jeetje  is a Dutch expression of surprise — and, in this case, delight. It sets the tone for this selection drawn from Westra’s vast archive of funny, tender, and poignant photographs spanning the 1960s to the 1980s. From poetry readings in graveyards to spirited street protests, from competitive dog shows [...]

Gurindji Freedom Banners

Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House 18 King George Terrace, Parkes

Mumkurla-nginyi-ma parrngalinyparla – from the darkness into the light. The Gurindji freedom banners are a collection of 10 hand-painted banners created in 2000 by the Gurindji to share the community’s version of the historic 1966 Wave Hill walk-off. The walk-off, or Gurindji strike, led by Gurindji man Vincent Lingiari was an important event in Australia’s land rights movement. Many of the 35 Gurindji people involved in the [...]

Canberra Art Fair

Quokka Pavillion Canberra Showground, Flemington Rd, Canberra

CAF26 brings together more than 100 artists from Canberra, the region, across Australia and overseas, offering an extraordinary range of styles, mediums and stories. Whether you’re searching for a treasure for your wall, hoping to meet the artist behind a piece you love, or even looking to commission someone to paint your vision, the fair is the perfect place to find it.

Free

Toowoomba Studio Art Trail

Toowoomba Studio Art Trail

Visit Toowoomba artists and creatives in their home studios every year during the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers. Open every Saturday and Sunday in September PLUS two mid-week Wednesdays, this is your chance to get inside the working studios of local artists to discover where they practice, what they create and who they are. Plan your visit for 2026 - we'd love to meet you then!

Free

Biennale of Colour and Light 2026 Grand Opening

West End Art Space 112 Adderley Street, Melbourne

Join us at West End Art Space for the Grand Opening of the 2026 Biennale of Colour & Light, a celebration of contemporary abstract art and the diverse creative voices shaping abstraction today. Now in its sixth edition, the Biennale brings together over 85 women abstract artists, showcasing a dynamic collection of works that explore the possibilities of colour, light, form, texture and materiality. The exhibition celebrates [...]

$15