IMANTS TILLERS & JANET LAURENCE featured in HOLDING GROUND at S.H. Ervin Gallery

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 features multiple major works in Newcastle Art Gallery's re-opening celebrations

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.

JOHN YOUNG features in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art

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.

PAT BRASSINGTON features 23 new works in CODED BLOOMS at Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh)

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 features in Unpacking Home at Latrobe Regional Gallery

Redgate, ‘Light Throw (Mirrors) Fold b', 2013-2014, chromogenic photograph handprinted , 126 x 158 cm.

JACKY REDGATE's work, 'Light Throw (Mirrors) Fold b', 2013-4 is now showing in Latrobe Regional Gallery's exhibition, 'Unpacking Home'. The exhibition runs until May 24, 2026.

'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 featured in VAULT

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 solo exhibition ZAHALKAWORLD at Tweed Regional Gallery

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 solo exhibition FALLEN at PACC Gallery

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.

More information here >

GUAN WEI features in media release from Minister of the Arts

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.

Read the artcile here >

CYRUS TANG Darebin Art Prize finalist

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.

PAT BRASSINGTON & IMANTS TILLERS feature in A Moment in Time - Collecting Contemporary at Geelong Gallery

PAT BRASSINGTON & IMANTS TILLERS feature in the current exhibition A Moment in Time—Collecting Contemporary at Geelong Gallery.

The show celebrates works acquired over the last decade through the fundraising efforts of Geelong Contemporary, one of the Gallery’s key support groups. Since its establishment in 2016, Geelong Contemporary has focussed on acquiring works by Australian artists working across diverse media, whose works reflect the issues of our times.

The exhibition continues until Sunday 15 Feb 2026.

2025 VCA Artist Opportunity Award goes to Georgia Boseley and Jya-Ruby Nation.

ARC ONE Gallery is delighted to present the 2025 VCA Artist Opportunity Award to Georgia Boseley and Jya-Ruby Nation.

This award is granted from the VCA Master of Contemporary Art and Bachelor of Fine Art courses to offer Boseley and Nation the chance to exhibit at ARC ONE Gallery in 2026.

This is the fourth year that ARC ONE has partnered with VCA to present this award. We are proud to be supporting these outstanding graduates.

Jya-Ruby Nation is a multidisciplinary artist. Through her cyclical, non-linear and self-referential processes of printmaking and animation, Nation examines and attempts to unsettle extractive colonial notions of place, time, memory, and connection. Within artworks that emerge without finality, loop continually, and are formed through a process of repetition, Nation highlights spaces of transition, fluidity, and ambiguity, where relationships to land and healing can be found. Inspired by her upbringing in rural eastern Victorian, Nation evokes rhythms, sequences, pacing and layers that negotiate a colonised identity and belong to an intertidal place.

Georgia Boseley is an award-winning Central and Eastern Arrernte artist and researcher living in Naarm. Her work documents the complexity and resistance of living as a First Nations person today. Boseley creates contemporary sculptural works using traditional weaving practices, alongside large-scale paintings and ceramic sculptures. Her practice often moves across disciplines and materials, embracing mixed media as a third place, a space of experimentation. Her works are held in private collections across the country and in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria.

IMANTS TILLERS features in Memo Magazine

IMANTS TILLERS features in the latest issue of the Memo Magazine in Keith Broadfoot's captivating essay "Crossing the Divide: Von Guérard after Tillers."

Exploring the relationship between Von Guérard's 1863 painting 'North-East View from the Northern Top of Mount Kosciusko' and Tillers 1985 painting 'Mount Analogue', Broadfoot highlights that 'the original and the copy have been placed side by side for the very first time' in the current exhibition 'A Bigger View' at the Home of the Arts (HOTA).

Keith Broadfoot, Memo Magazine, Issue 4, Summer 2025. 'Crossing the Divide: Von Guérard after Tillers', pg 44 - 51.

JULIE RRAP features in the Sydney Morning Herald article

JULIE RRAP features in the Sydney Morning Herald article " What is it like to become friends in your 70s? Very different to when you are in your 20s".

Author Drusilla Modjeska and Julie discuss their journey of being mutual acquaintances for years before finally becoming friends in 2018.

DRUSILLA MODJESKA is one of Australia’s most acclaimed writers. Her books include the award-winning Poppy and the bestselling The Orchard and Stravinsky’s Lunch, which won the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction.

