OLSEN Gallery

OLSEN Gallery Leading contemporary art gallery in Sydney, Australia Foremost in the gallery's stable is John Olsen, now regarded as Australia's most esteemed living artist.

OLSEN, known previously as Olsen Irwin and Tim Olsen Gallery, was established in 1993 and exhibits a broad spectrum of Australian and international art, in the gallery, online, and at art fairs. Gallery founder and director Tim Olsen has cultivated a stable of artists that he feel presents a comprehensive and poignant view of the contemporary arts in Australia. With a continually changing exhibiti

on calendar we showcase the work of both emerging and established artists. We have nurtured the careers of artists from their first exhibition out of art school and proudly see them now as leading lights in the Australian art scene. In addition to the staging of countless critically acclaimed exhibitions the gallery has hosted the launch of many books devoted to his unique and ingenious art making. Tim has also negotiated the sale of some of the most significant paintings in Olsen's oeuvre to both private and institutional collections. Tim's enthusiasm for works on paper has also inspired a specific works on paper space the ANNEXE, which now resides directly behind the main gallery at 74 Queen Street, Woollahra. With a definite focus on the work of Australian artists, we are actively fostering a dialogue between Australia art and our international colleagues with exhibitions of leading contemporary artists from Europe, Asia and America being planned for the coming years. OLSEN draws on these international partnerships for the collection development of our private and institutional collectors. OLSEN GALLERY
63 Jersey Road
Woollahra NSW 2025

OLSEN ANNEXE
74 Queen Street
Woollahra NSW 2025

Peter Graham's work 'Penumbral Plum' is our stockroom highlight of the week. "I mess about with a lot of materials so th...
20/06/2026

Peter Graham's work 'Penumbral Plum' is our stockroom highlight of the week.

"I mess about with a lot of materials so that the art of this extraction is laborious and images may be borne up like sweat on the brow, or a thing found after digging. Images are spells, sparking from our heads like fire struck from stone, igniting darkness so that we may see". Peter Graham says of his work.

Peter's work 'Yonder comes day' is a finalist in the Art Gallery of New South Wales' 2026 Sulman prize, on exhibition at AGNSW until August.

Peter Graham
Penumbral Plum, 2025
oil on canvas
213.5 x 167.5 cm
#39210
$25,000

Our stockroom highlight of the week is 'Spoonfuls of Milo at Kosciuszko (sepia brown)' by Eliza Gosse.Eliza Gosse's work...
13/06/2026

Our stockroom highlight of the week is 'Spoonfuls of Milo at Kosciuszko (sepia brown)' by Eliza Gosse.

Eliza Gosse's work evokes nostalgia, celebrating the optimism and flair of post-war and mid-century design. Gosse creates pared back images that are not so much a depiction as an evocation of an era or place and the people who may once have lived there. Her use of a soft, muted colour palette and playful titles pulled from pop culture add a touch of sentimentality, inviting viewers to imagine the stories that might be held within the walls.

Gosse was named as finalist in the Art Gallery of New South Wales' Wynne Prize for 2026 with her work 'Knowing where the sun will touch', the work exhibiting AGNSW till August.

Details of our stockroom pick of the week:

Spoonfuls of Milo at Kosciuszko (sepia brown), 2025
Edition of 10 + 2 AP
linocut relief on Fabriano 220gsm
72.5 x 67.5 cm
#41581
Framed
$2,500

To find out more about Gosse's work call into the gallery in person or contact us on 02 9327 3922, or follow the link in our bio.

11/06/2026

Insights from Tim Olsen

Current exhibitions
CHRIS LANGLOIS | Eulittoral
TUPPY GOODWIN | Maku Inma
JENNIFER ROSNELL | Sunkissed

Video by Simon Hewson
For full exhibition walkthroughs and to learn more follow the link in our bio.

Tim Olsen Olsen Annexe Chris Langlois Mimili Maku Arts Jennifer Rosnell

Gallery artist Babette Robertson's exhibition 'And Her Hallway Moves Like The Ocean' opens from the 12th June at Lismore...
11/06/2026

Gallery artist Babette Robertson's exhibition 'And Her Hallway Moves Like The Ocean' opens from the 12th June at Lismore Regional Gallery!

As academic and friend of the artist Dr Jamie Tsai says of the works "Babette’s dreamscapes are ethereal and earthly. They are interiors and exteriors. They are then and now and in-between. They are stylistically slippery, aesthetically hazy, subjectively porous. Forms that resonate with familiarity are stubbornly ambiguous".

