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‘A cut-and-paste, punked-up look at my Country’ is how Peter Waples-Crowe describes his five-minute video installation Ngaya (I am), a self-portrait of the artist as a queer Ngarigo person from the Snowy Mountains region of south-eastern NSW.
Cast in cast out is inspired by Sydney-based Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay artist Dennis Golding’s experiences and childhood memories of growing up in ‘The Block’, an Aboriginal community in the inner Sydney suburb of Redfern. Read our review here!
Experience community life by the ocean through the works of First Nations artists in Coomaditchie: The Art of Place at the Museum of Sydney. Read our review here!
Experience breathtaking wildlife photography that captures the beauty and vulnerability of the natural world.
Berlin-based Australian artist Emily Hunt draws inspiration from the extraordinary history of the occult and spiritualism in Australia.
Nature is in focus with the 2023 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year, a South Australian Museum exhibition.
Acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Julie Rrap has examined representations of the body in art and popular culture for over four decades, often using her own body as the subject.
Follow in the footsteps of Sir Ernest Shackleton on an expedition into one of history’s greatest survival stories in this immersive VR experience.
Spanning more than five decades of Lesley Dumbrell's practice, this exhibition presents a selection of paintings and works on paper as well as recent forays into sculpture that demonstrate Dumbrell's unique abstract language, which probes the nuances of colour, rhythm and visual perception.
Time Machine brings together over 100 artworks and includes rarely-seen pieces from the photographer's own collection alongside works from the Odawara Art Foundation.
A dynamic new display that illuminates histories, trajectories and highlights of the MCA’s Collection.
The MCA’s annual exhibition of work by early-career artists living and working in Australia.
In 2024, almost 50 years since his work was presented at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in the 1976 Biennale of Sydney, Lee Ufan returns to Sydney. Within spaces designed by the artist, this new exhibition distils over six decades of considered experimentation into a series of new paintings and sculptures created especially for the Art Gallery.
Embark on a journey to the past that has already been enjoyed by more than 1 million others with Horizon of Khufu!
Through the work of ten artists from around Australia, the 2024 edition of the Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial focuses on the compelling and allusive languages of abstraction.
Drawing on both historical and contemporary references, Qureshi works in the space between tradition and experimentation, in a practice that extends to collage and photography. Born in Pakistan, she trained at the National College of Arts in Lahore, where she learnt the painting traditions that had been brought to the Mughal courts from Persia in the 16th century and developed in the region.
Explore a vibrant tapestry of life! Step inside this immersive, sensory exhibition featuring spectacular rare and unusual tropical and subtropical rainforest plants.
Angelica Mesiti is creating an immersive installation for the former wartime oil bunker beneath the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ North Building.
Dinos Alive is a dinosaur exhibition featuring life-size animated replicas in an immersive Jurassic venue. Walk alongside the massive creatures that roamed our world millions of years ago!
The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA Australia), will open Isaac Julien's compelling cinematic installation Once Again... (Statues Never Die) (2022) from 27 September 2024 until 16 February 2025.
Experience the major winter exhibition Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine as a family with a day of free activities.
Step inside the world of FRIENDS™ from 5 October in Sydney and experience your favourite show like never before!
Kwatja Kngarritja Tnyirlalhama (Big Rain Falling) invites children and families to drop in to create your own shapes or designs to add to Robinya’s immersive desert landscape wall.
Opening on 26 October, Magritte will feature more than 100 works and will be the first retrospective ever dedicated to the artist in Australia.
Leyla Stevens is an Australian–Balinese artist whose films and photographs uncover alternative histories, including of people, rituals and objects connected to the Indonesian island of Bali. Developed through extensive research and community collaboration, her works carry a potent emotive charge in their sensitive yet affecting retellings.
The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA Australia) will host a major exhibition by acclaimed American artist Julie Mehretu, the first exhibition of the artist's work to be shown in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.
Cao Fei: My City is Yours heralds the artist’s first retrospective in Australia.
Oz Comic-Con offers a wide range of ticketing options to suit all types of pop culture enthusiasts.
Your next free opportunity to explore White Bay Power Station is here! Get ready for 3 supercharged days of local art, food, music and more.
Sydney Design Week 2024 brings together visionary designers, architects and artists, engaging research, storytelling and image making to create space for alternative futures.
Global flower show sensation Fleurs de Villes returns to Sydney, for the third time with new show VOYAGE. A floral journey of discovery to destinations around the world.
Photography competition and exhibition for budding photographers aged 5 to 12 years.
Deep dive into ethical wildlife photography and the intricacies of your digital camera in this interactive workshop for intermediate photographers.
