King Street Gallery on William

King Street Gallery on William King Street Gallery on William was est. almost 45 years ago on King Street, Newtown.

We are now located on William Street, Darlinghurst in the heart of the Sydney Arts District.

UP NEXT | We’re delighted to showcase a new series of works by the fabulous Rachel Milne in her 2026 solo exhibition tit...
05/06/2026

UP NEXT | We’re delighted to showcase a new series of works by the fabulous Rachel Milne in her 2026 solo exhibition titled Newcastle, High from June 9.


Newcastle-based artist Rachel Milne’s distinctive approach to contemporary oil painting is grounded in observation. Working within the Intimist tradition—where everyday interiors and inhabited spaces become sites of aesthetic and emotional enquiry—Milne’s painterly strength is inherently analytical in nature.

‘My paintings are made in oil on board, working directly from life on the objects or spaces I depict. Each work requires negotiating access and returning to the same spot -sometimes for months - observing how light moves through a place, how it changes, and how it feels to be there. I work with a limited palette, finding that constraint sharpens attention. As much as I am initially focused on strict parameters of structure, tone and colour, the paintings evolve into something more. The atmosphere of a place, its quality of stillness or movement, the people I encounter while working often leave their mark on how I understand, feel and react to complete the work.’
Artist Statement 2026

Exhibition Dates: June 9 - July 4, 2026
Gallery 1: Lucy Culliton - Grasses, Tussocks & Sedges
Gallery 2: Rachel Milne - Newcastle, High
Nb. Opening Reception* : June 13, please email the gallery for further details.

The artworks for both exhibitions are now available to view in the gallery. Please shoot us a DM or enquire via email: [email protected].

Please note that the opening reception for our forthcoming exhibitions by will be June 13 rather than the first Wednesday of the exhibition period.
Please contact us for more details.

Image(s):
1. Portrait of Rachel Milne, in her Newcastle-based studio, photograph courtesy of David Griffin.
2. Tabernacle, 2025-26, oil on board, 60x50cm, framed
3. Fat Cake, 2025-26, oil on board, 23x28cm, framed. Artwork photography by Michael Bradfield.

02 9360 9727 | Open Tuesday to Saturday, from 10am to 6pm or by appointment.

Grasses, Tussocks & Sedges will present a selection of new oil paintings by one of Australia’s most acclaimed, contempor...
04/06/2026

Grasses, Tussocks & Sedges will present a selection of new oil paintings by one of Australia’s most acclaimed, contemporary practicing artists, Lucy Culliton. We’re delighted go present a selection of paintings seeded with grasses, tussocks and sedges – observed from life and painted en plein air.


In 2025, Lucy received the Mosman Art Prize People’s Choice Award, and exhibited at the South East Centre for Contemporary Art, Bega, NSW, and Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Maitland, NSW. Her work also featured in selected group exhibitions, at S. H. Ervin Gallery Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, and Manly Art Gallery and Museum (among others!). In 2024, Culliton received the Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award (Support Crew).

To date, selected works by Lucy Culliton have been exhibited in numerous public institutions, including the National Gallery of Australia; the National Portrait Gallery; Australian Parliament House and ArtBank (in addition to numerous regional galleries across Australia). Lucy Culliton is represented extensively across both public and private collections, both in Australian and internationally.

To view Lucy’s Sulman prize painting, visit AGNSW before August 16, 2026.
Location: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Naala Nura building, Lower level 2.
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Enquiries via mailto:[email protected]. Please email us with any enquiries, or for more information. Please note that the opening reception for our forthcoming exhibitions by Lucy Culliton and Rachel Milne will be June 13 rather than the first Wednesday of the exhibition period.  Please contact us for more details.

Image(s):
1. Lucy Culliton painting in the grass, photograph supplied courtesy of Charlie Maslin

2. Yambulla ll, 2025-26, oil on canvas, 184x184cm, framed and 3. Pink Cactus, 2005, oil on board, 66x66cm. Artwork Photography by Michael Bradfield.

02 9360 9727 | Tuesday to Saturday, from 10am to 6pm.

This year, Peter Wegner has been selected as a finalist in the Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales wit...
01/06/2026

This year, Peter Wegner has been selected as a finalist in the Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales with a portrait of fellow painter, Elisabeth Cummings OAM. Cummings’ 2026 Wynne prize painting, Arkaroola View, is currently in the next room!


