Grace Cossington Smith Gallery

The Grace Cossington Smith Gallery is a not-for-profit program run by Abbotsleigh, an Anglican pre K-12 Day and Boarding School for girls. The Grace Cossington Smith Gallery is committed to serving the public through free admission and an education program that reaches diverse audiences, including teachers, students from Pre-Kindergarten through Year 12, and adults.

The Grace Cossington Smith Gallery is located on the campus of Abbotsleigh, on the Pacific Highway at Wahroonga, NSW.

Their vision is to provide meaningful experiences and encounters through the visual arts. We aim for creativity, inquiry and imagination in our programming, to contribute to the intellectual life of the region, and to serve the needs of Abbotsleigh students and a diverse general public.

Grace Cossington Smith (1892-1984), is regarded as one of Australia’s foremost modernist artists and she was a brilliant colourist. Grace lived most of her life in her family home at Turramurra and her paintings of interiors and the Sydney Harbour Bridge have become iconic images in Australian art.

Gallery photograph by Richard Glover.

Gate 7, 1666 Pacific Highway Wahroonga NSW 2076

02 9473 7878

abbotsleigh.nsw.edu.au/grace-cossington-smith-gallery/

Tue to Sat 10am–5pm.
Free admission.

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

The Ramsay Art Prize takes the temperature of contemporary art

Every two years, the Ramsay Art Prize opens to Australian artists under 40 working in any medium. Presented by the Art Gallery of South Australia and supported in perpetuity by the James & Diana Ramsay foundation, the prize seeks to spotlight contemporary artists at a formative moment in their careers.

Walter Marsh

The 25th Biennale of Sydney announces theme and the first 37 artists and collectives

Curated by artistic director Hoor Al Qasimi, the program is centred by the theme of Rememory. Originating from author Toni Morrison, the ideas seek to explore the intersection of memory and history—revisiting, reconstructing and reclaiming histories that have been erased or repressed.

Art Guide Australia

Grace Cossington Smith Gallery