The Commercial is exhibiting for the first time at Art Basel Hong Kong. We are in the main Galleries section in Booth 3C28 with a group exhibition of works by Agatha Gothe-Snape, Anna Kristensen, Archie Moore, Augusta Vinall Richardson, Mitch Cairns and Jude Rae. Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, preview days 25–26 March, public days 27–29 March.

Archie Moore has worked with Australian precious metals and services group, Pallion, to create Remnants Of My Father, a multi-part portrait of his father, Stanley Moore (1908–1994) in gold and other materials to be exhibited in the 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Yield Strength at the Museum of Economic Botany. "Memories of my father are the golden thread that connect eight forged objects and reproduced documents from my father’s deceased estate. The work speaks to (false) hope, (empty) promises, (thin) veneers and (pipe) dreams. I am truly grateful to have had the opportunity to work with Pallion on this project. Their guidance and metallurgical expertise made the realisation of the work possible, including a willingness to veer off the beaten track and solve problems through creative thinking." —Archie Moore. Adelaide Biennial exhibition dates: 27.02.2026 – 08.07.2026

Mathew Harris and Archie Moore present new work at the 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Yield Strength, curated by Ellie Buttrose. Harris is presenting works at the Art Gallery of South Australia and the Samstag Museum of Art. Moore is presenting work at the Museum of Economic Botany in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. Until 08.06.26.

Matthew Harris and Lillian O’Neil are presenting major bodies of work in All the World’s Memories, curated by José Da Silva at UNSW Galleries, Sydney. The exhibition is on until 03.05.26 and includes Harris’s major work, Consigned to Oblivion (2023), and a group of works by O'Neil including a newly commissioned collage.

Temporary Configurations, Augusta Vinall Richardson’s first solo institutional exhibition, opens this week at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne. Curated by Brigid Moriarty, the exhibition includes a new group of sculptures that offer insight into the breadth of Richardson’s approach to metals and more ephemeral materials.

NAS Gallery, Sydney, and the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, are partnering to present a solo survey exhibition of Mitch Cairns' work spanning 20 years. Mitch Cairns: Artist's Mouth is being curated by Lucy Latella and Robert Leonard. The exhibition will include over 40 works borrowed from institutions and private collections and will be accompanied by a monograph with four new essays. NAS Gallery: 01.05.2025 – 11.07.2026; IMA: 10.10.2026 – 20.12.2026

Yasmin Smith’s Elemental Life at Museum of Contemporary Art Australia featured in The Art Newspaper. “I will never look at a piece of flint in the same way again.” – Louisa Buck. exhibition until 08.06.26

Congratulations to Archie Moore and all the kith and kin team on being awarded the Art Association of Australia & New Zealand award for Best Artist Led Publication in the 2025 Art Writing and Publishing Awards for the kith and kin book published in assocation with the 2024 Venice Biennale exhibition. The kith and kin book is now available at the QAGOMA store.

Archie Moore’s kith and kin at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane featured in The Guardian “Australia is invited to step into a quiet room and watch the truth of its history emerge from the darkness.” – The Guardian Exhibition until 18.10.26

Over a dozen paintings by Jude Rae will be presented in Counterpoint, curated by Kathryn Roberts, at Manly Art Gallery & Museum. The exhibition brings together works by Jude Rae, Ruth Waller and Toni Warburton. Exhibtion: 05.12.25 - 15.02.26

Australian Parliament House unveiled today Jude Rae’s portrait of former Australian Prime Minister, Malcom Turnbull, commissioned for the Historic Memorials Collection.

Huge congratulations to Mitch Cairns announced by Mosman Art Gallery and The Balnaves Foundation last night as the inaugural recipient of The Neil Balnaves Fellowship. "Valued at $80,000 and in honour of the late Neil Balnaves AO, this is a major initiative to support the development of a significant piece of research or creative endeavour over a two-year period.”

The Commercial at Art Basel Hong Kong 2026. This week Art Basel announced participants in its 2026 edition in Hong Kong. The Commercial is delighted to share that it will be presenting a group exhibition in the main Galleries sector for its inaugural presentation at the leading fair in the Asia-Pacific region. ABHK 2026 will include 240 galleries from 41 countries and territories. dates: March 27–29, 2026 | Preview Days March 25 and 26.

