Annandale Galleries

Annandale Galleries Director’s Bill and Anne Gregory opened Annandale Galleries in 1991, in what was a converted Masonic Hall.

The large space that the Galleries provide, stem from the building’s initial function, having originally been a Methodist church.

INFINITE GROWTH - OPEN NOWExhibition dates 16 May - 20 JuneAn international array of Annandale artists, using motifs of ...
16/05/2026

INFINITE GROWTH - OPEN NOW
Exhibition dates 16 May - 20 June

An international array of Annandale artists, using motifs of nature to communicate notions of regeneration, impermanence, allegory, and navigation of place.
Featuring:
Richard Ballard (UK)
Fred Cress (AUS)
Maurice Cockrill (UK)
Julie Harris (AUS)
William Kentridge (SA)
Wulu Marawili (AUS)
Balang Nakurulk (John Mawurndjul) (AUS)
Michael Weston (UK)

- Infinite Growth Install
- Richard Ballard, Forest Interior, 1985, oil on canvas 230 x 172 cm
- William Kentridge, Flowers for Suzanne, 2019 mohair tapestry in collaboration with Marguerite Stephens 235 x 166 cm edition of 6
- Julie Harris, The Brillig, 2020, acrylic, ink, marble dust on canvas, 155 x 137 cm

Vale Anne Gregory 1952-2026Recently, Annandale Galleries announced the passing of our esteemed director, Anne Grant Greg...
15/04/2026

Vale Anne Gregory 1952-2026
Recently, Annandale Galleries announced the passing of our esteemed director, Anne Grant Gregory.

For forty years, Anne was a pioneering figure in the arts, initially opening Poster Palais (1986-87), followed by Galerie Anne Gregory (1987-89) and finally Annandale Galleries (1991-present). Leading with dedication and tenacity, she realised countless landmark exhibitions with a continually resonating influence.

Anne passed whilst on holiday in Fiji, surrounded by loved ones. 
We are all immensely indebted to Anne, for her kindness and passion — she will be sorely missed.

Despite slight changes to the gallery program, Annandale continues to operate within our regular exhibition hours. While Anne's family is in mourning, we ask that anyone who wishes to pay their respects, please visit or contact the gallery directly via [email protected]

Final Days - We've loved seeing the wave of visitors who have come through over the past few weeks to admire both Charle...
16/10/2025

Final Days - We've loved seeing the wave of visitors who have come through over the past few weeks to admire both Charles Cooper's 'Geographics' and Julie Harris' 'Sigur Series'

You still have two days left before we say farewell to these remarkable solo exhibitions.







Photography by John McRae

Wäwamanydji - Two Brothers Coming in November to Annandale Galleries is the first major exhibition of from Yolŋu artists...
16/10/2025

Wäwamanydji - Two Brothers
Coming in November to Annandale Galleries is the first major exhibition of from Yolŋu artists Bambarrarr and Wulu Marawili!

From their clan's homeland of Yilpara, they tell the story of Bäru (saltwater crocodile) and the nesting site of Garraŋali, the wellspring of the Maḏarrpa people's identity (the clan to which Bambarrarr and Wulu belong). Whether on etched road signs, bark paintings, or larrakitj (hollow stringybark log), every work contains the powerful and protective fire-imbued waters brought by the Bäru — a source of strength, unity and sureness of purpose for Maḏarrpa people.

Bambarrarr and Wulu arrive in Sydney at a very special time, marking 30 years of collaboration between Annandale and Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre (Yirrkala). One of our most important mandates has been to nuture and support emerging Yolŋu artists, including the unique contributions and innovations they offer when telling traditional Yolŋu stories. And though their recent achievements are breathtaking, for Bambarrarr and Wulu, this is just the beginning!

In addition, renowned leader/artist Dr Djamabawa Marawili AM will be showing new bark paintings in support of his brothers. This is fitting considering Djambawa was the first Yolŋu artist to exhibit with Annandale and has continued to mentor countless artists who have shown with us since.

