314 Abercrombie Gallery
314 Abercrombie Street, Darlington, NSW 2008 [Map 14] 0404 146 738 See our website for latest information.
This small, inviting, bright gallery nestled snugly in Darlington beside the Redfern area is the up-and-coming art precinct of Sydney. We have Carrigeworks, the White Rabbit and many smaller galleries nearby.
4 May–13 May
Landscapes
Stefan Kater
This collection is both breathtaking and relaxing; landscapes of changing light, colour, movement, and texture. Get a sneak preview of Stefan’s unique style - come along and tell us how you would describe this work. Personal viewings are available upon request. Exhibition opening: Saturday, 4 May, 4pm–8pm.
Annandale Galleries
110 Trafalgar Street, Annandale, Sydney, NSW 2038 [Map 7] 02 9552 1699 Wed to Sat 11am–4pm.
Artbank Sydney
222 Young Street, Waterloo, NSW 2017 [Map 9] 02 9697 6000 Tue to Thu 12pm–4pm or by appointment.
Artbank is part of the Australian Government Office for the Arts, in the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts. For 40 years Artbank has supported Australia’s contemporary art sector.
29 February—29 March
Artbank Window Gallery – Are we there yet? Curated by Artbank
Inspired by the Australian road trip, Are we there yet? Brings together artworks from Artbank’s national collection that capture both the awe and mundanity that can be inspired by the act of looking out the car window and the importance of car travel to bring people and families together.
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. See our website for latest information
Until 10 March
Kandinsky
Showcasing the life and work of one of the most influential and best-loved European modernists. This comprehensive 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.
Until 10 March
Invisible Friends
Georgiana Houghton
In conjunction with the major exhibition Kandinsky at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Invisible Friends is a rare Sydney showing of ‘spirit drawings’ created in the 1860s and ‘70s by Georgiana Houghton (1814–84).
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. See our website for latest information.
Until 28 April
Louise Bourgeois: Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day? Experience the strange beauty and emotional power of Louise Bourgeois’s art, in the largest exhibition of her work ever seen in Australia.
9 March–10 June
24th Biennale of Sydney: Ten Thousand Suns
Titled Ten Thousand Suns and curated by co-artistic directors Cosmin Costinaş and Inti Guerrero, the 24th Biennale of Sydney seeks to convey a ‘solar joy’ of cultural multiplicities – the constellation of factors that contribute to our different identities.
Ongoing
Yiribana Gallery
The Yiribana Gallery features a selection of new acquisitions is displayed alongside collection highlights from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art collection, showcasing the diversity of practice across the country, and across time, media and art styles.
Artspace
43–51 Cowper Wharf Roadway, Woolloomooloo, NSW 2011 [Map 8] 02 9356 0555 See our website for latest information.
9 March–10 June
24th Biennale of Sydney: Ten Thousand Suns
Exhibiting artists at Artspace include: Doreen Chapman, Adebunmi Gbadabo, Li Jiun-Yang, r e a, Eric-Paul Riege, Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, and Trevor Yeung. Artistic Directors: Cosmin Costinaș and Inti Guerrero.
Art Space on The Concourse
www.willoughby.nsw.gov.au/arts
409 Victoria Avenue, Chatswood, NSW 2067 [Map 7] 0401 638 501 Wed to Sun 11am–5pm. See our website for latest information
Until 24 March
Smart Expressions 2024
Willoughby City Council presents an exhibition of student artworks selected from the 2023 NSW HSC practical examination in Visual Arts.
The exhibition demonstrates the interests and passions of a new generation of young artists. Celebrating the artistic talents and achievements of young people, the exhibition features a selection of artworks from students who attended six local high schools: Bradfield Senior College, Chatswood High School, Glenaeon Rudolf Steiner School, Mercy Catholic College, St Pius X College and Willoughby Girls High School.
28 March–21 April
HOME GROWN; A Critical Past
A group exhibition exploring how artists respond to the past to inform the future.
We know the future poses many challenges, but what can we take from the past into the future? Similarly, what should we leave behind to better inform future decision making? Reality collapse, global tensions, climate change, increased loneliness, social unrest and events that will necessitate migration are but a few current and impending affairs that make our sense of the future seem uncertain.
