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I will remember you

10 June – 4 July 2026

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Trick of the light

10 June – 4 July 2026

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Drew Connor Holland wins Blake Art Prize People’s Choice Award

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Drew Connor Holland wins Blake Art Prize People’s Choice Award

Congratulations to Drew Connor Holland who has been announced as the winner of the 69th Blake Prize People’s Choice Award. Celebrating artists whose practices engage with spirituality, religion and belief, the prize is one of Australia’s longest-running and most significant awards for contemporary art. Drew’s work, ‘excerpts (hand)’, 2025, is...

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CLOSING SOON - Ben Quilty ’The River’

Ben Quilty’s paintings have long moved between portraiture and landscape, holding space for questions of identity, place, and the weight of experience. In this new body of work, the landscape comes into sharper focus, not as a backdrop, but as something active, shifting and charged.

There is a particular kind of quiet that can be found in descent, in heading down to some place. Not up to a lookout or out toward a horizon, but down into the base of a valley, where the walls rise steeply on all sides and the world is made to recede. In this body of work, Quilty turns downward to such a place: a river set deep within the landscape, where the scale and weight of the terrain is both oppressive and assuring. Here, one has the sensation of being underneath everything, as though the weight of history, geological and otherwise, hangs just above and all around.

These works emerge from a desire to withdraw from the noise of the world, but they are not acts of denial. The river does not offer escape so much as opportunities for processing. In the absence of phone reception and other forms of contact, in the isolation of the valley is room to sit with difficult topics.

In the case of this series: a quiet grief for the natural world. If Quilty’s earlier paintings grappled with the immediacy of political and social violence, here that violence is slower, more diffuse, but no less pervasive. The environmental degradation that underpins these paintings is not always directly visible, and perhaps that is precisely the point. What is out of sight is easily displaced, deferred, or forgotten.

’The River’ by Ben Quilty can be viewed in the gallery and online until Saturday 6 June.

Please contact the gallery for more information.

Image details:
Ben Quilty, Taralga, 2026, oil on linen, 180.0 x 202.0 cm
Ben Quilty, Bed no. 1, 2026, oil on linen, 51.0 x 61.0 cm
Ben Quilty, River no. 2, oil on linen, 51.0 x 61.0 cm

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COMING SOON - Heidi Yardley, ‘Trick of the light’

Heidi Yardley is a Melbourne-based artist whose evocative paintings and drawings explore the porous boundaries between memory, identity, and the unconscious. Mining imagery from vintage media, psychological archives, and esoteric traditions, she reconstructs and dissolves familiar forms into haunting, fragmented compositions.

“My practice has long drawn on found imagery from vintage magazines, film stills and printed ephemera, particularly material from the 1970s, which I use not to illustrate nostalgia but to unsettle it and expose the latent tensions, desires and anxieties embedded in images of glamour and femininity. This interest in the unstable relationship between memory, identity and the image has remained central to my work.”
- Heidi Yardley, 2026

Having represented Heidi for twenty years we are thrilled to present this exhibition of new works alongside a small selection of very early works.

To request a preview please contact the gallery.

’Trick of the light’ will be showing in the gallery from 10 June - 4 July.

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Congratulations to Drew Connor Holland who has been announced as the winner of the Blake Prize People’s Choice Award. This year marks the 69th iteration of the Blake Art Prize, celebrating artists whose practices engage with spirituality, religion and belief.

Drew’s work, ‘excerpts (hand)’, 2025, is currently on display in the exhibition until 14 June at Liverpool Powerhouse.

Image credit: Drew Connor Holland ‘excerpts (hand)’, 2025. Installation view. Courtesy of Silversalt Photography.

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COMING SOON - Linde Ivimey, ’I will remember you’

We are excited to present a new solo exhibition from Linde Ivimey from 10 June - 4 July.

Please contact the gallery to request a preview.

“The works in this exhibition are made using a vast assortment of materials: bone, fibres, fabric, remnants, offcuts, and the like. Almost everything I use has had a life before it reaches my hands. This history becomes part of each sculpture’s character, and in their coming together, the works begin to operate as charms, shaped through accumulation, intuition, and care.

