Kirtika Kain leading printmaking workshop at Campbelltown Arts Centre
Saturday, 29 August; 10am - 2:30pm
Inspired by Kain’s current exhibition Pitch, this immersive workshop invites participants to explore printmaking as an alchemical process of layering, transfer and transformation.
Drawing on Kain’s material language, where gold, tar and turmeric carry histories of labour, ritual and cultural memory, participants will experiment with surface and texture to create their own printed works.
Through guided exercises, the workshop will introduce techniques of mono print acetate, drypoint, chine colle and lino, taking cue from Kain’s own approach where surfaces act interchangeably as both plate and print.
Prior printmaking experience is not required.
Image 1: Kirtika Kain in her studio at Parramatta Artists' Studios, 2024. Photography: Garry Trinh.
EXHIBITION OPENING: Louise Hearman
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of new paintings by Louise Hearman.
Opening reception: Friday 21 August from 5–7pm
Exhibition dates: 21 August – 12 September 2026
Louise Hearman is well known for her dark dream-like paintings that are often said to have a cinematic quality. Like film stills, they capture transient moments of her personal memory and imaginary time. Since the 1980s, Hearman’s technically adroit oil paintings often incorporate otherworldly forms in imaginative compositions that instil them with a supernatural quality. By combining commonplace imagery with personal visions of the unknown and the unknowable, Hearman hints at the wonders of the universe and the compelling nature of our nonverbal thoughts.
Louise Hearman has been represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery since 2003.
Request a catalogue: [email protected]
Image: Louise Hearman, Untitled #1560, 2025, oil on masonite, 45 x 61 cm.
Major exhibition 'Tracey Moffatt Sorted – a look at her Archive' opens at Chau Chak Wing Museum on Saturday 22 August
Over the course of her four-decades long career, photographer and filmmaker Tracey Moffatt has produced numerous photographic series and has directed and written many experimental films and videos – all which have helped solidify her reputation as Australia’s most internationally recognised visual artist.
The Chau Chak Wing Museum is the recipient of a significant gift of Tracey Moffatt’s artworks, which comprises an edition of every photographic work and every film/video produced since 1985.
The Tracey Moffatt Archive also contains ephemera, also known as her “time capsules,” inspired by Andy Warhol, including test prints and idea sketches, personal photographs and correspondence.
This is the first collection and archive of its kind donated to an Australian museum.
Composite image by Catseye Bay Design.
EXHIBITION OPENING: Yalmakany Marawili
Yalmakany Marawili
Walngakunhami - Bringing to Life
Opening reception: Friday 21 August from 5–7pm
Yalmakany Marawili is an artist from North East Arnhem Land, born into a distinguished lineage of cultural leaders and artists. She is the daughter of celebrated senior artist Mrs M Wirrpanda and legendary Madarrpa leader Wakuthi Marawili and sister to celebrated artist Djambawa Marawili AM. Since settling in Yirrkala in 2022, she has dedicated herself to painting full-time at Buku-Larrngay Mulka Art Centre, drawing on her deep cultural knowledge to depict the saltwater estates and bush resources of her Country. Her works combine intricate detail and vibrant expression to celebrate Yolngu knowledge systems.
Yalmakany Marawili has been represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery since 2025.
Exhibition dates: 21 August – 12 September 2026
Request a catalogue: [email protected]
Image: Yalmakany Marawili, TBC, 2026, 975-26, earth pigments on board, 200 x 200 cm.
Mia Khin Boe's work 'The Portal' (2025) announced as finalist in the 2026 Mosman Art Prize
Established in 1947 as a national acquisitive prize, the Mosman Art Prize celebrates painting’s unique ability to tell stories, capture moments of change, and reflect the complexities of contemporary life.
The finalist exhibition will be on view at Mosman Art Gallery from 20 August – 26 October 2026.
To request a catalogue of available works by Mia Boe, email [email protected]
Image: Mia Boe, The Portal, 2025, synthetic polymer on linen, 155 x 120 cm.
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery to present Jenny Watson and Mia Boe in Sydney Contemporary 2026 exhibition
Booth B05
Carriageworks, Sydney
3–6 September 2026
Among the gallery’s first represented artists, Jenny Watson will present significant historical works alongside new paintings, while Mia Boe, one of the gallery’s newest represented artists, debuts a new body of work drawing on personal history and broader colonial narratives.
As part of this year's Installations sector, curated by José Da Silva, Mike Hewson presents two major projects: Pit Stop Café and a whimsical fountain sculpture installed across an expanse of flooring inlaid with tile shards and found objects.
Also in the Installations sector, we are delighted to present a series of new works by Kirtika Kain, alongside her major painting Midnight (2025).
Email [email protected] to request a catalogue.
Image: Jenny Watson, Love, Marriage, Property, 1988 - 1989, oil on dyed hessian, 2 parts: 107 x 46 cm; 108.5 x 61 cm.
Mikala Dwyer to be included in forthcoming Melbourne Sculpture Biennale
Exhibition Dates: 8-25 October
Entitled Soft Systems, the Melbourne Sculpture Biennale returns this spring for its second edition, showcasing contemporary sculptural practice, accompanied by a series of public programs, at Billilla Mansion in Brighton.
MSB26 brings together artists who engage critically with the intertwined systems that shape our contemporary world. Across sculpture, installation and site-responsive works – with a focus on new works created in response to the specific site and context of Billilla Mansion – the artists employ diverse strategies to interrogate these systems and their impact on people, culture and the environment.
Julie Rrap's work 'Oracle' (2026)
Drawing on the legend of the medieval Brazen Head – a mythical bronze head believed to possess prophetic powers – Rrap's illuminated LED work repeats its only recorded utterance: "TIME IS TIME WAS TIME IS PAST." According to the legend, after years of labour, the head spoke these cryptic words before falling silent forever.
Set against a sea of bronze, a material traditionally associated with permanence, 'Oracle' is a reminder that monuments, history and even the body itself remain in a continual state of transformation.
Un-Becoming Monuments is on view at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery until Saturday, 15 August.
To request a catalogue, email [email protected]
Video: Julie Rrap, Oracle, 2026, LED sign, 161 x 17 x 17 cm.
EXHIBITION OPENING: Julie Rrap's 'Un-Becoming Monuments' at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
Un-Becoming Monuments, an exhibition of new work by Julie Rrap.
The work of Julie Rrap is considered to have contributed to the foundations of contemporary feminist art in Australia. Working for over four decades with a range of different mediums, Rrap challenges, subverts and reinterprets the definition of women and their image in surprising ways, often using her own nude body to do so. She is one of the most recognised female artists working in Australia today.
Opening reception: Friday 24 July from 5–7pm
Exhibition dates: 24 July – 15 August 2026
Request a catalogue: [email protected]
Julie Rrap has been exhibiting with Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery since 1982.
Image: Julie Rrap, Un-Becoming Monuments (TBC), 2026.
‘Un-Becoming Monuments’ by Julie Rrap at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
Opening reception: Tonight, Friday 24 July, from 5–7pm
Exhibition dates: 24 July – 15 August 2026
Request a catalogue: [email protected]
"Historically, monuments have overwhelmingly celebrated military, political and patriarchal authority. They function not simply as records of history but as instruments through which cultural values are maintained and transmitted. By presenting the monument as vulnerable, shrinking, fragmented and contingent, the works in 'Un-Becoming Monuments' unsettle those traditions. They refuse heroic certainty in favour of instability, process and transformation. What emerges is not the destruction of the monument but its unravelling." – Julie Rrap, 2026
Julie Rrap has been exhibiting with Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery since 1982.
Image: Installation view, Julie Rrap, 'Un-Becoming Monuments', Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (24 July – 15 August 2026). Photography: David Suyasa.
UPCOMING: ‘Un-Becoming Monuments’ exhibition by Julie Rrap
Un-Becoming Monuments
The work of Julie Rrap is considered to have contributed to the foundations of contemporary feminist art in Australia. Working for over four decades with a range of different mediums Rrap challenges, subverts and reinterprets the definition of women and their image in surprising ways, often using her own nude body to do so. She is one of the most recognised female artists working in Australia today.
Opening reception: Friday 24 July from 5–7pm
Exhibition dates: 24 July – 15 August 2026
Request a catalogue: [email protected]
Julie Rrap has been exhibiting with Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery since 1982.
Image: Julie Rrap, Liberty at Half Mast, 2026, bronze, 33 x 36 x 43 cm. Edition of 2 + 1 AP.
Patricia Piccinini presents first major solo exhibition in South Korea at Suwon Museum of Art, Seoul
The exhibition surveys more than two decades of the artist's practice, from 2002 to 2025, presenting 56 works in total: major sculptures alongside photographs, video, installation and archival materials.
Kinship runs until 1 November 2026.
The title, Kinship, ordinarily refers to family ties and blood relations, but in Piccinini's hands the word expands beyond human-centered bonds to encompass the connections and responsibilities that form between radically different kinds of beings. Through the creatures she has created, the show invites viewers to reconsider the relationships between human and nonhuman, nature and technology, family and stranger.
To request a catalogue of available works by Patricia Piccinini, email [email protected]
Images: Installation view, Patricia Piccinini, Kinship, Suwon Museum Of Art, Seoul (23 July – 1 November 2026). Courtesy of SuMA. Photography: Jang Jun-Ho.
MIKE HEWSON: Representation Announcement
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is thrilled to announce our representation of Mike Hewson.
Mike Hewson (b. 1985, Aotearoa New Zealand) is a Sydney-based artist with a background in structural engineering and heavy-civil construction. His award-winning projects pioneer new ways of bringing conceptual artworks into the public realm.
With an ambitious practice at the intersection of art, architecture and urban infrastructure, Mike works to prove that we can, in fact, do things that are considered untenable in a public space. Each project aims to catalyse fresh conversations about the bureaucratic and managerial forces shaping our public lives, asking whether we like that shape or whether we’d rather explore other possibilities.
In September, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery will present a major series of sculptures with Mike as part of the Installation sector at Sydney Contemporary and will open our 2027 programme with a solo exhibition in our Paddington gallery.
We are delighted to welcome Mike to the gallery’s stable and look forward to presenting his continued evolution as an innovative and compelling voice in contemporary sculpture and installation.
To request a catalogue of Mike Hewson's work at Sydney Contemporary 2026, email [email protected]
Image: Portrait of Mike Hewson at Lett Thomas. Photography by Matt Hurley.
Final finissage of A Constructed World at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
Pheno 03: Outside Broadcast,
My voice keeps changing on me
To request a catalogue, email [email protected]
A Constructed World (ACW) is the collaborative project of two artists based in Paris – Geoff Lowe and Jacqueline Riva, founded in 1993. ACW believe in the notion of collectivity. Encouraging the exchange of ideas and embracing chaos, their practice is concerned with the narratives that we use to construct and understand our world. ACW work with methodologies that bring attention to diverse modes of artistic practice. They are well known for their performances which includes up to twenty performers presenting conversation, philosophical texts, music, singing and dancing, incorporating high levels of specialisation and not-knowing as a shared space.
Please join us at the gallery this Saturday, 18 July, from 3–5pm for a series of finissage performances.
Image 1: A Constructed World, 'Beatles with Eel', 2022-2024, acrylic on canvas, 46 x 61 cm
Kirtika Kain presents new body of work, 'Pitch' at Campbelltown Arts Centre
This new body of work reflect Kain’s background as printmaker. The two sides of the ambitious central work are essentially a plate and a print, with the canvas side having acted as the printing plate for the hessian component. Similarly, the smaller tar works that surround the significant scrolling work are produced as casts of other painted surfaces. In this way, Kain’s studio becomes like an archive that continually creates itself. These processes are also alchemical, dealing in transferal and transformation.
