Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf

11/06/2026

Do the machines tasked with recognising us define who we are?

Facial recognition technologies are increasingly woven into everyday life, yet their use remains heavily restricted in many parts of the world. Concerns around privacy, consent, surveillance and algorithmic bias have led governments to regulate how these systems can identify and track people. After all, our faces are among the few things we cannot simply change or reset.

In her work featured in ‘Myth Makers’, Annabelle McEwen turns these technologies back on themselves. Using facial recognition software to search for her own digital doppelgängers, she gathers the faces that algorithms mistakenly identify as her and reconstructs them into self-portraits.

By treating algorithmic recognition as a creative collaborator, McEwen exposes the instability of systems often presented as objective and authoritative. Her works reveal how identity can be fragmented, misread and reassembled through machine vision, challenging myths of authenticity, authorship and truth.

Annabelle will be running a print-making workshop exploring the myth of the self at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf on Saturday 13 June 2026 from 10:30am - 1pm.

Create a self-portrait and learn the techniques of dry-point etching and image transfer using accessible, sustainable materials.

If you'd like to attend, follow the link in our bio to RSVP a spot!

06/06/2026

Painting Workshop | Re-imagining The Self with Kyra Henley

This three-part workshop invites participants to explore self-portraiture through collage, painting, and imagination. Led by artist Kyra Henley, the sessions move from developing a composition to resolving a finished work. Sessions include demonstration, guided making, and informal group discussion.

Facilitator:

Kyra Henley is an artist formally based in Paddington. Working in figuration, Henley’s compositions begin as collages of found images. Kyra held a solo exhibition at Nasha Gallery in 2025 and has been in many prizes including the Mosman Art Prize, KAAF Art Prize, The Fishers Ghost Art Award, and The Portia Geach Memorial Award.

Spots are limited, please head to the link in bio for more information.

Explore self-portraiture through collage and painting. Reimagine identity using found images, memory, and imagination guided by Kyra Henley.

04/06/2026

Ever imagined you were someone else, someone more ≋𝓶𝔂𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓬𝓪𝓵 ≋?

Artist Kyra Henley, known for her surreal figurative paintings, is leading a workshop as part of ‘Myth Makers’ where, across three sessions, participants will construct self-portraits laden with myth - recreating their identity using found images, memory, and imagination.

Keen to reinvent yourself? Join painter Kyra Henley () for a Self-portrait painting Workshops on Sat 20 June, 10:30am-12:30pm, Sat 27 June, 10:30am-12:30pm and Sat 5 July, 10:30am-12:30pm. No prior painting experience is required, and all are welcome. Get tickets via the link in bio 🔗

Images Courtesy of Kyra Henley:
Image 1 - Windsurfer, 2018
image 2 - Reservation, 2023
image 3 - Horse, 2025

02/06/2026

Artist Spotlight: Kien Situ

We caught up with Kien Situ, a finalist in the 2024 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, to hear what he has been working on since his involvement with the Prize.

Since being named a finalist in the 2024 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Kien Situ has committed to Situ’s practice full-time and undertaken residencies at Artspace, Bundanon, and through HOME at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Situ’s practice has shifted from earlier explorations of matter, monumentality and ruin toward more elastic investigations of the immaterial, considering how visible and invisible structures appear, destabilise, disappear and reconfigure over time.

Situ is currently developing two site-specific works for 2027, bringing together architecture, sound, computation and environmental systems. Thinking through cycles of emergence and erosion, Situ’s work continues to move between presence and absence, material and immaterial states.

As we look ahead to the 2026 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize and celebrate 25 years of the Prize, we are revisiting past finalists and the practices they continue to build.

Their stories continue. Stay tuned.

01/06/2026

Expressions of Interest for Double Vision 2026/27 are closing soon!

Double Vision is Woollahra Council’s digital public art project, showcasing video and screen-based artworks on the digital screen beneath the escalators at Woollahra Library, Kiaora Place, Double Bay.