Join us and the artists for the opening of Wäwamanydji: Two Brothers
Opening Night: 5 November 6:30-8:30pm

Contact [email protected] or DM for further information, including advanced exhibition preview and catalogue details



Artwork images
Wulu Marawili, Garraŋli, 2025, etched aluminium, 123x123cm/90x90cm
BLA1210/1203

Bambarrarr Marawili, Garraŋli, 2025, earth pigments on stringybark
192x79.5cm/108x64cm/102x65.5cm
BLA1201/1196/1195

OPENING JULIE HARRIS - SIGUR SERIES"Harris' newest body of work slows us down and promotes quiet contemplation. In the a...
17/09/2025

OPENING JULIE HARRIS - SIGUR SERIES

"Harris' newest body of work slows us down and promotes quiet contemplation. In the artist's Starchart paintings, Harris seems to be asking us to consider the ways in which humans have steadily mapped the skies to guide them through the night, using celestial bodies to get us through uncertainty and despair. These historical practices span Polynesian, Indigenous Australian, Viking, and ancient Arabian culture, giving the implication that Harris is navigating territory not just the deeply personal, but perpetually relatable."

Join us tonight from 6:30pm for the opening of Sigur Series
Exhibition dates 17 September - 18 October
Also showing Charles Cooper - Geographics

📸 Julie Harris Sigur Series installation Annandale Galleries
Photos by John McRae


Install

OPENING - CHARLES COOPER GEOGRAPHICS"It requires little effort to interpret these patterns of cracks and tarlines as a f...
16/09/2025

OPENING - CHARLES COOPER GEOGRAPHICS

"It requires little effort to interpret these patterns of cracks and tarlines as a foreign text, like modern hieroglyphics — made even more intriguing by the unexpected orientations Cooper imposes on each scene [...] For him, they are a different kind of 'road sign'. These worn and repaired 'geograhics' signal to us that even the best laid plans go awry; and while some may distress at the thought, Cooper is ever the optimist. Signs exist to encourage change and inspire innovation. While he does not assert overt political statements through his paintings, one could easily see that these slippery scripts call us to consider our effects on the natural world, our treatment of Country, and our interdependency at large."

Join us from 6:30pm Wednesday 17 September for the opening of Geographics!
Also showing Julie Harris - Sigur Series

📸 Geographics installation, Annandale Galleries and selection of Cooper's LandMarks series, 2025, oil on canvas, 76 x 61cm
Photos John McRae


COMING SOON JULIE HARRIS: SIGUR SERIESThis September, Annandale is proud to present new work by Julie Harris. For the pa...
28/08/2025

COMING SOON JULIE HARRIS: SIGUR SERIES

This September, Annandale is proud to present new work by Julie Harris. For the past four decades, Harris has approached painting with vigorous dedication and unrelenting inquisitiveness. Her practice is refreshingly hard to pin down, and with each visit to the artist's Blackheath studio, there is a promise of newly explored territory.

The 'Sigur Series' takes its title from the Norwegian word for victory and stems from the artist's recent fascination with forms of 'assimilation with nature, and triumph over death'. It is no surprise then that these sweeping strokes spanning surfaces of almost three metres, envelop the viewer as if caught in a blizzard or faced with the seemingly endless expanse of a Nordic tundra (the collapse or the Birch Glacier was a key source or inspiration for Harris).

Harris has been the recipient of the Artlink Prize, Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize, Fleurieu Prize and Kedumbra Drawing Prize. She has been a Wynne Prize finalist, an AGNSW studio resident for Cite Internationale des Arts Paris, and a survey exhibition of her work has been held at Hawkesbury Regional Gallery (curated by Terence Maloon)

Join us 17 September 6:30pm for the opening of Sigur Series
Also opening: Charles Cooper 'Geographics'




1) Julie Harris, Ha's Blue, 2025, acrylic paint on canvas, 106 x 104 cm
2) Julie Harris, Nordic Blue, 2025 acrylic paint on canvas, 150 x 274 cm
3) Julie Harris, Sigur #2, 2025, acrylic paint on canvas, 150 x 275 cm
4) Julie Harris in her Blackheath studio, Blue Mountains (NSW)

COMING SOON CHARLES COOPER GEOGRAPHICS Charles Cooper returns to Annandale for the first time since the artist's exhibit...
27/08/2025

COMING SOON CHARLES COOPER GEOGRAPHICS

Charles Cooper returns to Annandale for the first time since the artist's exhibition and book launch 'On Location', held in 2022