Born in Aotearoa New Zealand, Wegner’s practice revolves figurative painting, portraiture, sculpture and draughtsmanship.  King Street Gallery on William welcomed Peter’s representation in late 2025, and his first solo exhibition with the gallery will commence September 29, 2026.

A seven-time finalist, Peter Wegner (b. 1953) won the Archibald Prize in 2021 with a portrait of artist Guy Warren OAM (1921-2024).
He was awarded the Doug Moran Prize in 2006 and completed a commission sponsored by BHP for the National Portrait Gallery. He has lectured in drawing at Ballarat, La Trobe, RMIT and Monash since 1996. Moreover, he is represented in numerous public institution and regional gallery collections across Australia, including the  National Portrait Gallery, Canberra; the Art Gallery on New South Wales, Sydney; Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, in addition to  various university and state library collections.
The Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes are on display until August 16, 2026.

Location: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Naala Nura building, Lower level 2.


Enquiries via [email protected]. Please email us for available works, or to join the preview list of Peter Wegner and Elisabeth Cummings.

Image(s): 1, 2, 3. 5 and 6. Photographs of Peter Wegner and Elisabeth Cummings in preparation for the 2026 Archibald Prize. Photograph by by Joanne Leong, King Street Gallery on William. Image 4: ‘Kindred Spirit - Elisabeth Cummings’ 2026 by Peter Wegner, oil on canvas, 55 x 65 cm. Photograph by Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Featured in Unfolding Time, an exhibition of works selected from the estate of John Peart (1945-2013). Unfolding Time, b...
26/05/2026

Featured in Unfolding Time, an exhibition of works selected from the estate of John Peart (1945-2013). Unfolding Time, brings together works spanning his career, of varying dimensions and mediums to showcase the aesthetic variation intrinsic to his practice.

On display now until June 6, 2026.

This exhibition also marks the launch a new hardcover monograph: JOHN PEART, published by King Street Studios and designed by Spitting Image. .img

Available for sale both in the gallery and via our online store, link in bio 🔗

We’re open Tuesday to Saturday, from 10am to 6pm, or by appointment | 02 9360 9727

Enquiries via [email protected].

Image(s):
1. Tiru Squares 5 [JPP497], by John Peart, installation photograph, Unfolding Time: Selected from the John Peart Estate at King Street Gallery on William (May 12 - June 6, 2026).
2. Tiru Squares 5 [JPP497], 2011, by John Peart, oil and acrylic on canvas, 174x344cm.
3. & 4. Installation photograph, Unfolding Time: Selected from the John Peart Estate at King Street Gallery on William
5. Tatsat [JPP2032], 2003, by John Peart, acrylic and oil on canvas, 180x240cm.
Artwork photograph courtesy of Michael Bradfield. 

‘I’m happy to have the opportunity to spend time in this land, to be in it, to move through it and to draw and paint in ...
24/05/2026

‘I’m happy to have the opportunity to spend time in this land, to be in it, to move through it and to draw and paint in it. It’s good to spend time here, but it’s still just a glimpse. It’s an incredibly complex landscape – there is so much!’
-Elisabeth Cummings 2026
(Artist statement, 2026 Wynne Prize)

‘Elisabeth Cummings is one of Australia’s most recognised senior artists. Her paintings have been described as ‘...less representations than … radical metaphors or equivalences’ with her favoured subjects or motifs – landscape, interiors and still life – elided into abstraction with a focus on colour, form and an intuitive exploration of the painting process.’ - Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Sioux Garside describes Elisabeth as ‘an avid and repeated visitor to remote areas of Australia’. She has spent regular periods in the Flinders Ranges, visiting Arkaroola, the Gammon Ranges and their surroundings. Arkaroola, in South Australia is a place Elisabeth is fond of, to where she has returned frequently in the last fifty years.

Arkaroola View, by Elisabeth Cummings is currently on display in the 2026 Wynne Prize. As the subject of Peter Wegner’s 2026 finalist painting in the Archibald Prize, her portrait titled ‘Kindred Spirit – Elisabeth Cummings’, is currently hanging in the next room!  A seven-time finalist, Wegner won the Archibald Prize in 2021 with a portrait of artist Guy Warren.

The Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes are on display until August 16, 2026
Location: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Naala Nura building, Lower level 2.


Enquiries via [email protected]. Please email us for available works, or to join the preview list of Peter Wegner and Elisabeth Cummings.

