Gallerysmith

Gallerysmith presents a rotating program of contemporary art exhibitions across our spacious galleries by a hand-picked group of represented artists. We also present regular on-line exhibitions and work on off-site projects. In addition to our white-walled gallery spaces, our annexe space provides a light-filled space to exhibit ceramics. This unique combination of gallery spaces within our building allows us to present a broad cross-section of art, making your visit a rich and fulfilling experience.

Gallerysmith

170-174 Abbotsford Street, North Melbourne, VIC, 3051, Australia

03 9329 1860

gallerysmith.com.au

Tue to Sat 11am–5pm.
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Exhibitions

Wild ‘n’ West

Lori Pensini

31 Oct - 30 Nov

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

Feature

The photography of Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto captures uncertainty, ruin and empty splendour

Born in 1948, Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto works with photography, site-specific sculpture and architecture. Time Machine at the Museum of Contemporary Art surveys over five decades of his work, highlighting his conceptual approach to images and his continual investigation of the photographic form.

Jane Simon

Interview

Ben Quilty on painting paradoxes

Ahead of his major retrospective at Jan Murphy Gallery, Ben Quilty spoke with fellow painter Georgia Spain about wrestling with mythology, the contradictions of joy and suffering, and a belief in art as an antidote to an increasingly volatile world.

Georgia Spain

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.

Gallerysmith

Gallerysmith

Exhibitions