What’s On: Art Events and Openings

Browse upcoming art events, exhibitions and gallery openings

  • Lottie Consalvo: Of the Night

    NandaHobbs 12-14 Meagher St, Chippendale, NSW, Australia

    “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, VIC, Australia

    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, NSW, Australia

    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, VIC, Australia

    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, WA, Australia

    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.

  • Melody Popple: Balun Gawarima – River Story

    Lone Goat Gallery 28 Lawson Street, Byron Bay, NSW, Australia

    Balun Gawarima – River Story is a new exhibition by Indigenous artist Melody Popple, developed through her PhD project Moving Through Waters. Grounded in the waterways of Bundjalung Jagun, the exhibition explores the cultural, emotional, and ecological significance of water through bush dyeing, natural pigments, and visual story-mapping. Created in collaboration with Country, the works use native flora, found materials, and water gathered from local river systems to produce richly [...]

  • Petite Miniature Textiles 2026

    Wangaratta Art Gallery 56 Ovens St, Wangaratta, VIC, Australia

    One of Wangaratta Art Gallery’s most popular exhibitions, Petite Miniature Textiles showcases innovative textile practice from across Australia, in small scale. The biennial exhibition brings together a diversity of artists and approaches which extend textile practice and inquiry.

  • Kirtika Kain: Pitch

    Murray Art Museum Albury 546 Dean St, Albury, NSW, Australia

    Kirtika Kain has an ongoing interest in anti-caste movements and the experience of caste in the diaspora, explored through material and studio processes. In her works, gold, bitumen, and turmeric combine to create intricate and luminous surfaces that highlight the aesthetic and affective qualities of her chosen materials. The tar used in each of these works carries a material history of extraction, labour and transformation, as well as [...]

  • Dr Christian Thompson AO: House of Gold

    Caboolture Regional Art Gallery 4 Hasking Street, Caboolture, QLD, Australia

    House of Gold presents an immersive body of work by Dr Christian Thompson AO, spanning photography, moving image and sound. The exhibition explores the intersection between Thompson’s Chinese and First Nations Bidjara heritage, shaped by the Gold Rush migrations of the 1850s. Visitors are invited to experience moments of shared language, food and history, revealing the influences that have shaped Thompson’s sense of self. House of Gold offers fantastical [...]

  • Jessie French: Material Conditions: Systems Beneath Surfaces

    Warrnambool Art Gallery 26 Liebig St, Warrnambool, 3280, Australia

    Jessie French’s exhibition, Material Conditions: Systems Beneath Surfaces, examines the industrial systems embedded within the materials that shape our inhabited spaces and their resultant environmental and ethical consequences. Established systems, optimised for efficiency, low cost, and standardisation, dictate how physical resources are produced, circulated, and utilised in our daily environments. Many of these materials rely on chemical additives including binders, stabilisers and coatings to enable their rapid manufacturing. [...]

  • 42nd Annual Acquisitive Competitive Art Exhibition

    Gatakers Art Space 311 Kent Street, Maryborough, Queensland, Australia

    Hervey Bay Art Society, AKA Gallery 5, proudly presents the 42nd Annual Acquisitive Competitive Art Competition. Yes, this exciting competition is now 42 years young - believe it or not! In 2026 the works will hang at Gattakers Art Space, 311 Kent Street, Maryborough between the 25th July and 3rd September. We celebrate our collection of local and state-wide art with an award ceremony between 12 noon [...]

    Free
  • 42nd Annual Acquisitive Competitive Art Exhibition

    42nd Annual Acquisitive Competitive Art Exhibition
    Gatakers Art Space 311 Kent Street, Maryborough, Queensland, Australia

    Hervey Bay Art Society, AKA Gallery 5, proudly presents the 42nd Annual Acquisitive Competitive Art Competition. Yes, this exciting competition is now 42 years young - believe it or not! In 2026 the works will hang at Gattakers Art Space, 311 Kent Street, Maryborough between the 25th July and 3rd September. We celebrate our collection of local and state-wide art with an award ceremony between 12 noon [...]

    Free
  • Opening Reception: Different Midnights by Mark Niehus

    West End Art Space 112 Adderley Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Different Midnights is a collection of paintings, moving image and free verse that explore the various ways individuals experience solitude. By bringing these different stories together we are reminded of our commonalities and the value of being alone, provoking us to question how do we experience solitude. It’s 12am and each art work frames a life, sharing only the digestion of a day spent in the same [...]

    Free