Current
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James Tylor: Tapa-arra Through the Landscape.
N.Smith Gallery 27 Feb - 22 Mar 2025 James Tylor’s final photographic series, Tapa-arra Through the Landscape, highlights the historical Indigenous roads, songlines, and trade routes across Australia, with a focus on the Kaurna people of South Australia. For thousands of years, these paths facilitated travel, trade, and cultural exchange between Aboriginal nations. The series explores key Kaurna... Read more -
Aidan Hartshorn: Altered Currents.
N.Smith Gallery 27 Feb - 22 Mar 2025 Aidan Hartshorn’s debut exhibition, Altered Currents, reflects on the environmental and cultural consequences of the Snowy Hydro-Electric Scheme in Australia’s high country. Growing up in Tumut, Hartshorn’s connection to Walgalu Country has been shaped by the scheme, which submerged sacred sites. The exhibition features diamond shield forms with photographic patterns... Read more
Forthcoming
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Sally Scales: Atunmananyi munu Kanyini - Holding and Protecting Country.
N.Smith Gallery 27 Mar - 19 Apr 2025 Interested? Sally is busy making work for the show, but we're happy to send you a preview once the works are ready. Just let us know . Read more -
Kyra Mancktelow: Unconstitutional Love.
N.Smith Gallery 27 Mar - 19 Apr 2025 Interested? Kyra is busy making work for the show, but we're happy to send you a preview once the works are ready. Just let us know . Read more
Past
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Casey Chen: Another Jingdezhen Car Boot Sale.
N.Smith Gallery 30 Jan - 22 Feb 2025 Another Jingdezhen Car Boot Sale combines traditional Chinese ceramics with pop culture in a playful and thought-provoking exploration of storytelling, myth, and nostalgia. Drawing inspiration from the porcelain capital of Jingdezhen, Chen's ceramics blend Qing dynasty aesthetics with characters like Sun Wukong and Goku, alongside pop icons like Bugs Bunny... Read more -
Louise Zhang: Moving in Quiet.
N.Smith Gallery 30 Jan - 22 Feb 2025 Moving in Quiet offers a rich exploration of cultural heritage, personal identity, and transformation through a delicate blend of tradition and surrealism. Inspired by her recent trip to China, the exhibition invites viewers to slow down, lingering in a space of contemplation where the familiar and foreign, past and present,... Read more -
Neva Hosking: Behind the wheel, in front of the storm.
N.Smith Gallery 5 Dec 2024 - 25 Jan 2025 'A drawing of a tree shows not a tree but a tree being looked at' - John Berger These works are not about me but I am their transcriber and so we are inextricable. I am the gaze that beholds them. I no longer wish to say 'I was here'... Read more -
Summer '25.
N.Smith Gallery 5 Dec 2024 - 25 Jan 2025 Our annual group exhibition Summer '25 features new and iconic works from artists Anderson to Zhang, exhibited at the gallery for the first time. Opening celebration: Thursday 5 December 6-8pm Artwork: Sally Anderson birth plant, GM Bridal Veil, bowl hold, orange jug EV interior, 2024 acrylic on polycotton 122 x... Read more -
Vipoo Srivilasa: Deities of Daily Needs.
N.Smith Gallery 7 - 30 Nov 2024 In Deities of Daily Needs, Vipoo Srivilasa’s playful, spirited collection of ceramic figurines celebrates the everyday challenges we all face. Each deity, from the Parking Deity to the Instagram Deity, is crafted with humour and care, offering its own little solution to life’s minor annoyances. Whether it’s finding a perfect... Read more -
Jordan Gogos: Time Machine.
N.Smith Gallery 10 Oct - 2 Nov 2024 Consisting of a series of new textile works, Jordan positions his sewing machine as a time machine that brings together personal and donated fabrics from different periods and relationships from his life. These tapestries that weave together moments of the intimate and unknown, explores the way fabric holds the forms... Read more -
Natasha Walsh: Our Nude.