‘Pitch’ is a Murray Art Museum Albury exhibition presented in partnership with Campbelltown Arts Centre.
To request a catalogue of available works by Kirtika Kain, email [email protected]
Image credit: Installation view, Kirtika Kain, Pitch, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney (15 July – 13 September 2026). Photo: Silversalt Photography.
Kaylene Whiskey announced as finalist in the Creative Talent Award at the 2026 National NAIDOC Awards
One of three outstanding creatives shortlisted for the award, Kaylene is recognised for her work that strengthens culture, inspires communities and shares First Nations stories with audiences across Australia and around the world.
A celebrated Yankunytjatjara artist who lives and works in her home community of Indulkana, Kaylene's vibrant paintings blend Anangu culture with contemporary storytelling, celebrating community, resilience and joy. Her remarkable career stands as a powerful example of the importance of community-led art, cultural continuity and self-determination.
Congratulations to Kaylene on this well-deserved recognition, and to fellow finalists Molly Hunt and Jodie Welsh.
Julie Rrap to be the honoured artist at 2026 MCA Artist Ball
It is our great pleasure to announce that Julie Rrap will be the honoured artist at the 2026 MCA Australia Artists Ball, to be held on Saturday, 7 November.
One of Australia's most influential contemporary artists, Julie Rrap has spent more than four decades challenging conventions of representation, identity and the body through photography, sculpture, video and installation.
Julie joins Daniel Boyd and Tracey Moffatt, who were honoured at the MCA Artists Ball in 2024 and 2023 respectively.
To request a catalogue of available works by Julie Rrap, email [email protected]
Image: Julie Rrap, Disclosures: A Photographic Construct (detail), 1982, black and white archival prints, colour cibachrome prints.
Tracey Moffatt to deliver the 2026 Peter Turner Memorial Lecture
Soundings Theatre, Te Papa Tongarewa
Lecture 6.30pm-8pm (Doors open 6.15pm), followed by refreshments.
Tracey Moffatt – Under the Influence
Free entry, however bookings are advised. Link in bio @photography_massey for event listing.
Whiti o Rehua School of Art Massey University in partnership with Te Papa Tongarewa is pleased to present this year’s Peter Turner Memorial Lecture.
In this lecture Australian artist Tracey Moffatt will discuss her practice as an image maker. Working predominantly in photography and film for over three decades, Moffatt is known as a powerful visual storyteller. Narrative is often implied and self-referential in her work, exploring her own childhood memories alongside broader issues of race, gender, sexuality and identity. In this lecture Tracey will discuss current art projects, her methods of working and how she is influenced by everything and nothing.
This year’s lecture marks the opening of the Photobook NZ Festival, making it a fitting beginning to a weekend celebrating photography, publishing and visual culture. See link below for the full PhotoBook NZ 2026 programme.
ACW to present a series of performances and interventions throughout July
Thursday, 2 July 5–7pm
Electricity & the Devil
Kwong Lee Dow Building, Performance Space Room
University of Melbourne
234 Queensberry St, Parkville
Sunday, 5 July 3pm & 4pm
Elevator and Burning Hand in collaboration with Endless Lonely Planet
Nicholas Building, Swanston St
Monday, 6 July 10am
Toilet in collaboration with Endless Lonely Planet
Flinders St Railway Station
Thursday, 9 July 3pm
Slipin' in collaboration with Endless Lonely Planet
Hole in telegraph pole and Builders Arms Hotel, Fitzroy
Saturday, 11 July 3–5pm
Devil Electricity 03 and Justin Clemens' Stand-Up in collaboration with Endless Lonely Planet
Haydens Gallery, East Brunswick
Tuesday, 14 July 3pm
Suicide Shrine in collaboration with Endless Lonely Planet
Room G03, Building G01
University of Melbourne
Saturday, 18 July 3–5pm
Outside Broadcast and Receiving Transmission
Finissage performances
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Mikala Dwyer's major public artwork 'Monuments for Fishes' unveiled in Watermans Cove, Barangaroo Sydney
A landmark achievement in Australian public art, Monuments for Fishes is one of the largest floating and kinetic artworks in the world. Rising up to 23 metres above Sydney Harbour, the five monumental sculptural forms are inspired by lightweight fishing floats and pay homage to Indigenous fisherwomen.
“It started with something you could hold in your hand – a simple fishing float, striped and lightweight, sitting in my studio," says Dwyer. "Blown up to a grand scale at Watermans Cove, this gathering of buoyant forms becomes a barometer of the harbour’s energy cycles. I wanted to pay homage to the fisherwomen who worked these waters, and to the sea life beneath.”
Crafted from carbon fibre, fibreglass and steel – the same materials used to make yachts – the monuments respond to the surrounding environment, swaying with the tides, winds and currents, and resonate with the changing light and reflections.
Developed in collaboration with Event Engineering and realised with the expertise of more than 100 specialists, Monuments for Fishes is the result of an extraordinary collective effort to help design and build this major work in Australia, involving engineers, shipwrights, spray painters, steel welders and machinists.
Commissioned by Lendlease in partnership with Infrastructure NSW as the culminating artwork in the Barangaroo Public Art and Cultural Plan, Monuments for Fishes is now on permanent public display.
EXHIBITION: Jim Lambie presents 'Zobop' at Musei Civici in Como
On view now at the Musei Civici in Como, Jim Lambie presents Zobop (1999) as part of Feeling Colour, a collaborative exhibition between the City of Como and the Tate Museum.
At San Pietro in Atrio, the exhibition Feeling Colour explores the spatial, perceptual and cultural values of colour in contemporary art through Lambie’s large site-specific installation.
The exhibition runs until 27 September alongside works by JMW Turner from Tate's collection.
To request a catalogue of available works by Jim Lambie, email [email protected]
Image: Installation view, Jim Lambie and JMW Turner, Feeling Colour, Musei Civici in Como, Italy (until 27 September 2026). Photography: Bettina Musatti.
EXHIBITION: Tom Polo's 'ALL I KNOW' featured at Campbelltown Arts Centre
Opening this Saturday, 27 June at Campbelltown Arts Centre, The Sky Between Us features documentation of Tom Polo's 2014 billboard project ALL I KNOW.
Originally commissioned by Campbelltown Arts Centre, ALL I KNOW was created for an exhibition reflecting on youth culture.
"To get to Campbelltown Arts Centre, I'd catch trains between Glenfield and Campbelltown and often overhear young people talking about everything from the frivolous to the serious. I began writing down fragments of these conversations and, from those collected words, assembled the phrase: ALL I KNOW IS THAT WE JUST KEEP DOUBTING OURSELVES." – Tom Polo
The Sky Between Us positions young people as active contributors to an evolving cultural record of Campbelltown and to the ongoing question of who shapes the story of a place.
The Sky Between Us is on view from 27 June – 13 September 2026.
Image: Tom Polo, ALL I KNOW, 2014, site-specific billboard project, 250 x 500 cm. Photography: Zan Wimberley.
EXHIBITION OPENING: A CONSTRUCTED WORLD
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is pleased to present Pheno 03: Outside Broadcast, My voice keeps changing on me, the latest exhibition and series of performances by Paris-based collective A Constructed World.
Opening reception: Saturday, 27 June, from 3–5pm
Exhibition dates: 27 June – 18 July 2026
Request a catalogue: [email protected]
Performances will take place during the opening reception from 3–5pm on Saturday, 27 June, followed by a finissage performance on Saturday, 18 July.
A Constructed World is the collaborative project, founded in 1993, of Geoff Lowe and Jacqueline Riva, based in Paris, France. ACW believe in the notion of collectivity. Their practice is concerned with the multiple narratives we use to construct and understand our world. They encourage the exchange of ideas and embrace the idea of chaos. Influenced by post-structuralism and relational aesthetics, ACW explores how reality is perceived through cultural models.
ACW and Geoff Lowe have been represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery since 1983.
Image: Still from A Constructed World, Pheno Tv 03, 2026.
Kaylene Whiskey's monograph wins 2026 ABIA Illustrated Book of the Year
Congratulations to Kaylene Whiskey whose major monograph The Art of Kaylene Whiskey, published by Thames and Hudson and edited by Natalie King and Iwantja Arts, is the winner of the 2026 ABIA Illustrated Book of the Year.
The awards are presented by Books and Publishing, in partnership with the Australian Publishers Association.
A special limited-edition run of The Art of Kaylene Whiskey is available to purchase via our online store. These limited edition copies are presented in a clamshell box and accompanied by a signed and numbered lenticular print of Super Kaylene (2025).
Purchase your copy of the limited edition The Art of Kaylene Whiskey via the link below.
EXHIBITION: David Noonan in the 3rd Biennale of Bonifacio
On view now in Corsica, France, David Noonan presents new and historical works as part of the 3rd Biennale of Bonifacio.
Titled Nimu Dormi (No One Sleeps), the exhibition brings together 12 international artists and 6 Corsica island-based artists/collectives, at the heart of the historic heritage of the millennial city.
"Because nothing can resist society’s stubborn will to live, nor the contagious spread of disorder and freedom, celebration becomes a committed and cathartic space—one that allows us to reclaim the present, our right to the city, and our right to speak. Nimu Dormi explores these forms of occupation that emerge from the actions of a vigilant people. A theatre of reality where customs dictate laws within a ritualized framework, celebration becomes an act of creation, defiance, or survival; it wrests demands from silence and secrecy, and in doing so, traces the new boundaries of our human trajectories."
To request a catalogue of available works by David Noonan, email [email protected]
Images: Installation view, Biennale Of Bonifacio: Nimu Dormi, Corsica, France (23 May – 05 November 2026. Photography: David Noonan.
EXHIBITION OPENING: Callum Morton
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is pleased to present DIRTY OLD TOWN, an exhibition of new work by Callum Morton.
Opening reception: Friday, 22 May from 5–7pm
Exhibition dates: 22 May – 20 June 2026
Request a catalogue: [email protected]
Callum Morton has exhibited nationally and internationally since 1990, and represented Australia at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007. Morton’s practice explores the personal and social impact of architecture and our built environment, drawing on notions of history, absence, drama and humour. From early drawings of fires and explosions on housing commission flats, to bullet-holed screens, awnings and monuments that memorialise capitalism and outdated forms of modernity, Morton’s works present a melancholic urban archaeology that prompts us to consider the relationship between art and life, history and the present, and look again at the ubiquitous structures we see but rarely notice.
Callum Morton has been represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery since 1999.
Image: Callum Morton Sign #7, 2026, steel, powder coating, lights.
Yalmakany Marawili is a finalist in the 2026 NATSIA Awards
Congratulations to Yalmakany Marawili who is a finalist in the 2026 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA)!
Now in it’s 43rd year, the Telstra NATSIAA is Australia’s longest-running and most prestigious art award of it’s kind. This is Yalmakany Marawili's third time as a finalist.
The finalist exhibition is on view at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, until 24 January 2027. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on 7 August 2026.
Yalmakany Marawili presented her debut exhibition with Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in January 2025.
She will present her second solo exhibition with the gallery in August 2026. To request a preview catalogue, email [email protected]
Artwork details: Yalmakany Marawili, Gong-Wapitja, 2026, 200 x 200 cm.
EXHIBITION: Mikala Dywer's solo show 'Monkey Monkey' at Conners Conners Gallery
Mikala Dwyer's solo exhibition Monkey Monkey is in its final days on view at Conners Conners Gallery in Fitzroy Town Hall.
