S.H. Ervin Gallery

The S.H. Ervin Gallery is one of Sydney ’s leading public art institutions housed in the historic National Trust Centre on Observatory Hill, The Rocks in Sydney. The Gallery’s exhibition program is designed to explore the richness and diversity of Australian art, both historical and contemporary, and present it in new contexts. The Gallery is renowned for encouraging research and promoting scholarly appraisal of artists from all periods of Australian art history. In addition, the S.H. Ervin Gallery has developed an excellent name for presenting important exhibitions and programs that recognise the valuable contribution made by Australian women artists.

The S.H. Ervin Gallery hosts changing exhibitions each year, including major travelling exhibitions, which focus on the work of Australian artists. The Gallery has presented major survey exhibitions of artists including Clarice Beckett, Albert Tucker, Violet Teague, Kathleen O’Connor, Margo Lewers, Jean Bellette, William Robinson, John Coburn, Cressida Campbell, Nicholas Harding, Euan Macleod and Wendy Sharpe. The S.H. Ervin Gallery also hosts popular annual shows including the Salon des Refusés: The alternative Archibald and Wynne Prize, and the Portia Geach Memorial Award for women artists.

S.H. Ervin Gallery

National Trust of Australia, Watson Road, Observatory Hill The Rocks NSW 2000

02 9258 0173

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S.H. Ervin Gallery

Exhibitions

Field of Vision: Contemporary Indigenous Art

Field of Vision: Contemporary Indigenous Art

Polka dot summer: The NGV announces Australia’s largest Yayoi Kusama retrospective exhibition

The National Gallery of Victoria has unveiled their summer blockbuster exhibition for 2024–2025. Yayoi Kusama’s signature polka dots and pumpkins, along with world-premiere work, will appear in Australia’s largest retrospective exhibition of the Japanese artist.

Art Guide Australia

Annika Harding paints through the fog

Annika Harding’s latest work at NorthSite Contemporary Arts, focuses on the Atherton Tablelands, exploring the tension between natural beauty, relentless meteorological forces, and the built environment that supports local agricultural communities.

Anita King

Parrtjima lights up Alice Springs

Parrtjima—the Northern Territory’s annual festival of lights at the Alice Springs Desert Park—is entering its ninth year, and this time the immersive festival’s focus is interconnectedness.

Sally Gearon

Interview: Tracey Moffatt operates in the world of art

In a rare interview, alongside her showing in the 24th Biennale of Sydney, Tracey Moffatt talks about her penchant for the staged and surreal, going beyond identity, growing up in Brisbane and moving to New York in her thirties, and the importance of imagination.

Tiarney Miekus

James Barth on what we reveal to the world, and what we don’t

With the perceived necessity of ‘performing the self’ greater than ever, comes questions of what we share or obscure—as James Barth’s art attests at the just-opened ‘18th Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Inner Sanctum’ at Art Gallery of South Australia.

James Gatt

The spirit—and studio—of Margaret Olley lives on

A new exhibition at Tweed Regional Gallery has preserved the relocated studio of Australian painter Margaret Olley, with her work providing inspiration for a new series of paintings by Mirra Whale, India Mark and Laura Jones.

Briony Downes