We pay our respects to the Gundungurra people who are the traditional custodians of the land, whose deepening connection to culture and customs have cared for this country for over 60,000 years.
We acknowledge Elders past, present and emerging for their immense spiritual connection to place which was never ceded.
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8 February - 30 March 2025
Rebecca Baumann, Christopher Langton, Belem Lett and Brendan Van Hek.
Colour plays a vital role in shaping how we perceive and interact with the world around us. Artists carve up the colour spectrum in various ways to impart emotions, express ideas, or evoke visceral responses.
Colour is a fascinating element, and the Pursuit of Happiness exhibition leans into its captivating nature and alluring quality. Australian artists Rebecca Baumann, Christopher Langton, Belem Lett, and Brendan Van Hek are well known for their distinct practices, which collectively span painting, installation and sculpture.
These artists converge around their shared interest in colour. They employ vibrantly painted lines, sources of light, reflective surfaces, and persuading sculptural forms to underscore the luminous qualities of colour, among numerous other enquiries into biology, psychology, philosophy and popular culture. Promoting us to reflect on how we perceive our environment and the emotions that stir within us.
12 April - 15 June 2025
Sally Anderson, Sarah Drinan, Laura Jones, India Mark, Dionisia Salas,Julia Trybala and Amber Wallis.
"Tender" is a term often associated with notions of care and femininity. We liken tenderness to the body, our gestures, and the way we feel or express ourselves. We impart the term on places, objects or surfaces to describe how they arouse our senses or how an object yields under pressure; it softens, loses shape, and gives way.
This term has rich and varied meanings, and the aim of this exhibition, which takes Tender as its title, is to explore its significance beyond a gender lens. Instead, the exhibition seeks to understand how tenderness is woven into the human form and its integration into all aspects of lived experience through the diverse painting practices of Australian artists Sally Anderson, Sarah Drinan, Laura Jones, India Mark, Dionisia Salas, Julia Trybala and Amber Wallis.
TENDER continues our commitment to showcasing the practices of Australian female artists, an initiative funded by the Artist’s Circle Patron Program.
28 June - 24 August 2025
Tom Polo's practice encompasses painting and installation and explores the notions of conversation, gesture, and emotional exchange as embodied acts of portraiture. in part of your mind, I am you will conceptualise the gallery as a stage, structured in four acts, wherein works blur boundaries between the self and others to mask and unveil the complexities of our inner worlds.
The exhibition will feature new works, including a series developed during the artist's recent residency in New York and a site-specific billboard installation. Additionally, a survey of existing works will be restaged to create a thematic narrative punctuated by artworks by renowned international artists Tracey Emin, Ugo Rondinone, and Urs Fischer.
6 September - 9 November 2025
Ngununggula presents its inaugural international exhibition featuring acclaimed Aotearoa artist Lisa Reihana. Renowned as a leading Māori new media artist based in Auckland, New Zealand, Reihana's work has been extensively showcased in New Zealand, Australia, and internationally.
The exhibition reveals the spectrum of Reihana’s artistic practice, showcasing a suite of digital artworks and photography, including a new iteration of her digital artwork Māramatanga and a site-specific installation inspired by the gallery’s surroundings and First Nations stories. This installation builds upon her artistic approach used in GLISTEN, a kinetic sculpture adorned with thousands of shimmering discs designed to reflect sunlight and interact playfully with the natural environment, activating wind chimes.
22 November 2025 - 25 January 2026
Clarice Beckett: Paintings from the National Collection presents an intimate, rarely seen group of works by one of the most original artists of early twentieth-century Australia.
Deeply sensitive to the effects of colour, light and atmosphere, Beckett painted the life and scenery of her coastal home in southeast Naarm/Melbourne with an eye for the commonplace and fleeting effects of nature. Her work captures a world on the cusp of modernisation, evoking both the natural environment and simple pleasures of suburbia.
In 1972, the artist’s sister Hilda Mangan donated a group of Beckett’s works to the National Gallery. It is this collection that will be on view for the first time, their freshness and vitality recently restored by extensive conservation treatment.
This exhibition is a National Gallery Touring Exhibition supported by The Australian Government through Visions of Australia.
MEDIA CONTACT: For further information or to request interviews and details of the media preview, please contact Siân Davies, [email protected], 0402 728 462, or Sasha Haughan, [email protected], 0405 006 035.
The 2025 Creative Program at Ngununggula is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.
All images are courtesy of the artists' and/or representing galleries. For more details, please refer to the exhibition pages.
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