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Supporting innovative Australian art for over 35 years.

Since 1982, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery has been committed to the advancement of the most serious and innovative forms of contemporary art. Through its exhibition program the gallery has supported work that is challenging and at the forefront of contemporary art practice. The gallery has always featured new work in a range of media, from painting and sculpture to photography, performance, installation,

video and other electronic media arts. The gallery has always followed a policy of nurturing artists through their careers, acting as a primary dealer for their work. The gallery currently represents over thirty highly esteemed artists, who have had significant shows and whose works are held in major collections nationally and internationally.Exhibitions of international artists presented in Sydney include: Mark Newson (1986), Pierre et Gilles (1995), Robert Mapplethorpe (1996, 1997, 2000), Young British Artists group show (1996), Moriko Mori (1997), Elmgreen and Dragset (2000), Tracey Emin (2004), Isaac Julien (2007, 2010), Yayoi Kusama (2002, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2012). Australian artists such as Bill Henson, Tracey Moffatt and David Noonan who have been represented by the Gallery for many years have gone on to international prominence.

21/05/2026

A series of collage prints from 2005 by David Noonan (.J.Noonan) are currently on view in Melbourne as part of ‘Slow Read’, an exhibition exploring quiet, deliberate acts of looking and reading in an era of constant scrolling and visual saturation.⁠
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Drawing on source material from magazines, archives, art history books and personal collections, the exhibition considers how fragments of text and imagery can be recontextualised through collage and assemblage to create poetic and unexpected new associations.⁠
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In these collages, Noonan manually cuts and pastes found images to construct scenes charged with atmosphere and mystery. His extensive engagement with film is evident in the cinematic quality of the prints – carefully composed images that evoke nostalgia for the visual culture and aesthetics of the 1970s through depictions of urban landscapes, interiors, fashion and décor. Through collage, disparate elements are brought together to create spatially convincing fictions and narratives achievable only through this tactile, material process.⁠
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‘Slow Read’ is on view at Town Hall Gallery through to Saturday, 25 July 2026. ⁠
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To request a catalogue of available works by David Noonan, email [email protected]⁠
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Images 1, 6, 7: Installation view, ‘Slow Read’, , Melbourne (6 May – 25 July 2026). Photography: Christian Capurro⁠. ⁠
Image 2: , ‘11. Untitled’, 2005, archival inkjet print on paper from original paper collage, 61 x 91.5 cm. ⁠
Image 3 (left to right): David Noonan, ‘1. Untitled’, 2005, archival inkjet print on paper from original paper collage, 61 x 51 cm; ‘5. Harlem’, 2005, archival inkjet print on paper from original paper collage, 61 x 43.5 cm. ⁠
Image 4 (left to right): David Noonan, ‘3. Kew’, 2005, archival inkjet print on paper from original paper collage, 61 x 46 cm; ‘10. Untitled’, 2005, archival inkjet print on paper from original paper collage, 61 x 56 cm.⁠
Image 5 (left to right): David Noonan, ‘6. Untitled’, 2005, archival inkjet print on paper from original paper collage, 61 x 46 cm; ‘9. Visitors’, 2005, archival inkjet print on paper from original paper collage, 61 x 61 cm.

14/04/2026

UPCOMING: Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present ‘Chicken Soup’, an exhibition of new work by Dale Frank ().⁠
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Opening reception: Friday, 17 April from 5–7pm⁠
Exhibition dates: 17 April – 16 May 2026⁠
Request a catalogue: [email protected]⁠
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Dale Frank is one of Australia’s foremost contemporary artists. Since the 1970s, Frank has enjoyed a successful international career as a conceptual artist. Best known for his vivacious abstract paintings, his multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, drawing, performance, film and installation, all of which adhere closely to his experimental approach to new materialities.⁠
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Dale Frank has been represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery since 1982. ⁠
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Image: , ‘Fiona got a second amex after her third labiaplasty so she could keep track of the costs and the little extras’, 2026, colour powder pigments in Epoxyglass, Epoxyglass, on perspex, 200 x 200 cm.

