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EXHIBITIONS
DOCKLANDS
XYZ Photo Gallery - Docklands
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Japan:
Photos by Australians
Selections by Japanese
Julie Barratt, Sophie Breckenridge, Dean Constable, Luke David, Mark Davidson, George El Hajj, E.F.P., Scott Gould, Jem Hargreaves, Joseph Hixson, Miracle Mak, Mark Munro, Sara Nash, Desmond Ong, Nick Orloff, Michaela Ottone, Rosalind Pach, Helen Phillippou, Hayden Phoenix, Riley Purcell, Elizabeth Reeder, Andrew Tan, Jonny Tanoto, Marty Walker, Darcy Welbourn, Asher Woods.
10 January - 15 February 2026
We Australians have a understanding of Japan there are things that interest us. What would a Japanese choose to illustrate their culture from the images we make?
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This is hard to find, Details on the website.
Japan:
Photos by Australians
Selections by Japanese
Julie Barratt, Sophie Breckenridge, Dean Constable, Luke David, Mark Davidson, George El Hajj, E.F.P., Scott Gould, Jem Hargreaves, Joseph Hixson, Miracle Mak, Mark Munro, Sara Nash, Desmond Ong, Nick Orloff, Michaela Ottone, Rosalind Pach, Helen Phillippou, Hayden Phoenix, Riley Purcell, Elizabeth Reeder, Andrew Tan, Jonny Tanoto, Marty Walker, Darcy Welbourn, Asher Woods.
10 January - 15 February 2026
We Australians have a understanding of Japan there are things that interest us. What would a Japanese choose to illustrate their culture from the images we make?
Magnet Gallery - Docklands
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Likeness 16th International Women’s Day
Various Artists
To 21 March 2026
Tonight's the night when we open LIKENESS, the 16th annual women photographers' exhibition at MAGNET. This year's theme is portraiture - but with a twist.....the subject does not have to be human! Come and see how 18 photographers have interpreted the theme in so many intriguing ways - and hear Opening words by art curator MERLE HATHAWAY.
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Likeness 16th International Women’s Day
Various Artists
To 21 March 2026
Tonight's the night when we open LIKENESS, the 16th annual women photographers' exhibition at MAGNET. This year's theme is portraiture - but with a twist.....the subject does not have to be human! Come and see how 18 photographers have interpreted the theme in so many intriguing ways - and hear Opening words by art curator MERLE HATHAWAY.
Kindred Camera - Docklands
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Anomaly: Out of Place
A Group Exhibition by Kindred Cameras
14 to 24 March 2026
Anomaly: Out of Place brings together artists whose work sits just outside the expected. This exhibition gathers pieces that resist neat categorisation, lean into irregularity, or feel slightly misaligned with their surroundings.
An anomaly might emerge through process, material, subject, or approach. It may be found in experimental or alternative techniques, in unexpected combinations of form, or in quiet disruptions that unsettle familiar patterns. Some works may appear subtly displaced; others may challenge convention more directly.
Rather than seeking spectacle, this exhibition honours the gentle deviation, the unresolved detail, the work that does not quite belong yet insists on being seen. Anomaly: Out of Place invites viewers to linger with what feels different, and to consider the beauty held in misfit and divergence.
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Anomaly: Out of Place
A Group Exhibition by Kindred Cameras
14 to 24 March 2026
Anomaly: Out of Place brings together artists whose work sits just outside the expected. This exhibition gathers pieces that resist neat categorisation, lean into irregularity, or feel slightly misaligned with their surroundings.
An anomaly might emerge through process, material, subject, or approach. It may be found in experimental or alternative techniques, in unexpected combinations of form, or in quiet disruptions that unsettle familiar patterns. Some works may appear subtly displaced; others may challenge convention more directly.
Rather than seeking spectacle, this exhibition honours the gentle deviation, the unresolved detail, the work that does not quite belong yet insists on being seen. Anomaly: Out of Place invites viewers to linger with what feels different, and to consider the beauty held in misfit and divergence.
INNER CITY
Hillvale Gallery - Brunswick
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Australian Lustre
Trent Mitchell
13 March — 19 April, 2026
A collection of vibrant landscapes and sunburnt vignettes, drawn from a 15-year photographic journey across Australia. Drawing links with the idyllic holidays of his childhood, contemplating the notions of time and memory, and exploring where we belong in this, at times, strange place we call home. Building on the success of his stellar 320-page photobook Australian Lustre first published in 2024, now in it’s second edition (2025), Mitchell’s photographs are both playful and contemplative and invite the viewer’s to reflect on evolving realities and layered contradictions of the contemporary Australian landscape.
