Image above: Indian textiles from the Charkha and Kargha, Powerhouse Museum, Ultimo, Sydney

2023 gallery visits, summaries and images

Exhibitions list

Friday 8 December 2023 Tacita Dean, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Refined, restrained, immersive works, but you need time to view/revisit the entirety of the exhibition, the total duration of the 5 films is over 3 hours. The exhibition “brings together key works in wide-ranging mediums, including film, drawing, printmaking, photography and sound, created by Dean over the past decade.”

Tacita Dean, The Wreck of Hope, 2022, chalk on Blackboard

Tacita Dean, Sakura (Jindai I), 2023, coloured pencil on handprinted Foma matte silver gelatin photograph mounted on paper

Tacita Dean, Inferno, 2021, 8 photogravures with screenprint on Somerset

Tacita Dean, Telomere (2023) no 1 series of 4, photogravures, screenprint on Somerset

Friday 1 December 2023 1001 Remarkable Objects, Powerhouse Museum, Ultimo, Sydney
An incredible selection of objects down through the ages. The exhibition “presents an unexpected juxtaposition of objects in 25 rooms that lead us on a journey across time and memory. The curators rejected the nomenclature of “treasures” or “masterpieces” and instead determined all choices must be in some way “remarkable” – whether by virtue of rarity, visual appeal, social history or an ability to invoke wonder.” Some installation views.




Monday 30 October 2023 Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi to Tamarama, Sydney
Perfect Spring morning – 25 years on and better than ever, another exceptional year – where sculptures become part of a cliff-walk landscape gallery available to all  – “112 artists from 21 countries, 105 sculptures”

Dave Horton, NSW, Cheryl’s Night Garden

Johannes Pannekoek, WA, Lifeblood 1

John Petrie, NSW, 23.5⁰ (Winner)

Noah Birch, WA, from the outside looking in

Friday 20 October 2023 Paddington Art Prize, Cooee Art Leven Gallery, Redfern, Sydney
Diverse and interesting range of works “a $30,000 national acquisitive painting prize inspired by the Australian landscape, in its 20th year” – a small sample of the 53 finalists:

Goompi Ugerabah, Mugeedah (Body Paint), 2023 (winner)

Jo Davenport, Ghost, 2023

Stuart Watters, Saltwater, 2022

Amy Loogatha, Kabara – Saltpan, 2023

Friday 13 October 2023 Radiance: The Art of Elizabeth Cummings, National Art School, Sydney
Inspiring works as always, like a return visit to some old friends by an artist who “has been exhibiting for more than 50 years. The artist’s singular visual language and inimitable grasp of colour are celebrated in major works from the last three decades drawn from public and private collections.”

Elizabeth Cummings, Billabong dreaming, 2000

Elizabeth Cummings, Bird in the bush, 1995

Elizabeth Cummings, Light day, 1994

Elizabeth Cummings, Corner of the studio, 2021

Friday 29 September 2023 Fearless: Contemporary Indigenous Women in the Hassall Milson collection, S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Stunning collection of major works. The exhibition “presents the innovation in art practice by artists not constrained by the conventionalities of the Western tradition of painting. They have created their own dynamic visual language informed by their connection to country and culture, and have forged a powerful and distinctive voice.”

Naata Nungurrayi, Nyarrumparra, 2011

Betty Muffler, Ngangkari Ngura (Healing Country), 2022

Katjarra Butler, Ngamurru/Katjara, 2019

Mirdidingkingthi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, Dibirdibi Country, 2009

Friday 22 September 2023 Zoe Leonard: Al río / To the River —A photographic portrait of Río Bravo/Rio Grande, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
A series of photographs documenting the river’s journey, confronting images of walls, fences and an industrial landscape offset by the grandeur of the river and mountains, a sense of what has been lost. “Over a period of five years, beginning in 2016, Leonard photographed along the 2,000 km stretch where the Rio Grande/ Rio Bravo is used to demarcate the international boundary between Mexico and the United States.” A small selection from the sequence of images





Friday 8 September 2023 Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney
A walk in windswept rain on a dark and stormy Spring morning right time to visit an inspiring range of artworks – APY Art Centre Collective the standout booth on the block (too crowded to get a good photo) “over 90 galleries, showcasing the work of over 450 leading and emerging artists exhibiting the best in contemporary art.”

