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27/10/2025

Matthew Allen’s 'Room Tone' is on at Fox Jensen McCrory, Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland until 1 November 2025.

Allen’s graphite and subtly coloured panels invite viewers into a quiet, meditative engagement. Each work builds rhythmic sequences of light and tone, capturing reflections, shadows, and the ambient qualities of the surrounding space. His restrained, patient approach transforms the act of painting into a dialogue with the viewer, collapsing the distance between artwork and observer, and creating an intimate tête-à-tête.

Across modestly scaled panels, 'Room Tone' explores perception, material presence, and the contemplative possibilities of minimal gestures in contemporary painting.

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Image credit:
1. Matthew Allen, 'Tonal Triptych - Yellow Ochre' & 'Tonal Triptych - Reds', 2025, Acrylic and polished graphite on linen, 55 x 165 cm
2. Matthew Allen, 'Dark Double Stack', 2025, Acrylic and polished graphite on linen, 165 x 110 cm

Courtesy of Fox Jensen McCrory

26/10/2025

Robyn Kahukiwa’s solo exhbition is on at Phillida Reid, London until 1 November 2025.

Spanning three decades of practice, the exhibition brings together paintings and drawings that celebrate whakapapa and connection to Tūpuna Māori. Kahukiwa’s work reflects the strength, resilience, and mana of her people, exploring ancestral wisdom, cultural continuity, and the enduring power of identity.

Through intimate and powerful imagery, the exhibition invites viewers to reflect on the past, present, and future, honouring Māori heritage and the artist’s visionary legacy.

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Image credit:
Installation view: Robyn Kahukiwa, Phillida Reid, London, 19 September – 1 November 2025. Image by Lewis Ronald.

Courtesy of Phillida Reid, London

26/10/2025

Stephen Bush’s ‘Here it is’ is on at Sutton Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne until 1 November 2025.

In ‘Here it is’, Bush presents forty-seven works spanning cityscapes, gouache, coloured pencil drawings, and oil paintings, all emerging from a practice defined by cyclical reflection and self-imposed creative constraints. His method, repeating motifs, limiting materials, and revisiting past images, creates a dialogue between memory, time, and artistic process. Works such as the DVM series, made with a single brush, and the reimagined Melbourne shopfront from 1981, reveal a tension between past and present, personal experience and philosophical inquiry.

Through these layered, deliberate acts, Bush crafts paintings that are simultaneously pared-back and ambitious, exploring the boundaries of perception, consciousness, and the pursuit of artistic ecstasy.

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Image credit: Stephen Bush, Here it is, 2025, installation view.
Courtesy of the artist and Sutton Gallery, Naarm/Melbourrne. Photography by Andrew Curtis.

25/10/2025

Lisa Reihana's 'Voyager' is now showing at Ngununggula, Bowral, until 9 November 2025.

Spanning all four gallery spaces, this expansive exhibition presents recent works by the celebrated Aotearoa New Zealand artist alongside early handcrafted pieces and new commissions. From immersive moving-image and photographic works to custom wallpapers and textiles, Voyager reflects Reihana’s ongoing engagement with storytelling, technology and the reimagining of historical narratives.

Through her distinctive cinematic language, Reihana re-centres Indigenous knowledge systems and cultural identities, illuminating how the past continues to shape our relationships to land, sea and one another. The exhibition also features Belong, a shimmering new site-specific work that honours Ngununggula’s Gundungurra name and the Southern Highland mountains that shelter its community.

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Image credit:
Lisa Reihana, Kupe, 2025, photograph on Fuji crystal flex paper, mounted on aluminium, 164 x 120 cm. Edition of 5 plus 2 AP.

Courtesy of Lisa Reihana and Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney, Australia.

25/10/2025

Jon Setter’s ‘Sydney Beaches: Saturated Edge’ is on at 8 Wall Gallery, Gadigal Country/Sydney until 8 November 2025.

In ‘Sydney Beaches: Saturated Edge’, Setter transforms familiar coastal sites into meticulous compositions that explore memory, place, and the emotional textures of home. Iconic Sydney beaches, from Bondi to Palm Beach, are captured not as sweeping panoramas but through intimate details: the shadow along a surf club window, the sunlight on painted rock edges, and the geometric rhythm of manmade structures.