N.Smith Gallery 2 - 5 Oct 2024 N.Smith Gallery is delighted to present Our Nude – a portrait begun during Natasha Walsh’s recent exhibition Hysteria, now completed and on view at the gallery for 3 days only. Our Nude is a portrait of acclaimed author Bri Lee that references major artworks by Pablo Picasso. Repositioning the muse... Read more -
Louise Zhang: Queen Mother of the West.
N.Smith Gallery 12 Sep - 5 Oct 2024 N.Smith Gallery is delighted to present Queen Mother of the West – Louise Zhang's first solo exhibition with the gallery. Conscious of how cultural symbols have been exoticized by Western cultures, Louise’s new exhibition reclaims the aesthetics of oriental chinoiserie, transforming them again into a powerful medium of healing and... Read more -
Thea Anamara Perkins: Dreaming
N.Smith Gallery 15 Aug - 7 Sep 2024 N.Smith Gallery is delighted to present Dreaming – Thea Anamara Perkins' fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. Taking fragments of images and footage from her family archive, Thea's portraits force you to look inward and reflect upon your own lived experience – placing the viewer into a memory that’s not... Read more -
Casey Chen: Double Happiness
N.Smith Gallery 8 Aug - 7 Sep 2024 In this series, Chen masterfully weaves together elements of pseudo-historical aesthetics with contemporary pop symbolism. The dragons, floral motifs, and geometric patterns evoke a sense of nostalgia, yet they are presented in a manner that feels fresh and relevant. This juxtaposition creates a dynamic dialogue between the past and the... Read more -
Kyra Mancktelow: No Blak in the Union Jack.
N.Smith Gallery 11 Jul - 10 Aug 2024 Kyra Mancktelow’s series No Blak in the Union Jack takes its title from British Academic Paul Gilroy’s book ‘There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation’. Written in 1987, Gilroy’s book is a powerful indictment of then current attitudes to race in Great... Read more -
Dylan Mooney: The Story of My People.
N.Smith Gallery 11 Jul - 10 Aug 2024 'When Mooney speaks of 'my people' he is not speaking of self in the possessive individualised sense, but of the shared experience of oppression and resistance of Indigenous peoples in a collective sense, from the mainland to the Torres Strait and to the South Pacific.' - Dr Chelsea Watego Opening... Read more -
Natasha Walsh: Hysteria.
N.Smith Gallery 12 Jun - 6 Jul 2024 Known for her intricate self-portraits on copper, Natasha Walsh has turned her gaze to portray members of the creative community through collaborative reinterpretations of canonical art historical paintings. Paintings are accompanied by an installation where the viewer is invited to follow the connecting threads that reinvent classic muses through reflecting... Read more -
Sunrise, Sunset.
N.Smith Gallery 30 May - 8 Jun 2024 To celebrate the gallery's 3rd birthday, 15 of the gallery's represented artists are brought together thematically. Holly Anderson Tom Blake Joshua Charadia Casey Chen Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro Fiona Lowry Danie Mellor Dylan Mooney Thea Anamara Perkins Joan Ross Sally Scales Vipoo Srivilasa Natasha Walsh Louise Zhang Read more -
Sally Scales: Ngayuku Manta Ngayuku Wangka.
N.Smith Gallery 2 - 25 May 2024 ‘Ngayuku Manta Ngayuku Wangka (My land, my voice) is my first show after the 2023 referendum. It’s full of works filled with emotions dealing with the hurt, sadness that First Nations people were feeling after October 14. The more I painted and dealt with what happened. I painted the love... Read more -
Darrell Sibosado: Galalan, Barrinvbarr, Gumiri.
