Annandale Galleries

Directors Bill and Anne Gregory opened Annandale Galleries in 1991 in a converted Masonic Hall. The large space that the Galleries provide stem from the building’s initial construction as a Methodist church.

Through varying styles and contexts the aim of Annandale Galleries is to show the best of Australian and international contemporary art. Recent exhibitions have included a range of artists recognised and revered the world over.

The Galleries have won particular acclaim and built a prominent reputation through showing the work of leading Aboriginal artists. Annandale Galleries represents Indigenous communities in Maningrida and Yirrkala, both in North East Arnhem Land, with regular exhibitions of barks and various free standing sculpture. The gallery also specialises in European modern masters such as Picasso, Matisse, Miro and Chagall.

Annandale Galleries is the Australian representative of such prominent artists as William Kentridge and Zadok Ben-David.

110 Trafalgar Street Annandale NSW 2038

02 9552 1699

annandalegalleries.com.au

Wed to Sat 11am–4pm.

Creativity beyond mortality

Have you ever wondered if someone who is no longer alive could create art? In answer to this question, biological artists Guy Ben-Ary, Nathan Thompson and Matt Ringold, in collaboration with the now deceased Alvin Lucier, have extended the experimental composer’s “ideas about the resonance of sound” for their immersive exhibition, Revivification at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Sammy Hawker’s acts of co-creation

Under Sammy Hawker’s gentle guidance, whale song takes shape, ocean water becomes collaborator, salt crystals scatter themselves like stars across analogue film, and ashes murmur secrets onto silver nitrate-soaked paper. Through what she terms “facilitated acts of co-creation,” Hawker gives voice to places, materials, and the more-than-human world.

Camilla Wagstaff

Danie Mellor contemplates history and memory

Marru translates to “becoming visible” in Danie Mellor’s ancestral Dyirbal language (of Far North Queensland). In his current exhibition Danie Mellor: marru | the unseen visible at Queensland Art Gallery, the title reflects the work’s gentle ruminations on the complexities of the history of colonisation entwined with personal memories.

Barnaby Smith

Annandale Galleries