Yin Zhaoyang, Shan Shui No 1, 2022

Dhambit Munuŋgurr, Installation view – Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery

Aida Tomescu, Ear in the river and the prayer in the stone II, 2022

He Sen, So Silent, 2022

Friday 25 August 2023 World Press Photo Exhibition, State Library of NSW, Sydney
Annual confronting dose of reality of the past year – war, climate change, human and environmental carnage. “The internationally touring exhibition showcases the best and most important photojournalism and documentary photography of the last year. The 66th annual World Press Photo Contest, chosen from more than 60,448 photographs entered by 3,752 photographers, across 127 countries.” Some of the projects.

Anush Babajanyan – Battered Waters, Uzbekistan

Alessandro Cinque – Alpaqueros, Peru

Musuk Nolte – Oil Spill in Lima

Kimberley dela Cruz – Death of a Nation, Philippines

Thursday 3 August 2023 Minyma Kunpu – Strong Women, Mimili Maku Arts Group Exhibition, APY Gallery, Melbourne
Stories of clan, culture and country “Indigenous, artist-owned gallery, exhibiting and celebrating the work of early-career Indigenous artists from South Australian art centres”.

Betty Mula, Punu Tjuta – Many Trees

Pauline Wangin, Kapi Tjukula – Water Hole

Betty Campbell, Minymaku Tjukurpa – Women’s Story

Pauline Wagngin, Emma Singer, Betty Campbell, Walytja

Wednesday 2 August 2023 Bonnard, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Classic works, interesting chromatic harmony between the artworks and the innovative installation design – “presents the iridescent paintings of Bonnard within immersive scenography by Paris-based designer India Mahdavi. More than 100 works by the celebrated French artist, spanning the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. Paintings, drawings, photographs, folding screens and early cinema brings modern France to life with startling beauty and vivid colour. Developed in partnership with Musée d’Orsay, Paris, the exhibition is largely drawn from the museum’s impressive holdings of works by Bonnard alongside significant loans from other collections in France and beyond.”

Bonnard, Dining Room at Le Cannet, 1932

Bonnard, The dining room in the country, 1913

Bonnard, Dining area at La Cannet, c1932

Installation view

Tuesday 1 August 2023  Rembrandt: True to Life, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Incredible collection of works “from his early years in Leiden through to his final years in Amsterdam. Exploring Rembrandt’s innovations in printmaking, the exhibition presents more than 100 etchings from the NGV Collection, alongside important paintings and loans from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, and the Teylers Museum in Haarlem.”

Rembrandt, The Mill, 1645-48, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Rembrandt, The three trees, 1643, etching, drypoint and engraving, NGV

Rembrandt, Landscape with cottage and hay barn, 1641, etching and touches of drypoint, NGV

Rembrandt, Titus van Rijn, the artist’s son reading, c. 1656-57, oil on canvas, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Friday 14 July 2023 Elisabeth Cummings: From a Well Deep Within, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
Superb collection of prints “celebrates the rich and intuitive print practice over a 20-year period (2001-2023). The prints feature subjects from vibrant and remote travel destinations and landscapes to intimate scenes of the Wedderburn bush and Cummings’ home studio.” (quote from the gallery website).

Elisabeth Cummings, Night Bird, 2001, etching, aquatint and open-bite, 33 x 35cm

Elisabeth Cummings, Green Mango B&B, 2005, etching, aquatint and open-bite, 33.5 x 50cm

Elisabeth Cummings, Arkaroola Dawn, 2009, etching, aquatint and open-bite, 24 x 20.5cm

Elisabeth Cummings, Flinders Property, 2010, etching, acquatint and open bite, 50.5 x 63.5cm

Friday 7 July 2023  I Am the People, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney
Cultural depth in another challenging exhibition at this gallery. “The artists in this exhibition offer their nuanced perspectives, highlighting both the struggles and the aspirations of different groups within Chinese society. Whether we are viewing the world from the perspective of a factory worker in Guangzhou or a wealthy entrepreneur in Beijing, cutting across all boundaries is the need for harmony and belonging.” (quote from the gallery website).

Zheng Zhou, Portrait Series During the Pandemic Two, 2020, acrylic and oil on canvas, 154 x 174 cm

Cao Zaifei, Bigger, 2020, oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm

Yang Zhenzhong, Still Life and Landscape, oil on canvas

Friday 30 June 2023 Salon des Refusés, S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Some of the outsiders – landscapes and portraits from the annual motivational Archibald and Wynne prizes race “In 2023, 59 works were selected for the ‘alternative’ exhibition, with 35 from the Archibald Prize & 24 from the Wynne Prize – works selected for quality, diversity, humour and experimentation, and which examine contemporary art practices, different approaches to portraiture and responses to the landscape.”

