Wendy Sharpe is celebrated for her expressive works that observe and celebrate the human condition. Her career catapulted when, in 1996, she won the Archibald Prize – the first time a self-portrait by a woman took out the award. Wendy Sharpe: Spellbound is a sumptuous aesthetic journey into the nature of creativity. Composed of drawings,… Read More »Wendy Sharpe – Spellbound
The Archibald Prize for portrait painting is Australia’s most celebrated and democratic – sometimes controversial – art award. Open to any artist living in Australia or New Zealand, since 1921 it has reflected the unique experiences of the people who live in this region, highlighting figures from all walks of life. As equally exciting for… Read More »Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2024
Berlin-based Australian artist Emily Hunt draws inspiration from the extraordinary history of the occult and spiritualism in Australia. In this exhibition, Hunt presents six handmade marionettes, which incorporate sculpture, ceramics, costume, woodwork, silk painting and printing on fabric. Each is modelled on an esoteric individual whose spiritual convictions defied social conventions, including artist Rosaleen Norton… Read More »Emily Hunt
Acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Julie Rrap has examined representations of the body in art and popular culture for over four decades, often using her own body as the subject. Julie Rrap: Past Continuous is a solo exhibition featuring the Australian artist's groundbreaking feminist installation Disclosures: A Photographic Construct (1982) in dialogue with new and recent works.
Primavera: Young Australian Artists is the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia’s annual exhibition showcasing the work of Australian artists aged 35 years and under. The exhibition was initiated in 1992 by the MCA in collaboration with Dr Edward Jackson AM and Mrs Cynthia Jackson AM, in memory of their talented and creative daughter Belinda. Since… Read More »Primavera: Young Australian Artists
Spanning more than five decades of Lesley Dumbrell's practice, this exhibition presents a selection of paintings and works on paper as well as recent forays into sculpture that demonstrate Dumbrell's unique abstract language, which probes the nuances of colour, rhythm and visual perception. Lesley Dumbrell: Thrum brings together works ranging from the experimental and unfinished… Read More »Lesley Dumbrell – Thrum
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine is the largest exhibition to date of the internationally renowned artist’s work. Featuring key works from all of the artist’s major photographic series, this survey highlights Sugimoto’s philosophical yet playful inquiry into our understanding of time and memory, and photography’s ability to both document and invent. Employing a large-format camera and… Read More »Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine
Maria Fernanda Cardoso is internationally renowned for using unconventional and organic materials to consider nature and its links to culture and science. Working across sculpture, photography, installation, video and performance, her work examines the connections and tensions between society and the natural world.
Within spaces designed by the artist, this new exhibition distils over six decades of considered experimentation into a series of new paintings and sculptures created especially for the Art Gallery. Lee’s sparing use of simple materials, including stone, steel and canvas, has a quiet force that encourages contemplation and consideration of the physical and intellectual… Read More »Lee Ufan
The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) is presenting new works by Kate Newby in September 2024 as part of the Loti Smorgon Sculpture Terrace Commission series.
Through the work of ten artists from around Australia, the 2024 edition of the Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial focuses on the compelling and allusive languages of abstraction. Matthew Allen (NSW), Helen Eager (NSW), Emma Fielden (NSW), the late Ngarralja Tommy May (WA), Ceara Metlikovec (NSW), Kerrie Poliness (VIC), Cameron Robbins (VIC), Sandra Selig (QLD), Kate… Read More »Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2024
A rich visual and sonic experience, Angelica Mesiti: The Rites of When is a large-scale video and sound installation that reimagines collective and communal rituals in relation to seasonal cycles, at a time of environmental uncertainty and flux. Mesiti adapts choreography, vocal choruses, instrumentation and collective sound-making to re-examine activities familiar to communities who have… Read More »Angelica Mesiti: The Rites of When
Sculpture by the Sea will return to the Bondi to Tamarama Beach coastal walk as the world’s largest free to the public sculpture exhibition in 2024. The spectacular coastal walk was once again transformed into a 2km long sculpture park over three weeks featuring more than 100 sculptures by artists from Australia and across the… Read More »Sculpture by the Sea
René Magritte’s paintings of clouds, hats, pipes and apples are among the most recognisable images of surrealism. Renowned for his deadpan, realist style, the Belgian artist depicted ordinary objects and everyday settings, revealing them to be more mysterious and enchanting than we could ever have imagined. Magritte is an in-depth retrospective featuring more than 100 works, most… Read More »Magritte