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Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney's must-see art museum. On Gadigal Country.
10am–5pm daily, open late on Wednesdays. Open daily, 10am–5pm.

Unmissable exhibitions, unique tours, and dining experiences from renowned Australian chefs, within one of the world's most beautiful cultural precincts. The Art Gallery of NSW is Sydney’s must-see art museum, showcasing the best of Australian and international art. One of Australia’s leading public art museums, located on Gadigal Country, overlooking Sydney Harbour and only 15 minutes walk from the city centre. Entry is free to the Art Gallery of NSW, with charges applying to some temporary exhibitions. Until 10pm on Wednesday nights for Art After Hours. From Naala Nura, our original building, to our stunning new building Naala Badu, you’ll find art, both historical and contemporary, from across Australia and around the world, enriched by a diverse and engaging program of events. Through art, we hope to inspire your curiosity and ignite your imagination.

🔹 Plan your visit: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/visit/plan-your-visit

🔹 Visit FAQs: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/visit/plan-your-visit/visit-faqs

🔹 The Art Gallery of NSW also manages the Brett Whiteley Studio located in Surry Hills. Entry is free: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/visit/brett-whiteley-studio/

From the archives: Sidney Nolan. A glimpse behind the scenes and into the life of one of Australia’s most celebrated art...
18/10/2026

From the archives: Sidney Nolan.

A glimpse behind the scenes and into the life of one of Australia’s most celebrated artists.

From the iconic Ned Kelly series to expansive visions of the Australian landscape, discover the works that helped define a modern Australian imagination.

📍 ‘Nolan: Origins’ is now open at the

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Images: Sidney Nolan painting Unnamed ridge, Central Australia 1949 in his Wahroonga studio,
Sydney, 1949, courtesy of Jinx Nolan, photo: AL Frazer

Sidney Nolan in his Parkville studio, 1944, Papers of Sidney Nolan, National Library of Australia, MS 10245, series 2, file 151, photo: Albert Tucker

Imagine seeing this landscape from the air in 1949. Sidney Nolan’s travels across Central Australia gave him a radicall...
18/10/2026

Imagine seeing this landscape from the air in 1949.

Sidney Nolan’s travels across Central Australia gave him a radically different view of the landscape.

Painting later from memory and with the help of aerial photographs, Nolan transformed what he had seen into ‘Central Australia’ 1950, an expansive vision of rippling red landforms and luminous sky.

For Nolan, these landscapes were never simply a record of a place. They existed somewhere between observation, memory and imagination.

Quotes from ‘Sidney Nolan: origins’ by Denise Mimmocchi.

📍 ‘Nolan: Origins’ is now open at the

🎟️ Exhibition tickets available now

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Join and see the exhibition for FREE

Shop exclusive Sidney Nolan merchandise from the

Nolan: Origins is proudly supported by Major sponsors and partners and .


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Installation view of the ‘Nolan: Origins’ exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, featuring works by Sidney Nolan, all artworks © The Sidney Nolan Trust, all rights reserved, DACS/Copyright Agency, photo © Art Gallery of New South Wales

According to Nolan, ‘Boy and the moon’ was inspired by a vision of his friend’s head silhouetted against the full moon a...
16/10/2026

According to Nolan, ‘Boy and the moon’ was inspired by a vision of his friend’s head silhouetted against the full moon at St Kilda.

Nolan later said the painting ‘freed me to take on the visual world’. The Moon Boy motif would go on to reappear throughout his career.

Discover the ideas, places and experiments that shaped an artist in ‘Nolan: Origins’

📍 ‘Nolan: Origins’ is now open at the

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Join and see the exhibition for FREE

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Sidney Nolan 'Boy and the moon' c1939–40, National Gallery of Australia, purchased 1976 © The Sidney Nolan Trust, all rights reserved, DACS/Copyright Agency

🎬 New Sydney Cinémathèque film series announced.American filmmaker Frederick Wiseman was one of cinema’s most clear-eyed...
16/10/2026

🎬 New Sydney Cinémathèque film series announced.

American filmmaker Frederick Wiseman was one of cinema’s most clear-eyed and prolific documentarians. This new season features Wiseman’s expeditions into glamour and its contradictions.

Armed with a lightweight camera and a skeleton crew, he toured runways (Model) and rehearsal rooms (Crazy Horse), dance studios (Ballet) and degustations (Menus-plaisirs – les Troisgros), exhibitions (National Gallery) and emporiums (The store).

These films probe industries buoyed by beauty. Behind the scenes there’s a tortuous web of procedures that make work look effortless.

Discover or revisit these films at Sydney Cinémathèque from 7 November.

🔗 Get tickets at https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/events/cinema-wiseman/

🎟️ Buy more, save more! Buy 2 sessions save 20% or 3 sessions save 30%*.

Beauty and the beast: The films of Frederick Wiseman
7 November – 19 December 2026
Various dates and times
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Naala Nura building
Lower level 3, Domain Theatre

Co-presented with ACMI.
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Images: Stills from ‘Model’ 1981, ‘The store’ 1983, ‘Ballet’ 1995, ‘Crazy horse’ 2011, National Gallery 2014, ‘Menus-plaisirs – les Troisgros’ 2023, photos courtesy of Zipporah Films

*Valid on same ticket types only. New purchases. No refunds or exchanges. Not valid with other offers.

Take a piece of Nolan home with you.'Nolan: Origins' traces the extraordinary formative years of Sidney Nolan, from his ...
15/10/2026

Take a piece of Nolan home with you.

'Nolan: Origins' traces the extraordinary formative years of Sidney Nolan, from his iconic visions of Ned Kelly to the vast landscapes of Central Australia.

Published alongside the Art Gallery’s major exhibition, this richly illustrated hardback brings together more than 140 works from 1936 to 1953, alongside new writing exploring the places, stories and ideas that shaped Nolan’s distinctive visual language.

