What’s On: Art Events and Openings

Browse upcoming art events, exhibitions and gallery openings

  • Michelle Anderson: Kanpala

    Vivien Anderson Gallery 284/290 St Kilda Rd, St Kilda, VIC, Australia

    Michelle Anderson‘s Kanpala, presented in association with Spinifex Arts Project, brings together a new suite of paintings that depict her grandmother’s Country at Kanpa. “The old people would walk from rockhole to rockhole, collecting wild foods on the way. They knew the bush plants that were good to eat, how to make flour by grinding the small millet seeds they collected and then baking bread on the fire. [...]

  • Kent Morris: FLOWER POWER

    Vivien Anderson Gallery 284/290 St Kilda Rd, St Kilda, VIC, Australia

    Barkindji artist, Kent Morris, creates a new series of works starring a very small yellow flower with an incredibly powerful story. For thousands of years, the tubers of the murnong (yam daisy) were a staple food for First Peoples throughout the southeast of Australia, cultivated and harvested in the millions from abundant yellow fields. Following the forced introduction of European farming practices, the murnong almost became extinct and [...]

  • Group Exhibition: At The Centre

    At The Centre brings together artists from Central and Western Desert Art Centres, sharing stories both old and new from the heart of Central Australia. Drawing on their surroundings, the works depict lush bush medicine plants, vast desert landscapes, playful scenes of contemporary Town Camp life, and powerful Tjukurpa. Together, they reflect enduring connections to Ngura—home, place, and Country. Even across great distances, these works invite audiences to [...]

  • Zory McGrath: Fragments of Urban Essence

    Brunswick Street Gallery Level 1 and 2/322 Brunswick St,, Fitzroy, VIC, Australia

    Explore ‘Fragments of Urban Essence’, where the vibrant pulse of city life is revealed through a striking collection of works painted on repurposed plaster walls sourced from the artist’s urban explorations. Transforming discarded materials into textured surfaces, this exhibition reflects the shifting nature of our urban environment, inviting viewers to uncover layered histories in familiar streets and consider their connection to the evolving urban landscape.

  • 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 [...]

  • Shedding

    Machine Hall 185 clarence street, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    After a long silence, Nomads Collective returns with Shedding. A one-night art experience inside Machine Hall, opening a conversation between tradition and contemporary art expressions. Set within a former power substation, the event is amplified by the building itself: its history, its industrial weight, and the charge of a place once built to power the city. Built through performance, music, installation, and visual work, Shedding brings together [...]

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  • 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. [...]