Learn the basics of ethical wildlife photography and how to get the most out of your digital camera in this interactive workshop for beginners.
Returning to the Gardens for its 100th exhibition, the Australian Watercolour Institute (AWI) works to ensure the future of watercolour painting as a vital medium.
Explore Australia's wildlife with Creatures of Australia - an immersive digital experience featuring stunning projections and high-speed cinematography.
One of art’s great stylistic innovators, Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939) created some of most instantly recognisable and best-loved works in modern European art. In seductive, sinuous compositions, he developed a new language that defined the look of late 19th-century Paris to be the very spirit of art nouveau.
The Archibald Prize for portrait painting is Australia’s most celebrated and democratic – sometimes controversial – art award. Open to any artist living in Australia or New Zealand, since 1921 it has reflected the unique experiences of the people who live in this region, highlighting figures from all walks of life.
Wendy Sharpe: Spellbound is a sumptuous aesthetic journey into the nature of creativity. Composed of drawings, sketchbooks, artist-made books, paintings, ceramics, sculptural forms and site-specific wall murals, it creates a complete artistic creation or gesamtkunstwerk (a German word meaning ‘total work of art’).
A dynamic new display that illuminates histories, trajectories and highlights of the MCA’s Collection.
An exhibition of collage constructions telling the story of a boy discovering that the desert he feared is actually a place of endless wonders.
Join the Art Gallery of NSW this May for an inspiring month of art-making, workshops, performances and talks as they celebrate collaboration and creativity.
Princess Diana: Accredited Access Exhibition will showcase the emotional journey of the world’s most loved Princess through a side of the story that has never been experienced before.
The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA Australia) is delighted to announce A World Undone, a major exhibition by Australian artist Nicholas Mangan, opening from 5 April to 30 June 2024.
A fun-filled extravaganza filled with activities, workshops and creativity for kids of all ages at the 24th Biennale of Sydney, ‘Ten Thousand Suns’
‘A cut-and-paste, punked-up look at my Country’ is how Peter Waples-Crowe describes his five-minute video installation Ngaya (I am), a self-portrait of the artist as a queer Ngarigo person from the Snowy Mountains region of south-eastern NSW.
Guests can discover, play, and win with Haunted Habitats - an interactive adventure that will see them embark on a fun journey through the aquarium and zoo in Darling Harbour. Discover amazing animals and learn fun facts. Engage with interactive booths to keep guests looking out for ghostly visitors who are temporarily calling the much-loved Sydney attractions home!
Guests can discover, play, and win with Haunted Habitats - an interactive adventure that will see them embark on a fun journey through the aquarium and zoo in Darling Harbour. Discover amazing animals and learn fun facts. Engage with interactive booths to keep guests looking out for ghostly visitors who are temporarily calling the much-loved Sydney attractions home!
Videogame joysticks, a fossilised radio, VHS tapes spun into haunting life-size figures ... this exhibition reanimates supposedly defunct media.
Jelena Telecki is a Sydney-based artist known for paintings and sculptures that address human relationships – including of power and dominance – and uniquely merge the real and the imagined. Often portraying partly concealed figures and fragmentary, dreamlike moments, her works are rich in intrigue, with flashes of levity and humour.
The 24th Biennale of Sydney, Ten Thousand Suns, proposes celebration as both a method and a source of joy, inspired by legacies of collective resistance and coming together to thrive in the face of injustice.
The 24th Biennale of Sydney is headed to White Bay Power Station! The Biennale of Sydney is delighted to be the inaugural world-class experience at this iconic site with free admission for all, and are thrilled to contribute to the evolving cityscape with Ten Thousand Suns. READ OUR REVIEW HERE.
Titled Ten Thousand Suns and curated by co-artistic directors Cosmin Costinaş and Inti Guerrero, the 24th Biennale of Sydney seeks to convey a ‘solar joy’ of cultural multiplicities – the constellation of factors that contribute to our different identities.
A retail trade show experience that defies tradition through next-level creativity, curation and collaboration.
This summer, join us at the Museum of Sydney for a fun, creative and captivating series of activities and workshops for the whole family. Read our review of the exhibition.
Featuring a selection of outstanding student artworks developed for the art-making component of the HSC examination in Visual Arts in 2023, ARTEXPRESS 2024 provides insight into students’ creativity and the issues important to them.
This stunning street art exhibition of museum quality features over 160 artworks, including new originals added for Sydney, and is a “must-see” to celebrate Banksy’s art. The show is now touring Australia after its incredible worldwide success with over 1,650,000 visitors!