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Australian Lustre
Trent Mitchell
13 March — 19 April, 2026
A collection of vibrant landscapes and sunburnt vignettes, drawn from a 15-year photographic journey across Australia. Drawing links with the idyllic holidays of his childhood, contemplating the notions of time and memory, and exploring where we belong in this, at times, strange place we call home. Building on the success of his stellar 320-page photobook Australian Lustre first published in 2024, now in it’s second edition (2025), Mitchell’s photographs are both playful and contemplative and invite the viewer’s to reflect on evolving realities and layered contradictions of the contemporary Australian landscape.
Sol Gallery - Fitzroy
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BENGAL STORYTELLERS
Kazi Mehrab Hossain Opi
31 March to 5 April 2026
“Photography to me is an instrument that allows me to explore around me in a different way, where I can hold the moments that I discover. I am passionate in photographing nature, landscapes, and the diverse wildlife. My photography captures mostly the quiet moments of nature that often go unnoticed. I am interested in stillness, the calm of forests, open fields, rivers, and the silent presence of animals. These moments seem to be simple, but they carry insightful meaning and significant beauty. I observe that nature speaks softly, and photography helps me listen, feel, and understand nature better. My work focuses on unexplored aspects of everyday environments. I try to observe and frame the reality. Photography allows me to explore life, time, and truth through light and space. My photographic efforts shall hopefully allow viewers to slow down, and connect with the natural world in a more thoughtful way.”
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BENGAL STORYTELLERS
Kazi Mehrab Hossain Opi
31 March to 5 April 2026
“Photography to me is an instrument that allows me to explore around me in a different way, where I can hold the moments that I discover. I am passionate in photographing nature, landscapes, and the diverse wildlife. My photography captures mostly the quiet moments of nature that often go unnoticed. I am interested in stillness, the calm of forests, open fields, rivers, and the silent presence of animals. These moments seem to be simple, but they carry insightful meaning and significant beauty. I observe that nature speaks softly, and photography helps me listen, feel, and understand nature better. My work focuses on unexplored aspects of everyday environments. I try to observe and frame the reality. Photography allows me to explore life, time, and truth through light and space. My photographic efforts shall hopefully allow viewers to slow down, and connect with the natural world in a more thoughtful way.”
Fitzroy Public Art Gallery - Fitzroy
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Fluid
Various
30 January to 8 February 2026
Fluid is a dynamic group exhibition showcasing queer themed art across painting, photography and sculpture. Presented as part of Midsumma Festival, the exhibition brings together diverse creative voices that explore identity, desire, transformation and joy.
The City Is Not Still
Andrew Tan and Rosalind Pach
Dates: March 13 – 22, 2026
In this joint exhibition, Andrew Tan and Rosalind Pach reimagine the city as a living, shifting force.
Long exposures, overlaps, and blurred figures reveal an urban world defined by flow rather than form.
Opening Night on Friday, March 13, 6–9 PM
The exhibition continues:
Weekend 1 - March 14 & 15, and
Weekend 2 - March 21 & 22.
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Fluid
Various
30 January to 8 February 2026
Fluid is a dynamic group exhibition showcasing queer themed art across painting, photography and sculpture. Presented as part of Midsumma Festival, the exhibition brings together diverse creative voices that explore identity, desire, transformation and joy.
The City Is Not Still
Andrew Tan and Rosalind Pach
Dates: March 13 – 22, 2026
In this joint exhibition, Andrew Tan and Rosalind Pach reimagine the city as a living, shifting force.
Long exposures, overlaps, and blurred figures reveal an urban world defined by flow rather than form.
Opening Night on Friday, March 13, 6–9 PM
The exhibition continues:
Weekend 1 - March 14 & 15, and
Weekend 2 - March 21 & 22.
Counihan Gallery - Brunswick
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Pit Yourself Against
Ma Ei
4 February to 19 April 2026
The artist seeks to highlight the invisible struggles and unspoken truths that people carry when they are not at peace. In these new video and photographic self-portraits, the fragility, resilience, and depth of human experience is laid bare, urging us to reflect on what it means to seek peace in a turbulent world.
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Pit Yourself Against
Ma Ei
4 February to 19 April 2026
The artist seeks to highlight the invisible struggles and unspoken truths that people carry when they are not at peace. In these new video and photographic self-portraits, the fragility, resilience, and depth of human experience is laid bare, urging us to reflect on what it means to seek peace in a turbulent world.
Neon Parc - Brunswick
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‘True Love at Dawn’ up on Skull Rock
Anna Higgins
6 March to 11 April 2026
Anna Higgins’ expanded image-based practice incorporates found archival and contemporary material as well as her own photography, which is abstracted and re-contextualized through collage, painting, drawing, and film photography to form new perspectives and poetic interpretations.