Image(s):
1. Portrait of Elisabeth Cummings, by Michael Bradfield
2. Arkaroola view, 2025-26, oil on canvas, 55 x 65 cm. Photograph by Michael Bradfield.
3. Photograph of Elisabeth Cummings sitting on the waters edge, taken during an artists painting tour in 2010.

Opening today, ‘Lustre: Contemporary Artists in Greece and Crete’ in the first venue at the Anzac Memorial, Hyde Park S...
22/05/2026

Opening today, ‘Lustre: Contemporary Artists in Greece and Crete’ in the first venue at the Anzac Memorial, Hyde Park Sydney.

In 2025 Riste Andrievski, Angeliki Androutsopoulos, Deirdre Bean, Michael Bradfield, Michelle Hiscock, Alan Daniel Jones, Joanna Logue, Steve Lopes, Euan Macleod, Natalie O’Connor, Amanda Penrose Hart and Rodney Pople, travelled to Greece and Crete to respond to the related sites of Operation Lustre - the 1941 allied campaign withdrawing troops from Greece and Crete.

‘Lustre Force was the code name for the combined Australian, New Zealand and British army units deployed to protect Greece from N**i attack in 1941.
The Allied defence of Greece was overwhelmed in three and a half weeks in April 1941 and in May, Crete fell to a N**i airborne invasion in just ten days.
To record those heroic but doomed campaigns, Australia and New Zealand sent war artists and a photographer.
Eighty-five years later, artists from Australia and New Zealand retraced their footsteps, walking the battlefields and visiting the cemeteries where the men and women of Lustre Force and their German foe lie.
Lustre showcases the impressions they made of the impact of that journey. Some of the images show that the land and its people have recovered over time; others reveal that some scars take longer to fade’
- Brad Manera, Senior Curator and Historian, Anzac Memorial Hyde Park, Sydney and accompanying historian to Greece in 2025.

Displayed in the Anzac Memorial’s Auditorium, on the Lower Floor. The Memorial is open every day, 9am to 5pm.

We would like to acknowledge:
The Australian Embassy, Greece 
Academy Travel 
Eckersley’s Art Supplies 
Michael Bradfield Photography 
Nick Andriotakis, Secretary of the Joint Committee for the Commemoration of the Battle of Crete and the Greek Campaign
Vince Clark, Red Digital Cinema









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Above: 1. Untitled (JPP476), John Peart, 2003, oil and acrylic on canvas, 170.5x154cm. Photograph courtesy of Michael Br...
21/05/2026

Above: 1. Untitled (JPP476), John Peart, 2003, oil and acrylic on canvas, 170.5x154cm. Photograph courtesy of Michael Bradfield. 

Featured in Unfolding Time, an exhibition of works selected from the estate of John Peart (1945-2013). Unfolding Time, brings together works spanning his career, of varying dimensions and mediums.

On display now until June 6, 2026.

‘Ceaselessly inventive to the end, Peart had spent over 50 years in search of an original pictorial form through which to reconcile his poetic reply to the world. The avant-garde influences so visible in his earliest work were soon enough reduced into an oeuvre of infinite formal and aesthetic variation, making him one of our most distinctive and distinguished artists. Driven by a profound sense of what it is to be human, John Peart had a searching visual intelligence and a deep curiosity about life and the world. He was, without doubt, one of the leading artists of his generation’
-Chris Saines, Forward Excerpt from the artists monograph, published 2026.

This exhibition also marks the launch a new hardcover monograph: JOHN PEART, published by King Street Studios and designed by Spitting Image. .img

Available for sale both in the gallery and via our online store, link in bio 🔗

We’re open Tuesday to Saturday, from 10am to 6pm, or by appointment | 02 9360 9727

Enquiries via [email protected].

Image(s): 1. Untitled (JPP476), John Peart, 2003, oil and acrylic on canvas, 170.5x154cm. Photograph courtesy of Michael Bradfield. 
2. Untitled (JPP476), by John Peart. Installation photograph in Unfolding Time, King Street Gallery on William, 2026. 3. Untitled (JPP476), 2003 by John Peart featured on page 198, of the new monograph.

This year, Tom Carment is a finalist in BOTH the Archibald Prize and the Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wal...
19/05/2026

This year, Tom Carment is a finalist in BOTH the Archibald Prize and the Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Tom has been selected a finalist in the AGNSW’s prizes numerous times throughout his career. To date, this is Tom’s thirteenth year as an Archibald Prize finalist (since his inaugural selection in 1974), and his tenth year as a finalist in the Wynne Prize. His ‘self-portrait at 71’, and landscape painting ‘Wind-bent tree at Corny Point’ are on display at AGNSW until August 16.