Mikala Dwyer has been exhibiting internationally since 1982 and has developed a distinctive and highly engaging practice that explores ideas about shelter, childhood play, design and the occult. Influenced by early 20th-century art movements, including dada, constructivism and arte povera, her work pushes at the traditional limits of performance, sculpture and installation. Integrating a range of quotidian materials, her works are experimental and experiential architectures that play with the permeable and changeable nature of objects and our relationship with them.
To request a catalogue of available works by Mikala Dwyer, email [email protected]
Images: installation view, MikalaDwyer, Monkey Monkey, Conners Conners Gallery, Melbourne (14 May – 13 June 2026. Photography: Mia Davidson.
Tom Polo 'I still thought you were looking' Portrait of Roslyn Oxley Archibald Finalist
Congratulations to Tom Polo whose portrait of Roslyn Oxley is a finalist in the 2026 Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery Of New South Wales.
‘I’ve worked with Roslyn since 2018, and over that time I’ve come to understand her particular way of looking,’ says Polo.
‘The title of the painting is borrowed from our first exhibition together in 2019. It reflects Roslyn’s sustained, exacting attention: perceptive, measured and quietly decisive.
‘Roslyn’s hair is iconic. In the painting it becomes almost like a halo, holding her in place and making her immediately recognisable. She stands against a dark, shifting ground, like a beacon – watchful and ever-present. There’s a directness to her expression that many people will recognise, but I wanted that to sit alongside a quieter sense of warmth and trust that I’ve experienced through our relationship.
‘In making this work, I thought a lot about legacy and time; the inevitability of change, and the importance of what remains. For me, it’s her endurance that sits at the centre of the portrait.’
Artwork: Tom Polo, 'I still thought you were looking', synthetic polymer on polycotton, 200 x 160.5 x 3.5 cm. Photography: Amanda Rowell.
EXHIBITION: David Noonan collages on view in 'Slow Read' at Town Hall Gallery in Boroondara, Melbourne
A series of collage prints from 2005 by David Noonan are currently on view Town Hall Gallery in Melbourne as part of Slow Read, an exhibition exploring quiet, deliberate acts of looking and reading in an era of constant scrolling and visual saturation.
Drawing on source material from magazines, archives, art history books and personal collections, the exhibition considers how fragments of text and imagery can be recontextualised through collage and assemblage to create poetic and unexpected new associations.
In these collages, Noonan manually cuts and pastes found images to construct scenes charged with atmosphere and mystery. His extensive engagement with film is evident in the cinematic quality of the prints – carefully composed images that evoke nostalgia for the visual culture and aesthetics of the 1970s through depictions of urban landscapes, interiors, fashion and décor. Through collage, disparate elements are brought together to create spatially convincing fictions and narratives achievable only through this tactile, material process.
Slow Read is on view at Town Hall Gallery through to Saturday, 25 July
To request a catalogue of available works by David Noonan, email [email protected]
Images: Installation view, Slow Read, Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne (6 May – 25 July 2026). Photography: Christian Capurro.
Tom Polo a Finalist in the 2026 Archibald Prize
Congratulations to Tom Polo whose portrait of Roslyn Oxley is a finalist in the 2026 Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Tom Polo’s subject is Sydney gallerist Roslyn Oxley, who has run one of Australia’s most influential contemporary art spaces, championing artists for over 40 years.
To request a catalogue of available works by Tom Polo, email [email protected]
Image: Tom Polo, 'I still thought you were looking', synthetic polymer on polycotton, 200 x 160.5 x 3.5 cm.
Kaylene Whiskey a Finalist in the 2026 Archibald Prize
Congratulations to Kaylene Whiskey whose self-portrait with The Huxleys is a finalist in the 2026 Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Garrett and Will Huxley are Melbourne-based performance and visual artists, who work together as The Huxleys.
‘I first met The Huxleys at the opening party for the 2018 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes. I saw these two people in amazing outfits, with big high heels and blue make-up, and thought, “I have to meet them!”’ says Kaylene Whiskey.
Born in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, Whiskey won the 2018 Sulman Prize. This is her fourth time as a finalist in the Archibald Prize.
Image: Kaylene Whiskey, 'Dancing with The Huxleys', synthetic polymer paint on linen, 153 x 122.4 cm.
Mia Boe a Finalist in the 2026 Archibald Prize
Congratulations to Mia Boe whose portrait of Terry Guyula is a finalist in the 2026 Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
A proud Yolu014bu man, Terry Guyula is a songwriter, keyboardist, and the frontman of the band Drifting Clouds.
‘By placing Terry among the clouds, with the starry night sky to the left of the canvas, I wanted to portray a sense of time passing, and the importance of the music and art that he is putting out into the world.’ — Mia Boe, 2026
To request a catalogue of available works by Mia Boe, email [email protected]
Image: Mia Boe, 'Drifting cloud', oil and synthetic polymer paint on linen, 152.5 x 101.8 cm.
Gareth Sansom a Finalist in the 2026 Sir John Sulman Prize
Congratulations to Gareth Sansom whose painting 'Dowager' is a finalist in the 2026 Sir John Sulman Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
The Sulman Prize is for subject painting, genre painting or a mural project. Each year, the trustees of the Art Gallery of NSW judge the Archibald and Wynne Prizes and invite a guest artist to judge the Sulman. In 2026, the Sulman is judged by Del Kathryn Barton.
Image: Gareth Sansom, 'Dowager', oil, enamel and ink on linen, 183.3 x 244.3 cm.
EXHIBITION: Isaac Julien presents 'All That Changes You. Metamorphosis' at Cosmic House
On view now at The Cosmic House, London, Isaac Julien presents a site-specific installation of his acclaimed film All That Changes You. Metamorphosis in the landmark Holland Park building.
This new iteration foregrounds duration and cyclical return, echoing Charles Jencks and Maggie Keswick's vision of The Cosmic House as an architectural model of the universe with layered, non-linear time.
Julien's work was originally conceived as a ten-screen installation for the 500th anniversary of Palazzo Te in Mantua.
All That Changes You. Metamorphosis at the Cosmic House continues until 18 December 2026.
Image: installation view, Isaac Julien, All That Changes You. Metamorphosis, The Cosmic House, London (22 April–18 December 2026). Photography: Thierry Bal.
EXHIBITION: Daniel Boyd included in 'A Kind of Paradise – Colonial-Era Photography in Contemporary Art' at Museum Rietberg
On view now at the Museum Rietberg in Switzerland, A Kind of Paradise – Colonial-Era Photography in Contemporary Art showcases works by twenty internationally acclaimed artists drawing on historical imagery, including Daniel Boyd's Untitled (HNDFWMIAFN) (2017).
Both poetic and visionary, the works in the exhibition explore how colonial imagery continues to define identity, history and belonging. In doing so, they reveal how art can act as a healing force.
Boyd's large-scale painting, on loan from QAGOMA, recreates a photograph taken on a Queensland sugarcane plantation. Among the several figures that stare back at us is a white man who stands with his hand on his hip. The labourers over whom he has authority also stare back at us. Partially concealed by the crops, their faces are harder to discern. They are pushed to the background of the image, in much the same way that Australia’s engagement with slavery has been omitted from its nation-building narratives.
In this painting Boyd not only reminds us of the racist power dynamics at play on a plantation, he also acknowledges those who enabled Australia’s agricultural development while being erased from its history.
To request a catalogue of available works by Daniel Boyd, email [email protected]
Images: Installation view, A Kind of Paradise – Colonial-Era Photography in Contemporary Art, Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland (16 April – 6 September 2026). Photography: Patrik Fuchs.
EXHIBITION OPENING: John Wolseley
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present ‘Animal Architecture: Deep Time’, an exhibition of recent works on paper, woodcuts and etchings by John Wolseley.
Opening Reception: Friday, 20 March from 5–7pm
Exhibition Dates: 20 March – 11 April 2026
Artist Talk: Saturday, 28 March at 1pm
John Wolseley has been represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery since 2001.
To request a preview catalogue, email [email protected].
Image: John Wolseley, ‘Yellow-throated miner sucking nectar from upside–down plants as Burrowing bettongs sleep the day away in their mazy warrens’, 2025, watercolour and graphite on paper, 117.5 x 152.5 cm.
EXHIBITION: Renee So at Compton Verney, UK
On view now at Compton Verney, Commodities: Sculpture and Ceramics by Renee So considers how we understand Chinese culture and history today, from snuff and perfume to silk and even the ancient Chinese version of football – cuju.
Oversized snuff bottles shaped like a poppy or a giant nose link to sculptures of contemporary perfumes that reference imperial histories such as ‘Invasion’, ‘Colony’ and ‘Opium’. A magic bronze mirror, based on those made thousands of years ago, projects a glowing ghostly image onto a darkened wall. Ritual vessels explore how the Taotie, a mythological Chinese creature, is connected to the early history of silk weaving, pioneered by women. So’s works help us see Compton Verney’s world-renowned collection of Chinese Bronzes in a new light.
Through a mix of new and never before seen works, So explores how perceptions of history can be distorted, re-fashioned and changed, questioning how we create the new stories we tell ourselves today.
Visit Commodities: Sculpture and Ceramics at Compton Verney until Sunday, 8 March 2026.
Images: Installation view, Renee So, Commodities: Sculpture and Ceramics, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England (20 September 2025 – 8 March 2026). Photography: Jamie Woodley.
EXHIBITION: Patricia Piccinini exhibits at Passage Gallery presenting 'Centrifugal Love Garden'
Opening Passage Gallery this week, Patricia Piccinini presents Centrifugal Love Garden.
Opening Reception: Friday, 6 March, from 6–8pm
Artist Talk: Sunday, 8 March, from 2pm
This exhibition brings together key strands of Piccinini’s practice, reimagining the natural within the conditions of the contemporary world and foregrounding connection as a generative force.
This exhibition is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW and the City of Sydney Creative Grants.
Image: Patricia Piccinini, Kindred, 2018, silicone, fibreglass, hair, 103 x 95 x 128 cm. Edition of 3 + 1 AP.
EXHIBITION: Julie Rrap curates 'Switch' alongside Cherine Fahd at Sydney College of the Arts
Opening on 5th March from 6–8pm, Switch at Sydney College of the Arts
is an exhibition curated by Cherine Fahd and Julie Rrap
in which five artists and five writers collaborate by stepping into unfamiliar modes of practice.
Artists write; writers make art. This displacement is intended to test what happens when practice is loosened from its usual forms. From this starting point, each pair develops their work through ongoing response: writing, making, or shifting approach as their dialogue unfolds.
In form, Switch draws on the text-to-image logic of AI, replacing automated precision with slow, human interpretation. Together, the new works form an interconnected body in which language and image continually unsettle and reframe one another.
The exhibition brings together Debra Phillips and Anthony Gardner, Patrick Pound and Daniel Palmer, Julie Rrap and Anne Marsh, Cherine Fahd and George Alexander, and Karla Dickens and Daniel Browning, each recognised for their distinct contributions to Australian art and scholarship. By working beyond established roles, the project allows expertise to become unstable, opening space for doubt, risk, and new forms of attention.
Images: Installation view, Switch, curated by Cherine Fahd & Julie Rrap, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, NSW (5 March – 11 April 2026). Photography: Document Photography.
ARTIST TALK: Kirtika Kain will be speaking alongside Francis Carmody at the 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: 'Yield Strength'
Hear from artists Kirtika Kain and Francis Carmody as they discuss their work in the 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Yield Strength.
