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Art in March: Your guide to the Australian exhibitions taking place this month

australian art march 2023

The breadth of art showing in Australia this month will give you whiplash. How else do you describe the dance between Haring, Basquiat and Warhol at Home of the Arts; Tony Albert, Serwah Attafuah and Tom Polo at Ngununggula and the host of emerging artists rolling through Felt Space in Adelaide. There's something for everyone, when it comes to Australian art in March 2023, and I implore you to go explore it.

 

NSW

China Heights

Blossoms that open (Show You the Flowing Years)

Regine Bartsch

Until March 5, 2023.

Reflections of You

Ellen Virgona, Henrietta Harris, Lucy O'Doherty and Nathan Hale.

Until March 5, 2023.

Signs

Clare Wigney

Opens March 10, 2023

What-Else

Group exhibition curated by RUSSH fashion director Charlotte Agnew

Opens March 10, 2023

 

Chalk Horse

PIN

Rocket Mattler

Until March 18, 2023.

Yes Please...

Philjames

Until March 18, 2023.

 

Campbelltown Arts Centre

The National 4: Australian Art Now

Isabel & Alfredo Aquilizan with the Fruitjuice Factori Studio, Brook Andrew, Christopher Bassi, Lynda Draper, Jumaadi, Shivanjani Lal, Julian Martin and Yabini Kickett artist project with Sharyn Egan and Ilona McGuire.

30 March – 25 June 2023 

Embracing Shadows

Karla Dickens

Until March 12, 2023.

 

STATION Gallery

The Sky is the Safe Place

David Griggs

Until March 11, 2023.

 

Maitland Regional Art Gallery

Kungka Kuṉpu (Strong Women)

4 March – 21 May 2023

 

The Lock-Up

MEASURE TWICE, CUT ONCE

Sara Morawetz

Until March 26, 2023.

 

Bundanon Art Museum

Siteworks 2022: From a deep valley

Until March 12, 2023.

 

Carriageworks

Bloodlines

The Huxleys

Until March 5, 2023.

The National 4: Australian Art Now

Susan Balbunga, Frances Barrett, Elizabeth Day, Nicole Foreshew, Heather Koowootha, Jo Lloyd, Naminapu Maymuru-White, Jason Phu, Teho Ropeyarn, Erika Scott, and Katie West.

30 March – 25 June 2023

 

N.Smith Gallery

Still Thriving

Dylan Mooney

8 – 25 March 2023

Ngununggula

Video Commission

Tony Albert, Serwah Attafuah, Matthew Griffin, Heath Franco, Tom Polo, James Vaughan, Kate Blackmore and Diana Baker Smith

Until March 12, 2023.

 

Mosman Art Gallery

Thom Roberts and Simon Wheeldon

15 March – 28 May 2023

 

Passage Gallery

Opening Ceremony

Eduardo Wolfe-Alegria

Until March 5, 2023.

Urritjara

Tim Georgesen

10 March – 16 April 2023

 

Powerhouse Museum

Unpopular

Drawing on the archives of music promoter, record company founder and entrepreneur Stephen ‘Pav’ Pavlovic, the exhibit will take audiences behind-the-scenes of the alternative music scene in the 1990s.

Until June 3, 2023.

Zampatti Powerhouse

Until June 11, 2023.

 

Yavuz Gallery

Unbodied

Jedda-Daisy Culley

Until March 11, 2023.

 

Luna Studio

Phresh Blood

Group show: featuring Kasia Frankowicz, Tom Christophersen and more.

1 – 7 March 2023

 

Michael Reid

Limerence

Dr Christian Thompson AO

2 March – 1 April 2023

 

National Art School

Braving Time: Queer Contemporary for Sydney WorldPride

Until March 18, 2023.

 

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Art Express

Until May 7, 2023.

The National 4: Australian Art Now

Abdul Abdullah, Brenda L Croft, Robert Fielding, Madeleine Kelly, Glen Mackie Kei Kelak, Pierre Mukeba, Nabilah Nordin, Thea Anamara Perkins, Reko Rennie, David Sequeira, Esther Stewart, Heather B Swann, Natasha Walsh at the Brett Whiteley Studio, Surry Hills, and Gerry Wedd.

