What’s On: Art Events and Openings

Browse upcoming art events, exhibitions and gallery openings

  • A Journey in Miniature

    New England Regional Art Museum 106-114 Kentucky Street, Armidale, NSW, Australia

    Inspired by an artistic practice that span centuries, A Journey in Miniature celebrates the enduring allure of small-scale art—from the illuminated manuscripts of the medieval world to the intimate portrait miniatures of the Romantic era, and into the vibrant diversity of contemporary practice. Presented by the Australian Society of Miniature Art, this exhibition brings together an extraordinary range of works that demonstrate the precision, skill and imagination demanded by [...]

  • Christine James: Habitat

    New England Regional Art Museum 106-114 Kentucky Street, Armidale, NSW, Australia

    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.

  • Kate McKenzie Lewis: Ember

    Bett Gallery Level 1/65 Murray St, Hobart,, TAS, Australia

    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 [...]

  • Group Exhibition: Stockmen

    8 Hele Gallery 8 Hele Cres, Ciccone, NT, Australia

    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 [...]

  • Natalya Hughes: The Interior

    University of the Sunshine Coast Art Gallery USC Sunshine Coast, 90 Sippy Downs Dr, Sippy Downs, QLD, Australia

    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, [...]

  • Amanda Bennetts: Fragmented, divided—yet whole

    University of the Sunshine Coast Art Gallery USC Sunshine Coast, 90 Sippy Downs Dr, Sippy Downs, QLD, Australia

    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 [...]

  • Cobi Cockburn: Primary Lines

    Dominik Mersch Gallery 1/75 McLachlan Ave, Rushcutters Bay, NSW, Australia

    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 [...]

  • Jo Darvall: Changing States

    Fox Galleries 63 Wellington Street, Collingwood, VIC, Australia

    “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 [...]

  • Group Exhibition: Through the Window

    Canberra Glassworks 11 Wentworth Avenue, Kingston, ACT

    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

    Grace Cossington Smith Gallery 1666 Pacific Hwy, Wahroonga, NSW, Australia

    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.

  • Jenn Rowe and Jaimie Klum: Where Matter Breathes

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

    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, [...]

  • Fiona Longhurst: 5 7 3 Float Fall Petals 10 Trees

    Arts Project Australia Level 1, Perry Street Building, 35 Johnston St, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia

    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 [...]