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 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’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.
HOLDING GROUND, curated by Gavin Wilson, investigates how the places we live in sustain the fragile web of life, and how local landscapes shape cultural identity, ecological awareness and human connection. With artists drawn from Sydney, Blue Mountains, Northern Rivers and regional NSW, the exhibition offers perspectives shaped by rural, coastal and non-metropolitan environments, while also reflecting on urban development, environmental stewardship and our relationship to land and water.
Artworks by IMANTS TILLERS, widely recognised as one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists, feature alongside Sydney-based artist JANET LAURENCE, whose internationally recognised practice engages with ecology, environment and place. They are joined by a diverse group of established and emerging artists whose work reflects deep engagement with landscape, land use and lived experience across New South Wales.
The exhibition runs at S.H. Ervin Gallery until Sunday 3 May 2026.
DANI MARTI's new sculptures, architectural in scale, were a key part of the recent opening of Newcastle Art Gallery (NAG), following the completion of the gallery's recent expansion. The opening event for NAG, featuring MARTI's sculptures was huge - with thousands of people in attendance.
MARTI'S hanging red sculpture, 'Looking for Felix' is installed in the major exhibition, 'Iconic Loved Unexpected', in close proximity to the JULIE RRAP series, 'Persona and Shadow'.
"Around a corner, the dense red sculpture of Dani Marti offers a more tactile experience. Constructed from many tightly hung plastic-curtains that visitors are invited to move through, the roughly 4 by 4 metre Looking for Felix (2000) engulfs you in an intensity of colour and gentle swishing sounds: an ode to the Cuban artist Félix González-Torres." - Lara Chapman, The Guardian
New interactive works by MARTI were also on show in NAG’s outdoor exhibition ‘Inside/Out’, curated by Jasmine Fletcher, to celebrate Sydney WorldPride. ‘Inside/Out’ platforms LGBTQIA+ artists in order to explore the dual visibility and invisibility of queer expression and celebrates the central role of art in rendering visible the full spectrum of queer experience. MARTI's giant fluffy works were heavily featured in this show in the temporary sculpture park.
We are delighted to share that JOHN YOUNG has recently been featured in an article in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, titled 'Why have there been no great Asian-Australian artists? Towards an alternative (Asian-) Australian art history', by Michelle Antoinette.
'...in his book The Asian Modern, historian of Asian art John Clark considers how YOUNG Zerunge’s Australia-based practice critically intervenes within and expands the traditional art historical understanding of ‘Asian’ modern art via the artist’s diasporic status and artistic concerns, specifically as an Australian artist of Chinese ethnic heritage born in Hong Kong; relatedly, Jacqueline Lo has reflected on YOUNG Zerunge’s contribution to diasporic story telling and art-making through his interest in uncovering lesser known histories of transnational Asians and transnationalism as experienced by notable figures in Australia and Asia'. - excerpt from Antoinette's article.
The MAPh exhibition, 'CODED BLOOMS', curated by Angela Conner includes 23 new commissioned works by BRASSINGTON, featured alongside works by Robert Mapplethorpe (drawn from the NGA collection), and commissions by Del Kathryn Barton, Jake Preval and Meng-Yu Yan.
In CODED BLOOMS, the artists push the floral beyond polite still life traditions into unruly and intimate terrain. The artists each approach the flower as a site of psychological tension, bodily presence and relational meaning. Here, petals, shadows and surfaces operate as signals, carrying what is hidden, forbidden or quietly radical.
In BRASSINGTON’s images, the bloom hovers within a charged psychological space.
BRASSINGTON looms large in the subconscious of contemporary Australian art. Recognised as the mind behind some of Australia’s most fragile and intense images, Brassington is informed by surrealism, feminism, and psychoanalysis.
The exhibition opens Saturday 7 March and runs until 24 May.
JACKY REDGATE's work, 'Light Throw (Mirrors)' is now showing in Latrobe Regional Gallery's exhibition, 'Unpacking Home'. The exhibition runs until May 24, 2026.
In 2018, Latrobe Regional Gallery showcased REDGATE's 'Light Throw (Mirrors) Fold #1 –10' photographic series in its entirety (see image 2). The work is part of her ongoing investigation of light and space, her photographs and sculptures are grounded in conceptualism and minimalism.
'Unpacking Home' pulls works from the Latrobe Regional Gallery collection that trace how migrants transform displacement into belonging through objects, memories, and daily rituals. It reflects on home as both place and practice – the tender, ongoing work of turning the unfamiliar into the known.
