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Nigel Harrison
Transition 29 Aug - 19 Sep 2026 For more than four decades, Nigel Harrison has developed a distinctive sculptural practice grounded in a deep respect for the inherent qualities of materials. His practice began within the tradition of Japanese pottery, studying under ceramic master Mitsuo Shoji. This experience shaped an enduring understanding of material as a carrier... Read more -
Peter Stevens
Songs Between the Trees 29 Aug - 19 Sep 2026 We, in eastern Australia, wake each morning to some of the most extraordinary birdsong on the planet: the eponymous cackle of the laughing kookaburra; the cooee of the eastern whipbird; the pitch-perfect mimicry of the superb lyrebird. There is a reason why we say that to come across someone exceptional... Read more -
Midwinter
Defiance & Invited Artists 1 - 22 Aug 2026 Read more -
Tony Slater
Twenty Paintings for Trying Times 4 - 25 Jul 2026 The genesis of Tony Slater’s work comes directly from the second generation of British Pop school artists, 1960s London. In considering that broader context, Slater’s oeuvre begins to fall into place. His work originates from an international idiom that was upending the European modernist aesthetic, a framework which explains his... Read more
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Ivor Fabok
The Aesthetics of Sound 4 - 25 Jul 2026 A childhood fascination with a crystal radio first revealed the invisible movement of sound through the air as waves. Years later, hearing improvised modern jazz on late-night radio transformed that curiosity into an enduring engagement with music as a way of understanding structure, rhythm and perception. Since then, listening has... Read more -
Joe Furlonger
Into the Blue 6 - 27 Jun 2026 When Joe Furlonger was around eighteen, he recalls being on a commercial fishing ship, somewhere between Darwin and New Guinea—“about thirty Ks out, where I couldn’t see the land anymore.” It was “a spooky, little feeling,” says Furlonger—but one that settled into a sense of calm. Over fifty years later,... Read more -
Joe Furlonger
Land 6 - 27 Jun 2026 Joe Furlonger is widely regarded as one of Australia’s most significant contemporary landscape painters. A nine-time finalist in the Archibald Prize, Wynne Prize and Sulman Prize, he is also the recipient of the Moët & Chandon Fellowship and the Fleurieu Art Prize. A major retrospective of his work was recently... Read more -
Ana Pollak
Family Tree 2 - 30 May 2026 Read more
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Royston Harpur
Selected Work from the Estate 2 - 30 May 2026 Read more -
Five Easy Pieces
Invited Artists 11 Apr - 2 May 2026 Read more -
Collectors.
Significant work from Defiance Artists 11 Apr - 2 May 2026 Read more -
Paul Connor
Ocean 7 - 28 Mar 2026 Sailors and poets have made much of the power of the mistral, the nor’wester that blows from the south of France into the northern Mediterranean. Yet, when Paul Connor visited Provence some years ago, he felt the mistral was just “a strong sea breeze,” one that could not compare to... Read more
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Gathering
Group Exhibition 7 Mar - 2 Apr 2026 Gathering unfolds as a meditation on seasonal threshold—an exhibition attuned to the subtle shift from summer’s abundance to autumn’s inward turn. Anchored by the equinox, this moment of suspension marks neither arrival nor departure, but a poised interval in which opposing forces briefly coexist. Painting and sculpture dwell here in... Read more -
The Defiance Award 2025 Finalists Exhibition
7 - 28 Feb 2026 The 2025 Defiance Award presents work from a selected twenty eight artists, with a prize designed to provide a prominent platform to connect artists to a wider audience. Defiance is proud to support and profile exceptional Australian painters, ensuring artists are equipped to thrive and grow within their practice. The... Read more -