Three recently acquired paintings by Mitch Cairns will feature in Framing Tomorrow, an exhibition commemorating 50 years of Murdoch University’s Art Collection. Exhibition: November 2025-August 2026

An early work by Narelle Jubelin is included alongside other leading Australian women artists in The Hidden Line: Art of the Boyd Women at Bundanon. The exhibition repositions the creative practices of five generations of women from one of Australia’s most prominent artistic dynasties. Exhibition: 22.11.25 – 15.02.26

Jazz Money and Jason Phu's picture book The Frog’s First Song is published by University of Queensland Press.

A solo exhibition by Matthew Harris, Overland, opens this weekend in the artist’s hometown at Wangaratta Art Gallery in regional Victoria. The exhibition “explores dominant power structures and historical narratives through a socially critical and conceptual practice in painting and sculpture. In Overland, Harris turns his focus to the lasting impact of colonisation on the Wangaratta region and its First Peoples, presenting a new series of paintings informed by historical documents. Using natural ochres and charcoal on hessian - a material chosen for its colonial associations and textile history - Harris weaves together personal and ancestral stories with broader material and cultural legacies.” Overland includes Harris' major painting series from 2024, The British Museum, on loan from the National Gallery of Victoria. Exhibition: 25.10.25 — 18.01.26

Oscar Perry is exhibiting in the group exhibition, Detokenisation, at Whangarei Art Gallery (NZ). The exhibition includes work by Darpa Press, Marie Shannon, Mike Parr, Oscar Perry, Samuel Holloway and et al and "approaches language not as a fixed code, but as something carried and weathered, contested in public, whispered in private and continually made and unmade through use." Exhibition: 18.10.25 - 25.01.26

Review of Archie Moore's kith and kin at QAGOMA by Claire G. Coleman in The Saturday Paper.

Coverage of Archie Moore: kith and kin at QAGOMA on Artshub.

Yasmin Smith will be in conversation with curators of Yasmin Smith: Elemental Life, Jane Devery and Manya Sellers, at Museum of Contemporary Art Australia Sunday 05.10.25, 1pm.

Coverage of Archie Moore: kith and kin at QAGOMA Brisbane on Australian Arts Review.

The most significant solo museum presentation of Yasmin Smith’s work to date opens next week at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Curated by Jane Devery and Manya Sellers, Yasmin Smith: Elemental Life comprises Smith’s major wall-based ceramic installation Seine River Basin (2019), commissioned for Cosmopolis #2: rethinking the human, Centre Pompidou, Paris, an archive of significant earlier works as well as major new works developed in the UK during the artist’s recent studies at Goldsmiths, The University of London. Exhibition: 03.10.25 – 08.06.26.

Archie Moore’s Venice Biennale award-winning installation, kith and kin, opens Friday night at QAGOMA in Brisbane. It is the first time kith and kin has been exhibited since its debut in Venice last year. Two talks are being presented as part of opening weekend events: Saturday 27.09.25, 10.30 – 11.30am: Archie Moore artist talk. Project introduction by Djon Mundine OAM (Bandjalung, curator, writer, artist, and activist). Artist talk in conversation with Ellie Buttrose (Curator, Contemporary Australian Art, QAGOMA and Curator of kith and kin at Venice Biennale) Saturday 27.09.25, 1.30 – 2.30pm: Panel discussion | How Archie Moore’s work centres First Nations voices, and honours stories that have long been silenced. Through their experiences in law, art and writing, guest speakers will reflect on how remembering and recording Indigenous histories can be a reparative and powerful act of truth-telling, hosted by Larissa Behrendt AO. Speakers: - Distinguished Professor Larissa Behrendt AO, Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education & Research, University of Technology, Sydney and ABC Radio host - Cheryl Leavy, writer and poet - David Marr, journalist and author.

A review of Travis MacDonald's first solo exhibition with Contemporary Fine Arts in their gallery in Basel, Switzerland, has been published on Ocula. "A glow emanates from the paintings of Travis MacDonald. They catch the light and seem to send it out to the viewer. This luminescence resembles that of church windows or paintings behind glass—a special glow that captivates and draws the eye into the work."

Augusta Vinall Richardson in The Conversation in review of Primavera 2025: Young Australian Artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.

