Past Exhibitions

Please see below for more information on our previous touring exhibitions.

Extending across every state and territory in Australia, our touring exhibition program has presented many important figures of Australian contemporary art including: Richard Bell, Deborah Kelly, Shaun Gladwell, Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro, Joyce Hinterding, Angelica Mesiti, Ken + Julia Yonetani, Tracey Moffatt, and Justene Williams.

People Like Us

New technologies are being applied to digital media in countless areas of everyday life such as urban mapping, warfare, medical research and animation, yet technology in art is still viewed with hesitation by many who are used to the more traditional artistic mediums of painting, sculpture and even photography.

Arlo Mountford Deep Revolt

An exhibition organised and developed by Goulburn Regional Art Gallery featuring a selection of Arlo Mountford's work from the past decade. Working across video, sculpture and drawing, Mountford's practice playfully probes our individual and collective memories of the artistic canon.

Suspended Moment

Suspended Moment brings together current and past work by the three recipients of Suspended Moment: The Katthy Cavaliere Fellowship and formative work by Katthy Cavaliere loaned from her estate

Mel O’Callaghan | Centre of the Centre

Centre of the Centre by Mel O'Callaghan is a major new commission that traces the origins of life and its regenerative forces, iterated through video, performance and sculpture.

Material Sound

Material Sound brings together a group of contemporary artists who each create an experience of sound within installations and apparatus constructed from everyday materials.

Just Not Australian

This exhibition brings together a group of 20 living Australian artist across generations and mediums to deal broadly with the origins and implications of contemporary Australian nationhood.

Void

Void explores the multiple ways in which artists visually articulate the unknown as space, time and landscape. The artists included in this exhibition do not simply define the void as presence and comparative absence, but rather they utilise form to represent the formless.

Eugenia Lim The Ambassador

This 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art and M&G NSW initiated touring project presents Eugenia Lim's most recent body of work, The Ambassador series.

Angelica Mesiti Relay League

Relay League is the first major institutional show in Australia by acclaimed artist Angelica Mesiti. The exhibition features a newly commissioned multi-channel immersive video work and is touring nationally from 2017 to 2019.

Montages: The Full Cut, 1999-2015 Tracey Moffatt and Gary Hillberg

This exhibition presents the full suite of 8 montage films by artist Tracey Moffatt and collaborator Gary Hillberg. Presented together for the first time, the exhibition spans 16 years of the artist and editor’s collaborative practice and includes their most recent work, The Art (2015).

Soft Core

Soft Core presents artistic practices that explore the many facets of ‘softness’ - from large-scale inflatables to forms made from soft materials to materials that simply look soft. These artists are making works that demand attention - forms that are not simply bumped into while looking at paintings.

David Griggs BETWEEN NATURE AND SIN

David Griggs creates work that explores the darker undercurrents of human existence. His work focuses on the human condition, drawing on political imagery, underground media, conspiracy theories, local crime histories and personal experiences.

Moving Histories // Future Projections

Moving Histories // Future Projections brings together some of Australia’s leading female contemporary artists working across screen based media including Kate Blackmore, Mikala Dwyer and Justene Williams, Amala Groom, Deborah Kelly, Joan Ross, Soda_Jerk, Angelica Mesiti and Caroline Garcia, curated by Kelly Doley and Diana Smith of Barbara Cleveland.

Justene Williams: The Curtain Breathed Deeply

The Curtain Breathed Deeply presents a series of newly commissioned video installations by Western Sydney-based artist Justene Williams. The Curtain Breathed Deeply is an immersive collection of video and sculptural work that weaves a narrative of abandon, psychosis, doubt, love, emotional vulnerability and desire.

Light Sensitive Material: Works from the Verghis Collection

Light Sensitive Material: Works from the Verghis Collection is a vibrant selection of photographic, light and digital media works from the private collection of Rachel Verghis.

Deborah Kelly: No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory)

Created for the 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014), the work comprises 20 life-sized photographic portraits realised through ongoing discussion, exchange and art making between the artist, the subjects and public participants.

Life in Your Hands: art from solastalgia

Life in Your Hands: art from solastalgia champions visual art, craft and design as an enabling force to combat solastalgia.

How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow

How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow features the work of past recipients of the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship for emerging artists.

Contemporary Australian Drawing: 20 Years of the Dobell Prize for Drawing

Contemporary Australian Drawing: 20 Years of the Dobell Prize for Drawing was a special exhibition curated in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the prestigious Dobell Prize for Drawing.

Creative Accounting

Drawing from alternative currencies, banking archives, pop culture and contemporary art, Creative Accounting connects diverse local audiences with ideas around currency, economic systems and historical quirks at a time when money is becoming increasingly abstract.

Ken + Julia Yonetani: The Last Supper

The Last Supper is a new sculptural installation by Ken + Julia Yonetani, commissioned by Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre and developed during a four month residency at the Gallery from January 2014.

Objects & Energies: Joyce Hinterding, Agnes Martin, Linda Matalon

Objects & Energies brings together three artists from different generational and cultural backgrounds who have approached non-objectivity and abstraction not as a kind of formalism, but as a means of structuring physical, temporal, scientific and transcendental ideas.

Stars + Stripes: American Art of the 21st Century from the Goldberg Collection

Drawn from the Sydney private collection of Lisa and Danny Goldberg, Stars + Stripes: American Art of the 21st Century from the Goldberg Collection is a vibrant selection of new American art by some of the country’s hottest young names, many made within the last three years.

Richard Bell: Imagining Victory

Imagining Victory is a significant solo exhibition by leading Australian artist Richard Bell, centred on a trilogy of recent video projects.

Striking Contrasts

Striking Contrasts presents an exploration into the division between film making and fine art practice in the work of 10 contemporary Australian artists.

Sense of Place

Sense of Place features the work of eight Australian artists united by their exploration of the boundaries of national identity, cultural propriety and social paradigms, all through the medium of moving image.

Survivor: Dadang Christanto

Survivor: Dadang Christanto is a major art project by contemporary Indonesian-Australian artist Dadang Christanto.

Archibald Prize

The Archibald Prize is one of Australia’s oldest and most prestigious art awards.

In-Habit: Project Another Country

In-Habit: Project Another Country, commissioned by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, is a contemporary art project by Filipino-born, Brisbane based artists, Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan.

Barbara Cleveland | Thinking Business

Thinking Business is an exhibition by Barbara Cleveland that explores forms of female friendship, collaboration and artistic labour.