High Colour is an immersive exploration of local and global Indigenous perspectives on colour. The exhibition considers the role of colour in creating contemporary interpretations of Indigeneity, as well as the use of colour as a form of categorisation. High Colour brings together First Nations artists belonging to or working in Australia, the Great Ocean region, and North America. For… Read More »High Colour
Be the first to see Bangarra light up their new stage with Illume, an iridescent new theatrical experience, drawing together music, visual arts and dance to explore the ways light has captivated and sustained Indigenous cultural existence for millennia. Journey with us through a kaleidoscope of images, patterns and synergies into the otherworldly language of… Read More »Bangarra Dance Theatre – Illume
Cerith Wyn Evans creates epic contemporary environments of light and sound in our major winter exhibition. Conceived as if the audience were strolling through a garden, the exhibition will invite visitors to meditate and contemplate their own passage through space and time. Monumental light sculptures will occupy the MCA’s double-height exhibition galleries, including F=O=U=N=T=A=I=N (2020),… Read More »Cerith Wyn Evans …. in light of the visible
For almost 100 years artists at Yirrkala have shared art as a means of cultural diplomacy – as a respectful assertion of power in its diverse forms, from influence to authority, sovereignty, strength, energy and pride. Yolŋu power: the art of Yirrkala showcases the extraordinary artists of Yirrkala and the power of their art from the… Read More »Yolŋu Power: The Art of Yirrkala
Now in its 32nd year, Future Fashion showcases the next generation of Australian designers emerging from tertiary fashion and textiles courses at four Sydney-based institutions: TAFE NSW, Torrens University Australia, University of Technology Sydney and Whitehouse Institute of Design. This year’s exhibition features outfits from the final-year collections of graduates, highlighting creativity, critical thinking and… Read More »Future Fashion
Wagga Wagga–based Gamilaaray artist Juanita McLauchlan recognises the constellations above us, and the everyday pillars of family and community, as anchors we all have in common. In her first state art museum exhibition, McLauchlan presents an ambitious new body of work that draws upon the intimacy of personal belongings and body adornments. Using domestic fabrics… Read More »Juanita McLauchlan: Yilaa Minyaminyabal Maaru-ma-lda-y (Soon Everything Will Be Healing)
Janet Dawson (born 1935) is one of Australia’s pre-eminent artists. Throughout a distinguished career spanning over seven decades of practice, she remains an artist who has refused to be bound by rules. A pioneer of both abstraction and realism in Australian art, Dawson sees no contradiction in working between diverse stylistic and aesthetic realms. Consistent… Read More »Janet Dawson: Faraway, So Close
Discover intricate LEGO® civilisations thriving inside treasured objects from our past. A vintage refrigerator becomes a cryogenic health resort, a typewriter transforms into a newspaper headquarters, and a Volkswagen Beetle houses an energy revolution—each with hundreds of hidden stories waiting to be uncovered. Exhibition Highlights: 14 immersive displays combining vintage objects with intricate LEGO® worlds… Read More »RELICS: A New World Rises
For the 38th Kaldor Public Art Project, John Kaldor has invited German artist Thomas Demand to create an extraordinary exhibition space in the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Naala Badu building, specifically designed to display the John Kaldor Family Collection in a whole new light. Demand has developed a remarkable spatial design and exhibition… Read More »Kaldor Public Art Project – Thomas Demand
Raquel Caballero is a Sydney artist who celebrates craft as a skilled art. Using papier-mâché, textiles and recycled materials, Caballero creates imagined worlds in the form of handmade installations and maximalist sets. Inspired by folk art and outsider cultures, her making is of the kind used in serious play. In a new commission made especially… Read More »Raquel Caballero
Australia’s most dramatic exhibition space is completely transformed, as artist Mike Hewson brings his unique and boundary-testing brand of social sculpture to the Nelson Packer Tank. Renowned for award-winning public projects that are at once artworks, play areas, and places to be, Hewson is reimagining the Tank as a combined park, playground, construction site, and… Read More »Mike Hewson: The Key’s Under the Mat
At the turn of the 20th century, an unprecedented wave of women artists prevailed against social constraints and left Australia to pursue international professional careers. This is the first major exhibition to focus on the vital role of these Australian women in the emergence of international modernism. Featuring celebrated and rediscovered paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture… Read More »Dangerously Modern: Australian Women Artists in Europe 1890–1940
With a name taken from Maya Angelou’s famous book of poems, this timely exhibition focuses on a culturally diverse group of women artists living in Australia, many of whom are internationally recognised, if less familiar at home. A celebration of women’s art practice, the exhibition foregrounds materiality through a wide variety of media, including textiles,… Read More »And Still I Rise
Since first revitalising figurative sculpture in the late 1990s with his exquisitely crafted realism, Ron Mueck continues his profound observation of human experiences and emotions. His captivating figures, scaled from the minute to the monumental, embody themes such as birth and death, alienation and togetherness, tenderly inviting us to explore our relationship with the world.… Read More »Ron Mueck