JACKY REDGATE's feature article, 'The Earth Moved', is written by Robert Leonard (Director of the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) Brisbane) and is a multi-page piece exploring her recent solo exhibition at ARC ONEGallery, 'Flowers and Frolics', 2025.
'There are games going on within Flowers and Frolics. But the series also has to be understood as part of a bigger game involving Redgate’s whole oeuvre. Redgate has been exhibiting for decades, building a complex, cross-referenced body of work, operating at intersections of conceptualism, minimalism and feminism, traversing many media. Where she goes next is often a surprise, her moves perverse. She regularly throws spanners into the works, making new things that derange our sense of older ones, deterritorialising, reterritorialising. Increasingly, this has become the subject of her work.' - Robert Leonard, VAULT issue 53.
Robert Leonard is an art curator and writer with over three decades of experience. He has returned to the
Director’s seat at IMA, having earlier led there from 2005 to 2013. He was the curator of New Zealand
pavilions at the Venice Biennale in 2003 and 2015.
ANNE ZAHALKA’S ZAHALKAWORLD - an artist's archive will be opening at Tweed Regional Gallery this Friday 21 February! Please join me should you be flying through the area. Exhibition runs through to 17 May.
"ZAHALKAWORLD – an artist’s archive brings together key bodies of work that span Zahalka’s practice, presented alongside collected treasures from her archive that inform and inspire her. Encompassing material that is both personal and professional, intellectual and physical, these archival components are incorporated into a recreation of her house-studio within the gallery space.
Imaginative, immersive and playful, this major survey exhibition invites audiences into the artist’s working life and her creative process to explore the illusionary worlds for which she is renowned."
Curated by Anouska Phizacklea, MAPh Director. A Museum of Australian Photography travelling exhibition.
DANI MARTI's solo exhibition at PACC Gallery centres on his work, Furious Red (Vermell Furiós), a circular relief made from melted domestic plastics, curated by Kim Blunt.
'Part of a series exploring red as an emotional and physical condition, the work reflects states of pressure, urgency and permanent emergency. His works collapse distinctions between sculpture, textile and relief, presenting a world under pressure - where structure and vulnerability remain in constant negotiation.' - excerpt from exhibition text.
The exhibition officially opens on Saturday 18 April.
We’re proud to see GUAN WEI’s Cloud B#3 travel from the National Gallery of Australia to Warwick Art Gallery as part of the Sharing the National Collection program - written about in a media release from the Minister of the Arts.
On view in the Southern Downs for the next two years, this striking bronze sculpture reflects Guan Wei’s distinctive visual language - blending Chinese cultural heritage with Australian symbolism.
"This loan offers rare access to a major contemporary artwork by an artist whose own story of resilience adds depth and relevance to our regional context. Its uplifting sense of positivity and gentle whimsy will spark curiosity, joy, and conversation, enriching our cultural landscape in meaningful ways.” - Warwick Art Gallery Director, Karina Devine
Congratulations to Warwick Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Australia on this important partnership and loan.
Guan Wei’s bronze sculptures are highly recognised for their unique fusion of Eastern and Western traditions, embodying his signature blend of cultural symbolism and contemporary form. Collectors value Guan Wei’s sculptures for their conceptual depth, meticulous craftsmanship, and their powerful engagement with themes of identity, history, and cultural dialogue.
CRYUS TANG's work, 'High Atlas', from her 'Crystalline Echoes' series was recently selected from over 700 entries to be a finalist in the Darebin Art Prize 2026 - a biennial national multi-medium acquisitive art prize awarding excellence in contemporary visual art.
'High Atlas' was produced by TANG during her last residency in Morocco and is inspired by her experience of the vibrant landscape of the mountain ranges.
TANG has relentlessly perused the tussle between photography and memory. In 'Crystalline Echoes', TANG distorts her imagery, forcing the photograph to render a moment in time in physical space. 'Crystalline Echoes' presents a series of metallic sculptures, folded like paper airplanes or emerging like irregular crystals. TANG glides between the solidity of sculpture and the instability of the faded photograph. While their metal forms recall Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao or Ron Robertson-Swann’s iconic yellow public sculpture Vault (1980), the surface of each work holds a mysterious glint from the past—an echo of an ephemeral experience that resist all permanence.
TANG's work will be exhibited in The Darebin Art Prize 2026 at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre from Wednesday 25 February until Saturday 20 June 2026.