John Bartley, Yesterday, acrylic on canvas, 125 x 85 cm

Rachel Milne, Woodshed, oil on board 30 x 35

Dagmar Cyrulla, Self Portrait, oil on canvas paper on board 51 x 39 cm

Stephen Tiernan, Taking the Lead (Zenin Smith, musician), oil on copper 20 x 15 cm

Wednesday 14 June 2023 Roy Jackson – Palimpsest, and  Kyle Murrell – Exhumed, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Uplifting gestural expressionist abstraction. Some quotes from the online catalogues: Roy Jackson (1944 – 2013) “The live mark, with its ′primitive′ energy and ′artless′ rawness is the essential ingredient of Roy Jackson′s paintings and drawings. These marks, unforced, intuitive and spontaneously generated are instinctively spaced and paced – ultimately reaffirming the surface, the ground, the size and shape of the image as a whole. Jackson′s marks can mutate from particle to cell, from line to shape, from wave to field. A mark can suggest a represented figure, initiate a more or less legible script, develop into a luxuriant scrawl or an abstract thicket spreading into a dappled all-overness.”
Kyle Murrell “Exhumed refers to and expresses the physical and laborious nature of my paintings. The idea of excavation, digging beneath the surface to find something that has been buried. There is an intuitive, subconscious attempt to capture something that works parallel to the reactive and conscious gestures of process. This is process painting, where parts of the process are buried, then rediscovered in a never-ending push/pull of my own subconscious”

Roy Jackson, Divine Liberty, 1990

Roy Jackson, Wall of Mirrors, 1992

Kyle Murrell, Burial (Part I)

Kyle Murrell, Disentomb

Thursday 8 June 2023 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2023, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
Big crowd, annual event where everyone’s a critic, always challenging. Some of the works

Julia Gutman, Head in the sky, feet on the ground, oil, found textiles and embroidery on canvas 198 x 213.6 cm (winner Archibald Prize)

Zaachariaha Fielding, Inma, acrylic on linen198.5 x 306.2 cm (winner Wynne Prize)

Betty Chimney, Ngayuku ngura (My Country), acrylic on linen 198 x 198 cm

Doris Bush, Nungarrayi, Mamunya ngalyananyi (Monster coming), acrylic on linen 198 x 273.5 cm (winner Sulman Prize)

Friday 2 June 2023 Naomi Hobson, Language of the Land, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
Line and colour of the landscape “painted in concert with the natural landscapes of her Country – from the rainforests to the grasslands, and hinterlands traveling down to the coast and its precious reefs. The works have travelled from Coen, a small and close-knit community of about 360 people in Cape York. This town, where Hobson lives and creates her work, is built on the Country of the Kaantju peoples, her maternal family line. It is just south of the saltwater Country of the Umpila people, Hobson’s patrilineal ancestors. Hobson communicates this deeply felt history and future through her painting.”

Naomi Hobson, Mist On The Mcllwraith, 2023

Naomi Hobson, Gum Blossom Flowering On The Wetlands Are Filled With Rosellas, 2023

Naomi Hobson, Coastal Rain Coming In Off The Coast, 2023

Naomi Hobson, Bushfire Came Through Here, 2023

Friday 26 May 2023 Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Maritime Museum, Sydney
Always stunning annual exhibition from the Natural History Museum, London – but a stark reminder of what is being lost. “Features over 100 exceptional images which capture fascinating animal behaviour, spectacular species and the breathtaking diversity of the natural world. The competition receives over 50,000 entries from all over the world.”

Mateusz Piesiak, Brambling bonanza, Poland

Brandon Güell, Treefrog pool party, Costa Rica/USA

Laurent Ballesta, The stained-glass icescape, diversity of life beneath Antarctica’s ice

Ekaterina Bee, Battle stations, Alpine ibex Italy-France border

Friday 19 May 2023 ICONS – life and work of Steve McCurry, Pier 2/3 Walsh Bay, Sydney
Iconic images from the real world taken over forty years. “Inspired by conflict, ancient traditions and contemporary culture, McCurry’s work represents the emotion of human suffering, joy and wonder, and features people of all ages, cultures and ethnicities – something he knew how to portray with surprising strength and naturalness.”

