What’s On: Art Events and Openings

Browse upcoming art events, exhibitions and gallery openings

  • 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 [...]

  • 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. [...]

  • Becoming Modern – Mid-century Australian Art

    Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Dunn Pl, Hobart, TAS, Australia

    Becoming Modern is a survey exhibition exploring the emergence of modernism in Australia during the twentieth century. Drawn largely from the Tasmanian State Collection, it features iconic Australian modernists alongside lesser-known works, many of which are exhibited for the first time. This large-scale exhibition brings together paintings, sculpture and works on paper, highlighting figuration, abstraction, and foregrounding works by Tasmanian women artists.