N.Smith Gallery 10 - 27 Apr 2024 Darrell Sibosado is a Goolarrgon Bard man from Lombadina situated on the Dampier Peninsula of the Kimberley coast, Western Australia. His practice explores the innovative potential of the riji (pearl shell) designs within a contemporary context. Passed down over countless generations, the designs represent the detached scales of Aalingoon, the Rainbow... Read more -
Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro: EXORCISM AT WENDY'S.
N.Smith Gallery 5 - 27 Apr 2024 'We’re looking at two different ideas of humans’ tendency to want to believe in something other than what is really there...' Exorcism at Wendy's explores the realm of the phantastic. Belief in the phantasms of the past such as The Loch Ness Monster, ghostly spectres, Little Green Men, and Bigfoot... Read more -
Holly Anderson: The light inside a grid.
N.Smith Gallery 15 - 30 Mar 2024 From across a room, Holly Anderson’s paintings appear to swim in the brightness of a clear sky. A new body of work presents the artist’s ongoing investigation into painting the Sun. Dazzling bursts of negative space populate her familiar subject matter. Swimming pools, bedclothes and curtained windows become gridded planes... Read more -
Natasha Walsh: The Lovers.
N.Smith Gallery 14 Feb - 2 Mar 2024 Hands are things we notice in others, on which we place great reliance as an indicator of character. Like the face, they are prime areas for the expression of individuality. The human hand acts as a conduit to our fifth sense: touch. And with the eye in tow, the hand... Read more -
James Tylor: The Darkness of Enlightenment.
N.Smith Gallery 8 - 29 Feb 2024 The Darkness of Enlightenment is a series of daguerreotype photographs that highlight Australia’s complex colonial history. Daguerreotypes were the first publicly available photographic technology and used widely in the 1840s and 1850s. In utilising this process to depict his ancestral Kaurna Country, Tylor complicates the way in which colonists recorded... Read more -
Casey Chen: 108 Stars and Spirits.
N.Smith Gallery 1 - 16 Dec 2023 For Casey Chen, the vessel represents all things enduring. History, family, & customs are recontextualised when childhood nostalgia is blended with long-standing East Asian ceramic traditions. By applying this imagery to hand-thrown plates and vessels, Chen creates a cultural pastiche – a dynamic conversation between traditional craft and contemporary perspective.... Read more -
Natasha Walsh: Untitled.
N.Smith Gallery 1 - 25 Nov 2023 N.Smith Gallery is delighted to present Natasha Walsh's second exhibition with the gallery – Untitled. Both performance and exhibition, Untitled opens to the public with no artworks, but an open invitation to visit Natasha's temporary studio. Over the course of 3 weeks, Natasha will create a singular painting in... Read more -
Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro: Reach for the Sky.
N.Smith Gallery 17 - 28 Oct 2023 N.Smith Gallery is delighted to present five iconic Lego works by Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro via our new online program which offers singular or small bodies of work by the gallery's artists. Reach for the Sky includes Lego wall sculptures that emulate TV images of the Challenger space shuttle... Read more -
Joshua Charadia: Nocturnes IV.
N.Smith Gallery 5 - 28 Oct 2023 N.Smith Gallery is delighted to present Nocturnes IV, Joshua Charadia's fourth and final installment in his Nocturnes series, Painted without immediacy, yet capturing a fleeting moment, Charadia’s images look forward while paying homage to the before–in the company of the past but not subservient to it–together with history but free... Read more -
Thea Anamara Perkins: Atherreyurre.
N.Smith Gallery 13 - 30 Sep 2023 N.Smith Gallery is delighted to present Atherreyurre, Thea Perkins' fourth solo exhibiiton with the gallery. Atherreyurre seeks to push Thea's landscape painting practice further. Thirteen paintings document the sun rising and setting over The Old Telegraph Station outside Mparntwe / Alice Springs, exploring not only time, but colour and form.... Read more -
Sally Scales: Aralya – Nyuna.
