What’s On: Art Events and Openings

Browse upcoming art events, exhibitions and gallery openings

  • 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 [...]

  • 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.

  • 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 [...]

  • Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2026

    The Art Gallery Art Road, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    The Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes delight and surprise audiences every year with fresh presentations of contemporary Australian painting and sculpture. At its heart, the Archibald Prize is about storytelling. Who are the people our artists have chosen to paint and what do their portraits reveal to us? In this exhibition, Australian and New Zealand artists use portraiture to share the beauty and complexity of our times. [...]

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  • Ans Westra: Jeetje

    The Dowse Art Museum 45 Laings Road, Lower Hutt, New Zealand

    Jeetje is an invitation to re-examine the work of Ans Westra (1936–2023), one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most significant documentary photographers. Jeetje  is a Dutch expression of surprise — and, in this case, delight. It sets the tone for this selection drawn from Westra’s vast archive of funny, tender, and poignant photographs spanning the 1960s to the 1980s. From poetry readings in graveyards to spirited street protests, from competitive dog shows [...]

  • Little Orange Studio x AGNSW: Pet Palace

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

    Presented alongside the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2026 at the Art Gallery of NSW, this salon-style wall features portraits of a different kind, not of people, but of other beings deserving of our affection – beloved pets, spirit guides and creature friends. Created by the artists of Little Orange Studio in Campbelltown, Pet Palace is a celebration of the unbreakable bonds (and knowing looks) between people and animals. For the [...]

  • Wayne Youle: Back in Five

    The Dowse Art Museum 45 Laings Road, Lower Hutt, New Zealand

    Back in Five surveys twenty years of one of Aotearoa’s most bold and distinctive contemporary artists. Wayne Youle’s sculptural practice charts the passage of time not just as a theme but as a material that shapes, stretches, and reframes meaning. With his trademark playfulness and wit and working across a broad range of media, schoolboy pranks meet sharp cultural critique. Youle tackles big ideas—masculinity, fatherhood, colonial legacy, and [...]

  • SIGNIFICANT

    D Lan Galleries 40 Exhibition Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Now in its second decade, D Lan Galleries flagship annual exhibition opens simultaneously across all three galleries, offering collectors rare access to historic and museum-quality paintings and sculpture by Australia’s most celebrated First Nations artists. At the foundation of this year’s exhibition is a selection of early Papunya paintings from the seminal 1971–72 period, including works by Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa, Johnny Warangula Tjupurrula and Uta Uta Tjangala. [...]