The exhibition's title is drawn from the opening lyric of a The Sisters of Mercy song from the album Floodland (1987), which Robertson frequently plays in the studio. The phrase reflects the exhibition's concerns with unstable domestic space, dream architecture and shifting psychological environments. It also quietly echoes the Lismore Regional Gallery's location on a floodplain.

And Her Hallway Moves Like the Ocean
Lismore Regional Gallery
11 Rural Street, Lismore NSW 2480
12 June - 23 August, 2026

Work featured:
'I had tickets to a prestigious theatre/opera but I wanted to give them away. Everyone told me I was crazy and wouldn't take them. I knew the curtains were green and I thought they should be red', 2026
water-based pigment on linen

We are excited to announce the representation of Aaron Crothers, a Sydney based sculptor. learn more: https://www.olseng...
05/06/2026

We are excited to announce the representation of Aaron Crothers, a Sydney based sculptor.

learn more: https://www.olsengallery.com/artist-cat/aaron-crothers/

Aaron’s sculptures are derived from the abstract. They play with curves, angular and architectural forms, incorporating geometry and Brutalism.

For more information about Aaron’s works, contact the gallery via [email protected], call us on 9327 3922, or call into the gallery to view Aaron’s works in the Olsen stockroom.

Work's pictured

Interconnected 3, 2026
raku fired stoneware ceramic
61 x 25 x 29 cm
#41874
$5,500

Interconnected 4, 2026
stoneware ceramic
40 x 27 x 21 cm
#41875
$3,500

Interconnected 1, 2026
raku fired stoneware ceramic
40 x 23 x 18 cm
#41872
$3,500

21/05/2026

Coming to the gallery next week and with opening celebrations Wednesday 27th May, 5-7pm is Tuppy Goodman’s exhibition ‘Maku Inma’.

In this exhibition, Godwin’s compositions are more open, the brushwork more resolved, stripped back to essential marks that carry both precision and authority. There is a heightened sense of rhythm, where each gesture holds both cultural and experimental weight.

Maku Inma exhibits till 20 June.

For all enquiries contact us at [email protected] or call the gallery on 02 9327 3922. To view full exhibition online follow the link in our bio.

21/05/2026

Join us at the gallery next week for Chris Langlois’s exhibition, ‘Eulittoral’, 27 May-20 June.

“I have spent the past year looking at painting bodies of water differently. I had lots of ideas about the intertidal zones of the sea and rivers, and ended up painting a sort of smorgasbord of ideas that were in my head. The paintings in ‘Eulittoral’ are a play at adaption, a changing zone of how I might mess around with painting” Chris Langlois says.

Opening celebrations on Wednesday 27 May, 5-7pm.

For all enquiries contact us at [email protected] or call the gallery on 02 9327 3922. To view full exhibition online follow the link in the bio.

20/05/2026

Insights from Olsen Gallery

Final week to catch
KATE SHAW | DIVINE MATRIX
EVIE ADASAL | DOPAMINE
Current until 23 May.

And in the Annexe
TEO TRELOAR | TETHERED
Current until 30 May.

Video by
For full exhibition walkthroughs and to learn more follow the link in our bio 🔗

.adasal

24/04/2026

Evie Adasal’s solo exhibition Dopamine opens next week, join us in the gallery for opening celebrations on April 29, 5-7pm.

As Evie writes:
“Dopamine is a neurotransmitter involved in motivation and reward prediction, often associated with anticipation rather than reward itself. It drives the impulse to seek, to return, and to pursue something not yet realised. In my practice, this sense of anticipation unfolds through returning to the gardens and through the process of painting itself. I am searching for a particular moment of resolution a ‘hit’ where colour, structure and rhythm lock into place. That moment is never fixed, only approached, and it is this ongoing pursuit that the work holds”.

For all enquiries contact us at [email protected] or call the gallery on 9327 3922. To view full exhibition online follow the link in our bio.
adasal

23/04/2026

Join us in the gallery next week for the opening of Kate Shaw’s Divine Matrix. Opening celebrations on Wednesday 29 April from 5-7pm.

Australian contemporary artist Kate Shaw stands at the forefront of ecological and visionary painting, producing works that blur the boundaries between elemental forces
and human perception. Based between Melbourne and the United States, Shaw has forged a career of remarkable breadth and depth, exhibiting internationally in major solo and group exhibitions, and earning recognition in museum shows and public collections throughout the world. With a practice rooted in both technical mastery and conceptual inquiry, her art embodies a unique fusion of natural beauty, psychological terrain, and ecological concern.�
For all enquiries contact us at [email protected] or call the gallery on 02 9327 3922. To view full exhibition online follow the link in our bio.

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63 Jersey Road.
Woollahra, NSW
2025

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Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm

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