‘I will remember you’ brings together a group of recently made sculptures, poppets, and charms, each shaped by the lives they have already held. What emerges is a quiet act of remembrance, where fragments, bodies, and histories are gathered, held, and reanimated through making. – Linde Ivimey, 2026

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If you’re planning a trip to London this year, be sure to visit ‘Rising Voices: Contemporary Art from Asia, Australia and the Pacific’ at the V&A South Kensington, featuring work by Michael Cook.

Opening this month at the Victoria and Albert Museum in collaboration with Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, the landmark exhibition draws on the legacy of the Asia Pacific Triennial and brings together works by more than 40 artists from across the region.

Presented across three thematic sections, Re-Visioning History, Enduring Knowledge and Evolving Faith, the exhibition explores contemporary perspectives on history, cultural knowledge, spirituality and identity through diverse artistic practices, while foregrounding First Nations voices from across Asia, Australia and the Pacific.

‘Rising Voices: Contemporary Art from Asia, Australia and the Pacific’
16 May 2026 – 10 January 2027
V&A South Kensington, London

Image details: Michael Cook, Majority Rule (Bridge), 2014, inkjet print on paper, ed. 1/3, 162.5 x 220.0 cm. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art collection.

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NOW SHOWING - Ben Quilty, ’The River’

There is a particular kind of quiet that can be found in descent, in heading down to some place. Not up to a lookout or out toward a horizon, but down into the base of a valley, where the walls rise steeply on all sides and the world is made to recede. In this body of work, Quilty turns downward to such a place: a river set deep within the landscape, where the scale and weight of the terrain is both oppressive and assuring.

Within this landscape, figures appear, almost intrusively. Quilty’s ongoing enquiry into masculinity finds a new articulation here, as men enter the scene not as passive observers, but as agents of disruption.
Holding axes, they hack into the very environment that surrounds them. The gesture is both literal and
symbolic, echoing broader cycles of extraction, consumption, and waste. Rendered as a commodity,
timber becomes product, product becomes trend, trend becomes discard. The rhythm is familiar, even banal.

There is a clear sense of disquiet beneath the surface of these works. Yet their beauty is not diminished by this but thickened and tangled by it. In the landscape, the threat is often imagined as something elemental or unknown, yet more often than not, it is human. These figures complicate the romanticism of place, unsettling any notion of it as purely restorative. Instead, the environment becomes a site of tension, where beauty and destruction coexist.

’The River’ is currently showing in the gallery and online until 6 June.

Image details:
(i) Ben Quilty, Axeman no. 1, 2026, oil on linen, 188.0 x 142.0 cm
(ii) Ben Quilty, The story, 2026, oil on linen, 188.0 x 142.5 cm
(iii) Ben Quilty, Axeman No. 2, 2026, oil on linen, 160.0 x 125.0 cm
(iv) Ben Quilty, Warship (the flight path), 2026, oil on linen, 188.0 x 142.0 cm

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I love my job but some days are just a little brighter than others.

We are so very proud of all our artists who are hanging in the AGNSW Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes and we are beyond happy for Richard Lewer and Lucy Culliton.

These beautiful, hard working and dedicated artists both deserve the accolades they received yesterday. And it’s always a joy to see Iluwanti and Sylvia Ken!

Thank you to everyone at the Art Gallery of New South Wales for their dedication to this prize and the artists who enter.

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Big congratulations to Lucy Culliton, Winner of the Sulman Prize 2026.

“This is Toolah. She is one of seven greyhounds (nine dogs in total, all rescued) who live with me at Bibbenluke in the Snowy Monaro region of NSW.

This chair is Toolah’s favourite spot to sleep while I paint in the studio. I love how she camouflages herself into the upholstery of the chair. At the time, I was painting large Monaro grass paintings in a matching palette, so I had to include one.”

Lucy’s award-winning artwork can be viewed alongside all the finalists at the Art Gallery of New South Wales until 16 August 2026.

Image:
Lucy Culliton, ‘Toolah, artist model’, 2026, oil on canvas, 137.0 x 137.0 cm
(ii) Lucy Culliton at the winner announcement with guest judge Del Kathryn Barton , Art Gallery of New South Wales

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