JOHN YOUNG | 'Inside the Mirage', TarraWarra Museum of Art

📍 TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, VIC.

📆 25 July - 1 November 2026.

Curator: James Lynch

'Inside the Mirage is a group exhibition shaped by the imaginative and philosophical worlds of artists Ian Fairweather (1891–1974) and John Young Zerunge (b. 1956), held in the TarraWarra Museum of Art Collection. Drawing these two practices into dialogue, the exhibition highlights new perspectives and connections between Australian art history and the present. It foregrounds artworks that have shared and inherited stories as their basis, revealing the intertwined histories and complex cultural narratives that shape our contemporary identities and world views.' - Excerpt from exhibition text.

IMAGES:

1. YOUNG, 'Transculture, Colourful Beast', 2003, digital print and oil on canvas, 300 x 445.5 cm (overall).

NIKE SAVVAS | PURPLE HAZE, Orange Regional Gallery

📍 Orange Regional Gallery, NSW

📆 27 June - 15 November 2026.

A major new exhibition of NIKE SAVVAS' work is soon on show at Orange Regional Gallery, featuring her mesmerising 'Atomic' series.

NIKE SAVVAS is a leading contemporary artist renowned for her dazzling palette that engenders powerful optical experiences. Conceptually grounded, SAVVAS’ art practice extends beyond the confines of materiality, inviting viewers into a broader realm of physical, perceptual, and experiential immersion.

'Through vibrant colour, kinetic energy, and immersive scale, Nike Savvas: Purple Haze transforms Orange Regional Gallery into an unforgettable experience pulsing with memory, movement and connection to landscape.' - Excerpt from exhibition text.

IMAGES:

1. Portrait of SAVVAS. Image credit: Steven Siewert/Fairfax Syndication.

2. Detail of SAVVAS' print, 'Atomic #10', 2005/2012 C-Type Photograph, edition of 5, 124 x 156 cm.

DESMOND LAZARO | Avatar: Forms of Vishnu, AGNSW.

📍 Art Gallery of New South Wales, Naala Badu building

📆 20 June - 5 October 2026.

Curator: Melanie Eastburn

DESMOND LAZARO has produced a pair of large paintings for the group exhibition, 'Avatar: Forms of Vishnu'. His new work included in this significant show depict his interpretation of the Hindu creation legend, the 'Churning of the Ocean of Milk'.

'Spanning 15 centuries of transformation, devotion and imagination, Avatar: Forms of Vishnu will be the largest presentation of South and Southeast Asian art shown at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in over 20 years, and the first Australian exhibition devoted to the Hindu deity Vishnu. Across many times, places and mediums, artists have reimagined Vishnu and his many avatars, giving form to one of the world’s most enduring and richly visual traditions.' - Excerpt from exhibition text.

IMAGES:

1. Portrait of LAZARO, provided by the artist.

JACKY REDGATE | Anarchive: Gut-feeling, group exhibition at ACE Gallery

📍 ACE, Lion Art Centre, Adelaide (Kaurna Yarta)

📆 Open until 27 June 2026

Curators: Sasha Grbich, Danni Zuvela.

JACKY REDGATE is an exhibiting artist in the current show, 'Anarchive: Gut-feeling', an exhibition exploring how experimental art is experienced, reimagined and remembered.

'Bringing together eleven new commissions alongside rarely-seen historic works, the exhibition revisits experimental art through a living archive – one that includes artists and practices that have often been overlooked or underrepresented – particularly those by women.' - Excerpt from exhibition text.

REDGATE's career began in the early 1980s, at a major turning point in the art world internationally and nationally and during the groundbreaking debates of postmodernism, especially regarding the role that photography played. Since this time, REDGATE has continued to push her work and has explored the interplay of systems of perception and representation, particularly in relation to photography. Her work has continuing relevance, engaging with personal and impersonal systems, modernism and feminism.

IMAGES:

1. Portrait of REDGATE, provided by the artist.

2. Still image from REDGATE's super 8 film, 'True Romance' (1980), Duration 2:45 mins.

NIKE SAVVAS | Public Artwork with UAP, Sydney Children's Hospital.

Congratulations to NIKE SAVVAS for the recent completion of her large scale installation artwork, ‘Chroma Cosmic’, at Sydney Children's Hospital.

