December... how did we get here? It's the first day of summer and galleries across the country are bringing out the biggest and brightest shows in time for the holidays. So what's on the cards this month? Artspace will open the doors to its revamped space in Woolloomooloo while Surrealist Lee Miller is worth seeing for art lovers and history buffs alike (catch our conversation with the photographer's son here).
For the best in Australian art in December 2023, keep scrolling.
NSW
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Chalk Horse
Stranger Family
Daniel Domig
Until December 22, 2023.
STATION Gallery
How does it feel?
Angela Brennan, Jahnne Pasco-White, and Julia Trybala
2 December 2023 – 27 January 2024
Cement Fondu
Earthen
Ali Cherry, Rachel Farag, Isadora Vaughan, Lucy Bleach, and more.
Until December 3, 2023.
China Heights
Phonies
Curated by Sam Stephenson featuring Nash Ferguson and Mitchell Tolman
Opens December 8, 2023
Peach Black Gallery
Carla Ruffino
5–10 December 2023
Olsen Gallery
Paintings for Tomorrow's Yesterday
Andrew Taylor
Until December 15, 2023.
Hold Your Horses
Kenny Pittock
Until December 15, 2023.
COMA Gallery
2 Summers
Mikey Yates
1 December 2023 – 27 January 2024
Ngununggula
New Dog Old Tricks
Billy Bain, David Griggs, Guido Maestri, Jason Phu, Julia Gutman, Madeleine Pfull, Marc Etherington, Nadia Hernández, Noel Mckenna, and Todd Fuller.
Until February 4, 2024.
Arthouse Gallery
Stolen Flowers
Jo Davenport
Until December 16, 2023.
Bundanon Art Museum
Miwatj Yolŋu - Sunrise People
Until February 11, 2024.
N.Smith Gallery
108 Stars and Spirits
Casey Chen
Until December 16, 2023.
Murray Art Museum Albury
Monumental as Anything
Until February 11, 2024.
Bank Manager Hour
Courtney Young
21 January 2024
ACMI
The Dark Current
Angela Tiatia
Until February 4, 2024.
Powerhouse Museum
A Line, A Web, A World
Until December 2023.
1001 Remarkable Objects
Curated by Leo Schofield AM
Until December 2023.
Hake House of Art
SUMMER
Lucinda Jones
Until December 24, 2o23.
Artspace
untitled (transcriptions of country)
Jonathan Jones
15 December 2023 – 11 February 2024
Penrith Regional Gallery
Jana Hawkins-Andersen and Paris Taia
Until December 23, 2023.
Mosman Art Gallery
Imants Tillers: The Mosman Years
Until February 4, 2024.
National Art School
Grad Show
1–10 December 2023
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
BRAGS Art Fair
Until December 3, 2023.
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Hoda Afshar: A Curve is a Broken Line
Until January 21, 2024.
Kandinsky
Until March 10, 2024.
Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day?
Louise Bourgeois
Until April 28, 2024.
Art Leven
Ngarukuruwala Kapi Murrakupuni – we sing to the land
Until December 9, 2023.
Museum of Contemporary Art
Primavera 2023
Until February 4, 2024.
Waters' Witness
Tarek Atoui
Until February 4, 2024.
Tacita Dean
8 December 2023 – 3 March 2024
Sullivan + Strumpf
BLOB OUT
Polly Borland
Until December 16, 2023.
My Candle Burns At Both Ends
Marion Abraham
Until December 16, 2023.
VIC
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James Makin Gallery
Heavenly Bodies
Ara Dolatian
Until December 10, 2023.
Dancing Light
Annalisa Ferraris
Until December 10, 2023.
West Space
where you from?
Chris Ng
Until December 16, 2023.
TarraWarra Museum of Art
Surrender & Catch
Brent Harris
Until March 11, 2024.
Linden New Art
Gathering Dust
Elise Cakebread
Until December 23, 2023.
Buxton Contemporary
Around
Nadine Christensen
Until April 7, 2024.
karu kin
Collective special project led by Grace Dlabik as part of her fellowship with BLAK C.O.R.E.
1 – 17 December 2023
Art Gallery of Ballarat
Whereabouts: Printmakers Respond
Until February 4, 2024.
Between Worlds
Tamara Bekier
Until January 28, 2024.
Significant Others
Until February 11, 2024.
Hamilton Gallery
Emerging from Darkness
Artemisia Gentileschi, Lavinia Fontana, Sofonisba Anguissola, exhibited alongside paintings from Peter Paul Rubens, Valentin de Boulogne, Guercino, and Bartolomeo Manfredi.
