Past exhibitions 2007

An immersive installation of large photographic monoprints made from scanned timber adhesive foils that together create an image of a park.

Celebrates the complex heritage of Aboriginal art and its continual responses to historical change and social circumstances.

An interactive sculpture installation and performance featuring a 2.4 metre diameter interactive ball that generates both sound and image.

A unique presentation of Chinese jade from the outstanding collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing.

The most respected award for drawing in Australia, the annual Dobell Prize brings the remarkable drawing talents of Australian artists into the public domain.

The first major retrospective exhibition of the figurative sculpture of Bertram Mackennal (1863-1931), arguably the most successful of this country’s expatriate artists.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative, this exhibition brings together works by its founding members from the Gallery’s collection.

An annual exhibition of children’s art from schools throughout NSW created for the Children’s Hospital, Westmead.

Spanning 50 years of innovation in British art and featuring 40 works, most of which were acquired early in the Gallery’s history and rarely displayed.

The fluid and diverse imagery of the surreal aesthetic, linked by transformation and transgression, is explored through a selection of photographic works drawn from the collection.

Installation artists Healy and Cordeiro use popular culture to describe everyday life, bridging the gap between populist art and contemporary artistic investigation

Comprising rare and beautiful paintings and a vast range of decorative arts, the unrivalled Khalili Collection of Islamic art includes masterpieces from the 7th to the 20th centuries.

A display of exquisite figurative sculpture and many fine photographs from Fleischmann’s two years in Bali in the 1930s, as well as a sketchbook recently acquired for the Gallery’s collection.

Selected from the UBS Art Collection and curated with the NGV and Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, these works consider how we have shaped the world and how the world we have created shapes us.

This series of moving photos of the artist’s deceased mother’s personal belongings was one of the highlights of the 2005 Venice Biennale.

Two new major works that represent an enduring theme in Kiefer’s work, where the horizon represents the meeting of the material (earth) and immaterial (heaven), resulting in a moment of transcendence.

In the early 20th century, artists such as Norman and Lionel Lindsay, Sydney Long and Sydney Ure Smith sought to establish fine etchings and engravings in Australia.

A selection of works from the photography collection focusing on the modernist art of Karl Blossfeldt (Germany, 1865-1932).

This exhibition, which includes major acquisitions from Emily Kam Ngwarray and Ginger Riley Munduwalawala among others, pays tribute to Mollie Gowing, one of the most significant champions of contemporary Indigenous art.

This exhibition brings together Arkley’s paintings of the great Aussie dream home and his hallucinatory abstractions.

This annual exhibition is one of the most popular in Australia and often one of its most controversial.

Hastings proposes four sculptural situations, one of which may have us wonder where the missing walls of Walter Burley Griffin’s winning 1911 plan for Canberra might be.

Anne Zahalka is a Sydney-born contemporary photographer whose work has been exhibited extensively in Australia, Europe and Asia since the early 1980s.

Tezuka Osamu is Japan’s leading and most historically important manga artist, best known in Australia for his animations Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion.

A dynamic and popular exhibition featuring a selection of outstanding student artworks developed for the artmaking component of the HSC examination in Visual Arts, 2006.

A multi-channel video and sound installation that critically addresses the complexities of being diagnosed with a neurological disease.

Works on loan from the artist’s widow, including many that have never been seen in public before, which reveal the remarkable breadth of Tucker’s oeuvre.

This is the second award exhibition for the moving image and new media in Australia, established in honour of Anne Landa. It includes digital media from some of Australia’s most innovative artists.

Surveys the innumerable, imaginative expressions of the divine female found in the art of India, Tibet and Nepal from the early centuries CE through to the 20th century.

A selection of paintings, sculpture and works on paper reflecting the abstractionist movement in Australian art, from its zenith in the late 1960s until the mid 1980s.

Reveals the very distinct journey Chinese printmaking has made from the 1930s to today.

Juxtaposes recent works by two established contemporary artists on the basis of a currently shared subject matter – birds.

Plate’s intuitive and expressive paintings, drawings and prints were founded in his interest in nature, landscape and organic forms, with a commitment to abstraction.