His photographs turn the everyday into abstraction, inviting viewers to see the city’s coastline as both a physical space and a mental landscape, where human presence and environment converge in subtle, resonant patterns.

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Image credit: Jon Setter, 'Bondi 1' (detail) 2020-2025, Archival pigment print on cotton rag, 120 x 160cm

$Dianne Gall’s ‘DRIVE’ is on at NANDA\HOBBS, Gadigal Country/Sydney until 1 November 2025.In ‘DRIVE’, Gall shifts her foc...$

24/10/2025

Dianne Gall’s ‘DRIVE’ is on at NANDA\HOBBS, Gadigal Country/Sydney until 1 November 2025.

In ‘DRIVE’, Gall shifts her focus from domestic interiors to the cinematic world of vehicles, placing women in moments of solitude, contemplation, and quiet escape. Gleaming cars become vessels of autonomy and memory, subverting traditional masculine symbols while the women within navigate spaces charged with tension and possibility. Through meticulously staged photography transformed into painterly canvases, Gall captures light, colour, and texture with a hyper-real yet dreamlike precision.

The exhibition unfolds like stills from an imagined film, where gleaming chrome, soft fabrics, and neon-lit interiors merge into a suspended narrative that is both intimate and cinematic.

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Image credit:
1. Dianne Gall, 'You will miss me when I burn' (detail), 2025, oil on linen, 137 x 137cm
2. Diane Gall, 'Song to the siren' (detail), 2025, oil on linen, 96.5 x 152.5cm
3. Dianne Gall, 'Chrome baby, chrome' (detail), 2025, oil on linen, 51 x 51cm

Courtesy of Nanda\Hobbs

24/10/2025

Tom Polo’s ‘bodycave’ is on at STATION, Naarm/Melbourne until 22 November 2025.

Don't miss the opening event Saturday 25 October, 4-6pm!

Working across painting and installation, Polo transforms gestures, conversations and fleeting encounters into vibrant acts of portraiture. In ‘bodycave’, abstraction and figuration merge as he explores the porous boundaries between self and other. His layered compositions, marked by expressive colour and movement, invite viewers into a psychological space where intimacy, performance and vulnerability intertwine.

Each work becomes both mirror and portal—reflecting the theatricality of human exchange while revealing the quiet, unseen spaces that connect us.

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23/10/2025

Naotaka Hiro’s 'Of Two' is on at Bortolami, New York until 31 October 2025.

The exhibition explores the interplay between instinct and analysis, featuring paintings, wood panels, and bronze sculptures that record the artist’s body in motion. Hiro’s immersive process involves pushing, wrapping, and tracing himself across surfaces, creating visual maps of movement, stillness, and physical presence. The resulting works act as a dialogue between subjective intuition and objective reflection, oscillating between performance and artifact, actor and observer.

From expansive canvases to meditative bronze doubles, 'Of Two' captures both the intimacy of touch and the precision of deliberate mark-making, inviting viewers into the rhythms of creation itself.

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Image credit:

1. Xiyadie, 'Joy', 2022, Papercut with water-based dye and Chinese pigments on Xian paper, 52 3/4 x 53 1/8 inches.
2. Naotaka Hiro, 'Of Two (Nightwatch)', 2025, Acrylic, graphite, grease pencil, crayon on wood, Overall: 108 x 156 x 2 1/4 in , Each Panel: 108 x 78 x 2 1/4 in.

Courtesy of the artist and Blindspot Gallery. Photography by Guang Xu.

23/10/2025

Kevin Chin’s ‘From The Ruins’ is on at THIS IS NO FANTASY, Naarm/Melbourne until 1 November 2025.

Created after a residency in Spain and research in Italy, Chin’s twentieth solo exhibition charts a luminous journey through collapse and renewal. In ‘From The Ruins’, ancient European architecture meets futuristic structures, while desert landscapes and Tuscan light intertwine with traces of Rome. His expansive canvases blur distinctions between past and future, earth and sky, inviting viewers into spaces where moments of intimacy emerge amidst decay.