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‘True Love at Dawn’ up on Skull Rock
Anna Higgins
6 March to 11 April 2026
Anna Higgins’ expanded image-based practice incorporates found archival and contemporary material as well as her own photography, which is abstracted and re-contextualized through collage, painting, drawing, and film photography to form new perspectives and poetic interpretations.
One Star Lounge & Gallery - West Melbourne
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Convergence
Hugo Race
28 February to 1 March 2026
Staring through the windshield into highways at high speed, the receding vanishing point exerts a hypnotic pull, compressing time during long drives. Artist Hugo Race seeks to capture the exhilaration of fleeting moments of beauty in strange landscapes and to manage the anxiety of long distances on unknown roads, and through taking the image to feel some sense of control over the situation.
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Convergence
Hugo Race
28 February to 1 March 2026
Staring through the windshield into highways at high speed, the receding vanishing point exerts a hypnotic pull, compressing time during long drives. Artist Hugo Race seeks to capture the exhilaration of fleeting moments of beauty in strange landscapes and to manage the anxiety of long distances on unknown roads, and through taking the image to feel some sense of control over the situation.
CITY
NGV International - Melbourne
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Women Photographers 1900–1975
A Legacy of Light
Various artists
to 3 May 2026
Women Photographers 1900–1975: A Legacy of Light celebrates the wide-ranging photographic practices of more than eighty women artists working between 1900 and 1975. Featuring prints, postcards, photobooks and magazines, the exhibition explores the role of photographers as image-makers, and the ways in which women artists create an image of themselves, of others, of the times – from images of the women’s suffrage movement at the turn of the twentieth century, through to the women’s liberation movement and beyond. From Melbourne to Tokyo, Paris to Buenos Aires, the exhibition showcases the works of trailblazing artists.
City Gallery - Melbourne
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Exhibition: On the street where I live
Viva Gibb
5 March to 7 August 2026
On the street where I live showcases the photography of artist Viva Jillian Gibb (1945–2017). Between the mid-1970s and early 1990s she documented the suburbs of North and West Melbourne, where she lived. For nearly two decades, this was the primary focus of her work. Jewel-like portraits predominate, with her subjects set in a distinctive inner-suburban landscape. Grounded in her strong social and political convictions, Gibb created a sympathetic portrait of the community during a transformative period in Melbourne’s history.
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Exhibition: On the street where I live
Viva Gibb
5 March to 7 August 2026
On the street where I live showcases the photography of artist Viva Jillian Gibb (1945–2017). Between the mid-1970s and early 1990s she documented the suburbs of North and West Melbourne, where she lived. For nearly two decades, this was the primary focus of her work. Jewel-like portraits predominate, with her subjects set in a distinctive inner-suburban landscape. Grounded in her strong social and political convictions, Gibb created a sympathetic portrait of the community during a transformative period in Melbourne’s history.
RMIT Gallery - Melbourne
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Creative Antarctica: Australian Artists and Writers in the Far South
Various artists
to 02 May 2026
The exhibition seeks to foster new encounters and perspectives, highlighting the transformative power of art and literature in unveiling the complexities of the South Polar region.
The exhibition examines the role artists and writers play in expanding the Antarctic narrative to afford new understandings and access to one of the world’s most remote and fragile wilderness zones. Creative Antarctica features both site specific and historically significant works of art, supported by a rich assortment of talks, panels and workshops that offer a variety of engagement opportunities, and modes of encounter with the Far South.
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Creative Antarctica: Australian Artists and Writers in the Far South
Various artists
to 02 May 2026
The exhibition seeks to foster new encounters and perspectives, highlighting the transformative power of art and literature in unveiling the complexities of the South Polar region.
The exhibition examines the role artists and writers play in expanding the Antarctic narrative to afford new understandings and access to one of the world’s most remote and fragile wilderness zones. Creative Antarctica features both site specific and historically significant works of art, supported by a rich assortment of talks, panels and workshops that offer a variety of engagement opportunities, and modes of encounter with the Far South.
Old Treasury Building - Melbourne
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Swinging Sixties
Various
Until 2027
The 1960s is remembered as a turbulent decade. In contrast to the ‘conservative’ 1950s, the sixties are associated with changing ideas, youthful rebellion and experimentation. New music, new fashions and new attitudes to authority defined ‘the generation gap’.
Making Modern Melbourne
historical photographs & Sarah Pannell
Indefinitely
An optimistic new nation was created at the dawn of the 20th century. Australia was self-governing, and Melbourne would be its temporary capital while Canberra was constructed.
This free exhibition at Old Treasury Building examines the tumultuous century that was to come, with two world wars and a Depression. But also, a ‘long boom’, multiculturalism, rights for all citizens, increased public transport and heritage laws which would protect the historic buildings we still have today!