'A kaleidoscope of radiant light, space, and colour - mesmerising and interactive, this work offers luminous portals into other worlds. From the microscopic to the cosmic, these coloured windows invite viewers to engage deeply with their own perception, connecting the body to both place and the universe through immersive encounters with colour.

At its heart, the work draws on the rainbow as a powerful symbol of confidence and optimism. Often appearing after a storm, the rainbow is a beacon of hope, promise and connection - representing beauty, transformation, and the enduring bonds of love and friendship.' - Excerpt from SAVVAS' artist statement.

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Curator: City People

Image Credit: Jonathan Cohen Photography

Funding Acknowledgement: Commissioned by Health Infrastructure for the NSW Government

IMANTS TILLERS | FINALIST in The Hadley's Art prize, Hobart

📍 Hadley's Art Prize, Hadley's Orient Hotel, Tasmania

📆 1 August - 23 August, 2026

Judges: Abdul Abdullah, Judith Ryan AM and Sarah Wallace.

Congratulations to TILLERS for his selection as a finalist in the Hadley's Art Prize. TILLERS was selected for his painting, 'Pikilyi', created by him as a celebration of the late Walpiri elder, Michael Nelson Jagamara, with whom he collaborated on several major projects.

Worth $100,000 the acquisitive prize will awarded ‘for the best portrayal of the Australian landscape’.

IMAGES:

1. TILLERS, 𝘗𝘪𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘺𝘪, 2026, synthetic polymer paint, gouache on 16 canvasboards, 101.6 x 142.2 cm.

JACKY REDGATE | DIMENSION, Sydney College of the Arts

📍 Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney

📆 Until 13 June, 2026.

Curator: Liam Garstang and Alex Gawronski

JACKY REDGATE is interested in what occurs in the translation of the three-dimensional world into two-dimensional images. Over the last six decades REDGATE has worked almost solely with mirrors, and explores emotionally laden objects that tease with a combination of abstraction and autobiographical mirroring.

'This exhibition focuses on the myriad implications of dimension and scale. It brings together a diversity of perspectives from the global to the parochial, the monumental to the miniscule, the unmissable to the frequently disregarded.' — Alex Gawronski

IMAGES:

1. Detail of REDGATE's work in DIMENSION, SCA.

2. Installation view of REDGATE's work in DIMENSION. Image credit: Provided by USYD.

PAT BRASSINGTON | Last weeks to view CODED BLOOMS, MAPh

📍 Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh)

📆 Until May 24, 2026

Curator: Angela Connor

'PAT BRASSINGTON's images are as enigmatic as the artist herself. Over several decades, she has developed a distinct visual language in which the image becomes a site of psychological pressure rather than representation.

Bodies, flowers and domestic interiors reoccur throughout her work, not as symbols to be decoded but as unstable forms that register sensation, memory and disturbance.' - Excerpt from MAPh exhibition text.

IMAGES:

1. BRASSINGTON, 'Annunciation #22', 2025, Pigment print, edition of 6 + 2 A/P, 60 x 44 cm.

2. BRASSINGTON, 'Annunciation #3', 2025, Pigment print, edition of 6 + 2 A/P, 63.5 x 55 cm.

GUO JIAN | This Moment: Highlights from the White Rabbit Collection of Chinese Contemporary Art art HOTA

This Moment: Highlights from the White Rabbit Collection of Chinese Contemporary Art is a demonstration of art’s power to document change, challenge perception and connect across cultures. Capturing the energetic spirit of 21st-century China, this exhibition features bold, experimental artworks produced over the last 25 years that reclaim history, interrogate authority and reflect profound social change.

The exhibition features more than 35 works by 25 artists with artworks spanning video, photography, painting, light-based installations and monumental sculpture. The exhibition includes works by leading artists such as Guo Jian, Geng Xue, LuYang, Peng Hung-Chih, Xu Zhen, Zhang Dali and Zhang Peili.

You can view Guo Jian's work in this exhibition at HOTA Gallery, Queensland from 18 April - 11 October 2026

IMAGE: Guo Jian in studio, 2024. Courtesy of Guo Jian

GUAN WEI | AGNSW Wynne Prize 2026 Finalist

Congratulations to GUAN WEI for being shortlisted for the Wynne Prize 2026 at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

The Wynne Prize celebrates two major categories of art: Australian landscape painting and figurative sculpture. Diverse representations of Australia appear alongside the variety and ingenuity of contemporary sculpture.