Steve McCurry, Intha Fisherman on Inie Lake, Burma 2011

Steve McCurry, Mudmen, Geremiyaka Village, Papua New Guinea, 2017

Steve McCurry, Wadi Rum, Petra, Jordan, 2019

Steve McCurry, A Girl of the Kara Tribe Holds a Rooster, Kara Tribe, Dus Village, Omo Valley, Ethiopia, 2013

Friday 5 May 2023 The National 4: Australian Art Now, Carriageworks, Sydney
Huge space, challenging art – from the infinite night sky to a world drowning in junk.

Naminapu Maymuru-White, Milŋiyawuy – Celestial River, black and white ochre on bark

Heather Koowootha, The Bush people’s walking path ways of Country, series of watercolours on paper

Elizabeth Day, The Flow of Form: There’s a Reason Beyond a Reason. Beyond That There’s a Reason (1797 Parramatta Gaol), Carriageworks, Redfern, “rearranging the unravelled tendrils of op shop woollens into a mottled ‘painting’”

Erika Scott, The Circadian Cul-de-sac, discarded fish tanks, tyres, Tampax instructions, empty photo frames, knick-knacks and other stuff (detail)

Friday 28 and Saturday 29 April 2023 The National 4: Australian Art Now, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) and the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
“This is the fourth edition of a biennial survey of contemporary Australian art. The National 4 is a partnership between four of Sydney’s leading cultural institutions: the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Carriageworks and the Museum of Contemporary Art. Featuring new commissions and recent works by an intergenerational and culturally diverse group of artists and collectives, The National 4: Australian Art Now reflects how artists are responding to some of the most urgent and critical ideas of our times, imagining new ways of seeing and being in the world at a time of unprecedented change. Reflecting the latest evolutions in contemporary art, the exhibition includes works in diverse media including painting, photography, film, video, sculpture, installation, drawing, sound and performance, encompassing a range of experimental, process-based and socially engaged practices.”

Léuli Eshrāghi, afiafi, 2023, glues, metallic foils and iron powder, MCA

Diena Georgetti, Community of People, 2022-23, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, MCA

Kieren Seymour, Trojan Bitcoin, 2021, oil on canvas, MCA

Madeleine Kelly, Pelican analogues, 2023, oil and casein on polyester, AGNSW

Nabilah Nordin, Palace, Corinthian Clump series, 2023, acrylic paint, epoxy modelling compound, timber, AGNSW

Friday 14 April 2023 Clifford How – Wild State, Arthouse Gallery, Rushcutters Bay, Sydney
Mood, sense of place – a lot of work in a sell-out show – “a painterly ballad of Tasmania’s ancient wilderness. As a fourth-generation Tasmanian, the variability – and volatility – of this island landscape is dear to the artist’s heart, but this affiliation is not without a recognition of the colonial shadows that problematise the contemporary landscape and the history of landscape painting. How responds to this reality by re-wilding the landscape, erasing traces of humanity and restoring nature’s sovereignty.”

Clifford How, Quiescent, oil on linen,170.5 x186cm

Clifford How, Contemplation – Liquid Sky, oil on linen, 170.5 x186cm

Clifford How, Secretive, oil on linen, 170.5 x 125 cm

Clifford How, The Days Final Act, oil on linen, 84 x 89cm

Friday 31 March 2023 Belonging | Tjoritjarinja, Ngununggula, Bowral
“Tjoritjarinja means ‘belonging to the Western MacDonnell Ranges. Ngununggula has partnered with Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre to exhibit new collaborative artworks by 20 Iltja Ntjarra artists and their family members alongside a selection of paintings by Albert Namatjira from the National Gallery of Australia collection. Through watercolour landscapes, painted artefacts, drawings, and stories on silk, their artworks examine family connections using Aboriginal knowledge systems and explore how families are connected through history, place, community and ancestral stories.” Many Hands Art Centre Online catalogue

Vanessa Inkamala and Delray Inkamala, Ljalkaindirma (Mt Hermannsburg), NT, 2022, Acrylic on repurposed road sign, 101x101cm

Rienhold Inkamala, Two Black Cockatoos at Rutjipma (Mt Sonder), 2022, acrylic on found object, 109 cm x 109 cm

Reinhold Inkamala, Rutjipma (Mt Sonder), NT, 2022, Watercolours on paper, 54x74cm

Vanessa Inkamala, Tjoritja (West MacDonnel Ranges), NT, 2022, Watercolours on paper, 52x71cm

Prints – blocks hand carved by the artists and printed by Basil Hall Editions, Darwin

Friday 24 March 2023 MCA Collection: Eight Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Powerful presence with depth and meaning – major works by eight Australian artists “works reveal a shared interest in seriality and repetition. Several also share a compelling relationship to the body and to movement, from performance to the gestural nature of the artistic process. Drawing upon diverse cultural narratives, many of the works are underpinned by significant cultural knowledge, including practices of dance and ceremony, and an honouring of deeply personal kinship relations and women’s stories.”

Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, Makarrki, 2008, synthetic polymer paint on linen198 x 102cm

Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Untitled (body painting series), 1996, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 5 parts: each 124 x 93.5 x 3.2cm framed

Judith Wright, Relative Conversations, 2006, synthetic polymer paint on japanese paper, 5 parts: 198 x 198cm each

Esme Timbery, Shellworked slippers, 2008, shell, glitter, fabric, cardboard and glue, 400 slippers (200 pairs): each 5 x 9.5 x 6cm

Sandra Selig, Returning Eye (No. 4), 2023, Salt, hot rolled steel

Naminapu Maymuru-White, Milŋiyawuy 7, 2022, Earth pigments on stringy bark

Gulumbu Yunupiŋu, Garak, The Universe, 2008 (detail), natural ochres on bark, 236 x 68cm

Raelene Kerinauia Lampuwatu, Jilamara, 2015, [locally sourced] natural ochres on paper, 16 parts: each 58 x 77cm

Friday 10 March 2023 Idris Murphy, Backblocks, S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Colour, depth, emotive works “transcends “either/or” – it is indistinguishably landscape painting and painterly abstraction all at once. Arising from a sort of improvisatory incantation, the most vivid metaphors of land, space, light, mood and feeling seem to coalesce spontaneously and unbidden. Each painting resolves brilliantly into its surface and shape, and exudes a rare poetry of “place”.”

Idris Murphy, Evening Reflections Black Waterhole, 2019

Idris Murphy, Helicopter with dry waterfall, The Kimberley, 2012, acrylic on aluminium

Idris Murphy, Half Moon at the Nek, 2015, acrylic on aluminium

Idris Murphy, Coles Bay, Freycinet, 2011, acrylic and collage on board

Friday 3 March 2023 Karla Dickens, Embracing Shadows, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
Provocative and absorbing range of works “spanning 30 years of practice, themes of female identity and racial injustice. Through collage, painting, installation, photography, film and poetry, a highly personal and political interrogation of Australian culture and history.”





Friday 24 February 2023 Shuo Shu 说书 (Storytelling), White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney
As always for this gallery a stunning range of works “29 artists map the evolution of the story from timeless myths and literary romances to political propaganda and modern-day censorship. Artists become shapeshifters, and their stories twist and turn to fit within codes and secret messages. Whilst a closed mind is like a closed book, stories reveal themselves to those who are open.”

Liu Wei, Density 1 – 6, 2013, books, steel, plywood
“monumental geometric forms looming over the visitor. Each is made from books that have been glued together, compressed and then cut to the shapes of an internal armature, the edges of the pages still visible”

Gu Wenda, Tian Xiang Forest of Stone Steles (Sixth Series), 2017, marble, video (colour, sound) 24 pieces, dimensions variable (detail)
“installation of twenty-four ‘ru stones’ representing the seasons of the ancient Chinese calendar. Gu named the boulders, a kind of marble found near the birthplace of Confucius in Shandong Province, ‘ru’ rocks: the character ‘ru’ refers to Confucian scholarship. They have been carved with unreadable, hybridised simplified characters that name the twenty-four ‘seasons’ of the solar calendar.”

Yang Wei-Lin, Mimesis, 2011, paper thread, rusted iron wire, sponge scourers, 99 pieces on 3 panels, dimensions variable (detail)
“Yang has taken these ancient characters as her starting point, imitating them in wire, thread and rusted sponge scrubbers and scourers: her humble domestic detritus is far removed from the precious vessels, weapons and ornaments of the Chinese imperial court.”

Sun Xun, Magic of Atlas – Group Images of the Luocha Characters, 2020, paint on woodcut, 183 x 732 cm (eight panels)

Yang Jiechang, Tale of the 11th Day, 2012-2014 (r), ink and mineral colours on silk, mounted on canvas, 14 panels polyptych 225 x 1988 cm
“a fantastical panoramic landscape in which humans and animals frolic against a dark background, engaging in apparently mutually pleasurable cross-species sexual encounters.”