LAND: Artists on the Land of Three Rivers
at the Cowra Regional Art Gallery 6 Feb - 8 Mar 2026 Read more -
Susan Baird Online Exhibition
Hydra 3 - 20 Dec 2025 Hydra Series (2023–2025) - Notes from the Artist This suite of paintings is inspired by my travels to the island of Hydra during 2023 and 2024 and was further developed in my studio in 2025. On my first visit, I was completely captivated by the island’s luminous light and dramatic... Read more
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Size Is Not Important
6x6x6" Group Sculpture Exhibition 22 Nov - 13 Dec 2025 Read more -
Clara Hali
22 Nov - 13 Dec 2025 Read more -
SIX ARTISTS | SEVEN DAYS
Defiance Gallery + Australian Wildlife Conservancy at the Sofitel Melbourne On Collins 22 Nov 2025 - 17 Jun 2026 Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary spans nearly 262,000 hectares at the intersection of three central Australian bioregions, making it one of the largest non-government protected areas and a vital conservation site. It hosts Australia’s largest feral cat eradication project, including a massive predator-free area that will ultimately protect up to 100,000 hectares.... Read more -
Pamela Honeyfield
Seeding the Wind 25 Oct - 15 Nov 2025 Notes From the Artist This exhibition encapsulates my time spent at the Australian Wildlife Conservancy and residency at Newhaven, northwest of Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory. In the wake of unprecedented rainfall, I found myself immersed in a quiet resurgence of the Australian desert, a land often defined by... Read more
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Michelle Hungerford
Tough Ground | Deep Heart 25 Oct - 15 Nov 2025 Notes From the Artist The desert is a harsh and tough environment…but it endures, sometimes viewed as a vast emptiness with few signs of life. This misconception melts away when the rains come and the soft heart of the desert is exposed. This is seen in the gentle rhythms and... Read more -
David Collins - Sightlines
@ Wallarobba Arts & Cultural Centre, Hornsby 17 Oct - 2 Nov 2025 David Collins and the Spirit of the Hawkesbury River The Hawkesbury River, with its winding waters, sandstone cliffs, and dense eucalyptus bushland, has long captured the imagination of Australian artists. For David Collins, this iconic waterway is not merely a subject, but a living presence - one that breathes through... Read more -
Peter Godwin
Notes to Oneself 27 Sep - 18 Oct 2025 Notes to Oneself presents a new series of interiors by Peter Godwin that are awash with the shifting, ephemerality of light. As the title suggests, the artist returns to thoughts from the studio - contemplating the potential of light to build form and infuse the compositions with its transient presence.... Read more -
Julia Roche
The Low Hum 30 Aug - 20 Sep 2025 It’s 8am and I’m sitting in the car on the driveway of our farm in rural Western Australia, talking on the phone to Julia Roche. I imagine her tucked up warm in her Wagga Wagga studio, surrounded by rolling hills, the rustle of trees, the low hum of cattle, watching... Read more
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Meagan Jacobs
North of Capricorn 30 Aug - 20 Sep 2025 Meagan Jacobs is a rarity. Rare in the subtlety of her colour and rare in her soulful and concrete commitment to landscape. Composed of strong interlocking forms, her work is meditative, both tightly knit and unpredictably expansive. “It’s strange” she admits “to fit the whole of the desert into the... Read more -
SIX ARTISTS | SEVEN DAYS