Saturday, 28 February at 2pm
Art Gallery of South Australia Courtyard
Free entry
EXHIBITION: Fiona Hall's series 'Paradisus Terrestris' on display at Eastern Riverina Arts
A remarkable collection of sculptures by Fiona Hall from her acclaimed series Paradisus Terrestris (1989-1990) is on its way to Eastern Riverina Arts
in Wagga Wagga as part of a two-year loan from the National Gallery of Australia.
Paradisus Terrestris is a series of 23 sardine cans, transformed from mundane detritus of contemporary consumption into refined aesthetic objects. The wound-down top of each tin reveals a human erogenous zone or body-part. Sprouting above these are botanically correct representations of native flora – suggestive equivalents of the anatomical details below.
While these suggestive associations are often visual puns, Hall also uses the juxtaposition of the human body and native flora to imply a collision between Culture and Nature. Each component of the work bears three titles: the local Aboriginal plant name specific to the language group indicated in parentheses, the Latin (botanical) name, and the common English name.
Paradisus Terrestris will be on view in the Eastern Riverina from 28 February 2026 – February 2028.
Image: Fiona Hall, Paradisus Terrestris, 1989-90, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1994.
EXHIBITION: Kirtika Kain at the Adelaide Biennial, 'Yield Strength'
Among the 24 artists creating new work for the Biennial is Kirtika Kain who will present a suite of new silkscreens as well as a series of etched copper sheets which will appear suspended in space at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
The 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, 'Yield Strength', will be on view at the Art Gallery of South Australia, Samstag Museum and the Adelaide Botanic Gardens from 27 February – 8 June.
Read more about 'Yield Strength' and hear from Artistic Director Ellie Buttrose in the latest issue (Jan/Feb) of Art Guide Australia.
EVENT: National Portrait Gallery's 18+ late-night event celebrates Kaylene Whiskey's major survey exhibition 'Super Kaylene Whiskey'
The National Portrait Gallery’s annual 18+ late-night event is back next Friday, 20 February!
Curated by sensational duo The Huxleys, this iteration celebrates Yankunytjatjara artist Kaylene Whiskey and her major survey exhibition Super Kaylene Whiskey, which is currently on view at the National Portrait Gallery.
This immersive night will offer glittering live performances, creative pop-ups, interactive workshops, art tours and a dancefloor pulsing with Kaylene’s favourite music superstars: Dolly Parton, Cher and Tina Turner.
Image: Kaylene Whiskey and The Huxleys, 2025.
Mikala Dwyer launches 'Ode To The o'o’ , a new album composed in collaboration with James Hayes
Launching this week at Melbourne Art Fair, Ode To The o'o is a new album composed by James Hayes in collaboration with Mikala Dwyer.
Friday 20 February from 6-8pm
Album Launch at Mobilia Design Lounge (E10)
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
Ode To The o'o was first produced alongside Dwyer's 2021 exhibition at Gertrude Glasshouse. Dwyer attempted to imagine a zoo for the supernatural, populated by residues both avian and human. Electricity, colour, light, sound, magnetic fields, imprinted on the ether as we dissolve into particles of memory or data. The record features four tracks (O'O, Magpie, Bellbird and spoken voice) which were independently played at varying times to create an ever-changing chorus over the loss of the O'O.
Image: Mikala Dwyer, 'Thought Bird', 2024, acrylic on linen, 183 x 183 cm.
Tom Polo curates the Mobilia Design Lounge at Melbourne Art Fair 2026
Please join us today at the Living Thing by Tom Polo at the Mobilia Design Lounge at Booth E11 Future Objekt, an immersive design lounge that reimagines the social logic of the ‘piazza’ within a contemporary art and design context.
Anchored by artworks curated by Polo alongside a selection of MOBILIA’s pieces, the installation expands his exploration of human connection into the built environment, where emotional resonance and spatial awareness shape experience.
Working between abstraction and figuration, Polo’s paintings blur the boundaries between self and other, masking and revealing the complexities of our inner worlds through observation, social encounters and personal histories. Drawing from close observation, Polo’s practice traces the emotional and performative relationships between people across social, theatrical and psychological space.
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre Booth E11 Future Objekt.
EXHIBITION: Works from Mia Boe's 'The Aboriginal Robot' Series are included in the Potter Museums 'A Velvet ant, a flower and a bird exhibition
Guest curated by Professor Dr Chus Martínez, A velvet ant, a flower and a bird evokes a garden of knowledge anchored by three familiar figures from nature — a velvet ant, a flower and a bird. These figures represent a parliament of beings, each carrying symbolic and metaphorical weight that encourage us to reimagine what intelligence means.
See Mia Boe’s works in the Potter Museum's latest exhibition, open Tuesday to Saturday, 11 am to 5pm.
ART FAIR: David Noonan presents 'Mnemosyne' as part of the VIDEO sector at Melbourne Art Fair 2026
On view now at Melbourne Art Fair
as part of the VIDEO sector, we are delighted to present Mnemosyne (2021), a moving image work by David Noonan.
VIDEO 2026
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
19–22 February 2026
"I think of the content of my work as time travel to some extent, taking things from different eras and bringing them together to form new temporal scenarios.” – David Noonan.
For Mnemosyne, Noonan selected around fifty images accumulated over two decades. Shot in 16 mm with a Bolex camera, the film incorporates effects produced in a water tank where black and yellow pigments unfold in front of the images. The soundtrack, composed by Warren Ellis, echoes the floating atmosphere.
To request a catalogue, email [email protected]
EXHIBITION: Kirtika Kain presents 'Unkept' at the Chau Chak Wing Museum
We are delighted to announce that Kirtika Kain will present Unkept, an exhibition of new work at University of Sydney's Chau Chak Wing Museum, opening on 13 February 2026.
Unkept explores what is missing from collections; the gaps, silences and cultures that museums have not collected. Kirtika Kain asks how she might honour these hidden histories and diasporic communities which are neither archived nor acknowledged.
Visit Unkept at the Chau Chak Wing Museum from 13 February – 22 September 2026.
Image 1: Kirtika Kain, 'copper III', 2025, copper, resin, 120 x 60 x 0.7 cm.
EXHIBITION OPENING: Jim Lambie
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present ‘Cool Breeze’, an exhibition of new works by Jim Lambie.
Opening reception: Friday, 6 February from 5–7pm
Exhibition dates: 6 February – 14 March 2026
One of the leading artists of his generation, and one of the most significant colourists to have emerged from his home city of Glasgow, Jim Lambie creates installations that can also be viewed as three-dimensional paintings. Lambie’s artworks are sculptural yet they always focus on colour and its psychotropic affect on the viewer. Hugely influenced by his love of music, Lambie’s mixed-media sculptures and installations incorporate found objects with vibrant neon hues.
Jim Lambie has been represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery since 2015.
Email [email protected] to request a catalogue.
Image: Jim Lambie ‘Metal Box (Ludisia Orchid)’, 2025, polished steel and aluminium sheets, gloss paint, 120 x 120 x 20 cm.
EXHIBITION: 'Young | youth in Australian photography: 1980s to now' at MAPh, Melbourne
On view now at the Museum of Australian Photography, Young | youth in Australian photography: 1980s to now, featuring works by Bill Henson, Tracey Moffatt and Julie Rrap, asks visitors to consider the role photography plays in shaping the story of growing up in this country.
Curated by Angela Connor and Stella Loftus-Hills, the exhibition captures the fleeting and the formative, reflects cultural ideals and anxieties, and constructs the very image of youth itself. From the staged to the spontaneous, from the diaristic to the documentary, these works reveal that youth is not only lived but also performed, remembered and mythologised.
Visit Young | youth in Australian photography: 1980s to now until 22 February 2026.
Image: Installation view, Young | youth in Australian photography 1980s to now, Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne (22 November 2025 – 22 February 2026). Photography: Nick Mahady.
NEWS: The Metropolitan Museum of Art displays new Daniel Boyd acquisition 'Untitled (HBOAIAZ)'
New acquisitions now on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, includes a recent painting by Daniel Boyd, presented within MET Modern, The Met’s department devoted to modern and contemporary art from 1890 to now.
On view in Gallery 918, Boyd’s Untitled (HBOAIAZ) (2023) is shown alongside Meditation Room (2022) by Mohammed Sami – two significant works that engage with history, memory and the present.
In Untitled (HBOAIAZ), Boyd challenges colonial modes of image-making by drawing on Western-style portraiture and a historical photograph by Charles Kerry from 1892, depicting an Aboriginal man. The image is partially obscured through Boyd’s distinctive application of archival glue dots, disrupting the authority of the original source.
Untitled (HBOAIAZ) is on view in Gallery 918 at The Met.
Artwork (left): Daniel Boyd, Untitled (HBOAIAZ), 2023. Oil, charcoal and archival glue on canvas. Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2024. © 2023 Daniel Boyd
(right): Mohammed Sami, Meditation Room, 2022. Mixed acrylic media on canvas. Installation image courtesy of MET Modern.
NEWS: Rosalie Gascoigne Exhibition to Open at Bundanon in 2026
Bundanon has announced a major exhibition of works by acclaimed Australian artist Rosalie Gascoigne, launching the destination gallery’s 2026 season from 7 March – 14 June.
Rosalie Gascoigne: Sky, Earth, Water will showcase more than 20 key works Gascoigne’s canon, alongside significant new commissions by leading contemporary First Nations women artists Lorraine Connelly-Northey, Janet Fieldhouse and Glenda Nicholls.
The new exhibition will explore Gascoigne's deep connection to the material landscape. Her works evoke massed white clouds, snaking bodies of water, and weathered grey and golden expanses inspired by the wheat fields of the Monaro region of south-eastern New South Wales.
Words by Alannah Sue for ArtsHub.
NEWS: Del Kathryn Barton Named Judge of Art Gallery of New South Wales's 2026 Sulman Prize
We are delighted to share news that Del Kathryn Barton will be the judge of the 2026 Sulman Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Each year, the trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales judge the Archibald and Wynne Prizes and invite a guest artist to judge the Sulman.
The Sulman Prize is awarded for the best subject painting, genre painting or mural project by an Australian artist.
Image: Portrait of Del Kathryn Barton.
NEWS: Fiona Hall 'Fern Garden' (1998) at the National Gallery of Australia
In July 2025, Fiona Hall OAM returned to the National Gallery of Australia to revisit the origins, and reflect on the future, of 'Fern Garden' (1998) with Dr Deborah Hart, Head Curator of Australian Art, and Benjamin Taylor, Landscape Manager.
Temporarily closed to the public for maintenance, the garden is based on the spiral form of the fern frond, a symbol of healing and rejuvenation, and was the artist's first opportunity to realise a major permanent installation. It features mature Dicksonia antarctica tree ferns, with a system of paths, water channels, grates, fountains, seating and a fence and gate.
Image: Fiona Hall (centre) with the National Sculpture Garden Project design team: L-R Liat Busqila, Will Fung, Robert Champion, Phillip Arnold, and Johnny Elice-Flint. © National Gallery of Australia.
NEWS: Julie Rrap's 'SOMOS' Now on Display at AGWA
Julie Rrap's incredible bronze sculpture SOMOS (Standing On My Own Shoulders) is on display now at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
'SOMOS' was first unveiled at the 2024 Melbourne Art Fair before travelling to the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia for Rrap's survey exhibition 'Past Continuous'. 'SOMOS' now finds its permanent home at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
Images: Julie Rrap, SOMOS (Standing On My Own Shoulders), 2024.
Season's Greetings
Season’s Greetings from all of us at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
We will be closed for our summer break from Saturday, 20 December 2025 and will reopen our doors on Tuesday, 20 January 2026.