HOME GROWN; A Critical Past seeks to synthesise what matters to artists and the role it plays in giving voice to community concerns, with a special perspective of looking at the past to find solutions for the future.
24 April–5 May
A Place to Call Home
Marta Madison
Celebrating NSW Heritage Month, this exhibition of hand-painted watercolours by Marta Madison showcases Victorian, Georgian, Edwardian, Arts and Craft, Federation and post-war houses throughout NSW and Victoria. Pencil sketches and artefacts accompany the exhibition, as well as recorded interviews with the current homeowners offering in-depth knowledge of the history of these houses and how they have been lovingly restored to their former glory.
Australian Galleries
www.australiangalleries.com.au
15 Roylston Street, Paddington, NSW 2021 [Map 10] 02 9360 5177 Open daily 10am–6pm.
See our website for latest information.
20 February–9 March
Simon Fieldhouse
20 February–9 March
It is at eye level where I aspire to be Deborah Williams
19 March–13 April
Michael Le Grand
19 March–13 April
Sue Anderson
23 April–11 May
Dianne Fogwell
23 April–11 May
Nick Howson
Bankstown Arts Centre
www.cbcity.nsw.gov.au/arts-centre
5 Olympic Parade, Bankstown, NSW 22 [Map 11] 02 9707 5400 Tue to Sat 10am–4pm.
9 March–27 April
Utopia: Painting for peace and cultural wellbeing Explores ideas around peace and wellbeing through the eyes of young people. Western Sydney artist Emmanuel Asante’s work is featured alongside artworks made by students from Liverpool Boys and Liverpool Girls High Schools, through a series of workshops facilitated by the artist and supported by CuriousWorks and Western Sydney University.
9 March–27 April
Flux + Flow
Caroline Garcia (NYC/Sydney), Kristina Mah (Sydney), Michellie Jade Charvat (Bendigo)
A ground-breaking transdisciplinary exhibition, Flux + Flow uncovers the expansive creative potential when two distinct disciplines of martial arts and contemporary art converge. The works of all three featured artists are deeply informed by their martial arts practice.
New York based Caroline Garcia employs symbols and systems of Kali and Jeet Kune Do to recuperate violence as a means of engaging with themes of identity, immigration and safety. Western Sydney resident Kristina Mah channels her karate practices into somatic explorations of aesthetics through the lens of media technologies. Palawan artist (Bendigo based) Michellie Jade Charvat reflects on her relationship with her First Nations heritage, spiritual practices and beliefs through the context of Muay Thai with creative processes rooted in digital drawing, print media and photography.
The conjunction of the martial and contemporary arts lies in the state of flow, where discursive thought and judgement dissolves, giving way to instinct driven, heightened awareness.
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Wiradjuri Country 70–78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, NSW 2795 [Map 12] 02 6333 6555 Tue to Fri 10am–5pm, Weekends and public holidays 10am–2pm, closed Mon.
See our website for more information.
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG) is one of the oldest regional galleries in NSW. It is a professionally staffed facility owned and operated by Bathurst Regional Council.
Until 21 April
Deborah Kelly: CREATION
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery presents Deborah Kelly: CREATION — a queer insurrectionary science fiction climate change religion, unfurling through years of collaborations across generations, identities, artforms and sites. The work manifests in human encounters; through exhibitions, performances and public workshops.
Defying fires, floods, fevers and emboldened discriminatory exclusion dressed up as ‘religious freedom’, CREATION works with marginalised communities to develop a vivid new belief system. Ways to gather, to commune; a framework for imagining a place in a more than human world. An elaborate queer lattice to support the viridian and the speculative. CREATION confronts climate crisis and truth decay with a crowdsourced faith drawn from practical politics, mysticism and collectivity. Through cross-disciplinary projects, public brainstorms and participatory performances, this religion evolves before our very eyes.
Blacktown Arts
78 Flushcombe Road, Blacktown, NSW 2148 [Map 12] 02 9839 6558 Tue to Sat 10am–5pm.
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16 January–5 April
Blacktown City Art Prize