Defiance Gallery + Australian Wildlife Conservancy 2 - 23 Aug 2025 Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary spans nearly 262,000 hectares at the intersection of three central Australian bioregions, making it one of the largest non-government protected areas and a vital conservation site. It hosts Australia’s largest feral cat eradication project, including a massive predator-free area that will ultimately protect up to 100,000 hectares.... Read more -
Terrain
Group Exhibition 28 Jun - 19 Jul 2025 Read more -
Ann Thomson
On Paper 31 May - 21 Jun 2025 Read more
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Kyle Murrell
Always at Every Moment 31 May - 21 Jun 2025 Some visitors came to a painter’s studio. Most remained silent as they were shown the paintings; a few offered appreciative comments. But just as the painter thought the presentation had reached its end, one visitor stepped forward, pointed their foot at a patch of paint on the floor and said... Read more -
Susan Baird
Painting Place 3 - 24 May 2025 Perched high in the hills behind Bathurst, the old gold mining settlement of Hill End has become a kind of painter’s paradise that inspired a compelling chapter in the annals of Australian art. The site was famously ‘discovered’ by Russell Drysdale and Donald Friend as they drove down Beyers Avenue... Read more -
David Collins
Brevity 3 - 24 May 2025 'One has to work very carefully with what is between the words, what is not said. Which is measure, which is rhythm and so on. So, it is what you don’t write that frequently gives what you do write its power.' Taking these words from Toni Morrison as an exploration,... Read more -
PAPER
Group Exhibition 5 - 26 Apr 2025 Read more
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Julien Playoust
Investigating Landscape 6 - 29 Mar 2025 Read more -
30 YEARS
Defiance Artists 8 Feb - 1 Mar 2025 Read more -
Peter Godwin
Space, Light & Time Survey Exhibition at SH Ervin Gallery 4 Jan - 2 Mar 2025 Read more -
Ann Thomson
Survey Exhibition at Orange Regional Gallery 7 Dec 2024 - 9 Mar 2025 Read more
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Defiance Group Artists
Summer Salon 2024 23 Nov - 20 Dec 2024 Read more -
Peter Godwin
Studio Interiors 26 Oct - 16 Nov 2024 -
Tony Slater
The Whirlwind of Now 28 Sep - 19 Oct 2024 Read more -
Estate of Roy Jackson
The Edge, Pilgrimages to Queensland 28 Sep - 19 Oct 2024 Read more
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Peter Godwin
Space, Light & Time Survey Exhibition 7 Sep - 24 Nov 2024 Read more -
Peter Stevens
Yuraygir 24 Aug - 21 Sep 2024 Read more -
Campbell Robertson-Swann
Fenestra 24 Aug - 21 Sep 2024 Read more -
Paul Hopmeier
Sculptures 27 Jul - 17 Aug 2024 Read more
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Julia Roche
When our eyes adjust 27 Jul - 17 Aug 2024 Julia Roche’s work is guided by nature and by feeling, encompassing the complex relationships between landscape and identity. The work is not about this place, but of it. Julia thinks of it as a form of bearing witness. Since returning to her childhood home on Wooroola in 2018, Julia has... Read more -
Joe Furlonger
Landscape 29 Jun - 20 Jul 2024 Read more -
Tim Allen
Tracing Contour 1 - 22 Jun 2024 Read more -
Group Artists
Winter 24 1 - 22 Jun 2024 Read more
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Wendy McDonald
Stars, Night Herons & the Politics of Envy 4 - 25 May 2024 Read more -
Deborah Beck
Fragments 4 - 25 May 2024 Read more -
Alison Coates
Carapace in Space 6 - 27 Apr 2024 Read more -
Ana Pollak
Ad Infinitum 6 - 27 Apr 2024 Read more
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Ann Thomson
Presented by 333 Projects at Clayton Utz 6 Apr - 28 Sep 2024 Read more -
Julia Roche
When our eyes adjust at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery 23 Mar - 23 Jun 2024 Read more -
David Collins
Inland 9 - 30 Mar 2024 Read more -
Defiance Group Artists
Stockroom Selection 9 - 30 Mar 2024 Read more
