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Est. 1974. Australia's monthly art guide to galleries, exhibitions, news, services, awards + opportunities.
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Christine Sweeney @__papd wins Robin Lawrence Open Art Prize in 2026 @glebeartshow 15 to 25 October 2026 @tramsheds In the 2026 Glebe Art Show, the $3,000 Robin Lawrence Open Art Prize went to Sydney-based photographer and photo-embroidery artist Christine Sweeney, whose practice bridges photography and textile arts. In this work, which draws on Adelaide artist Peter Drew’s AUSSIE posters, Khazoom Coory and Bella Singh – their images drawn from the National Archive of Australia – sit side by side on a brick wall. Where the posters themselves are vulnerable to the elements or vandals, the considered and permanent hand embroidery offers a quiet and considered permanence. @peterdrewarts Image 1: Christine Sweeney, AUSSIE AUSSIE, 2026, mixed media on canvas, incorporating photography and textiles, 27 × 19cm / Winner of the Robin Lawrence Open Art Prize in the 2026 Glebe Art Show / Courtesy the artist and Glebe Art Show #glebeartshow #glebeartshow2026 #ChristineSweeney #RobinLawrenceOpenArtPrize #PeterDrew #artprize by @artalmanac
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Art Almanac October 2026 is now on sale with @justenewilliams on the cover. This time in Art Almanac are works weighted in postwar diaspora, the photographic image, disaster and mourning, and national myths. Bronwyn Watson selects a 1962 Eva Kubbos screenprint that combines, to paraphrase NGA’s Rebecca Edwards, childhood memories of a stark Lithuanian landscape, impressions of Australia, and abstract expressionism. On the mythic scale, Victoria Hynes previews Nolan: Origins via a sit down with AGNSW curator Denise Mimmocchi ahead of its opening. Two up brings Rebecca Hastings’s paintings on the uncanny with cues from Goya alongside Annika Romeyn’s works created from a visit to Antarctica; wildly different subject matter – Emma-Kate Wilson finds common ground through the maker’s mark. Finally, Sasha Grishin takes the time to mourn the passing of the almost-two-decade National Photographic Portrait Prize with a celebration of the standouts of its final run. Plus, we have our national guide to exhibitions and awards, and the latest artist opportunities and services. Art Almanac | Australia’s leading monthly guide to “what’s on” in the arts: exhibitions, events, workshops, open studios, artist opportunities, art awards and services. October 2026 features $395k+ in art prizes/funding, 650+ galleries, and 370+ artists, both emerging and established. Featuring: @rebeccahastingsartist @annika_lucy @nationalgalleryaus @artgalleryofnsw @flinderslanegallery @portraitau #ArtAlmanac #ArtMagazine #JusteneWilliams #EvaKubbos #RebeccaHastings #AnnikaRomeyn #NGA #AGNSW #NolanOrigins #NPPP2026 by @artalmanac
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Landscape: A Calligraphy of Rocks by @julienplayoust @scieppangallery 10 October to 10 November 2026 Opening reception: 10 October 2026, 3–5pm Scieppan Gallery 2/1 Francis St, Darlinghurst, NSW, 2010 Landscape: A Calligraphy of Rocks presents a new series of plein air oil paintings by Julien Playoust. Drawn from Playoust’s long-standing connection to his family property at Millambri, the collection forms part of an ongoing dialogue with the land, revealing subtle relationships between landscape and labour, person, and place. Images 1: Julien Playoust, Sentinel 2, oil on board, 61 × 80cm / Courtesy the artist 2: Julien Playoust, Trees & rock face, 2026, oil on board, 45.5 × 61cm / Courtesy the artist 3: Julien Playoust, Another day at the waterfall, oil on board, 61 × 122cm / Courtesy the artist 4: Julien Playoust, Fallen tree at the waterfall, oil on board, 35 × 40cm / Courtesy the artist 5: Julien Playoust artist portrait / Courtesy of the artist #JulienPlayoust #ScieppanGallery #landscapepainting #Millambri by @artalmanac