We wish you a safe and peaceful festive season and look forward to welcoming you back to the gallery in the new year.
NEWS: Kirtika Kain at Kochi Biennale
On view now at the Kochi Biennale, Kirtika Kain presents a series of new etched copper plates alongside smaller works on hessian and canvas board.
As part of the Dalit diaspora, Kain is preoccupied with the absence of Dalit cultural life in museums and formal archives. For her, besides the body, ancient materials such as tar, copper and gold, serve as sites of history and memory. Eschewing a singular Dalit aesthetic, she is exploring the role abstraction can play in essaying the unspoken histories of these communities.
Visit the Kochi Muziris Biennale until 31 March 2026.
Words by Art+Australia.
Image: Installation view, Kirtika Kain, Kochi Muziris Biennale, India (12 December 2025 – 31 March 2026).
NEWS: 'The Art of Kaylene Whiskey' Shortlisted for 2026 Victorian Premier's Literary Award
We are delighted to share news that 'The Art of Kaylene Whiskey' published by Thames & Hudson, Australia and edited by Natalie King and Iwantja Arts Centre has been shortlisted for the 2026 Victorian Premier's Literary Award in the 'Indigenous Writing' category.
The Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were inaugurated by the State government in 1985 to honour Australian writing.
Colourfully designed throughout and featuring a dynamic lenticular cover, the volume includes an contributions from notable creatives including Taika Waititi.
A special limited-edition run of 'The Art of Kaylene Whiskey' is available to purchase via our online store. These limited edition copies are presented in a clamshell box and accompanied by a signed and numbered lenticular print of 'Super Kaylene' (2025).
Purchase your copy of the limited edition 'The Art of Kaylene Whiskey' via the link below.
EVENT: Sir Isaac Julien in Conversation at The Bass Museum, Miami
Join us this Friday, 5 December, at The Bass, Miami Beach, for a highly anticipated conversation with Silvia Karman Cubiñá, Executive Director of The Bass, and Sir Isaac Julien.
Friday 5 December 2025 at 10am
The Bass Museum, 2100 Collins Ave, Miami Beach
Together, they will reflect on Julien’s groundbreaking video installation 'Vagabondia' (2000), a recent gift from collectors Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz and now on view at The Bass. The work was among the first to posit the museum as a space where suppressed stories and experiences can – and should – surface in their totality. Twenty-five years after its debut, they revisit the work and context in which it’s presented today.
Images: Installation view, Isaac Julien, 'Vagabondia', 2000, The Bass Museum, Miami Beach.
ART FAIR: Art Basel Miami Beach
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present a dynamic selection of works by leading contemporary artists at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025, featuring James Angus , Del Kathryn Barton, Daniel Boyd, Dale Frank, Louise Hearman, Bill Henson, Isaac Julien , Jim Lambie and Dhambit Munuu014bgurr.
Booth J14
Art Basel Miami Beach
Miami Beach Convention Center
3–7 December 2025
To request a catalogue, email [email protected].
Images: Installation view, Booth J14, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach Convention Center (3–7 December 2025). Photography: Evan Bedford.
EXHIBITION: Kirtika Kain shows with Parramatta Artists Studios at Fairfield City Museum Gallery in 'RELIC'
On view now at Fairfield City Musuem and Gallery RELIC is an exhibition of newly commissioned and reconfigured artworks by studio artists and alumni of Parramatta Artists Studios.
Featuring new work by Kirtika Kain, the exhibition centres artists whose practices gain definition through accumulation, each nurturing their own intuitive processes of transcribing and recording the world around them.u2060
For Kain, each surface operates as a witness to material memory. Trained as a printmaker, Kain has embraced methodologies beyond the silkscreen – building and eroding surfaces through a mixture of painterly and sculptural processes. Her studio is a space for counter-archiving, where copper breathes, tar binds and hessian holds. u2060
RELIC is curated by PAS curators JD Reforma and Nithya Nagarajan and continues until 14 March 2026. u2060
Images: Installation view, RELIC, Fairfield City Museum & Gallery, Sydney (29 November 2025 – 14 March 2026u2060). Photography: Jessica Maurer Photography.
EXHIBITION OPENING: Daniel Boyd
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present I’m Going, an exhibition of new works by Daniel Boyd.
Opening reception: Saturday, 22 November from 4–6pm
Exhibition dates: 22 November – 19 December 2025
Daniel Boyd is one of Australia’s most acclaimed artists. Boyd’s practice is internationally recognised for its manifold engagement with the colonial history of the Australia-Pacific region. Drawing upon intermingled discourses of science, religion and aesthetics, his work reveals the complexity of perspectives through which political, cultural and personal memory is composed. Boyd has both Aboriginal and Pacific Islander heritage and his work traces this cultural and visual ancestry in relation to the broader history of Western art.
Daniel Boyd has been represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery since 2009.
Email [email protected] to request a catalogue.
Image: Daniel Boyd, TBC (detail), 2025.
NEWS: Jenny Watson Awarded the 2025 Creative Australia Visual Art Prize
Congratulations to Jenny Watson who was one of twelve artists to be celebrated last night at the 2025 Creative Australia Awards.
Watson, whose painting practice spans more than four decades, was awarded the Visual Art Award for 2025.
“These artists are bold, visionary and deeply connected to community. Whether redefining their artform or amplifying voices too often unheard, their work reminds us of the transformative power of creativity in Australian life.” — Adrian Collette AM (CEO, Creative Australia), 2025
Congratulations to Jenny Watson on this significant and well deserved achievement.
PRESS: 'Super Kaylene Whiskey' Reviewed in ABC
Dolly Parton heads to Australian desert in unique exhibit celebrating rising art star Kaylene Whiskey, words by Lily Nothling
UPCOMING: 'Super Kaylene Whiskey' at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
We are thrilled to announce that Kaylene Whiskey will present a major solo exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, this November!
'Super Kaylene Whiskey' celebrates one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists – proud Yankunytjatjara woman Kaylene Whiskey. This vibrant survey brings together paintings, video works and installations from across her career, highlighting a practice grounded in stories of First Nations joy, strength and pop culture sparkle.
Exhibition dates: 15 November 2025 – 9 March 2026.
Image 1: Kaylene Whiskey in the studio at Iwantja Arts, Indulkana, 2022 Rhett Hammerton. Photographed on the Au1e49angu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands.
PRESS: Sir Isaac Julien's 'All That Changes You' Reviewed in Forbes
Isaac Julien’s ‘All That Changes You’ At Palazzo Te: A Visionary Dialogue Between Myth, Art And The Future by Lee Sharrock
EXHIBITION: Dale Frank, Del Kathryn Barton, Gareth Sansom and Imants Tillers all on view at Rockhampton Museum of Art's 'Good as Gold'
On view now at Rockhampton Museum of Art, u2060Good as Gold is an expansive selection of paintings from artists featured throughout the first decade of RMOA’s Gold Award.
Featuring an assortment of winning, donated and purchased works from the RMOA Collection, the exhibition includes paintings by Dale Frank, Del Kathryn Barton, Gareth Sansom and Imants Tillers.
Good as Gold is on view at Rockhampton Museum Of Art until 1 March 2026.
Images: Installation view, Good as Gold, Rockhampton Museum of Art. Photography: Aarron Symonds.
PRESS: Patricia Piccinini Art Collector Issue 114
For the latest issue of Art Collector Magazine, Patricia Piccinini's speaks to Robert Buratti ahead of her exhibition From so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful which is on view at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery until this Saturday, 15 November.
Featuring kinetic hair sculptures, a return to painting and her signature hyper-realistic works, the show explores the beautiful complexity of connection in our divided world.
Central to the show are Piccinini's new kinetic hair sculptures, works that push her exploration of materiality into startling new territory. Perhaps most surprising for followers of Piccinini’s sculptural practice is the premiere of a new series of paintings. "Drawing has always beenu2060 a huge part of my practice but I began my artistic life as a painter," she reveals. "Recently I’m more and more interested in re-examining those roots."
From so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful
continues at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery until Saturday, 15th November 2025
To read the full article, the October—December 2025 issue of Art Collector is available to purchase in stores and online.
Image: Art Collector Magazine, Issue 114, 'Patricia Piccinini: Forms Most Beautiful and Wonderful', words by Robert Buratti. Photography: Peter Hennessey.
EXHIBITION: Imants Tillers at Museum im Schafstall, Neuenstadt am Kocher, Germany
Congratulations to Imants Tillers who will present a major retrospective exhibition at the Museum im Schafstall, Neuenstadt am Kocher, Germany in October this year.
Exhibition dates: 26 October 2025 – 31 May 2026
Spanning five-decades of Tillers' practice, the exhibition entitled 'Wildes Paradies / Fierce Paradise', co-curated by Museum director Hubert Sawatzki and Isidore Tillers, highlights Imants Tillers’ ongoing exploration of identity, displacement, colonisation and locality, as well as his longstanding interest in Australian Aboriginal Art and its possible similarities to his own experience as a member of the Latvian Diaspora.
’Wildes Paradies / Fierce Paradise’ will feature a number of works that Tillers made in collaboration with Warlpiri Elder Michael Nelson Jagamara AM, as well as a selection of paintings by prominent Indigenous artists from the Tillers family collection, including works by Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Michael Nelson Jagamara, Sue Elliott and Peter Pijaju Skipper. Tillers has also created several new works specifically for the exhibition.
Image: Imants Tillers, 'A Fierce Paradise', 2025, synthetic polymer paint, gouache, oilstick on 40 canvasboards, 203.2 x 177.8 cm.
ARTIST TALK: Patricia Piccinini
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present an artist talk with Patricia Piccinini on the occasion of her latest solo exhibition, From so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful.
Please join us from 2—3pm, Saturday 23rd October 2025.
Image: Patricia Piccinini in her studio, 2025. Photography: Peter Hennessy
EXHBITION OPENING: Patricia Piccinini
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is pleased to present From so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful, an exhibition by Patricia Piccinini.
Opening Reception: Thursday, 23 October from 5–7pm
Exhibition Dates: 23 October – 15 November 2025
Patricia Piccinini is one of Australia’s most acclaimed contemporary artists. She is best known for her hybrid, figurative sculptures rendered in silicone and hair. Piccinini was Australia’s representative at the 2003 Venice Biennale. Since the early 1990s, her interdisciplinary practice—surreal drawings, hybrid animals and vehicular creatures—has questioned the way that contemporary technology and culture changes our understanding of what it means to be human. Piccinini wonders at our relationships with, and responsibilities towards, the creatures that surround us. While ethics are central, her approach is ambiguous, gentle and questioning rather than moralistic or didactic.
Patricia Piccinini has been represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery since 2000.
Image: Patricia Piccinini, ‘Kindred’, 2018, silicone, fibreglass, hair, 103 x 95 x 128 cm. Edition of 3 + 1 AP.
Daniel Boyd Honoured at 2025 MCA Artist's Ball
It is our great pleasure to announce that Daniel Boyd will be the honoured artist at the 2025 MCA Artists Ball on Saturday, 18 October.
Daniel will also be supporting the MCA Australia by donating ‘Untitled (BABLATTFG)’ to the MCA Artists Ball artwork auction, alongside Isaac Julien who is donating his work ‘The Oracle-Bronze (Radioactive Avatar #12)’. For bidding information, please contact [email protected].
Daniel joins Tracey Moffatt who was the guest of honour at the 2023 iteration of the MCA Artists Ball.
Image 1: Portrait of Daniel Boyd by Joshua Morris (2021).