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Swinging Sixties
Various
Until 2027
The 1960s is remembered as a turbulent decade. In contrast to the ‘conservative’ 1950s, the sixties are associated with changing ideas, youthful rebellion and experimentation. New music, new fashions and new attitudes to authority defined ‘the generation gap’.
Making Modern Melbourne
historical photographs & Sarah Pannell
Indefinitely
An optimistic new nation was created at the dawn of the 20th century. Australia was self-governing, and Melbourne would be its temporary capital while Canberra was constructed.
This free exhibition at Old Treasury Building examines the tumultuous century that was to come, with two world wars and a Depression. But also, a ‘long boom’, multiculturalism, rights for all citizens, increased public transport and heritage laws which would protect the historic buildings we still have today!
SOUTH OF MELBOURNE
Pride Centre - St Kilda
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Behind the Zip
Various
to 8 March 2026
Sexy Galexy shines a light on Australia’s drag king culture. An exhibition curated by legendary drag king Sexy Galexy, celebrating Australia’s rich drag king culture. This powerful showcase lifts the veil on a bold, gender-bending artform often overlooked in mainstream drag narratives. Featuring images from across Australia, including King Victoria.
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Behind the Zip
Various
to 8 March 2026
Sexy Galexy shines a light on Australia’s drag king culture. An exhibition curated by legendary drag king Sexy Galexy, celebrating Australia’s rich drag king culture. This powerful showcase lifts the veil on a bold, gender-bending artform often overlooked in mainstream drag narratives. Featuring images from across Australia, including King Victoria.
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art - Southbank
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Tourmaline: Transcendent
Tourmaline
to 15 March 2026
Transcendent features new large-scale photographs and the global debut of Tourmaline’s newest video work, specially commissioned by ACCA. The video work extends her ongoing research into queer histories, including her recently published biography on the life and legacy of revolutionary LGBTIQA+ activist Marsha P. Johnson. Currently on an international tour for Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson, Tourmaline is sharing a story that feels deeply pertinent to the times. Figures like Johnson have become powerful symbols of the need for queer solidarity with the trans community. Johnson rose to prominence for her role in the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City – an event often linked to the queer community’s mourning of Judy Garland and their resistance to police raids. Although the story that Johnson ‘threw the first brick’ is disputed, it has become emblematic of the beginning of American queer liberation. With trans rights increasingly under threat globally, this timely exhibition invites reflection on those legacies, while challenging audiences to engage with the political present.
r e a : c l a i med
r e a
to 15 March 2026
This presentation includes an exciting new commission alongside a curated selection of works spanning more than three decades. Presented across three galleries, the exhibition is accompanied by the largest monograph of r e a’s work to date, cementing their position as one of Australia’s leading figures in contemporary art. With trans rights increasingly under threat internationally, this is a timely exhibition that addresses themes of memory, representation, intersectionality, and positionality.
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Tourmaline: Transcendent
Tourmaline
to 15 March 2026
Transcendent features new large-scale photographs and the global debut of Tourmaline’s newest video work, specially commissioned by ACCA. The video work extends her ongoing research into queer histories, including her recently published biography on the life and legacy of revolutionary LGBTIQA+ activist Marsha P. Johnson. Currently on an international tour for Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson, Tourmaline is sharing a story that feels deeply pertinent to the times. Figures like Johnson have become powerful symbols of the need for queer solidarity with the trans community. Johnson rose to prominence for her role in the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City – an event often linked to the queer community’s mourning of Judy Garland and their resistance to police raids. Although the story that Johnson ‘threw the first brick’ is disputed, it has become emblematic of the beginning of American queer liberation. With trans rights increasingly under threat globally, this timely exhibition invites reflection on those legacies, while challenging audiences to engage with the political present.
r e a : c l a i med
r e a
to 15 March 2026
This presentation includes an exciting new commission alongside a curated selection of works spanning more than three decades. Presented across three galleries, the exhibition is accompanied by the largest monograph of r e a’s work to date, cementing their position as one of Australia’s leading figures in contemporary art. With trans rights increasingly under threat internationally, this is a timely exhibition that addresses themes of memory, representation, intersectionality, and positionality.
Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn Arts Centre - Hawthorn
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Familial
Taysir Batniji, EJ Hassan, Nur Aishah Kenton, Mariela Sancari, Abigail Varneyan and Annie Wang
to 26 April 2026
‘Familial’ brings together six artists whose work traces the emotional and psychological terrain of family – of bonds and ruptures, tenderness, memory and the ache of absence. This exhibition reflects on the complexities of connection across time, presence and loss, in a meditation on love, longing and the enduring imprints our closest relationships leave behind.
Navigating the experience of distance, dislocation and ongoing uncertainty, Palestinian artist Taysir Batniji documented two years of WhatsApp calls with his mother in Gaza; each communication shaped and destabilised by conflict. Argentinian artist Mariela Sancari’s typology of portraits depicts 70-year-old men dressed in her late father’s clothes show us a deeply personal journey of processing grief for a parent who is no longer present.
