What’s On: Art Events and Openings

Browse upcoming art events, exhibitions and gallery openings

  • Carly Fischer: Ruins in Reverse

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

    Ruins in Reverse is a sculptural and sound-based installation by Carly Fischer inspired by the former Beechworth Asylum and her great-grandmother’s 50-year life spent institutionalised for ‘talking to the furniture’. The work explores the idea of shifting between realities, uncovering forgotten fragments that blur past and present.

  • New South Vol. 2: Recent Sculpture & Installation Art

    Hazelhurst Arts Centre 782 Kingsway, Gymea, NSW, Australia

    New South Vol. 2 presents recent examples of sculpture and installation art from across Southern Australasia. Bringing together an intergenerational group of 17 artists, the exhibition offers a snapshot of current sculptural practice and the ideas shaping it today. A key theme of the exhibition is inter-relations, what happens between objects, materials, built environments and viewers. The artworks are presented together in shared space, allowing them to interact, [...]

  • Jeffrey Harris

    Suite Gallery 189 Ponsonby Road, Auckland, New Zealand

    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 [...]

  • Renae Saxby: Fire Scars

    Maitland Regional Art Gallery 230 High St, Maitland, NSW, Australia

    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 [...]

  • The ArtHITects (Gary Carsley and Ren Jie Teoh): C*Town Conservatory

    Campbelltown Arts Centre 1 Art Gallery Rd, Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia

    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. [...]

  • Caitlin Yardley: Relational Painting

    Moore Contemporary Cathedral Square, 1/565 Hay Street, Perth, WA, Australia

    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 [...]

  • A Long Thread of Attention

    Fox Jensen McCrory 10 Putiki St, Grey Lynn, Auckland, New Zealand

    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. [...]

  • 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 [...]

  • Teo Treloar: Tethered

    Olsen Gallery 63 Jersey Rd, Woollahra, NSW Australia, NSW, Australia

    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 [...]

  • Suzie Idiens: Basel Series

    Void_Melbourne Level 2/190 Bourke St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Void_Melbourne presents Basel Series, the second solo exhibition by Sydney-based artist Suzie Idiens. Originating from a set of small sketches made after visiting the Kunstmuseum Basel, the works pursue a precise idea: investigations into the formal consequences of a single intervention of a geometric form. One corner removed. A slice, a soft incision, cutting away at the edge. Each painting pursues this idea with precision and conviction: a [...]

  • APYACC: New Ground

    Martin Browne Contemporary 15 Hampden St, Paddington, NSW, Australia

    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: 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.