All images courtesy of Newcastle Art Gallery. Photo: Matt Carbone
Newcastle Art Gallery’s icons, loved favourites, and unexpected gems in their inaugural exhibition, Iconic Loved Unexpected. Featuring works by Daniel Boyd, Destiny Deacon, James Angus, Julie Rrap, Mikala Dwyer and Patricia Piccinini.
Exhibition Dates: 28 February – 23 May 2026
Across every space in the expanded Gallery, we celebrate our nationally renowned collection with a curated selection from more than 7,000 works of art by local, national and global artists. This multi-faceted display foregrounds First Nations art and traces the development of Australian art over more than 200 years, as well as showcasing vibrant works by contemporary artists from across the globe.
- Newcastle Art Gallery, 2026
Group Show, Iconic Loved Unexpected
Newcastle Art Gallery, 2026
Yield Strength
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, 2026
Group Show, SEARCHERS: Graffiti and Contemporary Art
National Art School Gallery, 2026
Group Show, Relic
Fairfield City Museum & Gallery, 2025-26
Group Show, Good as Gold
Rockhampton Museum of Art, 2025-26
Group Show, Patricia Piccinini. Welcome Guest
KOENIGmuseum, 2025-26
Group Show, On Display
Artbank, Melbourne Projects Space, 2025
Group Show, Sanctuary: 25 Years of Hazelhurst Arts Centre
Hazelhurst Arts Centre, 2025
Group Show, Under the Big Blue Sky
Casula Powerhouse, 2025
Group Show, Dreamz
Sydney College of the Arts, 2025
Group Show, The Intelligence of Painting
Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, 2025
Group Show, A Fictional Retrospective: Gertrude’s First Decade 1985–1995
Gertrude Contemporary, 2025
Group Show, Mnemosyne
Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, 2025
Group Show, Works on Paper
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2024-25
Group Show, from elsewhere
Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, 2024
Group Show, Suburban Sublime: Australian Photography
QAGOMA, 2024-25
Group Show, Wilder Times: Arthur Boyd and the mid 1980s landscape
Bundanon Art Musuem, 2024
Ten Thousand Suns
24th Biennale of Sydney, 2024
Group Show, What Does the Jukebox Dream Of?
Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2024
Group Show, The First 40 Years
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2024
Group Show, The Winter Bride
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2023
Group Show, Thin Skin
Monash University Museum of Art, Naarm/Melbourne, 2023
Group Show, nightshifts
Buxton Contemporary, 2023
Group Show, The National 4
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and Campbelltown Arts Centre, 2023
Thinking Historically in the Present
Sharjah Biennial 15, 2023
Group Show, Still Life
Buxton Contemporary, 2022
Group Show, Pliable Planes: Expanded Textiles & Fibre Practices
UNSW Galleries, 2022
Free/State
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, 2022
Group Show, This language that is every stone
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2022
Cairns Indigenous Art Fair 2021, 2021
Group Show, The Great Invocation
Garage Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2021
Group Show, The National
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2021
Group Show, A Painting Show
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2020-21
Group Show, The Solar Line
NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, Artspace, Sydney, 2020
Viewing Room
The Timbre of Texture, 2020
Viewing Room
The Power of Language, 2020
Viewing Room
Faraway, So Close!, 2020
Viewing Room
Dreamscapes, 2020
Group Show, Contact Us
Coment Fondu, Sydney, 2020
Group Show, Violent Salt
Artspace Mackay, QLD, 2019
Group Show, Idol Worship
Lismore Regional Gallery, NSW, 2019
Group Show, Mondspiel
Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne, 2019
Group Show, Caught Stealing
National Art School, Sydney, 2019
Group Show, On Vulnerability and Doubt
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2019
Group Show, Workshop
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, 2019
Group Show, Archibald Prize
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2019
Group Show, Idols
Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, 2019
Group Show, Fringe
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Belgium, 2019
Group Show, Just Not Australian
Artspace, Sydney, 2019
Group Show, The Like Button
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2018-19
Group Show, THE PUBLIC BODY 0.3
Artspace, Sydney, 2018
Group Show, The shape of things to come
Buxton Contemporary, 2018
Divided Worlds
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, 2018
Group Show, State of Play
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2017
Group Show, Future Eaters
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2017
Group Show, Tidalectics
TBA21-Academy, Austria, 2017
Group Show, Looking at me through you
Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, 2017
Group Show, Creative Accounting
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, 2016-17
Group Show, Sappers and Shrapnel
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2016-17
Group Show, Soft Core
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, 2016
Group Show, Shut Up and Paint
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2016-17
Group Show
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2016
Group Show, Gravity (and Wonder)
Penrith Regional Gallery, 2016
Endless Circulation
TarraWarra Biennial, 2016
Group Show, Sixth Sense
National Art School Gallery, Sydney, 2016
Group Show, New Romance: Art and the Posthuman
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2016
Group Show, Wonder: Contemporary Art for Children
Hazelhurst Arts Centre, 2016
The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed
20th Biennale of Sydney, 2016
Group Show, The Nest
Katonah Museum of Art, New York, 2016
Group Show, Dämmerschlaf
Artspace, Sydney, 2016
Group Show, Really Useful Knowledge
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2015
Group Show, Dead Ringer
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, 2015
Group Show, People Like Us
University of New South Wales Galleries, Sydney, 2015
Group Show, Solid State
Casula Powerhouse, 2015
Group Show, Light Show
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2015
Group Show, Streetwise: Contemporary Print Culture
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2015
Group Show
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2015
All the World's Futures
56th Venice Biennale, 2015
Group Show, Cars = my automolove
Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, 2014-15
Group Show, Melbourne Noir
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2014-15
Group Show, New South Wales Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging)
Artspace, Sydney, 2014
Whisper in My Mask
TarraWarra Biennial, 2014
Group Show, The Gold Award
Rockhampton Art Gallery, Rockhampton, QLD, 2014
A Time for Dreams
Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, 2014
Group Show, Sondheim Artscape Prize Finalists
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, 2014
Group Show, Never-Never Land (A Collaboration with Utopian Slumps)
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2014
You Imagine What You Desire
19th Biennale of Sydney, 2014
You Imagine What You Desire
19th Biennale of Sydney, 2014
Group Show, Green Cathedral
Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong, NSW, 2014
Group Show, Melbourne Now
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2013-14
Group Show, Dawson, Griggs, Moore
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2013
Group Show, Future Primitive
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2013-14
