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 [...]

“Changing States builds on ideas developed during my 2024 Edith Cowan University and Western Australian Parliament Artist in Residence program, as well as my recent group exhibition Paper Thin, Skin Deep at Mundaring Arts Centre 2026 curated by Annette Peterson. The work explores what it means to inhabit a body—through material, metaphorical, and cultural layers of skin. With over thirty years of experience across Australasia, including a decade working in [...]

This exhibition brings together the artists of Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre, Vanessa Inkamala, Kathy Inkamala, Dellina Inkamala and Raelene Inkamala (Western Arrernte), and Jordan Benson in a dialogue of tradition and innovation. Featuring artists from Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre in Mparntwe (Alice Springs, NT), this exhibition celebrates the enduring watercolour legacy of Albert Namatjira alongside new works by Melbourne-based artist Jordan Benson, who [...]

Juno Gemes and Robert Adamson on the Hawkesbury River celebrates the powerful creative partnership of photographer Juno Gemes and poet Robert Adamson, whose intertwined practices reveal a shared artistic, intellectual, and activist life shaped by collaboration and place.

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, [...]

For over three decades, Fiona Longhurst has cultivated a distinctive visual language grounded in pattern, repetition, and colour. A longstanding artist in the Arts Project Australia (APA) studio since 1991, her practice has evolved with quiet persistence, producing a compelling body of work. Her intricate fields of mark-making are animated by recurring motifs – floral forms, delicate compositional arrangements, and text. Through intuitive layering and patterning, Longhurst [...]

In the current issue of recently relaunched Art News magazine, writer Dina Jezdic observes that “to write a preview of 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, light flooding [...]

Now in its second decade, D Lan Galleries flagship annual exhibition opens simultaneously across all three galleries, offering collectors rare access to historic and museum-quality paintings and sculpture by Australia’s most celebrated First Nations artists. At the foundation of this year’s exhibition is a selection of early Papunya paintings from the seminal 1971–72 period, including works by Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa, Johnny Warangula Tjupurrula and Uta Uta Tjangala. [...]

Central Belonging Art Award is an art prize exhibition that represents the rich diversity of the artistic communities around and within the Central West region. The Award returns for its second year. It showcases established and emerging artists that are local to Cowra Shire and the surrounding areas. Artists from the following local government areas are part of the finalist exhibition: Bathurst, Bland, Blayney, Cabonne, Cowra, Forbes, Hilltops, [...]

COLLECT returns to The Lock-Up for its ninth year, this time bringing together 126 artists—from early career to established—in a bold, energetic snapshot of Newcastle and the Hunter’s creative ecology. A much-loved annual fundraising exhibition, COLLECT champions the region’s artistic talent while raising vital funds for The Lock-Up’s ongoing program as a not-for-profit, independent contemporary art space. This year, COLLECT includes nationally significant artists such as Michael Bell, Lottie Consalvo, James Drinkwater, Locust Jones, [...]

‘Some memory cannot be documented. Some memory lives in the body.’ — Dr Natalie Harkin, Archival-Poetics (Vagabond Press, 2019) My Blood Sings Old Songs gathers artists who capture what is not always said—but deeply felt. The works in this exhibition resonate over time, unraveling layers of the body and the quiet weight of being seen, where movement becomes a vessel for remembrance. Hovering between an ending and a beginning, each gesture [...]

MARS presents Chun Yin Rainbow Chan’s inaugural exhibition, Continuum. Continuum brings together a selection of works that reimagine the bridal laments of Hong Kong’s 圍頭/Weitou women, to whom Chan has deep ancestral ties. Through silk paintings, experimental calligraphy and audiovisual works, she translates these culturally endangered songs into contemporary forms that preserve their subversive feminist voices while reflecting on loss, resilience and solidarity.

“The worlds are busy and carefully laid out, take a look around,” shares David Booth about the works in his latest exhibition Rearranging the Universe. Extending on his practice of world building, Booth has created a library of stamps which reshape, move and rearrange with each print and reconfiguration. About this new body of work, he shares: “I’ve been building a new practice of play and experimentation in the studio; [...]

We all have an instinct to seek guidance and ask questions of the future, especially during periods of uncertainty. Throughout history, people have looked upward, outward, and inward for signs of what lies ahead. A GREAT AND WONDROUS SIGN inhabits that same space of questioning. Searching for answers and holding tension between hope and apprehension, faith and doubt. This is mirrored in materiality, combining the longevity and certainty of [...]

Kerry McInnis has been painting and drawing the River for many decades. The focus of her renditions of a waterway, wet or dry, has always been to represent the interconnectedness between the river and the earth that shapes it – to investigate the rhythms of liquid and solid form, to layer in paint the inconstancy of the river in both its power and vulnerability. Moving away from [...]

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 [...]

Artists from throughout Australia bring a lens on the concept of ‘earth’: our home, the environment, soil, land, fragility, strength or purpose; the need for its safe keeping and preservation, inclusive of all that lives within. This open exhibition has invited works to provoke awareness, dialogue, political activism, experimentation, thoughtfulness, playfulness, or deep contemplation.