07/04/2026

UPCOMING: Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present ‘Chicken Soup’, an exhibition of new work by Dale Frank ().⁠
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Opening reception: Friday, 17 April from 5–7pm⁠
Exhibition dates: 17 April – 16 May 2026⁠
Request a catalogue: [email protected]⁠
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Dale Frank is one of Australia’s foremost contemporary artists. Since the 1970s, Frank has enjoyed a successful international career as a conceptual artist. Best known for his vivacious abstract paintings, his multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, drawing, performance, film, and installation, all of which adhere closely to his experimental approach to new materialities.⁠
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Dale Frank has been represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery since 1982. ⁠
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Image: , ‘His eyes collided side to side in a dance floor disco embrace, his receding dick shuddered up and down, his exhausted breast strained, his sinuous muscles sagging balloons like an old ladies underarm flab, the vanilla cream filling of his life licked off’, 2026, colour powder pigments in Epoxyglass, Epoxyglass, on perspex, 200 x 180 cm.

13/03/2026

UPCOMING: Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present ‘Animal Architecture: Deep Time’, an exhibition of recent works on paper, woodcuts and etchings by John Wolseley (). ⁠
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Opening Reception: Friday, 20 March from 5–7pm⁠
Exhibition Dates: 20 March – 11 April 2026⁠
Artist Talk: Saturday, 28 March at 1pm⁠
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⁠John Wolseley is one of Australia’s most important landscape artists. His work in watercolour, drawing, printmaking and installation over the last 60 years has been a meditation on how the earth is a dynamic system of which we are all a part. His detailed drawings of plants, birds and insects are combined with frottage, printing and various forms of collaboration with the natural environment to make extensive collaged works on paper. These astonishing works celebrate nature in all its power and intricacy, at a time when the natural world is under cataclysmic threat. In these images of healing and restoration, we discover serene illuminations of hope and an urgent environmental ethic.⁠
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John Wolseley has been represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery since 2001.⁠
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To request a preview catalogue, email [email protected].⁠
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Image: , ‘Yellow-throated miner sucking nectar from upside–down plants as Burrowing bettongs sleep the day away in their mazy warrens’, 2025, watercolour and graphite on paper, 117.5 x 152.5 cm.

06/03/2026

UPCOMING: Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present ‘Animal Architecture: Deep Time’, an exhibition of recent works on paper, woodcuts and etchings by John Wolseley (). ⁠
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Opening Reception: Friday, 20 March from 5–7pm⁠
Exhibition Dates: 20 March – 11 April 2026⁠
Artist Talk: Saturday, 28 March at 1pm⁠
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⁠John Wolseley is one of Australia’s most important landscape artists. His work in watercolour, drawing, printmaking and installation over the last 60 years has been a meditation on how the earth is a dynamic system of which we are all a part. His detailed drawings of plants, birds and insects are combined with frottage, printing and various forms of collaboration with the natural environment to make extensive collaged works on paper. These astonishing works celebrate nature in all its power and intricacy, at a time when the natural world is under cataclysmic threat. In these images of healing and restoration, we discover serene illuminations of hope and an urgent environmental ethic.⁠
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John Wolseley has been represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery since 2001.⁠
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To request a preview catalogue, email [email protected].⁠
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Image: , ‘Walk through geological strata – Proterozoic to early Cambrian: each step a million years II’, 2025, watercolour, graphite, charcoal, frottage and relief printing on paper, 126 x 135.5 cm.

04/03/2026

Opening this week, .Piccinini presents ‘Centrifugal Love Garden’. ⁠
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Opening Reception: Friday, 6 March, from 6–8pm⁠
Artist Talk: Sunday, 8 March, from 2pm⁠
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This exhibition brings together key strands of Piccinini’s practice, reimagining the natural within the conditions of the contemporary world and foregrounding connection as a generative force.⁠
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RSVP to the opening reception and artist talk via the link in our bio.⁠
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This exhibition is supported by the NSW Government through and the Creative Grants.⁠
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Images: , ‘Kindred’, 2018, silicone, fibreglass, hair, 103 x 95 x 128 cm. Edition of 3 + 1 AP.

