Image: JRW Scar 2025

Forest Song presents immersive large-scale 'portraits' of trees, expressive drawings and fresh, immediate monotypes that capture the movement of light and fleeting moments in time

John R Walker Tree Song, Gouburn Regional Art Gallery, November 21,2025 - January 31, 2026

Clayton Utz Art Partnership in Sydney supports contemporary art through a programme of exhibitions in their meeting rooms and corridors.  October 2025 to February 2026

Country is a group of over 60 paintings from Papunya Tula Artists, John R Walker, Angus Nivison and Christopher Hodges, that show artists responding to the landscape and 'Country' they live and work in. 

Australian Abstraction in Context is curated by Rhonda Davis and Kon Gouriotis at the Macquarie University Art Gallery.   Exploring the diversity and layered narratives of abstraction in Australian art, two of Helen Eager's paintings from 25 years apart will show how abstract artists evolve and refine their work over their careers. 

John R Walker's impressive 'Driving the Badja Road' 2009 painting has just entered the collection of The Australian National University.  It will be included in the exhibition ANU Art Collection: Conjunction opening October 23.  The Jazmourian Ensemble has created a new work in response to the painting which will premier in November. 

Bush Lines is an exhibition drawn from the collections of the Tamworth Regional Gallery and the Art Gallery of NSW.  Includes Anemone by Christopher Hodges, alongside many batik works from the Utopia community that were donated to Tamworth by Christopher Hodges and Helen Eager

Curated by Christopher Hodges, this exhibition showcases the amazing creative output from the small Utopia Community in the Northern Territory that was at it's peak in the 1990s.  Includes Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Gloria Petyarre and Ada Bird Petyarre.

Celebrating the gift by collectors Margaret Levi and Robert Kaplan of over 70 works by Australian Indigenous Artists to the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, USA.  Includes work from Papunya Tula Artists and the Utopia Community.  

This exhibition marks many firsts for the Tate Modern.  The first solo exhibition of an Australian Artist and the first solo by an Indigenous artist at the Tate. 

Drawn from public and private collections from across the world, this is a major survey of Emily's entire career, from batiks, paintings and works on paper.  

This year four painters from Papunya Tula Artists have been selected as finalists in the Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW.

For three of them, Angus Tjungurrayi, Rambo Tjungurrayi and Aubrey Tjangala, this is their first time.

Lorna Napanangka was previously a finalist in 2006, and was acquired by the AGNSW

The Wynne Prize will tour to regional galleries for a year after finishing at the AGNSW in August. 

Christopher Hodges' enigmatic painting Bluff 2025 has been selected for the Salon Des Refuses at the SH Ervin Gallery in Sydney.

Bobby West Tjupurrula has created an installation of light, shadow and water for the light festival in Alice Springs for 2025.  Through it he tells the story of Palipalintja, in his Country near Kiwirrkurra, WA.

Curated by Tony Mighell, this exhibition celebrates expressive freedom through drawing, calligraphy and material exploration.

Includes Peter Maloney and Emily Kame Kngwarreye

Trinity Delmar Gallery, Sydney

Drawn from the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, this exhibition includes an early work of Christopher Hodges.

This is exhibition focusses on women abstract painters in the New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW.  Includes Pat Larter and Helen Eager

The new gallery at Coffs Harbour, the Yarrilla Art Museum (YAM), has curated an exhibition examining the important role surfing has had on the culture of the Mid North Coast.

New England Regional Art Museum have curated an exhibition juxtaposing the work they have in their collection by Helen Eager, with newer work from Eager's studio.

All media from painting, drawing, print and video will be included. 

Richard Larter:  Free Radical and Riffing On:  Pat Larter's Rhythyms and Peter Maloney's Blues. 

This survey of Larter's career leads up to his last decades when he lived in Yass and Canberra.  Works by Pat Larter and Peter Maloney accompany the main exhibition. 

Helen Eager was invited to create work for the Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial at the Art Gallery of NSW.

There is a suite of 15 drawings, and 2 video animations

Bobby West Tjupurrula is a finalist in this year's National Aboriginal and Torrest Strait Islander Art Award.

This is his sixth time as a finalist. 

Euclaypt was originally commissioned by the Castlemaine Gallery in Victoria.  This sculpture is made from recycled plastic planks.  It has recently been acquired by the Art Gallery of South Australia, is now installed in the gardens of Government House, Adelaide. 

John West Tjupurrula has been selected for the first time as a finalist in this year's Wynne Prize.This painting of his country is based on an aerial view of Palipalintja in Western Australia.

The Wynne Prize is currently on tour and is now at the Western Plains Cultural Centre in Dubbo until Nov 24.

Mantua Nangala and John R Walker are finalists in this year's selection.  This exhibition will also tour to the David Roche Foundation in Adelaide in September/October

Mulka Yata/The Knowledge of Place is a celbration of the ancient landscape, history and people of the Ikara -Flinders Ranges area of South Australia. Includes three major paintings by John R Walker.

Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide

Kirsteen Pieterse, Debra Nakamarra and Kim Napurrula are all finalist in this years Ravenswood Prize.

This is the richest prize for Women artists in Australia.