Defiance Gallery

Defiance Gallery 12 Mary Place, Paddington, 2021
Sydney, NSW Australia
+61 (0)2 9557 8483 All exhibition openings at Defiance Gallery are sponsored by Noyce Brothers Wines.

DEFIANCE GALLERY

Defiance Gallery was founded in 1995 and is run by Campbell Robertson-Swann. For the past two decades, Defiance has maintained a reputation as a focal point for the highest quality Australian and International sculpture and painting. The gallery’s stalwart support for sculpture has marked it as the leading Australian exhibition space for this form. Defiance Gallery represents a v

aried and innovative stable of artists ranging from established Australian and international painters and sculptors to talented newcomers in these fields. As well as this, Defiance manages the estates of several of Australia’s most influential artists including those of Lyndon Dadswell, Ian McKay and Roy Jackson. The varied exhibition calendar includes solo shows, curated group exhibitions and ‘encounters’, where invited artists work to a brief outside their normal studio practice. Defiance Gallery is also facilitates and curated a wide variety of satellite exhibitions in collaboration with institutions such as the Nock Art Foundation, Hong Kong and the Australian Wildlife Conservancy.

.Please join us on Saturday 6 June from 3-5pm to celebrate Joe Furlonger’s brilliant new exhibition, Into the Blue.Explo...
28/05/2026

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Please join us on Saturday 6 June from 3-5pm to celebrate Joe Furlonger’s brilliant new exhibition, Into the Blue.

Exploring his continuing fascination with the ocean this exhibition is Joe Furlonger at his absolute best - authentic, expressive and playful.

Alongside this new exhibition of work we will be showing a collection of his evocative landscape works.

Please register via the link in our bio to receive an advance preview of the exhibition.

We look forward to seeing you next Saturday!

JOE FURLONGER
Into the Blue
6 - 27 June 2026
Opening Saturday 6 June, 3-5pm

.Big congratulations to Pamela Honeyfield who is a finalist in the Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize for her beautif...
28/05/2026

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Big congratulations to Pamela Honeyfield who is a finalist in the Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize for her beautiful work Seeding the Wind 💥🌟💫

Seeding the Wind
oil on linen
122 x 153 cm, 125 x 156 cm (framed)

View available work via the link in our bio.



EXHIBITION DATES
Tattersall’s Club
1 - 6 June
Open to Tattersall’s Club Members only

Lethbridge Gallery
9 - 25 June
Public access within gallery hours

.Closing this weekend! A beautifully meditative exhibition of work from the late Australian abstract painter and poet, R...
28/05/2026

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Closing this weekend! A beautifully meditative exhibition of work from the late Australian abstract painter and poet, Royston Harpur (1938–2023).

Wave
acrylic on panel board
30.5 x 30.5 cm, 32 x 32 cm (framed)

View the full exhibition via the link in our bio.

ROYSTON HARPUR
Significant work from the Estate
9 - 30 May 2026

27/05/2026

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We’re looking forward to seeing this on Compass on ABC in a few weeks!

This is a new version of the original Six Views of Newhaven documentary that you may have been lucky enough to see when it premiered at Defiance in 2025.

Originally made to accompany the artist residency we held with the Australian Wildlife Conservancy in 2024, it follows artists Sophie Cape, Nicolette Eisdell, Pamela Honeyfield, Michelle Hungerford, Charmaine Pike and Ana Pollak on their life changing journey into the heart of Australia.

Desert Sanctuary, produced and directed by Kathryn Milliss ACS with cinematography by Anna Howard ACS & Kathryn Milliss ACS, follows this journey of six artists who spent seven days on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert, near the epicentre of Australia’s extinction crisis. At Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary, set up by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy, alongside the scientists and Warlpiri rangers, the artists find inspiration and hope - and a joyful solution to climate grief.

It’s a truly beautiful film so we hope you can tune in live to Compass on Sunday 7 June at 6.30pm or catch the replay afterwards on ABC iview.