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Familial
Taysir Batniji, EJ Hassan, Nur Aishah Kenton, Mariela Sancari, Abigail Varneyan and Annie Wang
to 26 April 2026
‘Familial’ brings together six artists whose work traces the emotional and psychological terrain of family – of bonds and ruptures, tenderness, memory and the ache of absence. This exhibition reflects on the complexities of connection across time, presence and loss, in a meditation on love, longing and the enduring imprints our closest relationships leave behind.
Navigating the experience of distance, dislocation and ongoing uncertainty, Palestinian artist Taysir Batniji documented two years of WhatsApp calls with his mother in Gaza; each communication shaped and destabilised by conflict. Argentinian artist Mariela Sancari’s typology of portraits depicts 70-year-old men dressed in her late father’s clothes show us a deeply personal journey of processing grief for a parent who is no longer present.
Museum of Australian Photography - Monash
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Flowers have long stood in for the things we couldn’t say aloud: sex, death, longing, defiance. Soft in appearance, potent in meaning, they are the great deceivers of art history. Across centuries and cultures, the bloom has operated as a colourful code, a motif that artists actively engage, reclaim and rewrite.
Young | youth in Australian Photography: 1980s to now
Atong Atem, Donna Bailey, Anne Ferran, Bill Henson, Petrina Hicks, Naomi Hobson, Samuel Hodge, Paul Knight, Katrin Koenning, Christopher Köller, Jesse Marlow, Rod McNicol, Jacqueline Mitelman, Tracey Moffatt, Corben Mudjandi, Prudence Murphy, Derek O'Connor, Polixeni Papapetrou, Trent Parke, Drew Pettifer, David Rosetzky, Julie Rrap, Naomie Sunner, Darren Sylvester, Simon Terrill, David M Thomas, Lisa Tomasetti, Lyndal Walker
to 22 February 2026
Through the lens of some of Australia’s most vital image-makers, the exhibition asks us to consider the role photography plays in shaping the story of growing up in this country. It captures the fleeting and the formative, reflects cultural ideals and anxieties, and constructs the very image of youth itself. From the staged to the spontaneous, from the diaristic to the documentary, these works reveal that youth is not only lived but also performed, remembered and mythologised.
Us
Daniel Temesgen
to 22 February 2026
Born in Ethiopia and now living in Australia, Daniel Temesgen creates portraits that are intimate, luminous, and grounded in community. Focusing on friends and peers, he celebrates youth, friendship and the vibrancy of Black life in contemporary Australia, exploring layered identities and cultural richness through a personal lens.
Drawing on the visual language of fashion photography, including composition, light and colour, Temesgen transforms these tools into expressions of tenderness. His subjects appear in transitional spaces such as cars and shorelines: ordinary yet cinematic, capturing moments of movement, change and self-possession.
Lights
Valeriy Taouk
22 November to 22 February 2026
Melbourne-based artist Valeriy Taouk works with found objects and appropriated photographs to examine how images shape culture, desire and collective memory. His intuitive, darkroom-based practice embraces unorthodox printing methods and experimental processes, blurring the boundaries between photography and its material form.
CODED BLOOMS | flowers have never been innocent
Robert Mapplethorpe, Pat Brassington, Del Kathryn Barton, Jake Preval, Meng-Yu Yan
7 March – 24 May 2026
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Flowers have long stood in for the things we couldn’t say aloud: sex, death, longing, defiance. Soft in appearance, potent in meaning, they are the great deceivers of art history. Across centuries and cultures, the bloom has operated as a colourful code, a motif that artists actively engage, reclaim and rewrite.
Young | youth in Australian Photography: 1980s to now
Atong Atem, Donna Bailey, Anne Ferran, Bill Henson, Petrina Hicks, Naomi Hobson, Samuel Hodge, Paul Knight, Katrin Koenning, Christopher Köller, Jesse Marlow, Rod McNicol, Jacqueline Mitelman, Tracey Moffatt, Corben Mudjandi, Prudence Murphy, Derek O'Connor, Polixeni Papapetrou, Trent Parke, Drew Pettifer, David Rosetzky, Julie Rrap, Naomie Sunner, Darren Sylvester, Simon Terrill, David M Thomas, Lisa Tomasetti, Lyndal Walker
to 22 February 2026
Through the lens of some of Australia’s most vital image-makers, the exhibition asks us to consider the role photography plays in shaping the story of growing up in this country. It captures the fleeting and the formative, reflects cultural ideals and anxieties, and constructs the very image of youth itself. From the staged to the spontaneous, from the diaristic to the documentary, these works reveal that youth is not only lived but also performed, remembered and mythologised.
