The Ken Done Gallery

The Ken Done Gallery was opened in 1994, in the magnificent heritage Australian Steam Navigation Building in Sydney’s historic Rocks area. Exhibitions at the gallery are continuously changing around various themes and focus on the Australian landscape, the reef, Sydney Harbour and the beach, as well as the artist’s personal environment. Ken Done’s original works have inspired a unique collection of art and design, limited edition prints, books, clothing, accessories, homewares and more, all available in the beautiful gallery store.

The Ken Done Gallery

1 Hickson Road The Rocks NSW 2000

02 8274 4599

kendone.com.au

Daily 10am – 5pm.
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Exhibitions

Ken Done: New Work

16 Oct - 12 Dec

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

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

Review

Ivan Cheng on innocence lost

Anador Walsh reviews Ivan Cheng’s performance exhibition NP at Monash University Museum of Art—a three-day project, made in collaboration with a group of Year 11 students, that explores the loss of childhood innocence and role of documentation in performance.

Anador Walsh

Preview

Emma Phillips on the building blocks of a practice

Emma Phillips has a knack for catching moments of unbridled humanity. In her latest exhibition at ReadingRoom, she shines a light on the breadth of her practice, amalgamating several projects from the last decade.

The Ken Done Gallery