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Opening tomorrow: Cavitation by @izabelapluta__studio @thelockupartspace until 31 January 2027 For Izabela Pluta, who left Poland in 1986, place is always relational – through encounter, migration, and movement. Across moving image, photography, sculpture, sound, and textile, this cocommission between partnering institutions in Australia and Poland moves between the port towns of Newcastle and Szczecin; presenting a constellation of material forms, creating sensory encounters and bodily echoes of oceanic movements and planetary orbits – water becomes both atmospheric field and temporal force. Images 1: Izabela Pluta, Exercises in disorientation (detail), 2026, digital print on adhesive film / Courtesy the artist and Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney 2: Izabela Pluta, Floating fissure, 2020 / Courtesy the artist and Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney @gallerysallydancuthbert #IzabelaPluta #IzabelaPlutaCavitation #TheLockUpContemporaryArtSpace #GallerySallyDanCuthbert by @artalmanac
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The Quiet Life @loaf.gallery until 27 September The Quiet Life explores the beauty, stillness, and quiet significance of everyday experience. Bringing together artists whose practices are grounded in observation, atmosphere, and intimacy, the exhibition considers the moments that often pass unnoticed; familiar landscapes, domestic rhythms, changing light, remembered places, quiet interiors, gardens, fragments, and patterns. Revealing the subtle poetry of the everyday. Curated by @amber.hearn Featuring work by: @dan_kyle @danielacristalloartist @hayleyzena @indiajartist @jenowlempire @lillstromy @maggiejanedoe @shantisheaan @xanthe.muston Images 1: Maggie Jane Doe, Fuckery Starts at Home (detail), 2026, oil on canvas, 102 × 91.5cm / Courtesy the artist and LOAF Gallery, New South Wales 2: Daniela Cristallo, Kin IV – Threaded Care, 2026, acrylic, soft pastel, oil stick and painted handwoven raw cotton on canvas, 31 × 26cm / Courtesy the artist and LOAF Gallery, New South Wales 3: Lilli Strömland, Toasted, 2026, gouache on board and embroidery thread,15 × 20cm / Courtesy the artist and LOAF Gallery, New South Wales 4: Dan Kyle, Float (detail), 2026, oil and mixed media on canvas 95 × 120cm / Courtesy the artist and LOAF Gallery, New South Wales #TheQuietLife #LOAFGallery #MaggieJaneDoe #DanielaCristallo #LilliStrömland #DanKyle by @artalmanac
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@flinderslanegallery at @sydneycontemporary Booth E01 Dedication to focused, intimate dialogue, the gallery’s presentation brings together two distinct Australian practices: the graphite and ink drawings of Kim Anderson, and the paper sculptures and large-scale photography of Stuart McLachlan and Simon Cardwell. Bodies of work rooted in ecological grief, yet they approach it from opposite poles. Anderson moves inward, into the body and the psyche, rendering the human experience of planetary crisis as something felt in muscle and nerve. McLachlan and Cardwell move outward, into the shared environment and the dwindling number of species that inhabit it. The presentation offers no resolution, but holds two truths at once: that we are implicated in what is being lost, and that we are also capable of what is required to return it. Art Almanac is a media partner of Sydney Contemporary. @kim_anderson_artist @stuart_mclachlan @cardwell.mclachlan @cardwell.simon Images 1: Stuart McLachlan, Continuum, 2026, watercolour paper, acrylic paint, glue and metal rods, 30 × 240 × 155cm / Courtesy the artist and Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne 2: Stuart McLachlan, Ascension (detail), 2026, Arches watercolour rag paper, card, wood, metal rod, varnish, sandstone and glue, 184 × 85 × 40cm / Courtesy the artist and Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne 3: Cardwell+McLachlan, Siberian Cranes, 2026, eco-solvent print in cotton rag paper, edition of 5 and 2 APs, 86 × 150cm / Courtesy the artist and Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne 4: Kim Anderson, Fugue 3 (detail), 2024, ink, graphite, charcoal and cold wax on paper, framed, 100 × 60cm / Courtesy the artist and Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne 5: Kim Anderson, Into Thin Air 2 (detail), 2026, ink, graphite, charcoal and cold wax on paper, 100 × 60cm / Courtesy the artist and Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne #SydneyContemporary #FlindersLaneGallery #StuartMcLachlan #CardwellMcLachlan #KimAnderson taken in Sydney Contemporary by @artalmanac