24 March – 23 July 2023

Dreamhome: Stories of Art and Shelter

Until late 2023

The End of Imagination

Adrián Villar Rojas

Until mid 2023

 

Arthouse Gallery

Entwined

Danelle Bergstrom

2 – 25 March 2023

 

Museum of Contemporary Art

The National 4: Australian Art Now

Hoda Afshar, Daniel Boyd, Eugene Carchesio, Allison Chhorn, Léuli Eshrāghi, Diena Georgetti, Simryn Gill, Ivi, Jilamara Arts and Crafts Association, Mia Salsjö, Kieren Seymour, Nicholas Smith, Isabelle Sully, Amanda Williams and Rudi Williams.

31 March – July 2023

 

Sullivan + Strumpf

Hiromi Tango:  Hanamida 花涙 (Flower Tears)

23 February – 18 March 2023

Dhopiya Yunupiŋu: Maŋatharra to Marege (South-Western Sulawesi to North-East Arnhem Land)

3 – 25 March 2023

 

Cement Fondu

Linger, Dash, Talk

Until April 23, 2023.

The Black Queer Advocates

Steven Lindsay Ross

Until April 23, 2023.

 

The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre

I Talk Through My Art and My Art Talks Through Me

Danny Eastwood

2 March – 15 April 2023

 

Rainbow Studios

Being

Kate Florence and Clare Dubina

Until March 9, 2023.

 

VIC

 

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At The Above

Magnetic

Matthew Dettmer

Until March 5, 2023.

 

TarraWarra Museum of Art

Peter Booth

Until March 13, 2023.

 

Buxton Contemporary

Peter Tyndall: Retrospective

Until April 16, 2023.

 

Brunswick Street Gallery

Sensory Memory

Heidi Lai

9 – 26 March 2023

 

Art Gallery of Ballarat

Pliable Planes

Akira Akira, Sarah Contos, Lucia Dohrmann, Mikala Dwyer, Janet Fieldhouse, Teelah George, Paul Knight, Anne-Marie May, John Nixon, Kate Scardifield, Jacqueline Stojanović, and Katie West.

4 March – 30 April 2023

 

Koorie Heritage Trust

Second Skin – Essence of Country

4 March – 4 May 2023

 

STATION Gallery

More Me

Katy Moran

9 March – 1 April 2023

Infinite camera

Patrick Pound

9 March – 1 April 2023

 

Caves Gallery

Pancratium

Midori Mitamura and Ry Haskings

3 – 23 March 2023

 

Anna Schwartz Gallery

Inside Out

Callum Morton

Until April 15, 2023.

 

CRAFT

Interior Landscape

Until March 4, 2023.

 

MARS Gallery

A Female Gaze

Dani McKenzie, Chelsea Lehmann, Eliza Gosse, Jo Bertini, Lucy Roleff, Marisa Mu, and Sis Cowie.

1 March – 25 March 2023

 

National Gallery of Victoria

Freedom of Movement: Contemporary Art and Design from the NGV Collection

Featuring KAWS, Patricia Piccinini, Francis Upritchard, Nick Cave, Dan Halter, Fred Wilson, and more.

Until April 10, 2023.

 

Sullivan + Strumpf

Hope in the Wilderness

Sam Jinks

Until March 11, 2023.

Undergod

Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran

16 March – 22 April 2023

 

Heide Museum of Modern Art

Barbara Hepworth: In Equilibrium

Until March 13, 2023.

Animal Instincts

Moya McKenna and Albert Tucker

Until March 19, 2023.

 

Bendigo Art Gallery

Australiana: Designing A Nation

18 March – 25 June 2023

 

WA

Art Gallery of Western Australia

dis/possession: identity and sense of place

Drawn from works in the State Art Collection, this exhibition centres on the juxtaposition of two significant works by two Australian artists: Hans Heysen’s Droving into the light and Mervyn Street’s Bull ride.