Group Show, History is Made at Night
Artspace, Sydney, 2013
Group Show, Ten Years of Things
UQ Art Museum, 2012-13
Group Show, Louise Bourgeois and Australian Artists
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2012
Group Show, SEXES
Performance Space, Sydney, 2012
Group Show, Artists' Proof #1
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2012
Group Show, Cronies
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2012
Yayoi Kusama Eyes are Singing Out
Queen Elizabeth II Courts of Law, Brisbane, 2012-13
Group Show, Transit of Venus
Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney, 2012
Group Show, The Other's Other
Artspace, Sydney, 2012
Group Show, MONA FOMA
Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, 2012
Group Show, Panto Collapsar
Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 2012
Group Show, Groups Who
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2011-12
Group Show, Head On Photography Festival
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2011
Group Show, Future Furnishing
Nature Morte Gallery, Berlin, 2011
Group Show, True Story
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2010-11
Mikala Dwyer Mary's Place Lamp
Surry Hills, Sydney, 2010-13
Group Show, Wilderness: Balnaves Contemporary Painting
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2010
Group Show, Everything's Alright
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2010
Group Show, Purlieu
Awesome Arts Festival, Perth, 2010
Group Show
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2009-10
Group Show, Grotto
The Fundament Foundation, Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2009
Group Show, Anne Landa Award
Art Gallery New South Wales, Sydney, 2009
Group Show, Lucky Town
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2008-09
Group Show, Process/journey
Australian Embassy and Redgate Gallery, Beijing, 2008
Group Show, Contemporary Australia: Optimism
Gallery Of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2008
Group Show, OBLIVION PAVILION
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2008
Group Show, ECR
Parramatta City Raceway, Sydney, 2008
Group Show, Oblivion Pavilion
Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, 2008
Group Show, Neo Goth - back in black
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, 2008
Group Show, Dry Rot
Galerie Alexandra Saheb, Berlin, 2008
Group Show, Golden Mean
Casula Powerhouse, Sydney, 2008
Group Show, Summer '07 '08
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2007
Group Show, Views from Islands
Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, 2007
Group Show, She's not Structural
Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, 2007
Group Show, Increase Your Uncertainty
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2007
Group Show, STOLEN RITUAL
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2006-07
Group Show, Ten[d]ancy
Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, 2006
Group Show, Adventures with Form in Space
Art Gallery Of New South Wales, Sydney, 2006
Group Show, Custom Living
Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney, 2006
Group Show, Rectangular Ghost
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2006
Group Show
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2005
Group Show, When the Bulls Fight the Calves get Crushed
Siddhartha Gallery, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2005
Group Show, If these walls could talk
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2005
Group Show, From Space to Place
IASKA, Kellerberrin, WA, 2004
Group Show, LOCAL +/OR GENERAL
New Canaan, Connecticut, 2003
Group Show, Z
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2003
Group Show, The Fly and The Mountain
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2002
Group Show, Dirty Dozen
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2002
Group Show, IOU
Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Melbourne, 2002
Group Show, The First 20 Years
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2002
Group Show, Bittersweet
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2002
Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, 2001
Group Show, All Stars
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2000
Group Show, more apt to be lost than got
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 2000
Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, 2000
Group Show, Gang of Four
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1999
Group Show, Every other day
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1998
Group Show, Wish You Luck
PS1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York, 1998
Group Show
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1997
Group Show, A constructed world (in collaboration with John Wolseley)
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1997
Group Show, Give A Dog A Bone
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1996
Group Show, Young British Artists
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1996
Group Show, Stockroom
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1995
Group Show, Blow Up
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1995
Group Show, Photosynthesis
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1994
Group Show, Queerography
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1994
Group Show, 115 58' EAST 31 56' SOUTH
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1993
Group Show, High pop
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1993
Group Show
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1992
Group Show, T.I.S.E.A.
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1992
Untitled, 1992 - 1995
Online Gallery, 1992-95
Group Show, Abstract Art
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1992
Group Show, Christmas show
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1991
Group Show, Ramingining Bark Paintings and Sculpture
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1991
Group Show, Ramingining
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1991
Group Show
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1990
Group Show, Strange harmony of contrasts
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1990
Group Show, Recent Works from Ramingining and Maningrida
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1989
Group Show, The Cocktail Party (All Gallery Artists)
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1988
Group Show, 7th Biennale of Sydney
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1988
Group Show, Mardi Gras exhibition
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1988
Group Show, 1968-1988 Selected works
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1988
Group Show, Video Festival
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1987
Group Show, Chaos
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1987
Group Show, A Resistant Spirit
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1986
Group Show, The Forbidden Object
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1986
Group Show, Yuletide nuptials fashion show
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1985
Group Show, Australian Visions
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1984
Group Show
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1984
Group Show, Dreams and Nightmares
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1984
Group Show, Young artists
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1983
Group Show, Pirates & Mutineers
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 1983
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