Us
Daniel Temesgen
to 22 February 2026
Born in Ethiopia and now living in Australia, Daniel Temesgen creates portraits that are intimate, luminous, and grounded in community. Focusing on friends and peers, he celebrates youth, friendship and the vibrancy of Black life in contemporary Australia, exploring layered identities and cultural richness through a personal lens.
Drawing on the visual language of fashion photography, including composition, light and colour, Temesgen transforms these tools into expressions of tenderness. His subjects appear in transitional spaces such as cars and shorelines: ordinary yet cinematic, capturing moments of movement, change and self-possession.
Lights
Valeriy Taouk
22 November to 22 February 2026
Melbourne-based artist Valeriy Taouk works with found objects and appropriated photographs to examine how images shape culture, desire and collective memory. His intuitive, darkroom-based practice embraces unorthodox printing methods and experimental processes, blurring the boundaries between photography and its material form.
CODED BLOOMS | flowers have never been innocent
Robert Mapplethorpe, Pat Brassington, Del Kathryn Barton, Jake Preval, Meng-Yu Yan
7 March – 24 May 2026
Creative Whitehorse - Box Hill
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Whispers in the Neons 霓虹低語
Ben Goh
19 January to 28 February 2026
This series began with a fascination for the glowing nights of old cinema — when neon lights shaped the mood of the city and gave the night its quiet stories.
Using impressionistic multiple exposure, I let the neon of Box Hill and Whitehorse drift, overlap, and blend, turning colour into memory and movement into texture.
Neon becomes the brushstroke, and the night streets become the canvas.
這個系列源自一份對舊光影的想念—— 霓虹曾柔化黑夜， 也讓故事在光裡停留。
透過多重曝光， 我讓 Box Hill 與 Whitehorse 的霓虹交疊、漂浮， 讓色彩化成記憶的微光。
這些影像不只描繪招牌， 更記錄其下的情緒—— 懷舊、城市的脈動， 以及夜裡悄然升起的故事。
願這些熟悉的街道 在你眼中重新被照亮； 願你在柔和的光裡， 聽見城市輕聲的低語。
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Whispers in the Neons 霓虹低語
Ben Goh
19 January to 28 February 2026
This series began with a fascination for the glowing nights of old cinema — when neon lights shaped the mood of the city and gave the night its quiet stories.
Using impressionistic multiple exposure, I let the neon of Box Hill and Whitehorse drift, overlap, and blend, turning colour into memory and movement into texture.
Neon becomes the brushstroke, and the night streets become the canvas.
這個系列源自一份對舊光影的想念—— 霓虹曾柔化黑夜， 也讓故事在光裡停留。
透過多重曝光， 我讓 Box Hill 與 Whitehorse 的霓虹交疊、漂浮， 讓色彩化成記憶的微光。
這些影像不只描繪招牌， 更記錄其下的情緒—— 懷舊、城市的脈動， 以及夜裡悄然升起的故事。
願這些熟悉的街道 在你眼中重新被照亮； 願你在柔和的光裡， 聽見城市輕聲的低語。
Carlisle Street Arts Space - St Kilda
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Picturing Democracy
Bruno Benini | Ruth Maddison | Brook Andrew | Darren Sylvester | Martin Kantor | Ricky Maynard | Judith Webb | Michael Williams | Leanne Temme | Jacqueline Riva | Ben McKeown | Roderick McNicol | Martin Munz | Deborah Kelly | Sue Ford | Linda Jullyan | Rozalind Drummond | Michael Bastin | Trevor Graham | Pasqualina Grosso
23 February to 15 May 2026
In Picturing Democracy, Coulter explores and poetically creates representations of democracy, democratic processes, community participation, and connections across the City of Port Phillip.
Drawing from 4,000 photographs held within the Port Phillip City Collection, and in addition to creating his own photographs, artist and curator Ross Coulter re-imagines what democracy looks like, from the past and into the future.
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Picturing Democracy
Bruno Benini | Ruth Maddison | Brook Andrew | Darren Sylvester | Martin Kantor | Ricky Maynard | Judith Webb | Michael Williams | Leanne Temme | Jacqueline Riva | Ben McKeown | Roderick McNicol | Martin Munz | Deborah Kelly | Sue Ford | Linda Jullyan | Rozalind Drummond | Michael Bastin | Trevor Graham | Pasqualina Grosso
23 February to 15 May 2026
In Picturing Democracy, Coulter explores and poetically creates representations of democracy, democratic processes, community participation, and connections across the City of Port Phillip.
Drawing from 4,000 photographs held within the Port Phillip City Collection, and in addition to creating his own photographs, artist and curator Ross Coulter re-imagines what democracy looks like, from the past and into the future.