Sunday 19 February 2023 Inside, underground, Art Museum, Bundanon, NSW
“Five Australian artists investigate the complex relationship between body and site using repurposed natural materials including plant and animal matter, beeswax, oyster shells and algae. Raw physical materials become containers of environmental and sensorial data informed by the artists’ personal encounters with Bundanon, generating new forms of material knowledge that reflect our changing relationship with the natural world.
Artists: Carolyn Eskdale, Susan Jacobs, Kate Scardifield, Lucy Simpson, and Isadora Vaughan”.

Lucy Simpson, Baayangalibiiyay, 2022, recycled television glass, sand, pigments

Installation views



Tuesday 14 February 2023 Thinking Through Pink, Wollongong Art Gallery, Wollongong, NSW
Finely curated exhibition of a range of works many ceramics on loan from the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney “carefully juxtaposes diverse cultural objects inviting pleasure and speculation around the many manifestations of pink – the colour and the idea.”

Lynda Draper, Here comes the dawn, 2020 , ceramic various glazes, Wollongong Art Gallery Collection

Joan Meats, Castle Country, c 1978, oil on board, Wollongong Art Gallery Collection

May Barrie, Gemmation, 1964, Macclesfield marble, Wollongong Art Gallery Collection

Dongwang Fan, China Landscape, 2004, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, Wollongong Art Gallery Collection

Friday 10 February 2023 Summer, Liverpool Street Gallery, Darlinghurst, Sydney
High Summer lift plus a walk in the park. “A group exhibition that surveys and recontextualises expressions of heat and warmth in Australia.”

Taras Kripps, Tactical Behaviour, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 168 x 248 cm

Steven Harvey, Ice Cube 1, acrylic on canvas, 198 x 153 cm

Lisa Patroni, N0, 2021, Gesso, acrylic, and tape on linen, 200 x 200 cm

John Olsen, The Loneliness of the King Sized Bed, 1996, Oil on linen, 180 x 200 cm

Monday 30 January 2023 Year of the Rabbit ACPS Annual Lunar New Year Exhibition 2023, Australian Chinese Painting Society, The Shop Gallery, Glebe, Sydney
Fine brushwork on rice paper, traditional and modern themes. “The year of the Water Rabbit a spectacular exhibition of brush painting works by participating artist members.”

Kit M Szeto (Tammy) untitled (2) – Chinese spontaneous technique using black ink on Xuan paper

Lilian Lai, Sun – seal script, ink on rice paper

Diana Brookes, In Reflection, ink and watercolour on rice paper

Installation views



Wednesday 25 January 2023 Ernest Edmonds: The Colour in the Code, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
Nothing better than a colour workout on a hot summer’s day. “An essay on colour, constructed from systems and computer code – glorious, vivid, saturated colour. A lifetime’s quest to explore the implications of the concept of computer software for art.”
Installation views





Wednesday 18 January 2023 Spring Festival Chinese Painting, China Cultural Centre, Sydney
Timeless – classical tradition “to celebrate the Chinese New Year of the Rabbit, the exhibition of 40 works covers landscapes, flowers, birds and figures, features meticulous paintings, freestyle, and splash-ink, traditional painting techniques.” Some of the works

Jige Liu, Lotus Rhythm, 2003

Mingcai Sun, Mountain Jade

Mingcai Sun, Tree and Spring

Jige Liu, Lotus, 2004

Ximei Xu, Autumn Lotus, 2018

Ximei Xu, Autumn Lotus, 2018 (detail)

Aihua Zhang, Four Paintings, 2021

Chu Gong, Autumn Waterfall, 1968

Installation views



Friday 6 January 2023 Charkha and Kargha, Powerhouse Museum, Ultimo, Sydney
Pouring rain, big crowd, fine traditional Indian woven textiles – “Charkha (spinning wheel) and Kargha (loom), the exhibition features over 100 rare items that date back to the foundational collections of the Powerhouse acquired since the 1880s, including tools used for spinning, dyeing, wood-block-printing, weaving and a selection of Indian textiles The inclusion of contemporary works speaks to the material and cultural politics of Indian textiles today.”

Installation views




Textile length decorated with beetle wings, India. Acquired 1883