December 9 2023 – 14 April 2024
Swan Hill Regional Gallery
Conflated
Until December 3, 2023.
Brunswick Street Gallery
Last Light: Season's End
James Riches
7 – 21 December 2023
New Vanitas
Peter Tankey
7 – 21 December 2023
Gertrude Contemporary
Another Kind
Elyas Alavi
Until December 16, 2023
STATION Gallery
Aboriginal Intelligence
Karla Dickens
Until December 16, 2023.
10 flowers i picked at a cemetery and left on your doorstep, now you’re haunted by their ghosts and the cops think you are the cemetery flower robber
Jason Phu
Until December 16, 2023.
CRAFT
Everybody's heard of a dragon
Until January 27, 2024.
MARS Gallery
Babble On
Brie Trenerry
Until December 9, 2023.
Dust
Atong Atem
14–20 December 2023
National Gallery of Victoria
Planetary Redesign
Liam Young
Until February 11, 2023.
Photography: Real & Imagined
Man Ray, Cindy Sherman, Wolfgang Tillmans, Gilbert & George, Nan Goldin, Max Dupain, Olive Cotton, Mervyn Bishop, Polly Borland, and Darren Sylvester.
Until February 24, 2024.
Emily Kam Kngwarray
2 December 2023 – 28 April 2024
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Surrealist Lee Miller
Until February 25, 2024.
Bendigo Art Gallery
The kingdom, the power
Marikit Santiago
Until February 4, 2024.
WA
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Art Gallery of Western Australia
Death Metal Summer
Deanna Templeton and Ed Templeton
Until April 21, 2024.
Goolugatup Heathcote
The beautiful is useful
Lisa Liebetrau and Shannon Lyons
Until January 14, 2024.
Perth Maker's Market
17 December 2023
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
The Purple Shall Govern
Roberta Joy Rich
Until December 31, 2023.
Fremantle Arts Centre
Special Treat
Dionne Hooyberg
Until January 28, 2024.
Bazar Christmas Maker's Market
1–3 December 2023
ACT
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National Portrait Gallery
Archie 100: A Century of the Archibald Prize
Until January 28, 2024.
National Gallery of Australia
Nan Goldin
Until January 28, 2024.
Belconnen Arts Centre
Scenes from the mall
Spiros Coutroubas
Until February 11, 2024.
Hesitation
Eliza Adam
Until February 11, 2024.
QLD
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Institute of Modern Art
Rainbow Serpent
Daniel Boyd
Until December 16, 2023.
Capital
Laresa Kosloff
Until December 16, 2023.
Home of the Arts
Sneakers Unboxed: Studio to Street
Until January 24, 2023.
Edwina Corlette Gallery
One Part of the Story
Bundit Puangthong
2–16 December 2023
Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art
Gone Fishing
Until January 21, 2024.
The Castle of Tarragindi
Natalya Hughes
Until July 14, 2024.
A Feeling for Light
Isaac Walter Jenner
Until January 28, 2024.
Museum of Brisbane
Rearranged: Art of the Flower
Until August 11, 2024.
SA
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Adelaide Contemporary Experimental
Studios: 2023
Until December 16, 2023.
Art Gallery of South Australia
Tarnanthi
Until January 21, 2024.
Australia in Colour
Vincent Namatjira
Until January 21, 2024.
Adelaide Festival Centre
By Barry Humphries: From the David Dridan Family Collection
Until April 13, 2023.
NT
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Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Gumurr’manydji Manapanmirr Djäma (Making successful business together)
Open now
2023 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award
Open now
Laundry Gallery
Gatjpu!
Open now
Araluen Arts Centre
My Country
Until March 4, 2024.
Alice Prize 1970-2020
Until March 3, 2024.
TAS
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Museum of Old and New Art
Jean-Luc Moulène and Teams
Until April 1, 2024.
Salamanca Arts Centre
Continuum
Emma Bingham
Until January 28, 2024.
Despard Gallery
The Paper It's Written on
Patrick Hall
Until December 9, 2023.
Despard Gallery 37th Annual Summer Show
13 December 2023 – 3 February 2024
Looking to invest in art of your own? Here are some pieces the RUSSH editors have welcomed into their own spaces.
Images:
One: Brent Harris, Appalling Moment (wig) 1995, oil on linen, 121.6 x 98.6 cm. Gift of Michael Galimany through the Art Gallery of South Australia Contemporary, Collectors 2018. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gift Program. Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide © Brent Harris
Two: Vasily Kandinsky 'Blue painting' January 1924, oil on canvas board, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, gift, Fuller Foundation, Inc, 1976, photo courtesy Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, via @artgalleryofnsw