Latrobe Regional Gallery - Morwell
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A Country Practice
Janina Green
to 24 September 2026
A Country Practice brings new life to Janina Green’s seminal artist book – of the same title – A Country Practice, animating its pages into an immersive photographic installation that unfolds in chapters—much like the lived passages it draws from. Each section invites viewers into the shifting terrains of memory, migration, and belonging, tracing the contours of a life shaped by arrival, adaptation, and the quiet persistence of looking back.
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A Country Practice
Janina Green
to 24 September 2026
A Country Practice brings new life to Janina Green’s seminal artist book – of the same title – A Country Practice, animating its pages into an immersive photographic installation that unfolds in chapters—much like the lived passages it draws from. Each section invites viewers into the shifting terrains of memory, migration, and belonging, tracing the contours of a life shaped by arrival, adaptation, and the quiet persistence of looking back.
WESTERN MELBOURNE/GEELONG
untether gallery + studio - Geelong
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SHARED SOLOS
Kay Drew, Claire Roussac, Lili Eggleston, Isabella Chantal
26 February - 14 March
Shared solo exhibitions featuring works from four artists.
Worn
Various Artists
19 March - 4 April
Open to all artists, you need to respond to theme 'WORN' with artworks in any medium accepted.
WORN can be interpreted as objects marked by use, erosion, repair, or age. It can also speak to the body e.g. 'worn out' by grief, endurance, burnout. Artists could also explore 'worn in' versus 'worn out' - comfort, ritual, the beauty that emerges through repetition, survival, and care.
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SHARED SOLOS
Kay Drew, Claire Roussac, Lili Eggleston, Isabella Chantal
26 February - 14 March
Shared solo exhibitions featuring works from four artists.
Worn
Various Artists
19 March - 4 April
Open to all artists, you need to respond to theme 'WORN' with artworks in any medium accepted.
WORN can be interpreted as objects marked by use, erosion, repair, or age. It can also speak to the body e.g. 'worn out' by grief, endurance, burnout. Artists could also explore 'worn in' versus 'worn out' - comfort, ritual, the beauty that emerges through repetition, survival, and care.
NORTH OF MELBOURNE
Gold Street Gallery - Trentham East
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The Print Exposed 2026
Benjamin Healey, Bianca Conwell, Danielle Edwards, David Weston, Diana Bloomfield, Elizabeth Opalenik, Gale Spring, Greg Soltys , Jo-Anne Cripps, Kaye Dixon, Keiko Goto, Mat Hughes, Mike Ware, Ossian Desmond-Jones, Paul Weiss, Peter Kinchington, Robert Poole, Robyn Moore, Stuart Clook, Tim Rudman and Wendy Currie
to 5th April 2026
The Print Exposed is a truly unique exhibition aimed at encouraging the understanding, and appreciation for handmade alternative/ historic photographic print processes evolved from the birth of photography.
The work selected for the exhibition will be eligible for the Mike Ware Award
Processes include: Argyrotype, Carbon Transfer, Chrysotypes, Cyanotypes, Daguerrotypes, Photogravure, Gum Bichromate, Lith, Mordançage, Opalotype, Orotone, Photopolymer Gravure, Platinum/palladium, Salt print, New Cyanotype, Simple Cyanotype, Silver gelatin and Zoukin Gake..
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The Print Exposed 2026
Benjamin Healey, Bianca Conwell, Danielle Edwards, David Weston, Diana Bloomfield, Elizabeth Opalenik, Gale Spring, Greg Soltys , Jo-Anne Cripps, Kaye Dixon, Keiko Goto, Mat Hughes, Mike Ware, Ossian Desmond-Jones, Paul Weiss, Peter Kinchington, Robert Poole, Robyn Moore, Stuart Clook, Tim Rudman and Wendy Currie
to 5th April 2026
The Print Exposed is a truly unique exhibition aimed at encouraging the understanding, and appreciation for handmade alternative/ historic photographic print processes evolved from the birth of photography.
The work selected for the exhibition will be eligible for the Mike Ware Award
Processes include: Argyrotype, Carbon Transfer, Chrysotypes, Cyanotypes, Daguerrotypes, Photogravure, Gum Bichromate, Lith, Mordançage, Opalotype, Orotone, Photopolymer Gravure, Platinum/palladium, Salt print, New Cyanotype, Simple Cyanotype, Silver gelatin and Zoukin Gake..
Art Gallery of Ballarat - Ballarat
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Jill Orr’s Detritus Springs
Jill Orr
23 August – 19 October 2025
The Art Gallery of Ballarat is delighted to welcome Jill Orr’s Detritus springs series of photographs and video into the Collection. Lecturing at Federation University’s Arts Academy, Orr is an important figure in the Ballarat arts community, as well as being a highly celebrated artist who has been at the fore of performance art in Australia since the late 1970s. Throughout her vast body of work, Orr has masterfully interpreted her live performances into photography and more recently into moving image – a process that often requires the artist to engage with skilled technicians who collaborate on the finished product.
