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UNSW Galleries brings together the work of leading Australian and international practitioners.
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16/10/2026

“Thirty minutes from Adelaide’s gridded heart, a barn perches on the edge of a green valley. Here, the past year’s explorations gather. I approach a group of delicate forms displayed across a trio of shelves, and I am lifted by their ascending gestures... I sense a cadence, a gentle expansion of space, animating the starkness of the volumes before me.”

Nadège Desgenétez reflects on visiting Jordan Gower’s studio and first encountering the works now on view in ‘Does the moon know the well?’ at UNSW Galleries.

Jordan Gower
nadege desgenetez

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Photos: Jacquie Manning

15/10/2026

“Stepping into Faint’s exhibition is to enter a space of experimentation where research and speculation collide,” writes Mikala Tai in her essay for ‘Remy Faint: A Site of Unfolding’.

Through assemblage, abstraction and material inquiry, Faint constructs an environment of shifting forms, textiles, shadows and sculptural interventions. Tai considers how the exhibition echoes the archive’s inherent uncertainties, where gaps, obstructions and absences defer certainty and invite ongoing discovery.

Visit 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝘆 𝗙𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁: 𝗔 𝗦𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗨𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 at UNSW Galleries and take home a copy of Tai’s essay. On view until 22 November 2026.

Remy Faint
Mikala Tai
UNSW School of Art & Design

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Photos: Jacquie Manning

12/10/2026

With the senses wide open to the symbolism and allegory present in the limitless phenomena that surround us, ‘Heather B. Swann: The Forests of Symbols’ reminds us that it is our separate and collective human inventions that create our cultural memory.

✨ Every little thing could be symbolic. ✨

Discover ‘The Forests of Symbols’ at UNSW Galleries.

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Heather B. Swann

07/10/2026

Presented as part of Sydney Craft Week, join us for ‘Studio Ceramics: From Hand to Object’, a panel discussion exploring contemporary studio ceramics and the enduring significance of handmade objects.

🕑 2.00–3.00pm
🗓️ Saturday 10 October 2026
🔗 Register via the link in our bio

Hear from ceramic artists Jordan Gower and Liane Rossler in conversation with curator Eva Czernis-Ryl and craft historian Grace Cochrane AM. Bringing together perspectives across making, design and material culture, the discussion considers how one of the world’s oldest craft traditions continues to evolve through contemporary practice.

Together, the speakers will explore craft knowledge, material transformation and process-led making, while reflecting on the relationship between tradition and experimentation. They will also consider the place of ceramic objects within contemporary galleries, museums and collections, and discuss sustainable approaches to making in an age of mass production.

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Jordan Gower Liane Rossler Eva Czernis-Ryl Grace Cochrane
Sydney Craft Week UNSW School of Art & Design

06/10/2026

🎉 Join artists Remy Faint and Tom Polo as they discuss Faint’s exhibition 'A Site of Unfolding'.

Working across expanded approaches to painting, Faint and Polo will discuss abstraction, gesture, and embodied acts of making, and reflect on how personal histories are translated through visual form.

🕠 5.30–6.30pm�
🗓️ Thursday 8 October 2026�
🔗 Register via the link in our bio

This program is part of 'Artist to Artist', an ongoing series of conversations at UNSW Galleries that brings together practitioners with shared interests and material concerns.

25/09/2026

Utilising a restrained yet highly detailed ceramic vocabulary, Jordan Gower explores material expressions that evoke symbols of longevity, stillness, and transformation.

Through delicately crafted works, Gower invites us to consider: what happens when longevity meets change? What impact can a still object have on us as we move through an increasingly restless world?

⚪️ Discover Gower's practice at UNSW Galleries in the exhibition 'Does the moon know the well?'. Open Wednesday–Friday, 10am–5pm, and weekends, 12pm–5pm.

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Photos: Jacquie Manning

24/09/2026

‘A Site of Unfolding’ brings newly commissioned works into conversation with historical objects spanning more than a century of material production.

Drawing on family histories and archival encounters, artist Remy Faint reconstitutes objects and images across silk, clay, wood and metal. Through translation, repetition and material transformation, archival sources are reassembled into tactile forms that move between artefact and abstraction.

Rather than treating the past as fixed or singular, ‘A Site of Unfolding’ continually reworks it, creating imagined sites of belonging where personal and collective histories converge through embodied acts of making.

✨ Visit the exhibition now at UNSW Galleries. We're open Wednesday–Friday, 10am–5pm, and weekends, 12pm–5pm. ✨

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Photos: Jacquie Manning

23/09/2026

“I am an artist who sees the world through symbols: not a symbolist but both iconolater and iconoclast.

Charles Baudelaire writes about the necessity of the pilgrim-soul to pierce through ‘the forests of symbols’; I believe we are all pilgrims lost within this natural obscurity of things, overwhelmed by images, meanings, impressions. It is a profound description of who, where and how we are.” — Heather B. Swann

📍 Visit 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗕. 𝗦𝘄𝗮𝗻𝗻: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗯𝗼𝗹𝘀 at UNSW Galleries to discover more newly commissioned and rarely seen works.

Heather B. Swann

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Photos: Jacquie Manning

18/09/2026

Visit 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝘆 𝗙𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁: 𝗔 𝗦𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗨𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 now at UNSW Galleries.

Across painting, sculpture and installation, Faint traces the relationship between personal histories and broader narratives of inheritance and cultural memory.

Developed through an ongoing engagement with family histories and archival encounters, ‘A Site of Unfolding’ presents the artist's most ambitious body of work to date.

📍 Discover Remy Faint's practice at UNSW Galleries this weekend. We’re open Saturday and Sunday, 12pm–5pm. ✨
faint

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Photos: Jacquie Manning

17/09/2026

𝗝𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗮𝗻 𝗚𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿: 𝗗𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗼𝗻 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹? is now open!

Across this new body of work, Gower reimagines form and surface through layered glazes and minimal ornamentation.

Light settles across each vessel, emphasising shadow, line and repetition. Through subtle shifts in texture and form, the works quietly carry both historical resonance and contemporary innovation, reflecting Gower’s practice as a production artist.

Visit ‘Does the moon know the well?’ at UNSW Galleries. We’re open Wednesday–Friday, 10am–5pm, and weekends, 12pm–5pm. ✨

Jordan Gower

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Photos: Jacquie Manning

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Cnr Oxford St & Greens Road
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Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm
Saturday	12pm - 5pm
Sunday	12pm - 5pm

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