We’re excited to announce too, that Tom will have a solo exhibition of new watercolour paintings with us (at KSGoW) from August 4- 29, 2026.

Tom is represented in the collection of the Art Gallery of NSW, City of Melbourne Art & Heritage Collection, NSW State Parliament, State Library of NSW, Kedumba Drawing Collection, Macquarie Group Collection and many others. He won the 2014 NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize, the 2008 Gallipoli Art Prize and the 2005 Mosman Art Prize. Over one hundred of Tom’s works were shown at the 2014 Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial at the Art Gallery of NSW.

Exhibitions related to the AGNSW Prizes: Until August 16, 2026
Location: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Naala Nura building, Lower level 2.
 

Enquiries via [email protected]. Please email us to join Tom Carment’s exhibition preview list, for his forthcoming solo exhibition of new watercolour paintings.

Image(s):
1. Portrait of Tom Carment, by Karl Schwerdtfeger. 
2. ‘Self-portrait at 71’, 2025, by Tom Carment, oil on marine ply, 25 x 21cm, framed. Courtesy of the artist.
3. Tom Carment with Director of AGNSW Maud Page , fellow 2026 finalist and Nick Hughes (UBS) with his 2026 finalist Archibald portrait. 
4. Wind-bent Tree near Corny Point’ 2025, by Tom Carment, oil on Marine ply 19 x 39 cm, framed. Courtesy of the artist.
5. Tom Carment with his 2026 Wynne Prize painting.
6. Tom Carment speaking on an artist panel with Stephanie Galloway Brown, 2026 at the Art Gallery of New South Wales

Above: Untitled (JPW2086), John Peart, 2006, acrylic on paper and board, 56x43cm. Photograph courtesy of Michael Bradfie...
16/05/2026

Above: Untitled (JPW2086), John Peart, 2006, acrylic on paper and board, 56x43cm. Photograph courtesy of Michael Bradfield.

Featured in Unfolding Time, an exhibition of works selected from the estate of John Peart (1945-2013).
On display now until June 6, 2026.

‘Ceaselessly inventive to the end, Peart had spent over 50 years in search of an original pictorial form through which to reconcile his poetic reply to the world. The avant-garde influences so visible in his earliest work were soon enough reduced into an oeuvre of infinite formal and aesthetic variation, making him one of our most distinctive and distinguished artists. Driven by a profound sense of what it is to be human, John Peart had a searching visual intelligence and a deep curiosity about life and the world. He was, without doubt, one of the leading artists of his generation’
-Chris Saines, Forward Excerpt from the artists monograph, published 2026.

Hardcover monograph available both online and in the gallery, available via the link in our bio🔗

OPENS TONIGHT: The Ravenswood Art Prize! Congratulations to Wendy Sharpe and Adriane Strampp, who have been selected as ...
15/05/2026

OPENS TONIGHT: The Ravenswood Art Prize! Congratulations to Wendy Sharpe and Adriane Strampp, who have been selected as finalists in the 2026 Ravenswood Art Prize.






Exhibition Dates: Saturday 16 May to Sunday 31 May 2026
Where: Ravenswood School for Girls, Gordon, Centenary Centre, Gate 3, 10 Henry St,
Gordon, NSW.
Open: Thursdays to Sundays 10.00am to 4.00pm. Entry is free.

Winners of the 2026 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize will be announced at the Opening Night (proudly presented by Taylor) on 15 May 2026 at Ravenswood School for Girls, 10 Henry Street, Gordon, NSW. Located 500 metres from Gordon train station and Public Bus interchange. Street parking is available.

The Prize is categorised as the highest-value art prize for women in Australia with $58,000 in prize money available across Professional Artist, Emerging Artist and Indigenous Emerging Artist categories - plus a People’s Choice Award and Highly Commended Awards.

Good luck to each of the finalists, and thank you to the team at Ravenswood!

Image(s): 1. Wendy Sharpe, Self Portrait with Monsters, 2025, oil and acrylic on canvas, 137x122cm. Photograph courtesy John Fotiadis.
2. Adriane Strampp, Spatial Shift, 2025-26, oil on linen, 120x120cm. Photograph courtesy Viki Petheridge.

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