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@arthousegallery at @sydneycontemporary Booth C07 Fifteen contemporary Australian artists were invited by Arthouse Gallery on two journeys to the remote Fowlers Gap Research Station in northwest NSW – in 2024 and 2026. Inspired by the region’s rich artistic and cultural legacy and driven by a profound love for the land, a deepening connection to First Nations history, and a growing concern for our changing climate, the artists entered into dialogue with the landscape and with each other, creating works that capture both resilience and vulnerability of this extraordinary, ancient environment. Art Almanac is a media partner of Sydney Contemporary. @katedorrough @clifford_how @hobie_porter @colinpennockartist @nk_nk_ @emwalker @robynsweaney @laurenoconnor_studio @jodavenport_art @foxbelinda @jobertini Images 1: Emma Walker, Life Persisting (detail), acrylic and mixed media on board, 150 × 180cm / Courtesy the artist and Arthouse Gallery, Sydney 2: Arthouse Gallery Sydney Contemporary installation shot, 2026 3: Arthouse Gallery Sydney Contemporary installation shot, 2026 / Belinda Fox, The Leopardwood Tree, watercolour, ink, collage, pen, acrylic spray, encaustic wax, pencil, on stained board, 259 × 330cm 4: Arthouse Gallery Sydney Contemporary installation shot, 2026 5: Jo Bertini, Daymoon and cloud climbing over a broken creek (detail), oil on Italian polyester canvas, 180 × 180cm / Courtesy the artist and Arthouse Gallery, Sydney 6: Arthouse Gallery Sydney Contemporary installation shot, 2026 7: Nicole Kelly working on a monotype at Fowlers Gap / Photograph: William Mansfield / Courtesy Arthouse Gallery, Sydney #SydneyContemporary #ArthouseGallery #ArthouseGallerySydney #EmmaWalker #BelindaFox #NicoleKelly #JoBertini taken in Sydney Contemporary by @artalmanac
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@swanriverprint at @sydneycontemporary Booth WP16 until 6 September 2026 Perth-based artist collective Swan River Print Studio makes its inaugural presentation at Sydney Contemporary with The Light We Breathe, a new body of work by Dominique Coiffait, Jo Darvall, Claire Lawson, and Zali Morgan. Responding to place and the distinctive luminosity of Western Australia, the artists explore how light shapes perception, atmosphere, and experience. The presentation brings together four perspectives on the landscape, united by a shared sensitivity to the qualities of light and place. Art Almanac is a media partner of Sydney Contemporary. @dominique_coiffait @zalimorganart @inkpaperprint Images 1: Swan River Print Studio Sydney Contemporary installation shot, 2026 2: Zali Morgan, Boorn Koorlang (detail), 2026, ectching and monotype on Hahnemühle, 70 × 50cm / Courtesy Renee Doropoulos 3: Swan River Print Studio Sydney Contemporary installation shot, 2026 1: Swan River Print Studio Sydney Contemporary installation shot, 2026 #SydneyContemporary #SwanRiverPrintStudio #SwanRiverPrint #DominiqueCoiffait #JoDarvall #ClaireLawson #ZaliMorgan taken in Sydney Contemporary by @artalmanac
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@parkercontemporaryau at @sydneycontemporary Booth WP04 until 6 September 2026 Matthew Hurdle’s new handmade paper works for PARKER Contemporary transform worn clothing and hessian into tactile surfaces, exploring memory, devotion, and vulnerability. In Self Portrait {when my hands relax I can sleep}, 2026, a worn black T-shirt is pulped and reformed into paper, turning an everyday garment associated with rest into a meditation on ritual, embodiment, and accumulated experience. The presentation also includes work by Melissa J. Harvey, Ross Woodrow, Chris Hagen, Matthew Newkirk, and Alethea Richter. Art Almanac is a media partner of Sydney Contemporary. @_matthewhurdle @melissa_j_harvey @greyhandpress @matthew_newkirk_art @alethearichter Images 1: Matthew Hurdle, Self Portrait {when my hands relax I can sleep}, 2026, handmade paper from pulped black t-shirt and hessian on wood board, 54 × 44 × 3.5cm / Courtesy the artist and PARKER Contemporary, Queensland 2: PARKER Contemporary Sydney Contemporary installation shot, 2026 3: Alethea Richter, Filtered Light VII (detail), handwoven and hand printed multi-layer silkscreen on cotton rag paper, 75 × 109.5cm 4: Matthew Newkirk, Modern Day Mantra, 2026, aluminium and 3M vinyl, 54.5 × 22.5cm, edition of 5 / Courtesy the artist and PARKER Contemporary, Queensland 5: PARKER Contemporary Sydney Contemporary installation shot, 2026 #SydneyContemporary #MelissaJHarvey #RossWoodrow #ChrisHagen #MatthewNewkirk #AletheaRichter #PARKERContemporary taken in Sydney Contemporary by @artalmanac
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@luke.hardy.photoartist at @sydneycontemporary Booth PS08 until 6 September 2026 Appearing at Sydney Contemporary for the third time, Australian photo artist Luke Hardy presents new and recent work exploring dream and legend. kitsune-bi foxfires #XX, 2020, an image from his acclaimed ‘FOXFIRES’ series, draws on Japanese folklore, depicting foxes and courtly figures in mysterious nocturnal encounters. Across Hardy’s photographic practice, the boundary between reality and imagination remains fluid, inviting viewers into richly atmospheric worlds shaped by mythology, storytelling, and the uncanny. Art Almanac is a media partner of Sydney Contemporary. Images 1: Luke Hardy, in a cup of tea I (detail), 2025–6 / Courtesy the artist 2: Luke Hardy, Sydney Contemporary installation shot, 2026 3: Luke Hardy, kitsune-bi foxfires #XX (detail), 2020, 60 × 60cm / Courtesy the artist 4: Luke Hardy, Sydney Contemporary installation shot, 2026 5: Luke Hardy, shadowings VII (detail), 2010-4, 60 × 60cm / Courtesy the artist 6: Luke Hardy, Sydney Contemporary installation shot, 2026 #SydneyContemporary #LukeHardy #photoartist #FOXFIRES taken in Sydney Contemporary by @artalmanac
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Art Almanac September 2026 is now on sale with a full guide of Sydney Contemporary booths. In this issue Sasha Grishin marvels at the huge Arthur Boyd tapestries of the St. Francis legend – the artist having visited Assisi and Gubbio in Italy, places central to the life of a saint; Bronwyn Watson homes in on a Ron Robertson-Swann modernist sculpture with a defining place in the spirit of a regional Victorian city; Emma-Kate Wilson speaks with two artists whose works share personal narratives on Tasmanian landscapes; and Joey Hespe – who joins us on the editorial team – soaks in the new Newcastle Art Gallery space and its service to one of Australia’s most significant regional collections. Much transformation within and outside our pages this month, which also sees us as a Sydney Contemporary media partner – see you at the fair. Art Almanac | Australia’s leading monthly guide to “what’s on” in the arts: exhibitions, events, workshops, open studios, artist opportunities, art awards and services. September 2026 features $400k+ in art prizes/funding, 650+ galleries, and 400+ artists, both emerging and established. by @artalmanac
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@desert_mob returns Thursday 10 September - Sunday 25 October in Mparntwe / Alice Springs! Presented by Desart, Desert Mob is one of the nation’s oldest and most extraordinary celebrations of Aboriginal art and culture. Accompanied by the Vincent Lingiari Art Award in 2026, Desert Mob offers a significant program in the Australian art calendar with the renowned Desert Mob opening night and exhibition, a captivating day of Artist Talks, vibrant Art Market, workshops and more all to be held at the Araluen Arts Centre. See the full program of events at www.desertmob.com and plan your journey to the heart of Australia this September! Image: Andrea Pungarta Rontji and Hayley Panangka Coulthard of Hermmansburg Potters at the Desert Mob Opening 2025. Photo by Sara Maiorino (@_sarafoto). Courtesy of Desart. by @artalmanac
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