BEYOND TIME | KATE BALLIS
JANUARY 30 - FEBRUARY 22, 2025
This series invites us into liminal realms, to pause and quietly witness the beauty and the endless stretch of time - before and beyond time.
ABUNDANT | KATE NIELSEN
FEBRUARY 27 - MARCH 22, 2025
RIVER BOUND | CATHERINE NELSON
FEBRUARY 27 - MARCH 22, 2025
NEW PAINTINGS | TIM ALLEN
MARCH 27 - APRIL 19, 2025
NEW WORKS | LARISSA WARREN
MARCH 27 - APRIL 19, 2025
RADIANCE | CLARE BRODIE
APRIL 24 - MAY 17, 2025
SEEING THE LIGHT | A GROUP EXHIBITION FEATURING KATE BALLIS & TOM BLACHFORD, SUE BEYER, JENNIFER GOODMAN, STEPHEN PLEBAN, CLINTON NAINA, WILMA TABACCO, TANYA WALES...
MAY 22 - JUNE 14, 2025
NEW WORKS | WILMA TABACCO
JUNE 19 - JULY 12, 2025
WILD 'N' WEST | LORI PENSINI
OCTOBER 31 - NOVEMBER 30, 2024
Drawing from her lived experience growing up on the land in the wheatbelt of Western Australia and Hamersley Range, Pilbara Lori Pensini captures fragments of memories drawn from her encounters with our unique wildlife.
TO A LOVE SO DEEP | Jennifer Goodman
SEPTEMBER 19 - OCTOBER 26, 2024
… Her works are based on a balance of biomorphic forms that echo one another in gentle tonal bands, so that the one can almost be interpreted as the shadow of another. This suggestion of shadow yields a sense of dimensionality, almost as if the ribbons and planes are actors in space that are borne by the air and shift over one another’s rise...
Excerpt from printed catalogue essay by Robert Nelson
MAKE BELIEVE | WALDEMAR KOLBUSZ
AUGUST 22 - September 14, 2024
One’s first association with the term ‘make believe’ is usually that of imaginative child’s play. A scenario where everyone agrees to fabricated parameters as reality; for joy, narrative, and entertainment. There is however, a tipping point where make believe enters into adulthood, where the sweetness of pretending turns into a wilful denial, ignorance and an opportunity to project pseudo-perfection. This murky place of performative life is where Waldemar Kolbusz’s Make Believe resides.
FROM THE CREST| NEVILLE FRENCH
AUGUST 1 - 17, 2024
From the Crest is an exhibition of ceramic vessels by Neville French. French’s large-scale hand-thrown ceramic pots are a continuation in his Cloudlight series, which are inspired by the mystery and beauty of the skies.
HEGEMONY AND EMPIRE | CHRISTOPHER PEASE
JULY 31 - AUGUST 17, 2024
Pease's visual language is at once deeply embedded within the western history of figurative oil painting and traditional Indigenous storytelling.
A WILD KINDNESS | STEPHEN PLEBAN
May 16 - June 15, 2024
Stephen Pleban‘s heavily textured paintings depict saturated scenes of interconnection between humans, animals and pseudo-landscapes.
Season | Rachel Coad
April 18 - May 11, 2024
Season taps into the threads of our collective memory. The young male subjects in these works, with their innocent expressions, were sourced from an early 1900s photograph and brought to life by Coad through her exquisite brushwork.
AOTEAROA ART FAIR | SUSANNE KERR
APRIL 18 - 21, AUCKLAND
Aotearoa Art Fair, New Zealand’s premier event for contemporary art, returns to Auckland in 2024. Gallerysmith is delighted to present a solo exhibition of new work by Susanne Kerr.
Water Sky: Intimate And Distant Landscapes | Sue Lovegrove
MARCH 7 - April 13, 2024
Sue Lovegrove's newest body of work which responds to her walking adventures around her home state of Tasmania and the mountains, glaciers and rivers of Iceland.
Sanctuary | Valerie Sparks
March 7 - April 13, 2024
Sanctuary explores the symbiotic relationship between art and science through magnificent botanical imagery.
Please contact the gallery to join Valerie Sparks' advance list - marita@gallerysmith.com.au