Until March 26, 2023.

Yeahnahnesia

Yok & Sheryo

Until March 26, 2023.

I have not loved (enough or worked)

Hai-Hsin Huang, Daisuke Kosugi, Pixy Liao, Lin Zhipeng (aka No.223), Rinko Kawauchi, Sejin Kim, Lieko Shiga, and Tao Hui.

Until April 23, 2023.

Star Machine

Al Qasimi

Until July 30, 2023.

Yoshitomo Nara: Reach Out to The Moon

Until June 25, 2023.

 

Goolugatup Heathcote

Benev(i)olent Dreaming

Ilona McGuire

Until March 26, 2023.

 

Kolbusz Space

Glory Box

Robyn Bernadt

Opens 10 February 2023

Shadow Self

Matthew McVeigh

Opens 24 March 2023

Perth Institute of Contemporary Art

Held Within A Word

Robert Andrew

Until April 23, 2023.

 

Fremantle Arts Centre

Djinda Waangkiny - The Stars Speak

Until April 23, 2023.

Other Horizons

Until April 23, 2023.

Atong Atem, Hayley Millar Baker and Jasmine Togo-Brisby

 

ACT

 

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Canberra Museum & Gallery

Jingo Was Born in the Slum

Matthew Thorne

Until March 4, 2022.

 

National Gallery of Australia

significant others

Rauschenberg & Johns:

11 March – 14 May 2023

untitled (walam-wunga.galang)

Jonathan Jones

4 March – 23 July 2023

 

National Film and Sound Archive

Australians & Hollywood: A Tale of Craft, Talent, and Ambition

Ongoing

 

QLD

 

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Home of the Arts

Pop Masters: Art from the Mugrabi Collection, New York

Until June 4, 2023.

A barrow, a singsing

Yuriyal Eric Bridgeman

Until May 7, 2023.

 

Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art

Air

Max Dupain, Albert Namatjira, Jonathan Jones with Uncle Stan Grant Snr, Tacita Dean, Carlos Amorales, Dora Budor, and more.

Until April 23, 2023.

 

Redland Art Gallery

A Time and Place: Celebrating 20 Years of the Rag

Until March 7, 2023.

 

Museum of Brisbane

Artist in Residence: Gordon Hookey

Until March 9, 2023.

 

Metro Arts

The Woman Remembers

8 – 11 March 2023

 

SA

Felt Space

Ritual Slaughterer

Isabella Hone-Saunders

7 March – 1 April 2023

Golden Macaroni

Kaijern Koo and Madeleine Minack.

8 March – 1 April 2023

Maladjusted

Anika Gardner, Nic May and Paige Lancy/

8 March – 1 April 2023

 

Adelaide Contemporary Experimental

A river that flows both ways: Selected works from the 23rd Biennale of Sydney: rīvus

Until March 18, 2023.

 

Art Gallery of South Australia

THE SPIRITS OF THE PUMPKINS DESCENDED INTO THE HEAVENS

Yayoi Kusama

Until April 2, 2023.

Andy Warhol & Photography: A Social Media

3 March – 14 May 2023

 

NT

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory

Gumurr’manydji Manapanmirr Djäma

Open now

 

Araluen Arts Centre

From Mparntwe to my Father's and Grandmother's Country

Charles Jangala Inkmala

 

Laundry Gallery

Bawaliba Homeland

Lucy Yarawanga

Opens February 11, 2023.

 

TAS

Museum of Old and New Art

Oceans of Air

Tomás Saraceno

Until July 24, 2023.

 

Contemporary Art Tasmania

Last Messages

Paolo Cirio, Joey Gracia, Lin Chen, Ray Harris, Erin Linhart, NEGATIVEMEDITATION, Nik Pepsi, Ryder Ripps, Winston Smith, Yoshi Sodeoka, John Zobele, and Zieromuko.

Until April 2, 2023.

 

Salamanca Arts Centre

Restless

Linda Veska

3 – 13 March 2023


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