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SANDERSON return to SydneyAfter a five-year absence, Sanderson Contemporary returns to Sydney Contemporary 2025 with a...
09/09/2025

SANDERSON return to Sydney

After a five-year absence, Sanderson Contemporary returns to Sydney Contemporary 2025 with a dynamic presentation under the new ownership of Lydia Cowpertwait. Featuring works by Ray Haydon, Kāryn Taylor, Kate van der Drift, and Loren Marks, the booth reflects the gallery’s ethos of balancing craftsmanship with conceptual depth while building new connections across the Tasman.

Read the full interview with Sanderson’s director on our website now.

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Guido Maestri's 'Buoy' is on at Ames Yavuz, Gadigal Country/Sydney until 27 September 2025.In this new body of work, Mae...
09/09/2025

Guido Maestri's 'Buoy' is on at Ames Yavuz, Gadigal Country/Sydney until 27 September 2025.

In this new body of work, Maestri charts an intimate navigation of place and belonging. Inspired by his move to a boat-access-only home on Pittwater, the exhibition drifts through waterways, reflections, skeletal trees and navigational buoys that signal both safe passage and shifting conditions.

Canvases unfold as poetic maps of transition, drawing from the artist’s own tides of family, studio, and landscape. A raft, made in collaboration with his son, anchors the exhibition as a symbol of play, invention and resilience.

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Image credit:
Installation view of Guido Maestri ‘Buoy’, Ames Yavuz Sydney, 2025. Photo: Simon Hewson. Courtesy of the artists and Ames Yavuz

Laith McGregor’s 'Ain’t no Sunshine' is on at STATION, Gadigal Country/Sydney until 11 October 2025.Don't miss the openi...
09/09/2025

Laith McGregor’s 'Ain’t no Sunshine' is on at STATION, Gadigal Country/Sydney until 11 October 2025.

Don't miss the opening event this evening from 6-9pm, Tuesday 9 September, to celebrate the exhibition and the start of Sydney Contemporary Art Fair week!

Working across drawing, hand-built forms, and studio remnants, McGregor reimagines the still life as a meditation on time, memory, and the fragility of the natural world. Clay vessels cradle wilting flora, pencil shavings become relics, and symbolic figures drift through graphite landscapes, each caught in moments of reflection and disconnection.

The exhibition balances tenderness and unease, inviting viewers to linger on what remains when the noise fades, and to find poetry in what is left behind.

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Image credit:
Laith McGregor, 'Ain't No Sunshine', Installation view, STATION, Gadigal Country/Sydney, 2025. Photo: Document Photography. Courtesy of the artist and STATION

James Coe’s ‘Life Scapes’ is on at Olsen Gallery, Sydney/Gadigal until 20 September.Blending observation with imaginatio...
08/09/2025

James Coe’s ‘Life Scapes’ is on at Olsen Gallery, Sydney/Gadigal until 20 September.

Blending observation with imagination, Coe transforms the landscapes of his inspiration, into vibrant compositions that pulse with colour, texture and emotional resonance.

His layered mark making allows forms to dissolve and re-emerge, inviting viewers into an atmospheric space where the overlooked becomes alive with emotion.

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Image credits:
1. James Coe, Wylies (detail), 2025, synthetic polymer on canvas, 230 x 160 cm.
2. James Coe, In the Shade (detail), 2025, synhtetic polymer on canvas, 178 x 165 cm.

Courtesy of OLSEN Gallery.

Liam Gerrard’s ‘Diurnus’ is on at Sanderson Contemporary, Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland until 14 September 2025.In this exh...
07/09/2025

Liam Gerrard’s ‘Diurnus’ is on at Sanderson Contemporary, Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland until 14 September 2025.

In this exhibition, Gerrard reimagines the 17th-century tradition of sottobosco or forest still life painting. Moths, cats and ducks animate suburban garden scenes drawn from the artist's memory, while hydrangea blossoms in different stages of bloom and decay pepper the exhibition.

Rendered with remarkable detail, the works reflect on the cycles of growth and mortality while celebrating the overlooked beauty of the everyday natural world.

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Image credit:
Liam Gerrard, Sottobosco I (Susu), 2025, charcoal & pastel on paper, 810 x 1120 mm, framed.

Dhambit Munuŋgurr's 'The Earth is Blue' is on at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney/Gadigal until 20 September.Living and pai...
05/09/2025

Dhambit Munuŋgurr's 'The Earth is Blue' is on at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney/Gadigal until 20 September.

Living and painting in her mother’s ancestral country in the community of Gunyaŋara, Munuŋgurr draws on deep histories that stretch from the Maŋgatharra trepang fishers to the wartime presence of the Catalina Flying Boat base. Her luminous works, created for exhibition at the Australian Embassy in Paris, carry these layered connections across oceans. Returning now to Sydney, the works complete their journey, bringing with them stories of international convergences and the kinships that form.

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Image credits:
1. Installation view, Dhambit Munuŋgurr: The Earth is Blue, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (29 August – 20 September 2025). Photo: David Suyasa.
2. Installation view, Dhambit Munuŋgurr: The Earth is Blue, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (29 August – 20 September 2025). Photo: David Suyasa

Courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney.

