Past exhibitions 2010

An in-depth exploration of the development of French art over the 19th century through drawings by David, Ingres, Géricault, Delacroix, Millet, Manet, Degas, Moreau, Seurat, Cézanne and others.

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

This exhibition celebrates the Sydney Aboriginal community of La Per (La Perouse) by combining historical and contemporary works unique to this seaside community.

One of the most ambitious exhibitions the Gallery has ever undertaken, featuring 140-plus works by some of the most influential artists of the modern era.

This sound piece by internationally celebrated US sound and media artist Stephen Vitiello is based on Daphne du Maurier’s story of the same name.

Lake George was where Alfred Stieglitz conceived the Equivalents, possibly the most visionary works to exist in the photographic medium, spawning the era of 'straight’ photography worldwide. This is the first exhibition of Stieglitz … more

From the collection of John Schaeffer, paintings, watercolours, drawings and sculptures by some of the luminaries of Victorian art, including Rossetti, Holman Hunt, Burne-Jones, Leighton, Poynter, Watts and Waterhouse.

This exhibition celebrates the lives and work of eight distinguished Aboriginal artists who have contributed significantly to Australia’s cultural landscape. They are the dreamers for the future.

The Gallery presents works by seven leading artists from Asia: Makoto Aida, Liu Jianhua, Wang Qingsong, Raqib Shaw, Hisashi Tenmyouya, Jennifer Wen Ma and Akira Yamaguchi.

A reprise of the confronting and moving, larger-than-life sculptures of human suffering by Dadang Christanto, first seen here at the launch of the new Asian galleries in 2003 and again in 2005.

Colourful, boldly designed woodcuts and linocuts by such leading Australian artists as Margaret Preston, Thea Proctor, Adelaide Perry, Dorrit Black, Ethel Spowers and Mabel Pye.

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

This exhibition considers how nature and landscape continue to preoccupy contemporary painters. But not nature based on observation. The 'wild’ here is found in the mind of the artists.

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

Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?–1806) revolutionised the way women were portrayed in Japanese visual arts, and his sensuous portraits of courtesans, housewives, mothers and lovers have been popular ever since.

Five photographs each by Gordon Andrews, Max Dupain, Kerry Dundas, Hal Missingham, Axel Poignant and David Potts.

Australian-born painter Rupert Bunny (1864–1947) was one of the most successful artists of his generation.

Tatzu Nishi has enclosed the two equestrian sculptures at the front of the Gallery in playful constructions, and invited visitors to walk inside to explore the surreal spaces.

2009 is the 40th anniversary of Christo’s wrapping of Little Bay – the first Kaldor project. This exhibition celebrates the history of the projects and launches the next phase.

In 2009, Australia’s most respected drawing award was one by Pam Hallandal for her work Tsunami.

Experience the unique art tradition that flourished in the royal courts between the 17th and 19th centuries.