Kaylene Whiskey digital cover of Vogue Australia, October 2025 issue
For the digital cover of this month’s Vogue Australia, Kaylene Whiskey brings the magic of the movies home to the APY Lands in a new artwork, commissioned for the magazine.
“I have created a special painting with some of my favourite films,” the artist shares of her new work, titled 'Movie Magic!' (2025). “I’m wearing ruby slippers and standing on the Yellow Brick Road like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz.”
Read the full article, written by Hannah-Rose Yee, in the October issue of Vogue Australia.
Whiskey's work will be on display later this month in Adelaide as part of 'Too Deadly: Ten Years of Tarnanthi', the anniversary celebration of the Art Gallery of South Australia’s Tarnanthi festival. Her major solo retrospective 'Super Kaylene Whiskey' will open at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra on 15 November, accompanied by her first monograph, 'The Art Of Kaylene Whiskey: Do You Believe In Love?'
Isaac Julien 'All That Changes You. Metamorphosis' opens at Palazzo Te, Italy
Congratulations to Sir Isaac Julien whose incredible ten-screen film installation, ‘All That Changes You. Metamorphosis’, is now open at Palazzo Te in Mantua, Italy.
This is the world premiere of Julien’s latest work, in which two protagonists — Gwendoline Christie and Sheila Atim — travel through time across a series of architectural spaces that function as visual metaphors and characters, outlining different temporalities.
Curated by Lorenzo Giusti, the installation is hosted in the newly renovated spaces of the Fruttiere, which reopened to the public for the world premiere of ‘All That Changes You. Metamorphosis’, on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the Palazzo Te.
‘All That Changes You. Metamorphosis’ will be on view until February 1, 2026.
Image: Installation view, Isaac Julien, 'All That Changes You. Metamorphosis', Palazzo Te, Mantova, 4 October 2025–1 February 2026. Courtesy the artist, Victoria Miro and Jessica Silverman. © The artist. Photography: Andrea Rossetti / Palazzo Te
EXHIBITION: 'All That Changes You. Metamorphosis' at Palazzo Te, Italy
All That Changes You. Metamorphosis, an incredible ten-screen film installation by Isaac Julien, continues at Palazzo Te in Mantua, Italy.
Julien’s latest work takes us on a journey reflecting on change, on how we experience time, and how we inhabit the world. The film, sees two protagonists – Gwendoline Christie and Sheila Atim – travel through time across a series of architectural spaces that function as visual metaphors and characters, outlining different temporalities.
‘All That Changes You. Metamorphosis’ is on view until February 1, 2026.
Images: Installation views, Isaac Julien, All That Changes You. Metamorphosis, Palazzo Te, Mantua, 4 October 2025–1 February 2026. Courtesy the artist, Victoria Miro and Jessica Silverman. © The artist. Photography: Gianmaria Pontiroli / Palazzo Te.
EXHIBITION OPENING: Dhambit Munungurr
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to announce 'The Earth is Blue,' an exhibition of new works by Dhambit Munungurr.
Opening reception: Friday, 29 August from 6–8pm
Exhibition dates: 29 August – 20 September 2025
Painting with a Marwat (a traditional Yolnu paint brush made from human hair) using her non-preferred left hand, Dhambit Munungurr creates expressive, radiant artworks defined by strident brushstrokes and a vivid cobalt palette reminiscent of the sea and sky. Her distinctive visual language emerges from a compelling fusion of contemporary materials and ancestral stories. After a car accident in 2007 limited her ability to grind ochre, Munungurr began working with a blend of ochre and acrylic paint – an innovation that introduced non-traditional colours to her work. This shift brought a striking vibrancy and spontaneity to her mark making, resulting in electric, unmistakably contemporary paintings grounded in deep cultural knowledge.
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Image: Dhambit Munungurr, 'A tribute to my father Mutitjpuy', 2024, acrylic on bark, 160 x 75 cm. Photography: David Suyasa
Congratulations to Kirtika Kain who has been included in the 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: 'Yield Strength'
We are delighted to share news of Kirtika Kain's inclusion in the forthcoming 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: 'Yield Strength', curated by Ellie Buttrose.
'Yield Strength' reveals how materials, selfhood and society are tested - and transformed - under pressure. Twenty-four artists push their media to build visual complexity, or contort them to convey the curious side of existence. Remaining attentive to aesthetic details and receptive to the intricacies of life, the exhibition fosters intimacy through layered viewing experiences across the Art Gallery of South Australia, Samstag Museum of Art and Adelaide Botanic Garden.
The 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art will take place at the Art Gallery of South Australia from 27 February – 8 June 2026.
Image: Portrait of Kirtika Kain. Photography: Garry Trinh.
ART FAIR: SPRING 1883 Wednesday 13 — Saturday 16 August 2025
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present a dynamic selection of works by leading Australian artists at Spring 1883, including Mia Boe, Mikala Dwyer, Dale Frank, Louise Hearman, Linda Marrinon, Dhambit Munuu014bgurr, Tom Polo, Patricia Piccinini, Vivienne Shark LeWitt, Renee So and Jenny Watson.
Room 124
The Windsor Hotel, Melbourne
13–16 August 2025
Email [email protected] to request a catalogue.
Please note: Spring 1883 is a ticketed event. Venue capacity limits apply & tickets must be purchased in advance. Tickets are available at spring1883.com or via the link in our bio.
Image: Installation view, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Room 124, The Windsor Hotel, Melbourne (13–16 August 2025). Photography: Nicholas Mahady
Tom Polo Solo Exhibition at Ngununggula Southern Highlands Regional Gallery
Opening soon at Ngununggula Southern Highlands Regional Gallery – Tom Polo: in a part of your mind, i am you, launches on Saturday, 28 June.
This ambitious solo exhibition brings together new and existing works by Polo shaped around a five-act narrative, punctuated with works by Ugo Rondinone, Tracey Emin and Urs Fischer, on loan from the Art Gallery of NSW.
Join us at Ngununggula for the official opening on Saturday, 28 June, from 5–7pm. RSVP via the link in our bio.
Image: Tom Polo, ‘stage sequence (in a part of your mind, I am you)’, 2025, acrylic, oil stick and wax pastel on canvas, 213 x 594 cm. Photography: Jessica Maurer.
UPCOMING: Exhibition Opening Mia Boe 'Nocturnal House'
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to announce Nocturnal House, an exhibition of new paintings by Mia Boe.
Opening reception: Friday, 27 June from 6–8pm
Exhibition dates: 27 June – 26 July 2025
Mia Boe is a Melbourne-based painter with Butchulla and Burmese ancestry. Her vivid paintings explore the cultural dislocations caused by colonisation and political conflict. Elongated blackened silhouettes – often with outstretched hands and sharply defined feet – inhabit her stylised landscapes, in a deliberate reference to mid-20th century settler portrayals of Aboriginal people. In doing so, Boe reclaims and complicates the visual record of how First Nations people have been represented and erased through history. Drawing on both personal heritage art history, her work merges social realism and surrealism to confront the enduring legacies of colonialism.
Mia Boe has been represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery since 2024.
Email [email protected] to request a catalogue.
Image: Mia Boe, 'The Warning', 2025, oil and acrylic on linen, 81 x 56 cm.
Yalmakany Marawili Named a Finalist in the 2025 NATSIAAs
Congratulations to Yalmakany Marawili who is a finalist in the 2025 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards!
Now in it’s 42nd year, the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA) is Australia’s longest-running and most prestigious art award of it’s kind.
This is Yalmakany Marawili's second time as a finalist in the NATSIAAs and follows her recent success as a finalist in the 2025 Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW.
Yalmakany Marawili presented her debut exhibition with Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 'Gou014b-Wapitja – the hand that holds the digging stick', in January 2025.
The 2025 Telstra NATSIAA finalist exhibition will open on 21 June at MAGNT, Darwin, before the winners are announced at the awards ceremony on 8 August 2025.
Tracey Moffatt and Fiona Hall Supporting Campaign to save Murujuga rocks
Last week Tracey Moffatt and Fiona Hall visited Murujuga in Western Australia's Pilbara region which is home to one of the world's largest and oldest collections of rock engravings.
These 40,000-year-old petroglyphs are under threat of destruction from acid rain, caused by fossil fuel extraction nearby. A campaign to save the Murujuga Rock Art is now underway, with a petition attracting a number of esteemed Australian artists including Jimmy Barnes, Tim Winton, Paul Kelly, Patricia Piccinini, Tracey Moffatt, Kate Grenville, Fiona Hall and Thomas Keneally.
Images courtesy of Tracey Moffatt, ArtsHub and Francesca Valmorbida.
EXHIBITION OPENING: Bill Henson
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is thrilled to present a new exhibition of photographs by Bill Henson.
Opening reception: Friday, 16 May from 6–8pm
Exhibition dates: 16 May – 21 June 2025
Bill Henson AO is one of Australia’s greatest living artists. With a career spanning fifty years, his virtuosic artistry continues to unfold in powerful, haunting images that explore the timeless mystery of the human condition. As the art critic John McDonald wrote 'nothing can prepare us for the experience of standing in front of these works'.
Email [email protected] to request a catalogue.
Image: Bill Henson, 'Untitled', 1992-2021, CL SH6 N7C, archival inkjet pigment print, 127 x 180 cm. Edition of 5 + 2 AP.
Tracey Moffatt Artist Talk at Curtin University, Perth
On Thursday, 15 May, Curtin University will host an intimate artist talk with Tracey Moffatt in the School of Design and the Built Environment (DBE)
In this session, Moffatt will share a unique glimpse into her visionary creative process and encourage participants to connect with her compelling narratives.
When: Thursday, 15 May, 5:30pm - 7pm AWST
Where: The School of Design and the Built Environment, Collaboration Hub, Level 1, Building 418, Curtin Perth, Bentley Campus
To find out more and for tickets, click the link below.
Image: Portrait of Tracey Moffatt, 2021. Photography: Dara Gill.
EXHIBITION OPENING: Vivienne Shark LeWitt
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present 'The Wind Cries Mary,' an exhibition of new paintings by Vivienne Shark LeWitt.
Opening reception: Friday, 16 May from 6–8pm
Exhibition dates: 16 May – 21 June 2025
For more than four decades, Vivienne Shark LeWitt has developed a distinctive style that is witty, layered, and intrinsically personal. Drawing on a wide range of references – from pre-Renaissance art and Catholic iconography to literature and philosophy – her paintings present allegorical narratives that explore the complexities and absurdities of being human. For Shark LeWitt, painting is a form of storytelling: an intuitive visual language that expresses what words often cannot.
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Image: Vivienne Shark LeWitt, 'Zephyrus', 2023, from the series 'The Wind Cries Mary', water based paint on linen, 71 x 56 cm.u2060
ANNOUNCEMENT: Film 'Dale Frank Nobody's Sweetie' Released in Cinemas
Dale Frank 'Nobody's Sweetie' has been released in cinemas Thursday 1 May 2025.
Experience a visual extravaganza revealing the well-guarded life behind the work of one of Australia’s most successful and prolific contemporary artists.
This documentary follows one one Australia’s most successful contemporary artists Dale Frank at his country home and studio, offering an intimate portrait of a very enigmatic man whose extraordinary drive pushes him to the limits of his health.
Tickets on sale now
YALMAKANY MARAWILI: Representation Announcement
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is thrilled to announce representation of Yalmakany Marawili.
Yalmakany Marawili is an artist from North East Arnhem Land, born into a distinguished lineage of cultural leaders and artists. She is the daughter of celebrated senior artist Mrs M Wirrpanda and legendary Madarrpa leader Wakuthi Marawili and sister to celebrated artist Djambawa Marawili AM.
