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Australasia's Biggest Art Fair
3 – 6 September 2026, Carriageworks
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04/06/2026

Galleries Announced 📢 As the 10th edition of the fair takes shape, we're thrilled to share the exhibitors set to define Sydney Contemporary 2026.

This year we welcome 100 exhibitors presenting more than 500 artists from 33 countries, including Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, China, South Korea, France, New Zealand, Italy and India.

Spanning generations, disciplines and geographies, Sydney Contemporary 2026 offers an unparalleled opportunity to discover, experience and buy some of today's most compelling contemporary art.

Meet the exhibitors: https://sydneycontemporary.com.au/galleries/

03/06/2026

First Release tickets to the 10th edition of Sydney Contemporary are on sale now!

From 3-6 September, Sydney Contemporary returns to Carriageworks with over 100 exhibitors, 500+ artists, large-scale installations, live performances, talks, and the unmistakable energy that makes Sydney Contemporary one of a kind.

Get your first release tickets at the best-value pricing, with savings of up to 35%. Buy now through the link in bio, available until 12 July!

$On Now - Lottie Consalvo’s solo show ‘Of The Night’ at Nanda\Hobbs.Delving into primal states of memory and imagination ...$

02/06/2026

On Now - Lottie Consalvo’s solo show ‘Of The Night’ at Nanda\Hobbs.

Delving into primal states of memory and imagination through tangible expressions of the psychological and emotional, Consalvo’s gestural, indeterminate paintings explore tensions between body and mind, lived and processed experience.

Exhibition on until 20 June
Gadigal Land | Sydney
Nanda\Hobbs Gallery

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Images courtesy Lottie Consalvo and Nanda\Hobbs

29/05/2026

Opening tomorrow - Solo exhibition ‘Shoring’ by Kirsteen Pieterse at Utopia Art Sydney

Kirsteen carves plywood to suggest ancient rugged landscapes, and juxtaposes stainless steel, referencing how modern engineering enables us to build structures and transport through these solid masses, often appearing perilously close to collapse.

Exhibition on until 20 June
Gadigal Land | Sydney
Utopia Art Sydney

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Images courtesy Kirsteen Pieterse and Utopia Art Sydney.

28/05/2026

On Now - Dominik Mersch Gallery presents Cobi Cockburn's 'Primary Lines'.

The exhibition features a new body of neon works that consider light as a material, reducing the visual language to two elemental forces: light and line. Shaped through encounter, the works unfold as perceptual fields rather than fixed objects.

Exhibition on until 6 June
Gadigal Land | Sydney
Dominik Mersch Gallery

Images courtesy of Dominik Mersch Gallery.

27/05/2026

On Now - Mitch Cairns ‘Artist’s Mouth' at The National Art School.

In conjunction with the Institute of Modern Art (IMA), the National Art School presents the largest and most comprehensive solo show of Mitch Cairns to date. The exhibition also celebrates Cairn’s twenty-year artistic career since graduating from the National Art School in 2006 whilst marking the 20th anniversary of the NAS Gallery.

Mitch Cairns is represented by The Commercial.

Exhibition on until 11 July
Gadigal Land | Sydney
National Art School

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Mitch Cairns, Artist's Mouth, 2019

Mitch Cairns, NAS, 2015

Mitch Cairns, Installation View - Artist's Mouth, National Art School 2026

25/05/2026

On Now - Sky, Earth, Water, Rosalie Gascoigne with Lorraine Connelly-Northey, Janet Fieldhouse and Glenda Nicholls.

Bundanon has announced a major exhibition of works by acclaimed Australian artist Rosalie Gascoigne (1917-1999), presented alongside significant new commissions by leading contemporary First Nations women artists Lorraine Connelly-Northey, Janet Fieldhouse and Glenda Nicholls.

Exhibition on until 14 June
Yuin Nation | Illaroo
Bundanon

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Rosalie Gascoigne, Plenty, 1986

Janet Fieldhouse, Sky, Earth, Water, 2026. Photo Zan Wimberley.

Rosalie Gascoigne, not titled (white wood study #1), 1995 - 1997

Rosalie Gascoigne, Sky, Earth, Water, 2026. Photo Zan Wimberley.

22/05/2026

Sydney Film Festival returns 3-14 June, and the FLUX: ART+FILM program brings another bold lineup of boundary-pushing works from the forefront of contemporary cinema. Expect daring experiments in form, vision, and storytelling.

To learn more about this year’s lineup of daring new works, visit: SFF.org.au.

Sydney Film Festival

21/05/2026

Opening today - 21 May - Dual Solo Exhibition: Inner Grounds - Talya Brookman | Nostalgia - Julie Nicholson at CBD Gallery

CBD Gallery presents the dual solo of Julie Nicholson and Talya Brookman whose new bodies of work examine the tension between abstraction and hue. In their pursuit of non-representational form of expression, both artists delve to posit organic colour as a visual dialogue, stimulating the sensory and tackling the limits of materiality and plenary. Once pigments interplay, they gain autonomy through abstraction, where they no longer are perceived as a subordinate of the subject matter, but a language of itself.

Exhibition opening Thursday 21 May from 6pm.

Exhibition on until 13 June
Gadigal Land | Sydney

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Talya Brookman, Still Matter, 2026

Julie Nicholson, Trewa, 2026

Talya Brookman, Field of Becoming

Julie Nicholson, Garth, 2026

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