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Group Artists
Defiance 24 3 Feb - 2 Mar 2024 Read more -
Ann Thomson
Curated by Terence Maloon at S.H. Ervin 6 Jan - 3 Mar 2024 Read more -
Pamela Honeyfield
Song Notes 18 Nov - 16 Dec 2023 -
Ingrid Morley
The Past is Just Behind 18 Nov - 16 Dec 2023
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Helen Gauchat
Subject - Object 21 Oct - 11 Nov 2023 Read more -
Ivor Fabok
Recent Works 2023 19 Aug - 16 Sep 2023 Read more -
Peter Godwin
Studio Interiors 8 Aug - 16 Sep 2023 -
Jan King
Jan King 24 Jun - 15 Jul 2023
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Kyle Murrell
Exhumed 27 May - 13 Jun 2023 -
Estate of Roy Jackson
Palimpsest 27 May - 17 Jun 2023 Read more -
David Collins
Adrift 4 - 25 Mar 2023 -
Ana Pollak
Continuum 8 Nov - 3 Dec 2022
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Anita Johnson
The Secret Lives of Things 24 Sep - 15 Oct 2022 -
Joe Furlonger
Land / Sea 24 Sep - 15 Oct 2022 -
Peter Godwin
Studio & Mountains 26 Aug - 17 Sep 2022 -
Peter Stevens
Between River & Sea 30 Jul - 20 Aug 2022
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Kyle Murrell
New Paintings 2022 2 - 23 Jul 2022 -
Clara Hali
Land Forms Body Forms 2 - 23 Jul 2022 -
Peter Powditch
Memorial Exhibition 7 - 28 May 2022 -
Tony Slater
From the Suburbs to Uluru 23 Jan - 5 Feb 2022
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Tony Slater
Young Street Musicians, Open Air Cafes 23 Jan - 5 Feb 2022 -
David Collins
Stage 31 Oct - 20 Nov 2021 -
Peter Godwin
Interlude 20 Jun - 11 Jul 2021 -
Paul Hopmeier
Selected Sculpture 20 Jun - 11 Jul 2021 Read more
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Roger Crawford
Scrim 23 May - 17 Jun 2021 -
Clara Hali
Selected Works from 1995 - 2020 28 Apr - 20 May 2021 -
Lea Ferris
Homage to the Reef 14 Nov - 10 Dec 2020 -
Ana Pollak
Palimpsest 19 Sep - 16 Oct 2020
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Anita Johnson - Come to Me Without a Word
Wollongong Art Gallery 29 Aug - 11 Oct 2020 -
Joe Furlonger
I Just Want To Go As Far West As I Can Go 29 Jul - 20 Aug 2020 -
Estate of Roy Jackson
European Odyssey 11 Mar - 2 Apr 2020 -
Ann Thomson & Joe Furlonger
Sanbao - Painted Ceramics (Nock Art Foundation) 12 Feb - 5 Mar 2020
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Ingrid Morley
Anomie 20 Nov - 15 Dec 2019 -
Helen Gauchat
Bush 31 Jul - 22 Aug 2019 Read more -
Peter Godwin
Mask, Music & Studio 3 - 25 Jul 2019 -
Joe Furlonger
Survey Exhibition 8 - 30 May 2019
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Clara Hali & Peter Powditch
Sun Torso Walking Hips 20 Mar - 2 May 2019 -
Tony Slater
Verandah Figure Bush 13 Feb - 7 Mar 2019 -
Estate of Roy Jackson
Backwards Forwards 1 Aug - 6 Sep 2018 -
Jan King
Recent Works 2018 (Defiance Mary Place and Newtown) 27 Jun - 26 Jul 2018
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Paul Hopmeier
Past Modern Madonna 24 Mar - 8 Apr 2018 Read more -
Peter Godwin
Paris Apartment 25 Oct - 18 Nov 2017 -
Tony Slater
Selected Landscapes 30 Aug - 13 Sep 2017 -
Anita Johnson
Reasonable Mayhem 26 Jul - 19 Aug 2017
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Peter Powditch
Defiance Gallery at the Yellow House 10 May - 4 Jun 2017 -
Peter Powditch
Coast - A Retrospective 31 Mar - 21 May 2017 -
Tony Slater - Under the Sun
Defiance Gallery at the Yellow House 7 Sep - 1 Oct 2016 -
Helen Gauchat
As The Light Falls 24 Aug - 17 Sep 2016 Read more
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Estate of Roy Jackson
Retrospective 1963 - 2013 30 Apr - 19 Jun 2016 -
Anita Johnson
The Breath Within 6 - 30 May 2015 -
Estate of Roy Jackson
Inch Time Foot Gems 11 Mar - 4 Apr 2015 -
Estate of Roy Jackson
Recent Works 2014 11 Mar - 4 Apr 2014
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Campbell Robertson-Swann
Recent Works 2013 11 Sep - 5 Oct 2013