We are honoured to welcome Yalmakany to the gallery’s program and look forward to supporting her practice as she continues to deepen and extend this vital artistic and cultural legacy.
Image: Portrait of Yalmakany Marawili,
ANNOUNCEMENT: Tom Polo Named a Finalist in the 2025 Ramsay Art Prize
Congratulations to Tom Polo who is a finalist in the 2025 Ramsay Art Prize!
The Ramsay Art Prize is a $100,000 acquisitive prize for contemporary Australian artists under the age of 40, supported in perpetuity by the James & Diana Ramsay Foundation.
A record number of entries were received, with more than 500 artists submitting their best work created over the past year. This year's expert judging panel was comprised of leading Australian artist Michael Zavros; Associate Professor and Program Director of Visual Art at the Queensland College of Art and Design and recipient of the inaugural Ramsay Art Prize’s People’s Choice Prize, Julie Fragar; and Emma Fey, Deputy Director of the Art Gallery of South Australia.
All finalists will display their works in a major exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia from 31 May - 31 August 2025, and the winner will be announced on Friday, 30 May 2025.
Image: Tom Polo, 'learning to leave (once, and again),' 2024, acrylic, Flashe and oil stick on canvas. Photography: Jessica Maurer.
ANNOUNCEMENT: Sir Isaac Julien 'I Dream a World' on now at the de Young Museum, San Francisco
Featuring 10 major video installations made across Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, Asia, and the Americas between 1999 and 2022 plus early films, 'I Dream a World' is the first comprehensive survey of Julien’s work in a U.S. museum setting, and the largest exhibition focusing on Julien’s film and video installation works to date.
Julien’s work breaks down barriers between art forms, history, and personal identity in his immersive multichannel film and video installations. Distinguished by their compelling fusion of fact and fiction, social critique, and aesthetic immersion, Julien’s works reshape cultural events with a poetic sensibility.
Don’t miss your chance to see these incredible works in person at the de Young Museum, San Francisco until 13 July 2025.
Images: Installation view of 'Isaac Julien: I Dream a World,' de Young Museum, San Francisco, 2025. Photography: Henrik Kam.
UPCOMING: Jenny Watson Exhibition Opening and Artist Talk
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present 'A little bit of everything I do', an exhibition of new paintings by Jenny Watson.
Opening reception: Friday, 11 April from 6-8pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, 12 April from 12-1pm
Exhibition dates: 11 April – 10 May 2025
Jenny Watson is a leading Australian artist whose conceptual painting practice spans more than four decades. Inspired by both punk and feminism, Watson’s readily recognised autobiographical and fictional features combine colour, fabric, text, recurring figures and subtle humour to create a powerful narrative. Though deliberately naïve in style the paintings are acerbic in their emotional detail; a signature, rudimentary expressionistic style that Watson continues to master since her strategic abdication of realism in the 1970s. Watson’s work continues to be tantalising perhaps due to the extraordinary quality of her work being at once both highly personal and universal.
Email [email protected] to request a catalogue.
Image: Jenny Watson, ‘Old lady in a wheelchair’, 2024, acrylic and Japanese pigment on rabbit skin glue primed cotton duck, red velvet ribbon, 224 x 170 cm.
Imants Tillers Awarded the Order of the Three Stars, Latvia
Congratulations to Imants Tillers who has been awarded the Order of the Three Stars by the President of Latvia, Edgars Rinkevics, and the Chapter of Orders. This is the highest of awards including recognition of services to culture, awarded to Imants for his artistic career and practice.
Established in 1924, The Order of the Three Stars is awarded for meritorious service to Latvia. Meritorious services for which the Order is awarded can be for achievements in the state, regional government, public, culture, education, science, sport, or commercial fields.
Imants will be awarded the Order of the Three Stars by the Latvian President at a ceremony at Riga Castle on 4 May 2025.
Image [1]: Portrait of Imants Tillers at his studio in Cooma, 2018. Photography: Corinna and Dylan.
ARTIST TALK: Kirtika Kain
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to host an artist talk with Kirtika Kain to coincide with the final day of her exhibition 'Mimetic Mass'.
Saturday, 5 April 2025
12-1pm
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
In her most recent exhibition with Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Kirtika Kain pushes her exploration of humble materials and their ability to connect deeply to history, providing a pathway to ancient times, while connecting community and thought.
Image: Portrait of Kirtika Kain. Photography: Garry Trinh
ART FAIR: 2025 Art Basel Hong Kong
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to participate in Art Basel Hong Kong 2025 with a solo presentation of new paintings by Del Kathryn Barton.
Booth 3D13B
28–30 March 2025
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
Del Kathryn Barton is one of Australia’s most significant contemporary artists, celebrated for her intricate, highly detailed paintings that explore femininity, mythology, and the cosmos. A two-time Archibald prize winner, Barton's practice is deeply self-referential, drawing from an intense emotional world to create works that are both vibrant and symbolic. Beyond painting, Barton has developed a multidisciplinary approach that includes film and installation, which has been recognised with numerous accolades, including prizes at the AACTA and AWGIE Awards.
Del Kathryn Barton has been represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery since 2011.
Image: Del Kathryn Barton, 'marry me', 2025, acrylic and oil on French linen, 173 x 153 x 8 cm.
EXHIBITION OPENING: Louise Hearman
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of historical paintings by Louise Hearman.
Opening reception: Friday, 7 March from 6-8pm
Exhibition dates: 7 March – 5 April 2025
Louise Hearman is well known for her dark dream-like paintings that are often said to have a cinematic quality. Like film stills they capture transient moments of her personal memory and imaginary time. Since the 1980s, Hearman’s technically adroit oil paintings often incorporate otherworldly forms in imaginative compositions that imbue them with a supernatural quality. By combining commonplace imagery with personal visions of the unknown and the unknowable, Hearman hints at the wonders of the universe and the compelling nature of our nonverbal thoughts.
Louise Hearman has been represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery since 2003.
Email [email protected] to request a catalogue.
Image: Louise Hearman, 'Untitled #982', 2003, oil on masonite, 61 x 69 cm.
EXHIBITION OPENING: Kirtika Kain 'Mimetic Mass'
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present 'Mimetic Mass', an exhibition of new works by Kirtika Kain.
Opening reception: Friday, 7 March from 6-8pm
Exhibition dates: 7 March – 5 April 2025
Delhi-born, Sydney-based artist, Kirtika Kain examines how oppressive social hierarchies and power structures have been enforced upon and embodied by generations before her from the perspective of an outsider. Kain incorporates a myriad of humble materials that relate to themes of valuation, corporeality, ritual and the manual labour of the lower classes including iron filings, gold, vermillion and bitumen. Through diverse alchemical and experimental printmaking processes, Kain attempts to transform these everyday materials into aesthetic object of value; thus, re-defining and re-imagining a personal and collective narrative.
Kirtika Kain has been represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery since 2019.
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Image: Kirtika Kain, 'gold small', 2024, gold leaf, synthetic mesh, pigment, acrylic paint, wax.
Kirtika Kain featured in Artist Profile Magazine (Issue 70)
"Kirtika Kain's work is a radical adventure in Dalit abstraction, where ancient and organic materials become tools of resistance. Her paintings and sculptures defy conventional narratives, using illegibility and visceral texture to challenge casteism, colonialism, and patriarchy–offering a sensory, transgressive commentary on the Dalit feminine." – Nithya Nagarajan, 2025
In the latest issue of Artist Profile Magazine (Issue 70), writer and fellow PAS resident Nithya Nagarajan delves into Kirtika Kain’s bold practice – one that reclaims illegibility, transforms oppression into agency, and resists imposed hierarchies. Kain’s choice of materials, from tar to vermilion and gold leaf, carries deep historical and political weight, forging a language of abstraction that refuses erasure.
Purchase a copy of Artist Profile to read the full article.
Dhambit Munungurr featured in VAULT issue 49
"Crocodiles in the Seine: In her debut exhibition in Europe, Dhambit Munungurr continues to paint vibrant Yolnu life in a spectrum of blues," writes Blake Lawrence for the latest issue of VAULT Magazine
'The Earth is Blue: The Art of Dhambit Munungurr' is on view now in the galleries of the Australian Embassy in Paris. With a practice developed over 40 years, the Yolnu artist is one of Australia's most celebrated, daring and innovative contemporary painters.
To read the full feature, follow the link in our bio to purchase a copy of VAULT Magazine
ARTIST TALK: Tracey Moffatt in conversation with Alison Kubler at Melbourne Art Fair
Join Tracey Moffatt and VAULT Editor Alison Kubler for an intimate discussion in the WORKSHOP space at Melbourne Art Fair 2025. The unique, intimate ‘Around the Table’ format promises to deliver an insightful discussion between artist and editor/curator, so be sure to arrive on time.
When: 3.30-4.15pm: Saturday 21 February 2025
ART FAIR: 2025 Melbourne Art Fair
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to showcase the outstanding talent of Tracey Moffatt at Melbourne Art Fair 2025, featuring an exclusive solo presentation of works from Moffatt's latest series, 'The Burning' (2024).
Booth D1
20–23 February 2025
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
Image: Tracey Moffatt, 'Justice', 2024, from 'The Burning' series, digital colour print, 128 x 190 cm (framed). Edition of 6 + 2 AP
ART FAIR: Destiny Deacon at Melbourne Art Fair 'VIDEO 2025'
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present Destiny Deacon’s early video work, 'No place like home' (1999), created in collaboration with West Australian performance artist Erin Hefferon, at Melbourne Art Fair as part of VIDEO 2025
20–23 February 2025
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centreu
Curated by Rachel Ciesla, VIDEO 2025 showcases five moving-image works that explore the emotional and perceptual resonance of images, offering a compelling selection of thought-provoking and highly collectible contemporary video art
EXHIBITION: Tom Polo at Ngununggula Southern Highlands Regional Gallery
Opening this June at Ngununggula Southern Highlands Regional Gallery, a solo exhibition featuring Tom Polo, 'in a part of your mind, I am you', will conceptualise the gallery as a stage, structured in four acts, wherein works blur boundaries between the self and others to mask and unveil the complexities of our inner worlds.
Opening reception: Saturday, 28 June 2025 from 5–7pm
Exhibition dates: 28 June - 24 August 2025
Image: Tom Polo, 'ALL I KNOW', 2015, billboard project commissioned by Campbelltown Arts Centre, photography Zan Wimberley.
Daniel Boyd included in Sharjah Biennial 16: 'to carry'
Congratulations to Daniel Boyd on his inclusion in the Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry, which is now open across the Emirate of Sharjah!
Boyd's work is featured as a major installation in the Flying Saucer, one of the city’s most iconic architectural landmarks, as well as within a group exhibition at the Sharjah Art Museum.
Curated by Alia Swastika, Amal Khalaf, Megan Tamati-Quennell, Natasha Ginwala, and Zeynep Öz, Sharjah Biennial 16: 'to carry' presents works by over 140 participants, including over 80 new commissions, across multiple venues across the Emirate of Sharjah until 15 June 2025.
EVENT: Dale Frank Botanical Gardens Open Day
On Sunday, 30th March 2025, from 10am to 3pm, visitors are invited to explore the remarkable Dale Frank Botanical Gardens as it transforms with the season.
Since the Winter 2024 event, newly flourishing flora and dramatic ex-industrial sculptural additions have further reshaped the landscape, creating a striking and ever-evolving interplay between nature and art.
Food, drinks and toilets will be available on-site (or bring a picnic – just remember to take everything with you!)
Tickets are available via the link in our bio or at the gate on the day (cash only).
