16albermarle
16 Albermarle Street, Newtown, NSW 2042 [Map 7]
02 9550 1517 or 0433 020 237
Thu to Sat 11am–5pm, or by appointment.
16albermarle is a gallery and project space that provides Australian audiences with the opportunity to see and learn about contemporary art from southeast Asia.
Until 11 November
All That Surrounds Us: New art from Cambodia
Curated by Lauren Elise Barlow, Vuth Lyno, Chum Chanveasna and Moeng Meta
Including work by 12 younger and mid-career artists, All That Surrounds Us presents contemporary art from Cambodia to Australian audiences and provides the opportunity to learn more about the country through its art. Reflecting Cambodian art that explores the country’s complex history, future and place in the broader community of southeast Asia, the exhibition includes works in many media – painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, photography, installation, video and works on paper – and from many parts of the country.
22 November–16 December
Home and Away
Curated by Luise Guest and Jennifer Yang.
Nine female artists with familial and cultural ties to Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia and Cambodia explore themes of family, memory, belonging and place. In their work, connections to their ancestral homelands become imagined allegories, considerations of myth and memory, redolent with nostalgia and the desire for home. Working in media and traditions as diverse as papercutting, photography, video, ceramics, sculpture and painting they draw on material practices and visual codes that link the past with the present, and overlay their Australian stories with diverse Asian histories and cultures.
314 Abercrombie Gallery
314 Abercrombie Street, Darlington, NSW 2008 [Map 14]
0404 146 738
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1 November–30 December
Freedom Landscape
Stefan Kater
At Abercrombie Gallery, we believe the arts are at the heart of our communities. Stefan Kater is chosen for the quality of his work, the connection to the landscape, social diversity and his authenticity.
Stefans’s work is intensely textural and colourful. His work is the colour of light on the land.
Annandale Galleries
110 Trafalgar Street, Annandale, Sydney, NSW 2038
61 2 9552 1699
Wed to Sat 11am–4pm.
Until 13 December
Mali’ The Reflection/My Spirit
Gunybi Ganambarr
Art Gallery of New South Wales - North Building
Art Gallery Road, The Domain, Sydney, NSW 2000 [Map 8]
02 9225 1700
Daily 10am–5pm, Wed until late.
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From 25 November
Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day?
Louise Bourgeois
Experience the strange beauty and emotional power of Louise Bourgeois’s art, in the largest exhibition of her work ever seen in Australia
Ongoing
Yiribana Gallery
Displaying works from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art collection, Yiribana acknowledges the location of the Art Gallery on Gadigal Country.
Ongoing
Outlaw
Celebrating the antiheroes of popular culture with works from the Art Gallery’s collection, in our first-ever purpose-built gallery for time-based art.
Art Gallery of New South Wales - South building
Art Gallery Road, The Domain, Sydney, NSW 2000 [Map 8]
02 9225 1700
Daily 10am–5pm, Wed until late.
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2 September—21 January 2024
A curve is a broken line
Hoda Afshar
The first major solo exhibition by one of Australia’s most innovative and unflinching photo-media artists. Through her photographs and moving image works, Iranian-born, Melbourne-based Hoda Afshar examines the politics of image-making. Deeply researched yet emotionally sensitive, her work can be seen as a form of activism as much as an artistic inquiry.
Until January 2024
brick vase clay cup jug
Guest curated by Glenn Barkley, brick vase clay cup jug is a space between gallery storage and gallery display where magical associations are conjured.
From 5 November
Kandinsky
Showcasing the life and work of one of the most influential and best-loved European modernists. Thiscomprehensive exhibition, curated with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, draws from the Guggenheim’s rich holdings to reveal Kandinsky’s work in depth.
Art Space on The Concourse
www.willoughby.nsw.gov.au/arts
409 Victoria Avenue, Chatswood, NSW 2067 [Map 7]
0401 638 501
Wed to Fri 11am–5pm Sat and Sun 11am–4pm.
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Until 5 November
Ebb & Flow
Geoffrey Adams
Geoffrey Adams’ mangrove landscape paintings use multiple layers of pigment, and often run across the canvas in different directions. He frequently paints while the canvas is flat on the ground, dripping pigments from different heights. The canvas is then lifted and turned as the liquid paint forms random patterns and colour combinations. This experimental process can be quite random, but produces unexpected and highly distinctive works that are almost impossible to replicate.
8 November–19 November
Mending
The Blue Hour Photographic Collective A contemporary photographic exhibition presented by The Blue Hour Photographic Collective, which explores the concept of ‘mending’. Ours is a new world and mending has been lost like a hole in a sock. Mending, repairing, healing and restoring are all possible to ensure a sustainable society and environment. This group explore themes of mending the body, mending the mindset and mending the environment.
22 November–3 December
What We Truly Desire
Dawn Berger, Monica Clonda, Bronwyn Hammond, Andrea Holliday, Angela Leigh, Charmian Porter, Judith Rostron and Fiona Talintyre
The power of art is to feel something influential that resonates deep within you. Perhaps you see hope when you are feeling disheartened, or you feel beauty when your life feels stark, or you sense a celebration when life is good. In this group exhibition, the artists use their passions, feelings and desires to create paintings that serve as a source of support and encouragement for others. As humans, what we truly desire is to be understood by others. In art, what we desire is for the painting to help us to understand ourselves a little bit better. Simply, art makes our lives better.
6 December–17 December
Urbanus
Open Bite Printmakers
In this exhibition, all manner of urban vistas combine with whimsy, social commentary, environmental concern, history, questions and challenges. The central installation in this exhibition is a large wall of prints and printed sculptures that form a comprehensive collection of techniques, concepts and philosophies revolving around notions of the urban environment.
Artsite Contemporary Australia
165 Salisbury Road, Camperdown, NSW 2050 [Map 7]
02 9519 9677
Thu to Sun, 11am–5pm.
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11 November–10 December
Collector’s Choice 2023: Annual End of Year Christmas Exhibition
Australian Design Centre
www.australiandesigncentre.com
113–115 William Street, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010 [Map 8]
02 9361 4555
Tues to Fri 11am–5pm, Sat 11am–4pm.
Entry by donation.
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30 November—31 January 2024
Ceramic Stories–Digital Connections
Bringing together a digital designer, a group of emerging artists and emerging curator Elaine Kim, this exhibition explores the narrative possibilities of ceramics activated through digital interventions.
30 November—31 January 2024
Camille Laddawan: Kite
Exploring origin stories, cultural displacement and the differences between ancestry and heritage, through a series of beaded works, including a kite, video and archival material.
Object Space (window gallery):
30 November—31 January 2024
Minka Gillian: Mini Mind Garden
An installation of hanging sculptural forms made from found and recycled material.
Australian Galleries
www.australiangalleries.com.au
15 Roylston Street, Paddington, NSW 2021 [Map 10]
02 9360 5177
Open daily 10am–6pm.
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