25/02/2026

Jim Lambie’s latest solo exhibition ‘Cool Breeze’ continues at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery until Saturday, 14 March. ⁠
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A Glasgow-based artist, DJ and musician, Jim Lambie is known for transforming spaces into vibrant, energetic environments using colour, rhythm and pattern. A highlight of the exhibition is ‘Zobop Broadband (White and Chrome)’ (2025), a new iteration of Lambie’s iconic ‘Zobop’ series – his signature, site-responsive installation first developed in the late 1990s. Composed of concentric bands of white and chrome vinyl tape, the work radiates outward from the Gallery’s architecture itself, precisely contouring its proportions, with the width of each band matched to the gallery’s floorboards beneath.⁠
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The exhibition also includes new wall-based sculptures from Lambie’s acclaimed ‘Metal Box’ series, a group of resin paintings – seen for the first time in Australia – as well as a collection of new sculptures made from found objects collected in Sydney. Long part of Lambie’s process, this locale-responsive approach reflects his ongoing interest in drawing energy from local materials and place. As a whole, the works explore how colour, light and movement affect perception.⁠
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Email [email protected] to request a catalogue.⁠
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Video: discusses ‘Cool Breeze’ at Gallery, Sydney (6 February – 14 March 2026⁠).

05/02/2026

On view now at , ⁠’Good as Gold’ is an expansive selection of paintings from artists featured throughout the first decade of RMOA’s Gold Award. ⁠
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Featuring an assortment of winning, donated and purchased works from the RMOA Collection, the exhibition includes paintings by Dale Frank (), , Gareth Sansom () and Imants Tillers (). ⁠
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‘Good as Gold’ is on view at Rockhampton Museum Of Art until 1 March 2026.⁠
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Images: Installation view, ‘Good as Gold’, , QLD (8 November 2025 – 1 March 2026). Photography: Aarron Symonds.

03/02/2026

Preparations are well underway for our first exhibition of 2026, ‘Cool Breeze’, a presentation of new works by Jim Lambie, opening this Friday, 6 February from 5–7pm. ⁠
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Installed directly onto the gallery floor, ‘Zobop Broadband (White and Chrome)’ (2025) is a new iteration of Lambie’s iconic ‘Zobop’ series – his signature, site-responsive installation first developed in the late 1990s. Composed of concentric bands of white and chrome vinyl tape, the work radiates outward from the Gallery’s architecture itself, responding precisely to its proportions.⁠
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The exhibition will also feature new wall sculptures from Lambie’s ‘Metal Box’ series, alongside a group of resin-paintings incorporating sunglasses lenses, a key visual motif in his practice. Together, the works reflect Lambie’s long-standing interest in how colour, light and movement affect perception.⁠
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A Glasgow-based artist, DJ and musician, Jim Lambie is one of the leading artists of his generation and among the most significant colourists to emerge from his home city. Drawing on pop culture, music and Minimalism, his practice explores colour’s optical and psychotropic effects, transforming everyday architectural spaces into energetic, rhythmic environments.⁠
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Please join us on Friday, 6 February, from 5–7pm for the opening reception of Jim Lambie: ‘Cool Breeze’.⁠
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Email [email protected] to request a catalogue.⁠
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27/01/2026

Install is well underway at for the official opening of ’s ‘[wall painting]’ (2020) this Friday, 30 January. ⁠
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Applied directly onto the Gallery’s façade and stretching more than 28 metres, this bold and vibrant artwork transforms the building itself – offering the regional community direct access to a major immersive installation by one of Australia’s most acclaimed contemporary artists.⁠
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This exciting launch is made possible through the Sharing the National Collection Program, an initiative that supports the to work with regional and suburban cultural institutions across Australia to share works of art from the national collection on long-term loan. ⁠
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Tickets to the opening reception are free and can be booked via the link in our bio. ⁠
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Video courtesy of Goulburn Regional Art Gallery with Royalty Free Music from BenSound.⁠
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Artwork details: , ‘[wall painting]’, 2020, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2020. © Mikala Dwyer.

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