2PP presents Hannah Brontë and Heath Franco from 6–7 September 2025.Founded by Rebecca Ross (THE WALLS) and Bradley Vinc...
05/09/2025

2PP presents Hannah Brontë and Heath Franco from 6–7 September 2025.

Founded by Rebecca Ross (THE WALLS) and Bradley Vincent (ALASKA PROJECTS), 2PP (Two Party Preferred) is a new curatorial platform dedicated to situating contemporary art within the fabric of local communities. Each program invites two artists into dialogue, unfolding across a single weekend in unconventional venues that foreground site, audience and context.

The inaugural exhibition takes place in a disused scout den straddling the Queensland–New South Wales border, a charged location for what promises to be an incisive exchange between Brontë and Franco.

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Images Credit: Installation Views, Two Party Preferred presents Hannah Brontë & Heath Franco, 2025. Photography by Louis Lim

‘The Uncanny’ curated by Amelia Kynaston is on at Dominik Mersch Gallery, Gadigal/Sydney until 13 September.Bringing tog...
04/09/2025

‘The Uncanny’ curated by Amelia Kynaston is on at Dominik Mersch Gallery, Gadigal/Sydney until 13 September.

Bringing together works by Oliver Abbott, Clément Cogitore, Francisco Goya, Helena Hafemann, Clemens Krauss, Bella La Spina, David Ralph, Fiona Roberts, Gregor Schneider and Claudia Terstappen, the exhibition curated by navigates the fine line between the familiar and the surreal. Inspired by Sigmund Freud’s essay 'Das Unheimliche', the show reveals how beauty unsettles, how perception shifts into ambiguity, and how art lingers in the mind like a half-remembered dream.

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Image credits:
1 -3. Installation view of 'The Uncanny' at Dominik Mersch Gallery, 2025.
4. Oliver Abbott, ‘5R3M57QF+C3F’, 2025, oil on linen, 90 x 120 cm.
5. Fiona Roberts, ‘The Rug’ (detail), 2015, ceramic cast fingers, canvas mesh, cord, acrylic paint, varnish, 185 x 125 cm.

Courtesy of the artists and the gallery.

Billy Benn's 'Before I go home' is on at 8 Hele Gallery, Mparntwe / Alice Springs until 6 September.An Alyawarr man born...
04/09/2025

Billy Benn's 'Before I go home' is on at 8 Hele Gallery, Mparntwe / Alice Springs until 6 September.

An Alyawarr man born in Harts Range, Benn (1943–2012) painted landscapes alive with memory, resilience and spirit. His works map Country as a living presence as found in the folds of the water, escarpments, and skies. Each brushstroke holding the weight of history and the pulse of survival. Deeply personal and cultural, Benn’s art resists categorisation, carrying influences from encounters with Albert Namatjira to early lessons in Chinese calligraphy, and shaped by his years painting at Bindi Mwerre Anthurre Artists.

In this first exhibition since his passing, Benn’s paintings return us to the ground he longed to paint in its entirety and remind us that the landscapes are where presence, spirit and redemption endure.

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Image credits:
1. Gallery Installation view, 'Before I go home' at 8 Hele Gallery.
2. Billy Benn Perrurle, 'Artetyerre', 2004, Acrylic on board, 19 x 31 cm.

Courtesy of 8 Hele Gallery

The Art Gallery of South Australia has announced the line-up for the 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: ‘Yield St...
03/09/2025

The Art Gallery of South Australia has announced the line-up for the 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: ‘Yield Strength’, curated by Ellie Buttrose.

Twenty-four artists will transform AGSA, Samstag Museum of Art and the Adelaide Botanic Garden from 27 February – 8 June 2026, with new commissions spanning painting, sculpture, moving image and installation. Together, they test the limits of material and meaning: Robert Andrew, Nathan Beard, Lauren Burrow, Francis Carmody, Mark Maurangi Carrol Milminyina Dhamarrandji, Matthew Teapot Djipurrtjun, George Egerton-Warburton, Prudence Flint, Brian Fuata, d harding, Matthew Harris, Helen Johnson, Kirtika Kain, Jennifer Mathews, Archie Moore, Josina Pumani, Julie Nangala Robertson, Erika Scott, Joel Sherwood Spring, Charlie Sofo, John Spiteri, Isadora Vaughan & Emmaline Zanelli.

Curator Ellie Buttrose frames the exhibition as a meditation on pressure and transformation: how bodies, objects and societies fracture, reform and ultimately find strength.
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Image credit
1. Brian Fuata, born Aotearoa New Zealand 1978, Errantucation (mist opportunities), 2021 / Performance improvisations commissioned for ‘The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ (APT10). QAGOMA, Brisbane, 2021. © the artist courtesy of artist and Sumer; photo: C Callistemon, QAGOMA
2. Installation view: Isadora Vaughan, Organs of Cognition, 2021. The National 2021: New Australian Art, Carriageworks; photo: Zan Wimberley
3. Nathan Beard, 'Corsage', 2022, painted silicone, acrylic nails, fake Thai orchids, Swarovski Elements each named using the antiquated term Siam, 40.0 x 20.0 x 20.0 cm. Studio assistant: Kiana Jones
4. Kirtika Kain, 'The illusion of your history', 2023, various mediums, 300.0 x 1000.0 cm; courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney; photo: Hamish McIntosh
5. Ellie Buttrose; photo: Joe Ruckli, QAGOMA

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