We’re inviting artists to submit EOIs for the next exhibition cycle, running from October 2026 to October 2027, with each artwork exhibition on view for three months.

EOIs close Tuesday 9 June 2026.

For more information and submission details, head to the link in bio.

Still: Linda Loh, Adventures in Nurbland Composite – with Epilogue. Courtesy of the artist.

31/05/2026

Exhibition Opening | The business of life is the acquisition of memories

Join us at the opening of Jaye Early's exhibition 'The business of life is the acquisition of memories' on Wednesday 3 June from 6-8PM.

The business of life is the acquisition of memories explores how contemporary subjectivity is shaped in today’s confessional, online world. Jaye Early’s video work reflects Boris Groys' idea that contemporary art should embrace temporary autonomous zones of self-doubt and ‘wasted’ labor—spaces that hesitate, question, and weigh options without offering simple, didactic answers. Within this malaise, Early’s video practice gives voice to displaced subjectivities to present a more complex politics of the self.

Jaye Early is a practice-led, multidisciplinary artist working with video-based performance and painting.

Exhibition on view Wed 27 May to Sun 12 July

Free entry. RSVP essential via link in bio.

30/05/2026

This is your sign to enter the 2026 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize.

There is still time to enter Australia’s first acquisitive award dedicated to small sculpture.

As the Prize celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2026, artists are invited to push the creative potential of limited scale, with works no larger than 80cm in any dimension.

With a $25,000 acquisitive prize, plus Special Commendation, Mayor’s Award and Viewers’ Choice prizes, this is a major opportunity to share your work with new audiences.

Enter now via link in bio and be part of this landmark year.

28/05/2026

Meet Annabelle McEwen ( ) exhibiting artist in our group show ‘Myth Makers’!

Join Annabelle and team member Maya Martin-Westheimer ( ) for a workshop on Saturday 13 June from 10:30am-1pm. Exploring image-making, identity and technology, participants will make self-portraits using drypoint etching & image transfer.

For tickets, click the link in Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf’s bio 🔗

📸 : Courtesy of Annabelle McEwen
1: Portrait of Annabelle McEwen
2: Pine Street Creative Arts Centre Workshop
3: 'Data Composite', 2024
4: 'Friction/Fiction (transubstantiation/doppelgänger)', 2026

27/05/2026

Sanne Mestrom, 'Sleeping Muse' (2017), bronze

Sanne Mestrom’s 'Sleeping Muse' is a bronze cast of the artist’s head, a homage to Constantin Brancusi’s Sleeping Muse, while is very much de-monumentalised.

Although casting the body in bronze links back to an age-old tradition of immortalising the self, Mestrom’s work subverts this idea through process. Rather than presenting an idealised version of the self, the work holds onto damage, accident, and the marks of living highlight the vulnerability and instability of the self.

The work poses an interesting question. In a world of filters, fillers, and constant self-curation, what is the mythology we hold onto?

Come find out at 'Myth Makers'.

On view in until 23 August 2026.

13/05/2026

Let’s pause for a moment to celebrate Sassy Park, our 2025 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize finalist and 2025 Archibald Prize finalist, now selected as a finalist in the 2026 Wynne Prize.

Her work, "Little cries of pleasure", brings together small ceramic heads, cups, vessels and plinths, sitting somewhere between sculpture, painting and drawing.

The title comes from a French tabloid’s description of Brigitte Bardot and Serge Gainsbourg’s duet 'Je t’aime … moi non plus'. Through the work, Park draws on personal portraiture, classical references and 1960s French yé-yé femininity, creating what she describes as “a quiet utterance – of intimacy, gender and material representation.”

Huge congratulations, Sassy. What a joy to see small sculptures making big waves!



Image 1: Sassy Park, Little cries of pleasure, Wynne Prize 2026 Finalist
Image 2: Sassy Park, Familiars, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize 2025 Finalist. Photo: Jacquie Manning.