Guan Wei’s work 'Becoming Landscape' merges elements of the Australian environment with Chinese culture, creating a layered and imaginative scene that reflects the artist’s cross-cultural experience. Through stylised forms and symbolic details, the painting explores themes of migration, identity, and cultural memory.

The prize opens at the Art Gallery of New South Wales on 9 May and runs until 16 August 2026.

IMAGE: GUAN WEI, Becoming Landscape, acrylic on canvas, 10 panels; 87.5 x 46 cm x 3.5 cm (each); 181 x 254 cm overall. Image courtesy of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

JACKY REDGATE | Wollongong Art Gallery, 'The Architecture of Feeling'

📍Wollongong Art Gallery

📆 Exhibiting until 21 June, 2026.

JACKY REDGATE's work, 'Flowers and Frolics #7', is currently being exhibited at Wollongong Art Gallery as part of their exhibition, 'The Architecture of Feeling'.

The work was also shown in the 2025 Wollongong Art Prize and was then acquired by the gallery.

REDGATE's 'Flowers and Frolics #7' is one of her series of photographs that stage playful, hallucinatory scenes using Mylar mirror—a reflective polyester film that warps and distorts reflections. Carefully composed still life flower arrangements featuring common household blooms such as gerberas, roses, poppies, irises, and sunflowers are paired with kitschy vases, ceramic figurines, and vegetables. These objects are arranged on gleaming, patterned fabrics and lace doilies across tabletops, resulting in surreal displays that hover between domestic charm and optical illusion.

IMAGES:

1. Installation of REDGATE's, 'Flowers and Frolics #7', on display at WAG.

2. REDGATE, 'Flowers and Frolics #7', 2025, Pigment print, edition of 3 + 1AP, 76 x 95 cm.

LYDIA WEGNER | FINALIST, National Works on Paper 2026

📍Mornington Peninsula Gallery

📆 5 September - 22 November 2026.

Congratulations LYDIA WEGNER, recently announced as a finalist in National Works on Paper 2026 (NWOP), at Mornington Peninsula Gallery.

WEGNER entered NWOP amongst 931 other artists, and has been selected as one of the 68 finalists.

NWOP is an exhibition spanning painting, printmaking, drawing, video, sculpture and weaving, with shortlisted artists highlighting the versatility of paper, and its capacity to carry both intimate narratives and broader social ideas.⁠

WEGNER was selected for her work, 'Aqua Orange', one from her recent solo exhibition, Beam, at ARC ONE.

JULIE RRAP | THE ART OF INTIMACY: Symposium on Art, Design and Theory, at the European Cultural Centre in Venice

📍European Cultural Centre, Venice

📆 8th May 2026

🕛 9.30am - 2pm.

JULIE RRAP is a guest speaker at the European Cultural Centre in Venice, for the upcoming event, 2026 Future Cities; Livable Futures: The Art of Intimacy: Symposium on Art, Design, and Theory.

'The Art of Intimacy brings the individual to the exhibition, Intimate Unthinkables. Intimate Unthinkables brings into conversation tender moments of everyday life taking place against a backdrop of global social upheaval and change. Common moments of respite and tenderness engage with contemporary realities of brutality and vulnerability.

The exhibition takes the ‘encounter’ as a point of departure to both embrace and question the multifaceted ways in which human existence is formed and informed through relationships that are both intensely personal, abstractly structural, and collectively shared.' - excerpt from European Cultural Centre Symposium text.

Image: Portrait of Julie Rrap at the MCA. Image Credit: Zan Wimberley

DANI MARTI | MADA Gallery, Inter-narratives of hope: building catastrophe resilience

Presented at MADA Gallery, this exhibition explores hope as a generative curatorial framework. Curated by Isabella Hone-Saunders and Paul Boyé, it draws on Hone-Saunders’ PhD research, bringing together diverse artistic responses to resilience in the face of catastrophe.

The group exhibition features Dani Marti’s video work alongside contributions by Wendy Hubert, Susan Norrie, Joshua Petherick, Holly Childs & Gediminas Žygus, Rory Pilgrim, and Polly Borland.

On view until 10 May 2026.

CYRUS TANG | FINALIST in Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize 2026.

Projection of TANG's 'Eclipsed Presence', 2 channel video, 2024.

Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize 2026.

📍Centenary Centre, Ravenswood School for Girls, Gate 3, 10 Henry St, Gordon, NSW.