N.Smith Gallery 16 Aug - 9 Sep 2023 Each stroke of Sally Scale’s brush holds a story. Building upon her family legacy, these works celebrate their artistic styles and tjukurpa (creation story) deeply rooted in the culture, stories, and connection to the land of the Pitjantjatjara people. Read more -
Joan Ross: Imagine if they'd cared.
N.Smith Gallery 5 - 29 Jul 2023 Joan Ross moves between mediums deftly. Whether drawing, print, animation or virtual reality, it is impossible not to recognise her poignant works, not least for the hi-vis yellow which marks them. Imagine if they'd caredis a series of new prints and paintings that asks us to imagine a world where... Read more -
Cloud 9.
N.Smith Gallery 1 Jun - 1 Jul 2023 Cloud 9 is a thematic exhibition featuring new and recent artworks by nine of the gallery's artists. A loose concept, artists have been given free rein to create works that consider our relationship with clouds. Tom Blake Joshua Charadia Casey Chen Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro Thea Anamara Perkins James... Read more -
Kyra Mancktelow: We’re Marching.
N.Smith Gallery 17 - 27 May 2023 N.Smith Gallery is delighted to present Kyra Mancktelow's fourth exhibition with the gallery – We're Marching. Investigating the history of protest in Australia through legacies of colonialism, We're Marching poses important questions such as how we remember and acknowledge the Indigenous experience and histories of today. Made using Kyra’s unique... Read more -
Danie Mellor: recent works.
N.Smith Gallery 29 Mar - 29 Apr 2023 Images have a powerful way of revealing connections between disparate histories and experiences. Recent Works is an exhibition that assembles, re-assembles and sequences parallel and divergent narratives, curating archival and recent infra-red and visible light photographs in a way that evokes a pictorial and studied chronology. History repeats itself and... Read more -
Dylan Mooney: Still Thriving.
N.Smith Gallery 9 - 25 Mar 2023 In Dylan Mooney’s Still Thriving series, seven large-format portraits focus on love in queer communities, extending upon Dylan’s Queer, Blak, and Here series to include female, transgender, and non-binary members of the Indigenous community. Subjects stand proudly and defiantly, gazing out at the viewer or towards each other in tender,... Read more -
Kyra Mancktelow: Gubagulabu.
N.Smith Gallery 10 Aug - 11 Sep 2022 Gubagulabu presents new work by Kyra Mancktelow featuring new unique bronze sculptures and unique impression prints. The artist's well-used dillies call to the historic nature of a useful item while presenting a contemporary physical presence – bridging the past with her future through the continuation of First Nations culture. In... Read more -
Miriam Charlie: Lockdown 2022.
N.Smith Gallery 27 Jul - 6 Aug 2022 N.Smith Gallery is honoured to present a new exhibition of polaroid photographs by Garrwa / Yanyuwa elder Miriam Charlie. Miriam Charlie’s photographs show the reality of her lived experience in a form traversing documentary and art photography. Lockdown 2022 documents Miriam’s time in isolation while recovering from COVID-19. The intimacy... Read more -
Joshua Charadia: Nocturnes.
