Darren Knight Gallery

16/12/2025

Our 2025 exhibition program has now finished. We re-open on Saturday 31 January 2026 and our first exhibition for the year opens on Saturday 7 February 2026.
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Our opening exhibition for 2026 is ‘Rewilding - Eight Contemporary American Artists’. ‘Rewilding’ features new and recent works by nine US artists that offer a nuanced reconsideration of the traditional landscape genre at a time when America is wrestling with its cultural and geopolitical identity.
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Artists in ‘Rewilding’ are William Eric Brown (New York), George Bolster (New York ), Kyle Johnson (California), Kasper Kovitz (California), Keiko Narahashi (New York), David Opdyke (New York), Emilio Perez (New York), Kate Shepherd (New York and Texas) and Mary Temple (New York).
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Kate Shepherd appears courtesy of Galerie Lelong, New York.
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This exhibition has been organised by John Melick. As an Australian working in the art world in New York for 30+ years, Melick has a longstanding relationship with most of the artists, coupled with an enduring interest in non-traditional, unconventional approaches to 20th century and more contemporary landscape art.
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‘Rewilding - Eight Contemporary American Artists’ continues until 21st March 2026.
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Emilio Perez, ‘From the Beginning’ 2025, oil on linen, 137 x 122 cm
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06/12/2025

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Michelle Nikou is currently busy in the studio developing her upcoming Fellowship exhibition ‘Tell it slant’, which will open in December 2026 at .adelaide

Michelle was awarded the Fellowship in 2024. Supported by the James & Diana Ramsay Foundation, the Fellowship is awarded each year to a mid-career South Australian artist, craftsperson or designer. Valued at over $50,000, it supports research and development, travel, new work and an exhibited outcome at AGSA.

Image of Michelle at fab, courtesy of AGSA; photograph by Saul Steed.

Recent works by studio artist Michelle Nikou, exhibited with for back in August.

Images courtesy Darren Knight Gallery:

The AND, 2025
cast bronze, black patina, ed. 2
17.5 × 17.5 × 2 cm

Goldilocks Zone (the habitable zone), 2025
cast bronze with rich brown patina
21 × 22 × 7 cm

05/12/2025

Today is the last day to see Noel McKenna’s exhibition ‘The Pot: My Life is Clay’. Exhibition closes after Saturday 6 December.
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Installation photograph by Simon Hewson
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02/12/2025

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The title of Maria Kontis’ exhibition, And I Would Say These Things to No One But You, is drawn from a letter sent by Joy Hester to Albert Tucker.

In creating new work for this exhibition Kontis reviewed over 500 of Tucker’s images and letters in his archive at State Library Victoria. These letters granted her access to the intimate and vulnerable side of Tucker and his peers. Redrawing some of the photographs and letters, she emphasised some elements and eliminated others, bringing new perspectives and insights into their interpretation.

See Albert Tucker anew, through the eyes of Maria Kontis. Visit Heide today.

Image: Installation view, Maria Kontis: And I Would Say These Things to No One But You, 2025, photograph: Christian Capurro.

02/12/2025

Last week to see Noel McKenna’s exhibition ‘The Pot: My Life is Clay’ which closes after Saturday 6 December.
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An exhibition catalogue and video walk-through of the show can be viewed on our website. See link in bio.
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Photos by Simon Hewson
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01/12/2025

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NEW EXHIBITION - JOHN BRACK x NOEL MCKENNA

Opening April next year, this special exhibition pairs the works of these two influential Australian artists whose portraits, created almost 50 years apart, spark fresh conversations and surprising connections. With over 90 works on show, you’ll find humour, heart and thoughtful insights into modern life.

🗓️ Opens Friday 3 April 2026
🎟️ Free to see
🔗 Learn more via the link in bio

29/11/2025

Noel McKenna’s exhibition ‘The Pot: My Life is Clay’ continues until Saturday 6 December.
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The exhibition is accompanied by a 56 page illustrated catalogue. A video walk-through of the exhibition can be viewed on our website. See link in bio.
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‘3 Types of Light’ 2013, glazed ceramic with ceramic, relief, 29.5 cm high, 16 cm diameter;
‘Yellow tile with red arrow’ 2021, glazed ceramic, 18.5 x 18.5 cm;
‘untitled (brown vase with colourful shapes relief)’ 2000, glazed ceramic with ceramic relief, 29 cm high, 15 cm diameter;
‘25 (b)’ 2025, glazed ceramic, 13.7 x 14.5 cm;
‘Grey Vase C with a line going for a walk’ 2006, glazed ceramic, 29 cm high, 16 cm diameter;
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Photos by Simon Hewson
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28/11/2025

Opening tonight at Hervey Bay Regional Gallery, Queensland is Tyza Hart’s exhibition ‘Appearing’. This exhibition is the first institutional survey of Brisbane-based artist Tyza Hart’s practice. ‘Appearing’ brings together key bodies of work produced over the past decade, charting the artist’s explorations of self-representation and embodied experience.
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The exhibition continues until 15 February 2026, after which it will tour to Gympie Regional Gallery in March 2026.
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Tyza Hart, ‘Bellybutton to Bellybutton’, 2023, stoneware with porcelain slip, 14 x 26 x 26 cm. Photo: Louis Lim.
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22/11/2025

Continuing until Saturday 6 December, Noel McKenna’s exhibition ‘The Pot: My Life is Clay’ occupies both gallery spaces and brings together a comprehensive selection of works from McKenna’s ceramic practice since 1993.
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Exhibition catalogue and a video walk-through of the exhibition can be viewed on our website. See link in bio.
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‘Brooklyn Trucks A-Z’, 2018 - glazed ceramic, 26 pieces variable sizes, average tile size 6.5 x 14 cm. photo by Simon Hewson
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21/11/2025

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When trawling through Albert Tucker’s photographic archive, Maria Kontis was particularly drawn to Tucker’s photos of acrobats, trapeze performers and rope artists at Melbourne’s Tivoli Theatre.

Kontis was struck by the camera’s ability to capture these performers mid-air and render their risk and exertion in stillness.

Of this, she says, “Maybe it reflects how I think about memory or the image itself: something fragile, shifting, unanchored … it’s not about nostalgia, but something more open-ended — where the figure is suspended but not stuck in time or reduced to it.”

See Kontis’ drawings in And I Would Say These Things to No One But You, on now at Heide.

Images: Installation views, Maria Kontis, And I Would Say These Things to No One But You, 2025, photographs: Christian Capurro.

19/11/2025

18/11/2025

Noel McKenna’s exhibition ‘The Pot: My Life is Clay’ continues until Saturday 6 December. This exhibition brings together a comprehensive selection of works from McKenna’s ceramic practice since 1993.
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The exhibition is accompanied by a 56 page illustrated catalogue. A video walk-through of the exhibition can be viewed on our website. See link in bio.
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‘Juglet with 2 eggs in frypan’ 2022, glazed ceramic, 6 cm high; ‘Blue, white + red jug’ 2020, glazed ceramic, 10 cm high.
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