Images courtesy of Dale Frank Botanical Gardens.
Daniel Boyd Finalist in the 2025 Asia Pacific Arts Awards
Congratulations to Daniel Boyd who has been named a finalist in the 2025 Asia Pacific Arts Awards!
Daniel has been shortlisted for the Impact Award, which celebrates Australian artists making significant international and intercultural contributions across the Asia-Pacific region.
The awards recognise achievement across six categories, with the recipients to be announced on 3 March 2025 during a ceremony at the Arts Centre Melbourne as part of the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts (Asia TOPA).
EXHIBITION OPENING: Yalmakany Marawili
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to begin our 2025 programming with our first exhibition with Yolnu artist Yalmakany Marawili.
Opening reception: Thursday, 30 January 2025 from 6-8pm
Exhibition dates: 31 January – 1 March 2025
This is Yalmakany Marawili’s first exhibition with Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
Email [email protected] to request a catalogue.
Image: Yalmakany Marawili, ‘Wäwuru’, 2024, 8122-24, bark painting, 114 x 46 cm.
Closed for summer break
Season’s Greetings from all of us at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery!
We will be closed for our summer break from Saturday, 21 December 2024 and will reopen our doors on Tuesday, 21 January 2025.
We wish you a safe and restful festive season and look forward to welcoming you back to the gallery in the new year.
Bill Henson Commissioned to Create Major New Work for Melbourne's State Theatre
Bill Henson has been exhibiting work in Australia for almost five decades, but he can count the number of commissions he’s taken on one hand. But when Arts Centre Melbourne’s State Theatre re-opens in 2027 after a significant renovation, a large commissioned work from the acclaimed artist will hold pride of place in the foyer as part of what Arts Centre chief executive Karen Quinlan has called “a new contemporary artist commissioning program” for the building.
Mia Boe featured on the cover of Art Monthly Australasia's latest Summer Issue
The Art Monthly Summer Issue is out now, featuring a cover story about the work of Mia Boe. The issue is loosely themed around painting and also includes an essay by Isabella Trimboli about feminist painters, Jenny Watson, Julie Rrap and Maria Kozic.
Mia Boe's Guwinganj' opens at Hervey Bay Regional Gallery
Mia Boe's first solo institutional exhibition 'Guwinganj' opens at Hervey Bay Regional Gallery. The exhibition comprises of paintings from Boe's recent exhibition with Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 'The Aboriginal Robot', along with new works inspired by a recently-completed residency Boe undertook on Butchulla Country.
Opening reception: Friday, 6 December from 5:30–7:30pm
Exhibition dates: 30 November 2024 - 16 February 2025
Isaac Julien 'Once Again…(Statues Never Die)' Reviewed in Art Guide Australia
Like his 1989 breakout 'Looking for Langston', a revisionist elegy to poet Langston Hughes, or his 2019 work 'Lessons of the Hour', an elliptical portrait of abolitionist and freed slave Frederick Douglass, 'Once Again…' sublimates its polemics beneath something more ornate and impressionistic,” writes critic Michael Sun for Art Guide Australia in response to Isaac Julien’s major exhibition 'Once Again…(Statues Never Die)', currently on display at the MCA Australia
Daniel Boyd wins Best Cover Art at the 2024 ARIA Awards
Huge congratulations to Daniel Boyd and Nomad Create for winning Best Cover Art at the 2024 ARIA Awards with 'Kill The Dead', the debut album of 3%.
Depicting one of the most memorable images in Australian sporting history, the album art recreates legendary First Nations AFL player Nicky Winmar’s iconic act of strength, Blak pride, and resistance. This powerful anti-racist symbol continues to resonate as a celebration of First Nations excellence and resilience.
An incredible collaboration—well deserved!
ART FAIR: Paris Photo 2024
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to showcase the spectacular talent of several major internationally acclaimed artists at Paris Photo 2024, featuring works by Bill Henson, Isaac Julien and Tracey Moffatt, on view now at the Grand Palais, Paris.
Visit Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery at Booth A54 in the Grand Palais from Thursday, 7 November to Sunday, 10 November 2024.
Email [email protected] to request a catalogue.
Image: Installation view, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Booth A54, Paris Photo 2024, Grand Palais, Paris (7–10 November 2024). Photography: Mikhail Mishin.
PERFORMANCE: Mikala Dwyer
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present ‘Skyring’, an exhibition by Mikala Dwyer.
Opening reception: Thursday, 31 October 2024 from 6–8pm
Exhibition dates: 31 October – 29 November 2024
Please join us at 6:30pm on the opening night for a short performance featuring Olive Corben Dwyer, David Corben, Mikala Dwyer and Ebbe, with music by James Hayes.
The performance, ‘Trollkjerring’, is a celebration of all things amateur, ancestral, earthly and Halloween. It is loosely based on a scene from Henrik Ibsen’s play ‘Peer Gynt’ (1876)
Email [email protected] to request a catalogue.
Image: Mikala Dwyer, Untitled, 2024, acrylic on linen, 183 x 183 cm.
EXHIBITION OPENINGS: Mikala Dwyer and Marley Dawson
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present two new exhibitions by Mikala Dwyer and Marley Dawson.
Skyring by Mikala Dwyer and loose ends by Marley Dawson will open from 6-8pm Thursday 31 October 2024.
Email [email protected] to request a catalogue.
Image left: Mikala Dwyer, Untitled, 2024, acrylic on linen, 183 x 183 cm.
Image right: Marley Dawson, ‘1006 portal’, 2024, 1006 aluminium chairs, mild steel base, 275 x 275 x 40 cm.
Isaac Julien: 'Once Again...(Statues Never Die)' Opens at the MCA
Isaac Julien: 'Once Again... (Statues Never Die)' is on display in the Macgregor Gallery at the MCA Australia from 27 September 2024 to 16 February 2025
Images: Installation view, Isaac Julien, ‘Once Again... (Statues Never Die)’.
KATHY TEMIN: Melbourne Sculpture Biennale: ‘The Burden of Objects’
The first edition of the Melbourne Sculpture Biennale: ‘The Burden of Objects’, featuring works by Kathy Temin, continues at the Villa Alba Museum in Kew until this Sunday, 13 October.
The Burden of Objects’ is the first edition of the Melbourne Sculpture Biennale, held at the Villa Alba Museum, a heritage mansion and gardens in Naarm/Melbourne.
The exhibition features 19 artists based in greater Naarm/Melbourne, whose practices involve making objects at scale or in costly or labour-intensive materials.
Photography by Sebastian Kainey
MIA BOE: Representation Announcement
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is thrilled to announce our representation of Mia Boe.
Boe’s paintings are characterised by long-limbed figures set within richly coloured, stylised landscapes—haunting, enigmatic, and unmistakably powerful. Originally from Brisbane and now based in Melbourne, Boe began painting in 2020
and, in a remarkably short span of time, has established the formal
characteristics that make her work so distinct and recognisable.
We are delighted to welcome Mia Boe to the gallery’s program and look forward to presenting her continued evolution as a innovative and compelling voice in contemporary painting.
Image: Mia Boe in her studio. Photography: Phoebe Kelly.
ARTIST TALK: Sir Isaac Julien
On Saturday, 28 September, it was our great pleasure to host Sir Isaac Julien at the gallery to discuss ‘Once Again... (Statues Never Die)’, an exhibition of new photographic works, which is on display at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery until 26 October 2024. u2060
In this suite of mesmerising new images, Isaac Julien expands upon aspects of his recently released film ‘Once Again... (Statues Never Die)’ which is on display in the Macgregor Gallery at the MCA Australia from 27 September 2024 to 16 February 2025.u2060
Click the link above to watch the full artist artist talk with Isaac Julien
Image: Installation view, Isaac Julien, 'Once Again... (Statues Never Die)' at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
EXHIBITION OPENING: Isaac Julien
UPCOMING: Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is thrilled to announce ‘Once Again... (Statues Never Die)’, an exhibition of new photographic works by Isaac Julien.
Opening reception: Thursday, 19 September 2024 from 6-8pm
Exhibition dates: 20 September – 26 October 2024
In this suite of mesmerising new images, Isaac Julien expands upon aspects of his recently released film by the same name, drawing further inspiration from his extensive research into the work and critical writing of Alain Locke (1885–1954), leader of the Harlem Renaissance, and his relationship to Albert C. Barnes, the philanthropist, pioneering art collector and founder of the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.
To coincide with this exhibition of photographic works at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia will present an immersive five-screen installation of the film ‘Once Again... (Statues Never Die)’ in the Macgregor Gallery from 27 September 2024 to 16 February 2025.
This major presentation of ‘Once Again... (Statues Never Die)’ in Sydney builds on its prominent inclusion in Julien’s major survey exhibition, ‘Isaac Julien: What Freedom Is To Me’, at the Tate Britain, London in 2023. The work also travelled to K21 in Düsseldorf and was featured at both the Sharjah Biennial in 2023 and the Whitney Biennial in New York in 2024.
Email [email protected] to request a catalogue.
Image: Isaac Julien, ‘Black Apollo (Once Again... Statues Never Die)’, 2022, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Ultrasmooth, 50 x 75 cm. Edition of 6 + 2 AP.
ART FAIR: Sydney Contemporary 2024
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to showcase the spectacular talent of several major Australian and internationally acclaimed artists in Booth G03 at Sydney Contemporary 2024, featuring works by Daniel Boyd, Dale Frank, Louise Hearman, Bill Henson, Isaac Julien, Linda Marrinon, Imants Tillers and Ms. N. Yunupiu014bu.
Booth G03
Carriageworks, Sydney
5–8 September 2024
Image: Installation view, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Booth G03 at Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks (5-8 September 2024). Photos: David Suyasa
EXHIBITION OPENING: Mia Boe and Julie Rrap
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is pleased to present two new solo exhibitions by artists Mia Boe and Julie Rrap.
Opening reception: Friday, 16 August from 6–8pm
Exhibition dates: 16 August – 14 September 2024
Mia Boe is a painter from Brisbane with Butchulla and Burmese ancestry. The inheritance and disinheritance of both cultures is the focus of her practice. Mia’s strikingly recognisable paintings are incredibly intriguing, populated with long-limbed figures, eerily present in flat, richly coloured landscapes: distended black bodies with elongated legs reside within vibrant stylised worlds. Personal narratives are embedded deeply within the brushstrokes, drawing on a hybrid of histories and an amalgamation of heritage in an alluring and timeless aesthetic that is difficult to define.
The Aboriginal Robot is Mia Boe’s first exhibition with Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
The work of Julie Rrap is considered to have contributed to the foundations of contemporary feminist art in Australia. Working for over four decades with a range of different mediums Rrap challenges, subverts and reinterprets the definition of women and their image in surprising ways, often using her own nude body to do so. She is one of the most recognised female artists working in Australia today.
Julie Rrap has been exhibiting with Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery since 1982.
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EVENT: Artist Talk with Tracey Moffatt
To mark the occasion of her latest body of work ‘The Burning’, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to invite you to an artist talk at the gallery with Tracey Moffatt.
Saturday, 27 July at 2pm
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Across a gothic dreamscape, the images of ‘The Burning’, have no sharp focus - bordering on the intangible, they change like moving sand when viewed from different angles and in different light. With other-worldly hues, and a film of dirt, a mist stirs in the burning landscape. Images struggle to stay together - they fall apart on the edge of evaporation.
It is a Wild West, a frontier. A woman in a Victorian era black dress is out for revenge. A shirtless youth grins in the shadows. With a simmering intensity, the story reveals itself in the dark.
Image: Portrait of Tracey Moffatt. Photography: Jon Setter.