Artists’ rich creative responses to the natural world and our place within it. Humans are indivisible from nature – we are dependent on its systems and rhythms, and subject to its whims. Artists have long engaged with nature as a place where we seek solace and meaning. This exhibition from the Art Gallery’s collection charts… Read More »Super Nature
Artists consider the mythical and controlling forces that organise time, space and galaxies. Proximate Cosmologies draws from the Art Gallery’s rich collection to consider the universe as undefinable, where different ways of thinking reveal porous boundaries between the spiritual and material worlds. Artists have long imagined the universe as dynamic, indeterminate, and continually unfolding through… Read More »Proximate Cosmologies
The newly renovated Brett Whiteley Studio opens in mid 2026 with Brett Whiteley: Chapters 1970–79, an exhibition showcasing ambitious works produced by Whiteley during the 1970s, including his 16-metre-wide autobiographical epic Alchemy 1972–73. Offering a rich array of 80 paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, prints, photographs and sketchbooks from the collections of the Art Gallery of… Read More »Brett Whiteley Chapters: 1970–79
Explore the immediacy and intimate power of drawing. Drawing is an intimate art form. Nimble, economical, universal and immediate, drawing can lay bare the bones of how we look, think and feel. The Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2026 brings together 11 artists from across Australia who use a range of materials – pastel, pencil, watercolour,… Read More »Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2026
A major survey journeying through the landscapes and stories that transformed Australian art. Experience the astounding creativity and poetic power of Sidney Nolan’s art in this in-depth survey of the artist’s formative years in Australia. From indelible visions of the outlaw Ned Kelly to epic portrayals of Central Australia, Nolan redefined perceptions of place and… Read More »Nolan Origins
These works by Australian women artists are both a celebration and a challenge. Named after Maya Angelou’s famous collection of poetry, And Still I Rise brings together a group of culturally diverse women artists living in Australia, many of whom are internationally recognised, if less familiar at home. The exhibition spans generations, cultures and mediums,… Read More »And Still I Rise
Takashi Murakami is one of the most influential and recognisable contemporary artists of our time. Immerse yourself in a Murakami takeover of the Art Gallery’s Naala Badu building with a major retrospective in the Ainsworth Family Gallery and the global premiere of new work in the atmospheric Nelson Packer Tank. Developed by the Art Gallery… Read More »Takashi Murakami