Each painting radiates warmth and possibility, reflecting Chin’s ongoing exploration of resilience, interconnectedness, and the enduring potential for regeneration even in uncertain times.

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Image credit:
1. Kevin Chin, 'From The Ruins', 2025, Installation View
2. Kevin Chin, 'Stone By Stone', 2025, oil on Italian linen, 94 x 138 cm.
3. Kevin Chin, 'From The Ruins', 2025, Installation View.
4. Kevin Chin, 'Ancient History', 2025, oil on Italian linen, 94 x 138 cm

Courtesy the Artist, THIS IS NO FANTASY, Photography: Simon Strong

22/10/2025

Lesley Dumbrell’s ‘Geometry of Colour’ is on at Utopia Art Sydney, Gadigal/Sydney until 25 October 2025.

Following her acclaimed 2024 survey ‘THRUM’ at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Dumbrell returns with a vibrant new body of work that continues her lifelong exploration of rhythm, movement and perception through abstraction. In ‘Geometry of Colour’, radiant hues and intricate patterning form optical spaces that pulse with energy, reflecting the artist’s enduring fascination with how colour and geometry can shape emotion and experience.

The exhibition affirms Dumbrell’s position as a pioneering voice in Australian abstraction, her work as precise as it is poetic.

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Image credit:
1. Lesley Dumbrell, Installation view of 'Geometry of Colour' at Utopia Art Sydney, 2025.
2. Lesley Dumbrell, 'Autumn' (detail), 1999, oil on canvas, 198 x 198cm
3. Lesley Dumbrell, 'Parade' (detial), 1971, Liquitex on canvas, 106 x 152cm

Courtesy of Utopia Art Sydney.

22/10/2025

‘Edition One: Marking the First Year’ is on at PARKER Contemporary, Meanjin/Brisbane until 25 October 2025.

Celebrating the gallery’s first anniversary, the exhibition gathers artists who have shaped its dynamic first year. Through works in print, paper, and artists’ books, ‘Edition One’ explores the tactile beauty of material practice, where technical precision meets conceptual experimentation. Each piece reflects on process and transformation, tracing how ink, fibre and form can articulate ideas of time, memory and making.

Together, the artists mark a milestone for PARKER Contemporary and reaffirm its role as a vital space for contemporary printmaking and papermaking in Brisbane.

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Image credit:
1. 'Edition One: Marking the First Year', 2025, (installation view), Clinton Barker, Alethea Richter. Courtesy of the artists and PARKER Contemporary.
2. 'Edition One: Marking the First Year', 2025, (installation view), Melissa J Harvey, Colin Lancely with Fred Genis. Courtesy of the artist, Fred Genis Estate and PARKER Contemporary
3. 'Edition One: Marking the First Year', 2025, (installation view), Freyja Fristad, Ross Woodrow, Daniel Clifford, Pat Hoffie. Courtesy of the artists and PARKER Contemporary.
4. 'Edition One: Marking the First Year', 2025, (installation view), Matthew Hurdle, Tim Mosely, Carolyn Craig. Courtesy of the artists and PARKER Contemporary.

21/10/2025

| FORECAST | JARROD VAN DER RYKEN
Written by Robert Leonard

Jarrod van der Ryken’s video installations are odes to cruising and cottaging. In
the past, the Meanjin/Brisbane artist has staged them in grungy spaces that already suggest out-of-the-way spots where guys might share a quiet moment. In 2022
he used the rough-and-ready Wreckers Artspace for Could It Be Found in Gardens of Dust? and in 2024 the graffitied, unclad Besser-block bunker of Milani Carpark for The Buds on the Trees and the Night Were Still. On both occasions, he inserted video footage into these unlikely art spaces. Quivering between prosaic and poetic, his languid long takes of benign unpeopled details were occasionally interrupted with more sexually suggestive shots...

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1. JARROD VAN DER RYKEN, 'That Night They Went Out Painting' (still), 2025.
3 & 5. JARROD VAN DER RYKEN, 'That Night They Went Out Painting', 2025

Courtesy of the artist.

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