📆 Saturday 16 May to Sunday 31 May 2026

Congratulations to CYRUS TANG for her selection as a finalist in the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize 2026. TANG was selected for her recent video work, 'Eclipsed Presence'.

'In our rapidly evolving modern world, traditional crafts are gradually fading, eclipsed by the march of industrialization and mass production. This project seeks to recontextualize these time-honored practices within a contemporary framework, engaging in a dialogue between absence and presence, disappearance and resurgence.' - excerpt from TANG's artist statement.

The exhibition is the highest-value art prize for women in Australia and includes prizes across Professional Artist, Emerging Artist and Indigenous Emerging Artist Categories, as well as a People's Choice Award and Highly Commended Awards.

IMANTS TILLERS | FINALIST in Mandorla Art Award, 2026.

Imants Tillers in front of Kangaroo Blank 1988. Photo credit: Janie Barrett.

Mandorla Art Award, 2026.

📍Holmes a Court Gallery, 10 Douglas St, Gooyaman, West Perth.

📆 9th -30th May 2026

Congratulations to IMANTS TILLERS for his selection as a finalist in this year’s Mandorla Art Award. The prize invites Australian contemporary artists to engage with a biblical text and contribute to the cultural life of Australia. Selected by judges Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Anna Davis and Dr Glenn Morrison, artists were asked to respond to the theme of ‘What is Truth?’. The finalists’ artworks will be exhibited at Holmes a Court Gallery in Gooyaman, West Perth.

JOHN YOUNG Artist talk and exhibition launch at Chinese Museum

YOUNG, 'Times Slow Passing #6', 2023, Intaglio & Lithography on paper, edition of 20, 44 x 38 cm.

Artist Talk by JOHN YOUNG:

📍Chinese Museum, 22 Cohen Place, Melbourne.

📆 2pm on Saturday, 2 May, 2026.

JOHN YOUNG will be presenting an artist talk at the Chinese Museum, for the launch of his upcoming exhibition, TIME'S SLOW PASSING: Voices Between Past and Present.

'This exhibition centres on the story of Jong Ah Siug, a nineteenth-century Chinese miner in colonial Australia who was unjustly confined in a mental asylum for over thirty years. Organised in four sections, it interweaves contemporary artworks by artist John Young, created in response to Jong’s story, opening a dialogue across time and reflecting on memory, suffering, and the persistence of life.' - Exhibition text.

TIME'S SLOW PASSING runs Saturday 2 May - Sunday 31 May, 2026.

Curated by Aimee Li and Shihan Liu.

ANNE ZAHALKA New National Postage stamp

We are incredibly excited to announce that ANNE ZAHALKA's seminal photograph, 'Bathers from Bondi: Playground of the Pacific' (1989), is featured in a new release of Australia Post stamps, alongside historic moments captured by the incredible Mervyn Bishop and the late David Moore.

Congratulations ANNE ZAHALKA on this outstanding achievement.

The stamps are now available online at Australia Post. Find them here.

PAT BRASSINGTON features in DARK MOFO 2026

PAT BRASSINGTON features in the group exhibition All The Fires Come Alive as part of the iconic DARK MOFO 2026 program - free entry at the State Library and Archives of Tasmania.

Uncover arcane knowledge, spirits, and alchemy within the collections of the State Library and Archives of Tasmania, where contemporary artists and esoteric texts reignite what’s unseen.

Artists include Atong Atem, Marion Abraham, Joel Stephen Birnie, Pat Brassington, Lou Conboy, Julie Gough, Emily Parsons-Lord, Edith Perrenot, Michael Schlitz, Hilary Schofield with the Convict Records, Sisters Akousmatica with Jack Mitchell, and Ursula Woods.

Opening with DARK MOFO on 11 June 2026.

JULIE RRAP collaborative curation of Switch at Sydney College of the Arts

JULIE RRAP’s collaborative curation of Switch with Cherine Fahd is now open at Sydney College of the Arts and runs until 11 April.

'Switch is an exhibition in which five artists and five writers collaborate by stepping into unfamiliar modes of practice. Artists write; writers make art. This displacement is intended to test what happens when practice is loosened from its usual forms. From this starting point, each pair develops their work through ongoing response: writing, making, or shifting approach as their dialogue unfolds.' - Exhibition text.

Artists: Debra Phillips & Anthony Gardner; Patrick Pound & Daniel Palmer; Julie Rrap & Anne Marsh; Cherine Fahd & George Alexander; Karla Dickens & Daniel Browning.