The Japan Foundation Gallery

The Japan Foundation Gallery brings a wide variety of exhibitions and public programs that explore Japan’s diverse identity to Australian audiences throughout the year.

The Gallery showcases artworks by Japanese artists and artists of other backgrounds, with exhibitions and accompanying event programs ranging from traditional to contemporary Japanese art and artisanal work, including printmaking, dyeing, photography, painting, ceramics, installations and more.

The Japan Foundation Gallery

Level 4, Central at Central Park, 28 Broadway Chippendale NSW 2008 Australia

02 8239 0055

jpf.org.au

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Exhibitions

Afternote: In the Shade of Cinema

Nobuhiro Shimura

13 Sep - 1 Mar

Book Reviews

65,000 Years brings truth telling to art history

65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art is an extraordinary account of the unique art of this continent, published alongside a landmark exhibition at the Potter Museum of Art. Necessary and urgent, it tells the story of Indigenous Australian art; a new art history unlike anything we’ve seen. For Jane O’Sullivan, it’s a remarkable and must-read book.

Jane O'Sullivan

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Oslo Davis reimagines art terms

In a new series of illustrated postcards available as a free gift with purchase only at the Art Guide Bookstore, Oslo Davis takes on classic and contemporary art terms and genres and reimagines what they could be referring to.

Oslo Davis

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The major exhibitions open in each capital city this summer

With so much to choose from, we’ve rounded up the major summer exhibitions in each capital city, open all summer long. Spanning Yayoi Kusama, Magritte, the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, and many more.

Art Guide Australia

Book Reviews

‘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

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Janine Combes’s material stories

In her latest exhibition at Plimsoll Gallery, Janine Combes uses her background as a jewellery maker to create a body of work inspired by abandoned towns once marked for settlement in Tasmania.

Briony Downes

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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.

The Japan Foundation Gallery

The Japan Foundation Gallery

Exhibitions