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Jill Orr’s Detritus Springs
Jill Orr
23 August – 19 October 2025
The Art Gallery of Ballarat is delighted to welcome Jill Orr’s Detritus springs series of photographs and video into the Collection. Lecturing at Federation University’s Arts Academy, Orr is an important figure in the Ballarat arts community, as well as being a highly celebrated artist who has been at the fore of performance art in Australia since the late 1970s. Throughout her vast body of work, Orr has masterfully interpreted her live performances into photography and more recently into moving image – a process that often requires the artist to engage with skilled technicians who collaborate on the finished product.
Horsham Regional Gallery - Horsham
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Held in light
Con Kroker
to 01 March 2026
Conrad Otto Kroker (1910–1989) was a mid-20th-century Australian photographer who spent the majority of his life living and working in Horsham, Victoria. A passionate observer of the Wimmera region, Kroker used his camera to record both the natural beauty and subtle transformations of his environment.
His photographs reflect a deep appreciation of the Australian landscape, capturing its textures, seasonal shifts, and quiet human presence.
New acquisitions: The work of F.A. Joyner
F.A. Joyner
to 01 March 2026
Displaying a newly-acquired suite of silver gelatin photographs, the exhibition New acquisitions: The Work of F. A. Joyner marks the debut of South Australian photographer Frederick Allen Joyner (1863–1945) to the Horsham Regional Art Gallery collection.
Frederick Joyner was born in Adelaide in 1863. He was a solicitor and plant breeder as well as an accomplished photographer. Joyner was a leading figure in Australia’s Pictorialist movement, which emphasised beauty, atmosphere, and emotional resonance in photography.
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Held in light
Con Kroker
to 01 March 2026
Conrad Otto Kroker (1910–1989) was a mid-20th-century Australian photographer who spent the majority of his life living and working in Horsham, Victoria. A passionate observer of the Wimmera region, Kroker used his camera to record both the natural beauty and subtle transformations of his environment.
His photographs reflect a deep appreciation of the Australian landscape, capturing its textures, seasonal shifts, and quiet human presence.
New acquisitions: The work of F.A. Joyner
F.A. Joyner
to 01 March 2026
Displaying a newly-acquired suite of silver gelatin photographs, the exhibition New acquisitions: The Work of F. A. Joyner marks the debut of South Australian photographer Frederick Allen Joyner (1863–1945) to the Horsham Regional Art Gallery collection.
Frederick Joyner was born in Adelaide in 1863. He was a solicitor and plant breeder as well as an accomplished photographer. Joyner was a leading figure in Australia’s Pictorialist movement, which emphasised beauty, atmosphere, and emotional resonance in photography.
EAST OF MELBOURNE
East Gippsland Art Gallery
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Michael Beazer Works on Paper Prize 2026
Tania Babic, Joanna Briscomb, Tom Buckland, Ju-Yuen Chew, Trudy Clutterbok, Julie Danilov, Chelle Destefano, Mark Dober, Stu Doherty, Michael Donnelly, Naomi Droll, Lesley Duxbury, James Farrar, Stephen Glover, Maureen Harley, Jade Kahle, Adelaide Macpherson, Shane McGowan, Cecile Michel, Emily Murch, Janice Oliver, Kirsi Reinikka, Ruby Rigg-Smith, Al Roberts, Margaret Salt, Elisabeth Scott, Andrew Tan, Cleo Wilkinson, Christabel Wigley.
To 14 March 2026
This is an acquisitive $3,000 award, generously supported by Michael and Margaret Beazer. The prize celebrates excellence in works on paper and paper-based sculpture, with the winning artwork acquired into the East Gippsland Art Gallery’s permanent collection.
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Michael Beazer Works on Paper Prize 2026
Tania Babic, Joanna Briscomb, Tom Buckland, Ju-Yuen Chew, Trudy Clutterbok, Julie Danilov, Chelle Destefano, Mark Dober, Stu Doherty, Michael Donnelly, Naomi Droll, Lesley Duxbury, James Farrar, Stephen Glover, Maureen Harley, Jade Kahle, Adelaide Macpherson, Shane McGowan, Cecile Michel, Emily Murch, Janice Oliver, Kirsi Reinikka, Ruby Rigg-Smith, Al Roberts, Margaret Salt, Elisabeth Scott, Andrew Tan, Cleo Wilkinson, Christabel Wigley.
To 14 March 2026
This is an acquisitive $3,000 award, generously supported by Michael and Margaret Beazer. The prize celebrates excellence in works on paper and paper-based sculpture, with the winning artwork acquired into the East Gippsland Art Gallery’s permanent collection.