NEW ISSUE OUT NOW

Art Collector issue #113 (July-September 2025) is now available. This quarter we present contemporary art under AU$5,000, works across a range of practices you might be surprised to learn can be purchased for less than $5,000.

LATEST STORIES

Sullivan+Strumpf Opens New Singapore Gallery with Inaugural Exhibition

The gallery's Tiong Bahru location launches with Bricks Laid, Stories Untold, featuring 13 Asia-Pacific artists.

Desert Mob 2025 Full Program Announced

One of Australia's most significant Aboriginal art events returns to Alice Springs this September, featuring hundreds of artists from 35 remote Art Centres across the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia.

Gareth Sansom Wins Inaugural Sorrento Art Prize Worth $125,000

85-year-old artist claims Australia’s richest art award with multimedia work featuring punk vinyl record.

The Neighbour at the Gate: Ancient Connections, Contemporary Voices

A new exhibition at National Art School Gallery explores the enduring cultural connections between First Nations Australia and Asia-Pacific peoples.
Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair

Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair Returns for 19th Year

Australia's largest Indigenous art event celebrates contemporary and traditional works from over 75 community Art Centres.

Jennings Kerr Gallery now representing Kirrily Humphries

Humphries is known for her meticulous oil paintings and detailed pencil drawings that explore contemporary ruins and abandoned architectural spaces.

Artbank Chronicles 45 Years of Australian Art in Major Publication

A comprehensive new book documenting Australia's most visible art collection launches alongside free exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney.

Finalists announced for the 2025 Bowness Photography Prize

Fifty photographers have been selected from over 750 entries for the 2025 William & Winifred Bowness Photography Prize.

WHAT’S ON: COMMERCIAL GALLERIES

Darren Sylvester: Party up on Skull Rock

Neon Parc presents a solo exhibition of new work by Darren Sylvester.

Adrian Jurra Tjungurrayi: New works

Alcaston Gallery presents work by Adrian Jurra Tjungurrayi.

Mimili Maku: kililpi tjukurpa star story

8 Hele presents a new exhibition from Desmond Woodforde, Shane Dodd, Richard Nelson and Arnold Dodd.

Emily Wolfe: Intervals

Page Galleries presents a suite of new paintings from Emily Wolfe .

Heath Franco: 444

SYRUP presents Heath Franco's first solo show with the Gallery.

Cathy Blanchflower: Aeon

Art Collective WA presents work by Cathy Blanchflower

Eveline Kotai: Road Trip Continued

Art Collective WA presents work by Eveline Kotai

Alex Walker: the image is not merely a surface

Void_Melbourne presents ​A​lex Walker's debut solo exhibition.

Ali Tahayori: Archive of Longing

THIS IS NO FANTASY presents Ali Tahayori's 'Archive of Longing'

Sophia Hewson: A Complete Disavowel

MARS Gallery presents works by Sophia Hewson.

Ellis Moseley: I AM THE UGLY ONE

MARS Gallery presents works by Ellis Moseley.

Group exhibition: Land / Mark II

Tim Melville Gallery presents Land / Mark II.

James Powditch: EMPIRE FALL

NandaHobbs presents James Powditch

Peter Graham: Gather in the golden grain

Olsen Gallery presents the work of Peter Graham.

Hanna Shim : Answers To Your Questions

Sanderson Contemporary presents work by Hanna Shim

Molly Timmins : Moon Sown

Sanderson Contemporary presents work by Molly Timmins

Koen Delaere: White Noise Rainbow

Fox Jensen McCrory presents works by Koen Delaere

Matte Bernasconi: Risonanze

Fox Galleries presents a new body of work from Matteo Bernasconi.

Esther Erlich: Hullabaloo

Fox Galleries presents a new exhibition by artist Esther Erlich.

Elizabeth Newman: Some little lights in a perfectly dark field

This selection of works traces Newman’s long-standing engagement with the literal, symbolic, and philosophical dimensions of light and darkness.

William Robinson: Farmyards

Philip Bacon Galleries presents an exhibition by one of Australia's greatest living artists.

Joanna Lamb: looked over, overlooked

Sullivan+Strumpf presents a new exhibition of paintings by Joanna Lamb. 

John Honeywill

Philip Bacon Galleries presents an exhibition by Brisbane painter, John Honeywill.

Locust Jones: Smoke and Mirrors

For over 20 years, Locust's practice has woven layers of stories and images that replicate the frenetic pace at which society consumes everyday news and current affairs, in a variety of mediums.

WHAT’S ON: PUBLIC & REGIONAL GALLERIES

Betty Kuntiwa Pumani: maḻatja-maḻatja (those who come after)

Betty Kuntiwa Pumani’s paintings reveal a shimmering landscape of red earth, bright blue waterholes and stippled white tobacco flowers.

David Sequeira: The Shape of Music

The Shape of Music brings together four bodies of work by David Sequeira in diverse media, including a major new commission for Bundanon.

Group Exhibition: The way things grow

The Condensery presents a group exhibition, 'The way things grow'.

Group Exhibition: in every room

Campbelltown Arts Centre presents a group exhibition.

Group Exhibition: Cross Traffic

Delmar Gallery presents Cross Traffic: Art from Ali Curung, Ampilatwatja, Epenarra, Tennant Creek & Utopia

Group Exhibition: Dancer

A National Portrait Gallery touring exhibition.

Stephen Hall: In the Realm of Old White Man

Art Space on The Concourse presents work by Stephen Hall.

Group Exhibition: Curlew Camp

Mosman Art Gallery presents a group exhibition.

Fiona Currey-Billyard: Night Talk

Wangaratta Art Gallery presents Night Talk by Fiona Currey-Billyard

Tina Havelock Stevens: CRASH, BANG

Presented by 3:33 Art Projects and Young Curators from Abbotsleigh School & Hornsby Girls High School. Featuring Tina Havelock Stevens

Amala Groom: Does she know the Revolution is coming?

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre presents work by Amala Groom

Worlds Around Us: Sammy Harker

Tweed Regional Gallery presents work by Sammy Hawker

Charmaine Lyons: repeating gestures of becoming

*Bundaberg Regional Galleries* presents work by *Charmaine Lyons*

The Good: Anna Louise Richardson

Cowra Regional Art Gallery presents "The Good" by Anna Louise Richardson

Whakahōnore i tō tātou taonga tuku iho: Maania Tealei’s Powerful Portrait Legacy

Māori photographer Maania Tealei’s debut exhibition transforms portraiture into visual whakapapa, honouring kaumātua through intimate dual portraits that bridge tradition and contemporary life.
Katrin Koenning

Katrin Koenning: Mirrors

Manningham Art Gallery presents work by Katrin Koenning.
truth tell

Group Exhibition: Truth Tell

The Museum of Art and Culture Lake Macquarie presents Truth Tell.
Two Girls from Amoonguna

Group Exhibition: Two Girls from Amoonguna

Tamworth Regional Gallery presents Two Girls from Amoonguna.
Karla Dickens

Karla Dickens: Rise and Fall

Lone Goat Gallery presents work by Karla Dickens.
Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award 2025

Group Exhibition: Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award 2025

Wangaratta Art Gallery presents the Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award 2025.
Horizons

Group Exhibition: Horizons

Goulburn Regional Art Gallery presents Horizons.
tom polo

Tom Polo: in a part of your mind, I am you

Ngununggula presents work by Tom Polo.
sooty welsh

Sooty Welsh: Inspired

Campbelltown Art Centre presents work by Sooty Welsh.
Taking Back Language

Group Exhibition: Taking Back Language

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre presents Taking Back Language.

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