Between Peaks and Silence gathers works by Frank Hurley, one of Australia’s most celebrated and controversial photographers and filmmakers. These photos are rare, luminous studies of place—where land becomes theatre and stillness becomes sound. From the Warrumbungles’ ancient ridgelines to the Blue Mountains’ shadowed caves, from the Derwent’s slow water to Urama Island’s village architecture, Hurley frames each scene with a patient eye for scale, texture and hush. [...]

Established in 1958, the Muswellbrook Art Prize is a now $70,000 acquisitive award spanning three categories: painting, works on paper, and ceramics. With medium as the sole thematic focus, the Prize showcases the diverse subjects and practices of contemporary artists working throughout Australia. 

Jeffrey Harris stands as one of New Zealand’s most distinguished and original painters – an artist whose decades-long practice has shaped a deeply personal yet widely resonant visual language. Since he first exhibited in 1969, Harris has created a body of work that draws on memory, lived experience and the enduring weight of human emotion, positioning him as a pivotal figure within New Zealand’s art history. His [...]

MOORE CONTEMPORARY presents ‘Relational Painting’, a solo exhibition by CAITLIN YARDLEY and her first comprehensive showing in Perth since 2015 exhibitions presented at PICA and Moana. Yardley’s practice is one of assembly – fragments brought into relation through alignment and misalignment. ‘Relational Painting’ is anchored by a work first exhibited at Maison Louis Carré in 2017 where Yardley ‘re-made’ Fritz Glarner’s absent Relational Painting No. 62 (1953) as one [...]

Fox Jensen McCrory presents A Long Thread of Attention, bringing together the work of New Zealand’s most acclaimed painter Colin McCahon alongside celebrated Australian painter Aida Tomescu. “Not in a million years could I have predicted a phenomenon like McCahon. In fact, I went to the Ivan Dougherty show on its last day, at the insistence of my friends. I went with zero expectations and that visit changed everything. [...]

The photographs in Tethered centre on the concept of relational gravity: the pull between people, places, and materials. They carry grief and love, and hold ideas of place and loss. Tethered is made through analogue processes using expired medium-format film alongside out-of-date FP-100C and 3000B instant film. Fogging, shifts in colour and density, uneven development, chemical marks, and occasional failure are part of the material outcome, carried on the photographic [...]

Void_Melbourne presents Basel Series, the second solo exhibition by Sydney-based artist Suzie Idiens. Originating from a set of small sketches made after visiting the Kunstmuseum Basel, the works pursue a precise idea: investigations into the formal consequences of a single intervention of a geometric form. One corner removed. A slice, a soft incision, cutting away at the edge. Each painting pursues this idea with precision and conviction: a [...]

New Ground brings together emerging First Nations artists connected to the APY Lands, regional South Australia, and Adelaide, presenting a diverse range of contemporary practices across painting, ceramics, sculpture, and mixed media. The exhibition highlights artists working within community art centres while expanding the material and conceptual boundaries of art centre practice today. The exhibition is curated by Ngarrindjeri artist Tiarnie Edwards, whose practice explores identity, culture, history, [...]

Cobi Cockburn’s solo exhibition Primary Lines considers light as material, reducing the visual language to two elemental forces: light and line. Shaped through encounter, the works unfold as perceptual fields rather than fixed objects. Light operates as an active agent – revealing and erasing in equal measure – producing fleeting moments of clarity while dissolving stable form. Line, traditionally a marker of direction and boundary, becomes contingent, shifting with [...]

Where Matter Breathes brings together artists Jenn Rowe and Jaimie Klum in a powerful exploration of body, land, material, and spirit. Through sculpture, installation, photography, and wall-based works, the exhibition traces how both inner and outer worlds are formed, transformed, and made visible through matter. Drawing on distinct yet complementary practices, Rowe and Klum use material as a way of thinking through connection, fragility, adaptation, and survival. Rowe, [...]

In the current issue of recently relaunched Art News magazine, writer Dina Jezdic observes that “to write a preview of [Alberto Garcia-Alvarez’s] show is to confront the particularity of a practice that rejects the very idea of the preview. No new body of work finished in preparation for exhibition. No theme declared in advance. Only this: 50 years in the same studio, sunk into the slope of a garden, [...]