So great to see this film continue to evolve and reach a new audience!

Ana Pollak’s current exhibition, Family Tree, based on the Desert Oaks of Newhaven is currently on at Defiance, closing this Saturday. And if you happen to be in Melbourne you can see the work from the original AWC residency at the Sofitel Melbourne until 17 June.

Links to both in our bio!

.Big congratulations to Susan Baird who has just been announced as a finalist in the Abbotsleigh Grace Cossington Smith ...
27/05/2026

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Big congratulations to Susan Baird who has just been announced as a finalist in the Abbotsleigh Grace Cossington Smith Art Award for her beautiful work, Autumn, Hill End Garden. Her work Reflected Bank has also recently been invited to the 2026 Kings School Art Prize. Which opens on 11 June. 💫🌟

1.Autumn, Hill End Garden oil on linen, 80 x 80 cm
2.Reflected Bank oil on linen, 102 x 152 cm, 106 x 156 cm (framed)

.Incredible to see Ana Pollak’s current exhibition knowing where the inspiration came from. Pollak spent time on Newhave...
20/05/2026

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Incredible to see Ana Pollak’s current exhibition knowing where the inspiration came from.

Pollak spent time on Newhaven Sanctuary where she immersed herself in the Desert Oaks. This collection of work will transport you there. You can almost smell the red earth!

ANA POLLAK
Family Tree
9 - 30 May 2026

The artist will be donating 25% of her sales towards the Australian Wildlife Conservancy, where she drew inspiration for this work.



Windbreak
clay wash, oxides & ink with binder on plywood
122 x 100 cm, 125 x 103 cm (framed)

View the full exhibition via the link in our bio.

.Three small works currently on exhibition at the gallery, from the late Australian abstract painter and poet, Royston H...
20/05/2026

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Three small works currently on exhibition at the gallery, from the late Australian abstract painter and poet, Royston Harpur (1938–2023).

ROYSTON HARPUR
Significant work from the Estate
9 - 30 May 2026

View the full exhibition via the link in our bio.

In the Estuary, 2005
acrylic on panel board
30.5 x 30.5 cm, 32 x 32 cm (framed)

The Dancing Sea, 1996
acrylic on panel board
30.5 x 30.5 cm, 32 x 32 cm (framed)

In the Summer Night, 2006
acrylic on panel board
30.5 x 30.5 cm, 32 x 32 cm (framed)

15/05/2026

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Ana Pollak’s incredible exhibition, Family Tree, continues at the gallery until 30 May.

This beautiful collection of work is takes it’s strength from the carefully studied ancient Desert Oaks.

A must see exhibition of quiet beauty.

ANA POLLAK
Family Tree
9 - 30 May 2026

.Defiance is delighted to be presenting a significant collection of work from the late Australian abstract painter and p...
15/05/2026

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Defiance is delighted to be presenting a significant collection of work from the late Australian abstract painter and poet, Royston Harpur (1938–2023).

Deeply informed by Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism, Harpur was a pivotal figure in the evolution of Australian abstract painting during the 1960s and ’70s.

ROYSTON HARPUR
Significant work from the Estate
9 - 30 May 2026

.Ana Pollak’s sublime new exhibition, Family Tree, a love poem to the unique Desert Oak, celebrates Pollak’s ongoing lov...
14/05/2026

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Ana Pollak’s sublime new exhibition, Family Tree, a love poem to the unique Desert Oak, celebrates Pollak’s ongoing love of the natural world.

The ancient, majestic trees of Central Australia can live for over 1000 years, surviving even the toughest droughts by shutting down and growing roots up to 15 metres deep to find water.

ANA POLLAK
Family Tree
9 - 30 May 2026

The artist will be donating 25% of her sales towards the Australian Wildlife Conservancy, where she drew inspiration for this work.



Windbreak
clay wash, oxides & ink with binder on plywood
122 x 100 cm, 125 x 103 cm (framed)

View the full exhibition via the link in our bio.

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12 Mary Place, Paddington
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2021

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