Yasmin Smith is exhibiting in the Aichi Triennale 2025: A Time Between Ashes and Roses at Aichi Arts Centre, Aichi Prefectural Museum, Seto City, Japan, curated by Hoor Al Qasimi. Yasmin is exhibiting a detail from her 2022 ceramic installation Forest, which incorporates 11 coal fly ash glazes. The work traces a 300-million-year timeline, narrating the afterlives of ancient forests and the cyclical return of elements absorbed during plant lifetimes to the biosphere. Aichi Triennale: 13.09.25 – 30.11.25

A review of Mitch Cairns' solo exhibition, Restless Legs, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales earlier this year, has been published in Artforum. "Does anyone paint a better line than Mitch Cairns? The forty-one-year-old Australian artist is known for his reliably rigorous treatment of painting’s essentials, taking color and form as subject matter." Wes Hill

Mitch Cairns' solo exhibition, Restless Legs, commissioned by the Art Gallery of New South Wales and curated by Nick Yelverton, opens this week at its second venue in an expanded form at Wollongong Art Gallery. The exhibition will be launched by Maud Page, Director AGNSW, at opening event Friday 05.09.25, 6-8pm. Exhibition continues until 30.11.25

The Commercial is thrilled to present a solo exhibition by Angela Brennan at Sydney Contemporary 2025. Over four decades, Brennan’s practice is an ongoing thesis on colour, pleasure and relationships of form. Her work returns us to the exhilaration of experiencing art—and of being in the world. Angela Brennan: On Being an Atom features new oil paintings and ceramics and the artist’s first bronze. Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, 11—14 September, Booth H03. Contact the gallery for a preview.

Augusta Vinall Richardson is exhibiting in Matters of Time at UNSW Galleries, Sydney, a group exhibition curated by Catherine Woolley that brings together Australian artists and designers who explore the evolving role of metal in contemporary practice and its relationship to time. On Saturday 30.08.25, 3—4pm, Augusta will be in conversation with Margaret Hancock on the topic of the spatial and architectural dimensions in her work. Exhibition 29.08.25 — 16.11.25

Mitch Cairns is a finalist in the 2025 Mosman Art Prize with his painting Opera House. The exhibition of finalists opens at Mosman Art Gallery Friday 22.08.25 with announcement of winner selected by guest judge, Justin Paton, Head Curator of International Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Exhibition: 22.08.25 — 02.11.25

Augusta Vinall Richardson is creating a major new stainless steel sculpture for Installations curated by José Da Silva at Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, presented by The Commercial 11.09.25 — 14.09.25. Email gallery for advanced details

Augusta Vinall Richardson is contributing to the exhibition catalogue and will speak at a public forum for fellow artist Rose Nolan’s exhibition Breathing Helps at TarraWarra Museum of Art on Saturday 6 September, 2 - 4pm. Presented in partnership with Perimeter Books.

Narelle Jubelin and Archie Moore are selector artists in Big Power Energy at Chau Chak Wing Museum, the University of Sydney. 14 artists respond to the Power Collection’s legacy by choosing works not shown in over 30 years. Selector artists are: Serwah Attafuah, Christopher Bassi, Richard Bell, Megan Cope, Léuli Eshrāghi, Narelle Jubelin, Shivanjani Lal, Lindy Lee, Archie Moore, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, Ben Quilty, Leyla Stevens, Angela Tiatia, Imants Tillers. Exhibited artists are: Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Tony Ḏanyala, Juan Davila, Ronald Davis, Johnny Djatjamarralil, Philip Gudthaykudthay, Mary Gubiyarrawuy, Ralph Hōtere, Alain Jacquet, Miyalkkurruwurruwuŋ, Sidney Nolan, J.W. Power, Robert Rauschenberg, Robin White. Exhibition open now.

Congratulations to Yasmin Smith on her graduation exhibition marking the completion of her MA Art & Ecology at Goldsmiths, London. Exhibition dates: 18.07.25 - 22.07.25. Goldsmiths, University of London, Barriedale Building, Studio B.

Jazz Money's feature documentary, WINHANGANHA, commissioned by the Australian Film and Sound Archive in 2023, is available to stream free during NAIDOC Week on DocPlay. NAIDOC Week: 6 — 13 July. Link here

Two marble sculptures by Stephen Ralph were installed last week at the recently opened Olympus Dining in Redfern. A contemporary take on the Greek taverna, Olympus is owned by Jonathan Barthelmess and Sam Christie (Apollo, Potts Point) and run by Head chef Ozge Kalvo (formerly Ester and Baba’s Place). “When Olympus is good, it’s very good.” Callan Boys, Sydney Morning Herald. Olympus Dining, Wunderlich Lane, 2 Baptist St, Redfern. Table bookings here.