In his latest series, Cooper fixates on the continual cycle of fracture and repair experienced quite literally by the urban landscape. The cracks along city roads and their remedial tarlines indicate a tension between our efforts to impose order and nature's responsive resistance

Treating the road as a living entity, a considered viewing quickly reveals that Cooper's grey and red expanses are teaming with colour and pulsing with texture. With meticulous technical skill and a heartfelt appreciation for his surroundings, Cooper draws you in, but demands a wider scope of appreciation. As Joe Frost writes, "Cooper plants the seed of perception and lets the viewer's mind do the rest, bearing the near view in mind as they move back to see the painting from afar, projecting the aura of the painted surface in the space around. In this way, paintings that could have been mere representations of a quotidian object become subtly modulated abstractions."

Opening night Wednesday 17 September 6:30pm
Exhibition dates: 17 September - 18 October

For an advanced viewing of works, prices, and our exhibition catalogue, contact us here or email [email protected]



1) Charles Cooper, Tarlines, 2024, oil on canvas 122 x 91 cm
2) Charles Cooper, Weather Veins, 2025, oil on canvas, 183 x 122 cm
3) Charles Cooper, Tarlines II, 2024, oil on canvas, 122 x 91cm
4) Charles Cooper, Tarlines V, 2025, 122 x 91 cm

FLOW STATES Barks Larrakitj & SculptureShown in the Buwayak style described below, this stunningly detailed bark shows t...
08/08/2025

FLOW STATES Barks Larrakitj & Sculpture

Shown in the Buwayak style described below, this stunningly detailed bark shows the sacred foundation of Nhulunbuy (the mining town close to Yirrkala). The central images are a Molk or ceremony ground shaped like a spearhead and within that a Dhupun or memorial pole representative of the two Djuwany sisters called Laklak and Raymatja. The references span Gadayka (stringybark), stone quarried from Ŋilbitji, honey and sacred men's ceremony.

"The meaning of the word Buwayak is Invisibility. Wanyubi chose this word to describe the work from Yilpara in which the figurative cover has begun to disappear from view. There has been no compromise on the protocol of the protective over of figurative imagery. But in some cases these elements are slipping below the water of the design and in others the figurative elements are hidden within other figurative patterning"

Join us Saturday 9 August 1-3pm, in celebrating the opening of Flow States - Barks Larrakitj & Sculpture, featuring renowned Yolŋu aritsts who have shown with Annandale over the past three decades.
31 July - 30 August 2025

Exhibited artists:
Gunybi Ganambarr • Ŋoŋu Ganambarr • Malauba Gumana • Waturr Gumana • Gawirrin Gumana • Djambawa Marawili • Galuma Maymuru • Buwathay Munyarryun • Yanggariny Wunuŋgmurra • Nawurapu Wunuŋgmurra • W. Wanambi • Deturru Yunupiŋu

All copyrights held by the artists and Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre





📸 Wanyubi Marika, Nhulunbuy, 2001 natural earth pigments on stringybark 138 x 44 cm

NOW SHOWING Flow States brings together a selection of recent and private-collection works from leading Yolŋu artists of...
02/08/2025

NOW SHOWING Flow States brings together a selection of recent and private-collection works from leading Yolŋu artists of north-east Arnhem Land, having passed through the Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre (Yirrkala, NT) with whom Annandale has collaborated for three decades. While the works on display represent only a fraction shown at Annandale Galleries over the years, they nonetheless point to pivotal moments where Yolŋu art was shaped by community members, and shared in innovative ways.


Join us for an opening reception for Flow States Saturday 9 August 1-3pm

Exhibited artists
Gunybi Ganambarr • Ŋoŋu Ganambarr • Malauba Gumana • Waturr Gumana • Gawirrin Gumana • Djambawa Marawili • Galuma Maymuru • Buwathay Munyarryun • Yanggariny Wunuŋgmurra • Nawurapu Wunuŋgmurra • W. Wanambi • Deturru Yunupiŋu

📸
Djambawa Marawili, Muwandi Lulumu,2006 natural earth pigments on hollow log (larraktj), 266cm
Gunybi Ganambarr, Dhuruputjpi-Lutumba, 2022, mixed media, 111 x 93.5cm
Galuma Maymuru Wapitja 2004
natural earth pigments on wood
122 cm





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