Autumn may just be the best season to take yourself to the gallery. As the weather takes on a cool edge, we're tempering the instinct to stay indoors by stepping into our favourite galleries instead. So, what's on the menu for art in April? There's the Biennale of Sydney and the much anticipated Bill Henson exhibit at Roslyn Oxley9. As for the rest? You're just going to have to keep reading to find out. Here's what's happening in art across Australia this April 2022.
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NSW
China Heights
Four Seasons
Ellen Virgona
Opens 8 April, 2022.
Homies
Mackenzie Rowe & Sam Stephenson
Opens 8 April, 2022.
Station Gallery
Radix
Laith McGregor
2 – 30 April 2022
Granville Centre Art Gallery
Destiny Disrupted
Curated by Nur Shkembi featuring artists: Abdul Abdullah, Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Hoda Afshar, Safdar Ahmed, Khadim Ali, Phillip George, Khaled Sabsabi, Omar J Sakr, Shireen Taweel, and Hossein and Nassiem Valamanesh.
Until May 10, 2022.
Biennale of Sydney
rīvus
12 March – 13 June 2022
Prop Gallery
In Flux
Opens: 23 March, 2022.
Galerie PomPom
The White Square
Danica Firulovic
Opening night: 6-8pm, Wed 16 March, 2022.
Jerico Contemporary
Comes in Waves
Luke Chiswell
7 April – 30 April 2022
UNSW Galleries
Pliable Planes
29 April – 17 July 2022
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Until April 3, 2022.
N.Smith Gallery
Intertwined
Dylan Mooney
6 April – 29 April 2022
Turalayinthi Yarta
James Tylor
13 April – 29 April 2022
National Art School
Every Thursday night until July
Twenty Twenty Six
Satellite: Sydney NFT exhibition
Until April 2, 2022.
Ngununggula
Every Friday night until April 29, 2022.
Olsen Gallery
Antara
Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin
6 April – 23 April 2022
Naive and Sentimental Paintings
John Young
13 April – 7 May 2022
Michael Reid
Being human human being
Dr Christian Thompson AO
Until April 24, 2022.
Roslyn Oxley9
Bill Henson
1 April – 30 April 2022
Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Way We Eat
Until June 14, 2022.
Cement Fondu
Virtue & Virtuosity
12 March – 22 May 2022
Lauren Berkowitz, Troy Emery, Maya Kilic, Chantal Fraser, Heather Phillipson, Sally Gabori, Tully Arnot, Camille Henrot & Tristan Jalleh.
VIC
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Koori Heritage Trust
Off the Wall – Celebrating First Peoples' Mark Making
Until May 15, 2022.
Station Gallery
Selected works on paper
André Piguet
Until April 2, 2022.
Particle Days
Jon Cattapan
9 April – 14 May 2022
National Gallery of Victoria
Queer: Stories from the NGV collection
Until August 21, 2022.
Bark Ladies: Eleven Artists from Yirrkala
Until April 25, 2022.
Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifesto
Until April 25, 2022.
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Sidney Nolan: Search for Paradise
Until May 29, 2022.
Under Lamp Light
Albert Tucker & Patrick Pound
Until June 13, 2022.
Sometimes I miss the applause
Dean Cross
Until May 29, 2022.
Shepparton Art Museum
Art in Conflict: An Australian War Memorial Touring Exhibition
26 March – 31 July 2022
Bendigo Art Gallery
Modern Australia
Until April 17, 2022.
WA
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Art Gallery of Western Australia
Until April 18, 2022.
Tracks We Share: Contemporary Art of the Pilbara
Until August 29, 2022.
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
Sam Huxtable
Until April 24, 2022.
Monumental
Amrita Hepi
Until April 24, 2022.
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
Ariel's Song
Luisa Hansal, Jess Tan & Wade Taylor with works from the UWA Art Collection
Until April 23, 2022.
Portals of Love and Loss
Sonia Kurarra
Until April 23, 2022.
ACT
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Canberra Museum & Gallery
Finding the dry heart: Sidney Nolan’s early travels in Central Australia
Until April 2, 2022.
National Gallery of Australia
Jeffrey Smart
Until May 15, 2022.
4th National Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony
Until July 31, 2022.
National Film and Sound Archive
Australians & Hollywood: A Tale of Craft, Talent, and Ambition
Until July 17, 2022.
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QLD
Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art
Until May 2022.
Asia Pacific Triennial
Until April 25, 2022
Redland Art Gallery
Sequence
Kyra Mancktelow
Until May 8, 2022.
Museum of Brisbane
Dylan Mooney
Until April 18, 2022.
City in the Sun
Until April 18, 2022.
artisan
Con Ojos y Dientes
Paula Quintela
Until June 4, 2022.
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SA
Jam Factory
Ripple effect: A 25 Year Survey
Blanche Tilden
Until May 1, 2022.
Bioregional Bodies
Kyoko Hashimoto
Until May 1, 2022.
ACE Open
Metaverse
Curated by Patrice Sharkey
9 April – 14 May 2022
Art Gallery of South Australia
Absence Embodied
Chiharu Shiota
Ongoing
THE SPIRITS OF THE PUMPKINS DESCENDED INTO THE HEAVENS
Yayoi Kusama
Until April 30, 2023.
Flinders University Museum of Art
SOVEREIGN SISTERS: domestic work
Until April 8, 2022.
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NT
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Walking through a Songline
Until June 26, 2022.
Charles Darwin University Gallery
Long water: fibre stories
Until July 9, 2022.
Araluen Arts Centre
Desert Mob Retrospective
Until June 1, 2022.
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TAS
Art Mob
Art Mob's 20th Birthday Exhibition
Until April 17, 2022.
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Made/Worn: Australian Contemporary Jewellery
Until May 15, 2022.
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
Tao Sublime
Tony Smibert
Until November 6, 2022.
Museum of Old and New Art
Jean-Luc Moulène and Teams
Until May 9, 2022.
Looking to invest in art of your own? Here are some pieces the RUSSH editors have welcomed into their own spaces.
Images: Laith McGregor, Untitled (Effect), 2022, archival pigment print mounted on dibond, 32.0.0 x 24.0 cm, edition of 3 + 1 AP. Untitled (Drawing), 2022, archival pigment print mounted on dibond, 32.0.0 x 24.0 cm, edition of 3 + 1 AP