N.Smith Gallery 8 Jun - 2 Jul 2022 Nocturnes explores the nature of consciousness and perception through depictions of the industrial landscape at night. Working from photographs, Joshua builds up layers of oil paint to capture the peculiar beauty of these scenes which rarely earn our attention. As night falls, constellations of lights scatter across coastal ports and... Read more -
Natasha Walsh:
N.Smith Gallery 12 - 28 May 2022 Dear... is a series of painted letters to artists who have influenced Natasha's practice. An expression of admiration, each work pays homage through both artists' aesthetics. 'Each work is created as a painted letter which I addressed to the artist. It felt appropriate to make the work in this form... Read more
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James Tylor:
N.Smith Gallery 13 Apr - 7 May 2022 Turalayinthi Yarta is a Kaurna Miyurna phrase 'to see yourself in the landscape'. In a two-year period, James travelled over 300 km of the southern part of the Hans Heysen trail that runs parallel along the Kaurna Yarta nation boundary line in the Mount Lofty ranges. This documentation of Kauma... Read more
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Dylan Mooney:
N.Smith Gallery 6 Apr - 7 May 2022 Intertwined investigates our relationship with native flora and by extension, Australian culture. Rather than focussing on cuttings and arrangements in the still life genre, Mooney’s digital illustrations observe living plants as a way of highlighting the continuation of Indigenous culture, resistance to introduced species, and connection to Country — redefining... Read more
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Neva Hosking:
N.Smith Gallery 10 - 26 Mar 2022 Neva Hosking is an artist who clearly takes great personal delight in the living. Taking her cues from the rich visual delights of her immediate environment, Neva’s still lifes are semi-autobiographical, displaying in their subject matter and aesthetic structure cues from her personal life. In Neva’s work, the paper is... Read more
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Casey Chen:
N.Smith Gallery 2 - 26 Mar 2022 A unique mix of perspectives and ideas, Sentimental Ornaments is a collection of new work that blends childhood nostalgia together with long-standing East Asian ceramic traditions. Behind each work lies a historical reference or two skillfully paired with allusions to popular culture and gnarly throwbacks. This is Casey’s first solo... Read more
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Kyra Mancktelow:
N.Smith Gallery 15 - 26 Feb 2022 Gubba Up investigates the destruction of Aboriginal culture by covering up blak skin. ‘Gubba Up’, loosely translates to ‘whiten up’ – a phrase used by First Nations peoples to describe the need to change your way of life to suit your environment. To gubba up is to whiten up; to... Read more
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Thea Anamara Perkins:
N.Smith Gallery 18 - 27 Nov 2021 With a delicate hand, Thea Anamara Perkins answers heavy questions about what it means to be Indigenous in contemporary Australia, and how Aboriginal people and Country can and should be portrayed. Eight Views of the Telegraph Station is a personal meditation on the site known as the Old Telegraph Station... Read more
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Joan Ross:
N.Smith Gallery 3 Nov - 18 Dec 2021 Joan Ross is consistently challenging the dominant narratives of history, questioning who writes it, what is written in and what gets left out. Focussing on collecting practices, I like to name everything after myself is a new body of work that explores the narcissism of colonial control. Ross critiques narratives... Read more
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James Tylor:
N.Smith Gallery 13 - 30 Oct 2021 Untouched Landscapes highlights the contemporary absence of Aboriginal cultures within the Australian landscape, and how this phenomenon is a direct result of the impact of European colonisation. The first European colonists forced First Nations peoples off their traditional lands into small christian missions and government reserves across Australia. This allowed... Read more
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Kyra Mancktelow
N.Smith Gallery 19 Jul - 28 Aug 2021 Each applying a unique and distinct aesthetic, Continuous / Unbroken Bonds investigates long-lasting legacies of colonialism, asking questions such as how we remember and how we acknowledge First Nations histories. The exhibition includes two installations of new work by each artist. Dylan presents Away from Country II & Gulmari... Read more
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Thea Anamara Perkins:
N.Smith Gallery 9 Jun - 10 Jul 2021 Shimmer seeks to explore the contemporary experience of being a First Nations person. The title is inspired by a public Arrernte women’s ceremony shared by very senior knowledge-holder MK Turner OAM. The lyrics are 'altyerre ayenge alhelharrke-parrkaye' which translates to 'I am a woman and I am shimmering.' Not only... Read more
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Opening Exhibition:
N.Smith Gallery 4 - 6 Jun 2021 N.Smith Gallery is proud and super excited to introduce you to the work of the gallery's represented artists: Jordan Azcune, Tom Blake, Casey Chen, Neva Hosking, Kyra Mancktelow, Dylan Mooney, Thea Anamara Perkins, Rebecca Selleck, & James Tylor. Read more
Welcome.