Read the artcile here >

JOHN YOUNG's book History Projects features in Art + Australia

JOHN YOUNG features in Art + Australia journal article 'Feeling History: John Young: The History Projects' by Yu Chieh-Li.

Exploring Young's recent publication with the Power Institute The History Projects, Chieh-Li suggests that "By respecting historical archives, Young creates a ‘space of imagination’ and humane engagement with the past."

NIKE SAVVAS acquisition by The Australian War Memorial

The Australian War Memorial recently acquired Australian artist NIKE SAVVAS’ Walking Home: Road to Trachoni Kythreas (2025). The video artwork marks the 50th anniversary of the Turkish invasion and occupation of Cyprus.

In 2024 Savvas travelled to Cyprus and walked from her mother’s ancestral home in the city of Nicosia to her father’s home village in Trachoni Kythreas, a distance of over 90km. Her walk commemorated the thousands of people killed and displaced during the invasion, including members of Savvas’ Greek Cypriot family.

Alongside video of Savvas’ walk, the video includes archival footage of the ‘Women Walk Home’ anti-occupation marches of the 1970s and 1980s where women from all over the world – including Australia – walked across Cyprus to draw attention to the crisis.

Australian peacekeepers served in Cyprus from 1964 to 2021, making it Australia’s longest peacekeeping mission at 57 years.

Major General Cheryl Pearce AM, CSC served as Force Commander, United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus from 2019–2021. She was the first Australian to hold this role and the second-ever female force commander in the UN. Reflecting on women and peace, she said, “when you think about [peacekeeping] as helping civil society, supporting protection of civilians, and being part of the community … you need to have women as part of the dialogue and as part of the narrative. You can't achieve that through men alone.”

IMANTS TILLERS features in Good As Gold at the Rockhampton Museum of Art

IMANTS TILLERS' remarkable work, 'Epiphany', is currently showing at the Rockhampton Museum of Art (RMOA) in their current exhibition, 'Good As Gold', curated by Shanna Muston, Jonathan McBurnie, and Tessa McIntosh.

'Epiphany' pays homage to one of Australia’s greatest artists - Ian Fairweather. In TILLERS' words,

"I am attracted to the layering of Fairweather’s enigmatic and spiritual paintings which are neither fully abstract nor figurative. In Epiphany I wanted to capture and perhaps amplify the distinctive and transcendental ‘blue’ colour which frequently appears in his work.”

The RMOA exhibition runs from 8 November 2025 – 1 March 2026.

More information here >

ANNE ZAHALKA features in screening at Salamanca Art Centre

ANNE ZAHALKA's video work features in 'Elemental', an upcoming video art screening in Hobart, at the Salamanca Arts Centre on the 4th Dec. Curated by Sarah Rhodes, it brings together 9 artists - Anne Zahalka, David Stephenson, Izabela Pluta, Troy Ruffels, Ellen Dahl, Dave Carswell, David Noonan, Martyn Jolly, and Sarah Rhodes.

'Elemental' explores our deep connection with the natural world. Each film draws on the elements - rock, air, water and fire - as mediators between person and place. These elements are in a continual dialogue with us, revealing how the environment shapes who we are and how we live within it.

CYRUS TANG Norway Artist Residency

CYRUS TANG has been invited to undertake a two-month residency at Kunstnarhuset Messen in Norway during Winter in 2026. Set within the dramatic fjord landscape, this residency will support the development of Winter Study, a new project focused on observing and documenting the subtle transformations of the winter environment.

This remarkable opportunity offers a unique setting for immersion, reflection, and creative research - an inspiring backdrop for Tang’s ongoing exploration of landscape, memory, and change. Congratulations Cyrus, we all look forward to how seeing Winter Study unfolds.

GUAN WEI and JOHN YOUNG feature in Where Memory Transforms at RACV

GUAN WEI and JOHN YOUNG feature in Where Memory Transforms, now showing in the RACV exhibition space at the Bourke Street City Club Gallery Lounge.

This powerful exhibition brings together artists Kate Beynon, Melissa Nguyen, Lindy Lee, Guan Wei, and John Young, each reflecting on their experiences as Australians with heritage from Hong Kong, Vietnam, or China. They examine the fluid relationship between memory, identity, and belonging. Across painting, watercolour, and installation, each artist navigates the intersections of personal and collective histories, tracing cultural inheritances and moments of transformation.

Where Memory Transforms is now open to RACV members until 22 February 2026, curated by the RACV Art team. To view by appointment please contact art@racv.com.au