Memo Review has published a review of Mitch Cairns’ exhibition Restless Legs at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, written by Emma O’Neill. The exhibition, which ran from 8 March to 12 May 2025, featured a series of oil paintings and text-based bronze plates that explore themes of language, memory, and the interplay between text and image. Mitch Cairns: Restless Legs will be presented at Wollongong Art Gallery in an expanded form opening September this year. Read review.

"The Art Gallery of New South Wales has made the decision to close Mitch Cairns’ exhibition, Restless Legs, earlier than planned due to unfortunate, unforeseen circumstances. The Art Gallery apologises to the artist and anyone who did not have the opportunity to visit the solo exhibition, which was part of the Art Gallery’s Contemporary Projects series, before its early closure. If you can, we encourage you to visit the exhibition when it tours to Wollongong Art Gallery, where it will be on display from 6 September to 30 November 2025." Statement from AGNSW. View Mitch Cairns: Restless Legs online

Huge congratulations to Jude Rae announced today as the recipient of the 2025 Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales for her painting Pre-dawn sky over Port Botany container terminal. Established in 1897, the Wynne is one of the oldest art prizes in Australia and is awarded for an Australian landscape painting or figure sculpture. Exhibition dates: 10.05.25 - 17.08.25.

"Wrapped around the entrance of a building in Melbourne's CBD is a glossy artwork depicting a dark sky with luminous stars." Coverage on ABC News of Matthew Harris' recent public art project for Make Room that creates housing for homeless people in disused buildings.

Congratulations to Angela Brennan, Mitch Cairns and Jude Rae, announced as finalists in the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Angela is in Archibald with a portrait of Bridget Brennan, award-winning Indigenous journalist and the artist's niece. Mitch is in the Archibald with a portrait of fellow artist, Stephen Ralph, an in the Sulman with a mixed media text piece. Jude is in the Wynne with her painting, Pre-dawn sky over Port Botany container terminal. Exhibitions open Friday 09.05.25

A portrait of Stephen Ralph by Mitch Cairns is a finalist in the 2025 Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. ‘Stephen is a close friend – a master on the fiddle and a meticulous artist. He carries his exemplary craftsmanship across disciplines with care, precision and gentility,’ says Cairns, who won the Archibald Prize in 2017.

Bondi Pavilion Gallery has commissioned Lillian O’Neil to create new collages for the exhibition Souter’s Bondi alongside historic murals by David Henry Souter created between 1920 and 1934 on loan from the National Maritime Museum and other artists. Opening Friday 09.05.25, 6pm. Exhibition dates: 10.05.25 — 29.06.25.

Angela Brennan and Mitch Cairns feature in Eye to Eye: The Susan Taylor and Peter Jones Collection at Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra. This significant private collection "was seeded from an initial interest in mid-century modern design and early twentieth century avant-gardes, blossoming into an embrace of non-objective and abstract art. Yet their collection has grown to revel in the intersections between conceptual art, geometric abstraction, seriality, non-objective painting, photography, contemporary jewellery and poetics to develop conjunctions across time, place and materiality." Opening event: 01.05.25, 6pm. Exhibition: 19.04.25 — 15.06.25.

Coverage by Steve Dow in Art Guide on Mitch Cairns: Restless Legs at Art Gallery of New South Wales. "Of late, Cairns has dubbed his works “perfume paintings”, in the sense of “something entering the air, a sensory acknowledgement”."

Coverage in today's Sydney Morning Herald of Mitch Cairns' solo exhibition, Restless Legs, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, by Michaela Boland.

The Art Gallery of Western Australia has acquired Agatha Gothe-Snape's wall painting Physical Doorway (Three Ways) included in Gothe-Snape's recent solo exhibition The Medium is the Medium || Agatha Gothe-Snape Material at AGWA curated by Robert Cook. The work concept was first developed for the 2016 Biennale of Sydney curated by Stephanie Rosenthal.

Jude Rae is giving an artist talk at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia as part of a program of talks for the opening weekend of The Intelligence of Painting. Saturday 22.03.25, 12 — 2. Jude is scheduled to speak at 12.25pm.

Mitch Cairns will be in conversation at the Art Gallery of New South Wales with curator Nick Yelverton on the occasion of his solo exhibition, Restless Legs. Wednesday 12.03.24, 6.30pm. Further details on AGNSW website.

Watch video of Augusta Vinall Richardson in conversation with Amanda Love, Director of LoveArt, on the occasion of her Love[f]art project.

