Beaver Galleries

Our exhibition programme includes the work of both established and emerging artists from all over Australia, with a significant representation from the Canberra region. It covers contemporary practice in a wide range of disciplines including: painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, glass and jewellery.

Two of the gallery spaces are given over exclusively to this exhibition programme while the rest of the gallery offers a frequently changing display of the work of selected gallery artists. The gallery is owned and run by Martin and Susie Beaver.

Beaver Galleries

81 Denison Street, Deakin ACT 2600, Australia

02 6282 5294

beavergalleries.com.au

Tue to Sat 10am–5pm.

Preview

The rhythm of creating

In a new collaborative exhibition at PS Art Space, in partnership with Cool Change Contemporary, five artists with process-lead practices contemplate material ethics through actively engaging in slowness and reuse.

Sally Gearon

Feature

The ecstatic visions of Isaac Julien

Isaac Julien’s 2022 video work Once Again…(Statues Never Die) exposes the unseen emotional registers inherent to the struggle for colonial repatriation by mapping the places where poetics and politics intersect.

Michael Sun

Preview

Scaling new heights

A new exhibition at the Australian National Capital Artists Inc (ANCA) asks 12 artists—including Dan Powers, S.A.Adair, Emma Beer and Lisa Sammut—to explore scale: from the miniature to the monumental.

Michelle Wang

Preview

The ceramics of the Central Desert

Developed in 2022 by Artback NT as part of Apmere Mparntwe—the Australian Ceramics Triennale— touring exhibition Clay on Country, showing now at New England Regional Art Museum, showcases the diversity of ceramics in the Central Desert.

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Review

About Face mirrors the alluring world of contemporary portrait painting

About Face is a smart piece of marketing. The new book on portrait painting from Australia and New Zealand has a mission to change buyers’ minds about the field. But as Jane O’Sullivan discovers, any sales pitch wears thin if it’s repeated often enough, and the close attention to how portrait painting is received by the market means that other important conversations fade to the background.

Jane O'Sullivan

News

The NGV returns to French Impressionism

The National Gallery of Victoria has announced the next instalment of the Winter Masterpieces series, coming in June 2025, will be a return to French Impressionism—an exhibition from 2021 that closed as soon as it opened due to the global pandemic.

Beaver Galleries

Beaver Galleries

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