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Sydney Contemporary Australasia's Premier Art Fair
9 – 12 September 2027, Carriageworks
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For Primavera 2026, curator Antares Wells brings together eight young Australian artists drawn to the traces the past le...
18/09/2026

For Primavera 2026, curator Antares Wells brings together eight young Australian artists drawn to the traces the past leaves behind: in bodies, objects, landscapes, archives and memory.

Across painting, film, photography, weaving and installation, these artists approach history from oblique and often unexpected angles. The result is an exhibition that feels at once deeply considered and gloriously unruly: a place where found objects, lost stories and fragments of memory collide, and where the past keeps pressing into the present.

Read the full conversation: https://sydneycontemporary.com.au/curator-antares-wells-on-primavera-at-mca/

Exhibition on until 28 September
Sydney | Gadigal Land
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

Pictured:
Photos: Jessica Maurer, courtesy of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.

Stanton Cornish-Ward and Trent Crawford, Synchresis (Part I), 2026, installation view, Primavera 2026: Young Australian Artists

Rudi Williams, In the air we breathe,2026, installation view, Primavera 2026: Young Australian Artists

Mark Maurangi Carrol,oro enua, atu enua(the horse, the lord of land), 2026, installation view, Primavera 2026: Young Australian Artists

Linda Sok, Deities in Temples XXI, 2026, installation view, Primavera 2026: Young Australian Artists

Jack Wansbrough, Meteorite Enquiries, 2026 (detail), installation view, Primavera2026: Young Australian Artists

Opening tomorrow - Kathryn Dolby and Amber Wallis at Nasha GalleryKathryn Dolby’s Waterhen and Amber Wallis’ Volcano un...
18/09/2026

Opening tomorrow - Kathryn Dolby and Amber Wallis at Nasha Gallery

Kathryn Dolby’s Waterhen and Amber Wallis’ Volcano unfold in conversation, bringing together two distinct practices shaped by motherhood, protection, landscape and memory.

Dolby’s paintings transform everyday encounters with place into dreamlike worlds, vessels for tenderness and transformation.

Wallis explores the space between domesticity and erotic fantasy to create paintings that hold both intimacy and ambiguity.

Together, Waterhen and Volcano offer a quiet yet powerful meditation on vulnerability, resilience and the shifting landscapes of lived experience.

Exhibition on until 18 October
Sydney | Gadigal Land
Nasha Gallery

Pictured:

Kathryn Dolby, Starry Blanket, 2026

Amber Wallis, Blue animal sphinx mother/volcano lover/Rangitoto, 2026

Kathryn Dolby, My Body the Sea (I), 2026

Amber Wallis, Yellow sleeping couple, statue, modernist sculpture looking to Tryphena garden, 2026

Kathryn Dolby, Path of the Sun (Breast Mountains), 2026

Amber Wallis, Blue Volcano, 2026

Amber Wallis, WALL Figure and Quilt, 2026

Kathryn Dolby, Amber Sees a Thicket (Fertile Ground), 2026

Opening this weekend: Sally Smart’s ‘The Space of Inventory’ at Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert will transform the gallery in...
17/09/2026

Opening this weekend: Sally Smart’s ‘The Space of Inventory’ at Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert will transform the gallery into a shifting landscape of painted, stitched, printed and sculptural forms.

Extending her longstanding language of cutting and collage beyond the canvas, Smart treats the gallery itself as a space for making, with works overlapping, moving through the grid and inviting the viewer to navigate the exhibition from multiple perspectives.

Here, Smart discusses the ideas behind the exhibition, the influence of performance and choreography on her practice, and how working across materials, places and cultural contexts continues to reshape the work.

The Space of Inventory opens Saturday, 19 September
Artist Talk 2pm, followed by the Opening Reception until 4pm

Pictured:

Images courtesy the artist and Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert

Sally Smart, Costume Abstract (Brown) #1, 2026

Sally Smart, Performance scene (Costumes ) #2, 2026

Sally Smart, Harlequin model, 2026

Sally Smart Ensemble (Colombine /MARNI), 2026

Saison Aperitifs brought a distinctly Australian approach to the bar at Sydney Contemporary.The Melbourne-based aperitif...
16/09/2026

Saison Aperitifs brought a distinctly Australian approach to the bar at Sydney Contemporary.

The Melbourne-based aperitif maker is known for its seasonal, ingredient-led vermouths and amari, drawing on local produce and a culinary approach to flavour.

Photo: Sydney Contemporary 2026, Wes Nell

A quieter corner of Sydney Contemporary, did you visit this serene room? Three installations presented three distinct en...
16/09/2026

A quieter corner of Sydney Contemporary, did you visit this serene room? Three installations presented three distinct encounters with space and material.

Choi Youngwook’s pavilion of Moon Jar paintings offered a moment of calm amid the energy of the fair, alongside Kirtika Kain’s intense exploration of caste, ancestral memory and labour, and Nabilah Nordin’s steel forms suspended between drawing, sculpture and movement.

Presented by Gallery LNL, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery and Neon Parc.

A look back at Installations, Sydney Contemporary’s program of 14 ambitious contemporary art projects curated by José Da Silva.

Photos by Wes Nel.

06/09/2026

“For four days each September, Carriageworks becomes a showcase of the most exciting and sought-after pieces and people in Australian contemporary art. The sheer breadth of the fair is part of its appeal” - Broadsheet Sydney.

Final hours of Sydney Contemporary, Australasia’s premier art fair. Open until 5pm at Carriageworks.

Buy tickets online or on the door!

06/09/2026

What do people wear to Sydney Contemporary? Fair Ambassador LIANA DEL CRAY took to the floor to find out.

Sydney Contemporary is on now at Carriageworks. Tickets available online or on the door.

Featuring:
Eva Galambos Parlour X • Luxury Fashion Sydney
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Sullivan+Strumpf
Sebastian Goldspink
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05/09/2026

Sunday at Sydney Contemporary.

Make a day of it at Carriageworks, with 100+ galleries, 500+ artists, large-scale installations, Photo Sydney, new discoveries and plenty of art to fall for.

Open 11am- 5pm.

Come for the art. Stay for the atmosphere. Leave with something you love.

Get your tickets online or on the door and come see what everyone’s talking about!

05/09/2026

Explore Australia’s biggest art fair this weekend! Saturday is underway at Sydney Contemporary, with one more day to experience the 10th edition before the Fair closes tomorrow.

Saturday 11am-6pm
Sunday 11am-5pm

If you’ve been meaning to come, this is your moment.
Sydney Contemporary is on now until Sunday at September, Carriageworks. Tickets available online or on the door. See you at the Fair!

04/09/2026

Joan Ross transforms Pier Pavilion, Barangaroo into an encounter with a critical eye on colonial history

Presented as an offsite extension of Installations, Joan presents a video series of animated worlds that combine colonial imagery, the absurd and hi vis yellow to reframe the Australian landscape and expose the ongoing consequences of colonisation.

By placing them on the harbour’s edge, the videos draws powerful connections between Australia’s colonial history, and contemporary Sydney.

On view until 6 September.

Presented by N.Smith Gallery with the support of NSW Government through Destination NSW. Project supported by Placemaking NSW.

Installations is curated by José Da Silva, Director UNSW Galleries.

Sydney Contemporary, Australasia’s premier art fair, is on now at Carriageworks from 3-6 September.

Sydney, Australia Joan Ross N.Smith Gallery José Da Silva

Video by Edit Films Studio

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