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 [...]

Maitland Regional Art Gallery (MRAG) presents Fire Scars, a powerful new solo exhibition by photographer Renae Saxby. Based on Wonnarua Country in Maitland, New South Wales, Saxby is an award-winning photographer recognised for her portraiture, live performance photography and remote landscapes. Across her practice, she maintains a sustained focus on the relationship between people, culture and the environment. In Fire Scars, Saxby turns the camera inward, drawing from deeply personal [...]

C*Town Conservatory reimagines the history and architecture of the conservatory — once a symbol of aristocratic prestige and colonial exploitation of the natural world — as a contemporary, inclusive space for community, reflection, and creative exchange. Confabulated by The ArtHITects (Gary Carsley and Ren Jie Teoh), this immersive installation transforms the glass-walled foyer of Campbelltown Arts Centre into a fantastical, illusionistic environment reflecting on its 20-year history of commissioning artwork. [...]

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. [...]

This body of work by Christine James explores the upland wetland of Little Llangothlin on Banbai Country, tracing the artist’s encounters with its unique plant and bird life through intimate, layered paintings that reflect the fragile biodiversity of Australian wetlands. Moving between flora and avifauna, the series becomes a visual meditation on habitat, ecological change and the quiet complexity of this Ramsar-listed landscape.

Bett Gallery presents Kate McKenzie Lewis’s debut solo exhibition, Ember. This series examines bushfire-affected landscapes, capturing moments between destruction and renewal. The works reflect the dual nature of fire, balancing loss and transformation while celebrating nature’s resilience and ability to recover. Drawing on experience, observation, and research, Lewis weaves memories of smoke-filled skies, glowing horizons, and fire-impacted terrain with broader environmental themes, exploring how we perceive, remember, and [...]

It is with a view to capturing the totality of the pastoral influence upon remote Australia that Stockmen brings a range of visual ideas together, from dot painting to visionary landscapes. It is often said that contemporary art charts ideas of the future, while in this exhibition it is possible to envisage the fullness of the lived experience of a quickly receding past. These artists offer a sense of [...]

Can we use the talking cure to solve society’s ‘problem’ with women? The Interior invites audiences into an exaggerated consultation room, playfully furnished for psychoanalysis. Natalya Hughes’s immersive installation—combining sculptural seating, richly patterned soft furnishings, and uncanny objets d’art, nestled around a hand-painted mural—generates a stimulating space to unpack our collective and unconscious biases. Interested in the role of women and their historical absence from positions of power, [...]

Fragmented, divided—yet whole brings together recent works by Amanda Bennetts that use time as both material and metric for understanding the body. In Bennetts’ practice, time is not linear but lived. It is stretched, slowed, ruptured, and suspended by the realities of living in a body in flux that refuses normative rhythms and constantly requires new forms of understanding. Across these works, Bennetts moves between different geographies and [...]

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 [...]