Seminal work by Angela Brennan is included in Gertrude Contemporary’s landmark exhibition. Reflecting on 40 years of Melbourne’s critical contemporary art space, A Fictional Retrospective: Gertrude's First Decade 1985-1995 ‘takes a speculative look at the span of artists’ work shown during Gertrude Contemporary’s formative years, to shape a fresh and vital interpretation of this era’, curated by Sue Cramer and Emma Nixon. Opening celebration Friday 07.02.25, 6—8pm. Exhibition 08.02.25 — 28.03.25

Following on from their recent individual residencies, Oscar Perry and Augusta Vinall Richardson are exhibiting in the group exhibition, After Ruins, at Nonfrasa Gallery, Indonesia, presented in association with DESA Residency. Exhibition: 22.02.25 — 22.03.25.

Jazz Money is exhibiting in CHTHONIC CHORUS at Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne. Opening night: Friday, 31 January, 6–8pm. Exhibition: 01.02.25 — 30.03.25.

Yasmin Smith's Terra Dei Fuochi is being exhibited in These Entanglements: Ecology After Nature at UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, curated by Anna Briers. exhibition 18.02.25 – 14.06.2025.

Mitch Cairns’ Adelaide Painting from his solo presentation by The Commercial at Sydney Contemporary in 2024 has been acquired by Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.

Oscar Perry is currently undertaking a residency at DESA in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia.

Archie Moore’s Comic Paintings from 2005 are being presented by the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. This early series by Moore features seven large-scale, unstretched paintings in comic book format, containing narratives around racism, bullying, generational trauma and poverty. The Commercial exhibited the Comic Paintings series in 2023 borrowed from a private collection. IMA exhibition: 18.01.25 – 30.03.25

The Commercial will be closed for visiting during summer recess from 22.12.24 — 05.02.25 inclusive. Please send email enquiries in the meantime. Wishing everyone a restful break and looking forward to seeing you in 2025.

Archie Moore's kith and kin, awarded Golden Lion for Best National Participation at the 2024 Venice Biennale has been named #1 in ARTnews' list of Defining Artworks of 2024.

Augusta Vinall Richardson presents, Better to make sense of me, than you (I see me, I see you) for the LoveArt nano project series Love[f]Art. Vinall Richardson was invited by LoveArt Director, Amanda Love, to create a new work for the project's fourteenth iteration. She created two sculptural works that engage the bathroom location: ‘Fragmented images in mirrored stainless steel disrupt the singular focus on one’s reflection’ exhibition: by appointment December 2024– April 2025: mail@loveart.com

Congratulations to Archie Moore for today being awarded an honorary doctorate by Queensland University of Technology. Celebrating Moore’s contribution to Australian art, QUT stated, ‘Mr Moore is one of Australia’s most significant contemporary artists, whose thought-provoking works challenge perceptions of identity, culture, and history. His deeply reflective and imaginative approach has made him a celebrated force in the art world.’ Moore was a graduate of QUT Bachelor of Visual Arts in 1998.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales is presenting a solo show by Mitch Cairns in 2025. Restless Legs will be Mitch Cairns’ first solo exhibition at the AGNSW. His paintings ‘take inspiration from the world outside his inner-city studio, from nature and the built environment to the working lives of the people around him. […] Questions of class, labour, communication and regionalism appear elsewhere in the exhibition along with tributes to literary influences.' exhibition: 08.03.25 — 09.06.25

In October 2025, the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia will present a solo exhibition by Yasmin Smith. Curated by Jane Devery, Senior Curator, Exhibitions, and Manya Sellers, Associate Curator, the exhibition will present Smith’s Seine River Basin (2019), commissioned for Cosmopolis 2: rethinking the human, Centre Pompidou, Paris and acquired for the MCA Collection in 2020, in conversation with recent and new works. exhibition 03.10.25 — 08.06.26

Listen to Archie Moore in conversation with celebrated writer and editor, Jennifer Higgie, as part of the Artists’ Artists Series 2 podcast produced by the National Gallery of Australia. Moore discusses three artworks of his selection from the NGA collection. The NGA has collected Moore's work in depth since 2012.

Announced as part of the Museum of Contemporary Art's 2025 program, Angela Brennan and Jude Rae will be exhibiting in The Intelligence of Painting, an exhibition of 14 contemporary Australian women painters at the MCA. Curated by MCA Director, Suzanne Cotter, and Curator, Manya Sellers, The Intelligence of Painting, ‘throws a spotlight on the energy of contemporary painting in Australia today’. The exhibition includes recent MCA Collection acquisitions and new and recent paintings by the artists. exhibition: 07.03.25 – 20.07.25