📖 Available now from the Gallery Shop
https://shop.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/nolan-origins/

🎟️ Exhibition tickets available now.

Join Art Gallery of NSW Members and see the exhibition for FREE.

Nolan: Origins is proudly supported by Major sponsors and partners EY and J.P. Morgan.

NOW OPEN Meet the 12 finalists of the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship 2026, now on display at the Brett White...
14/10/2026

NOW OPEN

Meet the 12 finalists of the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship 2026, now on display at the Brett Whiteley Studio in Surry Hills.

This prestigious annual award supports Australian painters aged between 20 and 30, providing an opportunity for the winning artist to travel and develop their practice.

Congratulations to this year’s finalists:

Charley Barnes (), 23, Woollahra, NSW
Mia Boe (.khin.boe), 28, Brunswick, Vic
Martina Clarke (), 29, Woolloongabba, QLD
Noah Joe Draper (), 25, Thirroul, NSW
Jack Hardy (), 26, Coorparoo, QLD
Chloe Hooper (), 23, Thornton, NSW
Conor Knight (), 28, Moorooka, QLD
Savannah Jarvis (.jarv), 28, Bowen Hills, QLD
Natasha Jol (), 27, Richmond, Vic
Camille Olsen-Ormandy (), 27, Bronte, NSW
Jezmina Strike (), 26, Marrickville, NSW
Holly Anderson (.e.anderson), 30, Auchenflower, QLD

Explore their work at the Brett Whiteley Studio from 15 October to 22 November 2026, with free entry.

Guest judge and artist Jenny Watson will select this year’s scholarship winner, to be announced on 21 October. Stay tuned!

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Images: All images © the artists

Holly Anderson ‘Candle’ 2025. Camille Olsen-Ormandy ‘Mirror reflection’ 2025. Jezmina Strike ‘Morning view from a single bed’ 2026. Jack Hardy ‘plucked and the heart aches’ 2025. Natasha Jol ‘Taurus Rising’ 2025. Savannah Jarvis ‘Peripheral slip’ 2026. Mia Boe ‘After Destiny’ 2026. Chloe Hooper ‘Smile for me’ 2026. Noah Joe Draper ‘Elephant Man’ 2025

Nolan’s Kelly paintings, reunited Today, 26 of those works are held by the National Gallery of Australia. The remaining ...
13/10/2026

Nolan’s Kelly paintings, reunited

Today, 26 of those works are held by the National Gallery of Australia. The remaining painting, ‘First-class marksman’ 1946, is in the Art Gallery of New South Wales collection.

In 'Nolan: Origins', all 27 are brought together, allowing the story to unfold painting by painting, almost like a film.

📍 ‘Nolan: Origins’ is now open at the

🎟️ Exhibition tickets available now

Link in bio 🔗

Join and see the exhibition for FREE

Shop exclusive Sidney Nolan merchandise from the

Nolan: Origins is proudly supported by Major sponsors and partners and .

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Installation view of the ‘Nolan: Origins’ exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, featuring works by Sidney Nolan, all artworks © The Sidney Nolan Trust, all rights reserved, DACS/Copyright Agency, photo © Art Gallery of New South Wales

Hello, Shepparton Art Museum 👋🎨 The Archibald Prize 2026 is currently on tour, with all 59 finalists now on view at She...
12/10/2026

Hello, Shepparton Art Museum 👋🎨

The Archibald Prize 2026 is currently on tour, with all 59 finalists now on view at Shepparton Art Museum for the exhibition’s exclusive Victorian stop.

If you live south of the Murray, now’s your chance.

📍 Shepparton Art Museum
📅 Until 1 November 2026

Following the Shepparton leg, the exhibition will then tour to five venues back in New South Wales, so if you missed it in Sydney, or simply want another look there’s ample time.

The Archibald Prize 2026 tour is supported by major partner Optus.

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Photos: Leon Schoots, 2026,courtesy of Shepparton Art Museum

🌾 Preparing Rosalie Gascoigne’s ‘The crop I’ for its next journey. Made from hundreds of dried salsify heads, compressed...
10/10/2026

🌾 Preparing Rosalie Gascoigne’s ‘The crop I’ for its next journey.

Made from hundreds of dried salsify heads, compressed, bound and arranged across an iron sheet, ‘The crop I’ is a remarkable example of Gascoigne’s ability to find beauty, rhythm and order in unexpected materials.

Evoking the patterns of agriculture and the cultivated Australian landscape, the work also bears the traces of time and environment in its delicate natural materials.

Behind the scenes, our conservation team has been carefully preparing ‘The crop I’ to travel to the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, where it will feature in the major exhibition ‘Rosalie Gascoigne’, celebrating one of Australia’s most distinctive and influential artists. We visited objects conservator Ashley Gilmour in the conservation studio as she put the final touches on the work, capturing the process for a feature in the next issue of Look magazine.

Take a closer look at the careful work involved in getting this extraordinary sculpture ready for its journey.

Rosalie Gascoigne
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
24 October 2026 – 14 February 2027
Free entry

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Images: Rosalie Gascoigne, ‘The crop I’ conservation, Look magazine. Image © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Natalia Mroz

‘Kiata’ appeared to Nolan as if it were ‘suspended at high noon’. The resulting 1943 painting became a breakthrough, tra...
09/10/2026

‘Kiata’ appeared to Nolan as if it were ‘suspended at high noon’. The resulting 1943 painting became a breakthrough, transforming an almost cloudless sky, golden fields, roads and railway tracks into a radically simplified Australian landscape.

Stationed in the Wimmera during the Second World War, Nolan set up a makeshift studio and began painting the vast landscape around him. He asked Sunday Reed to send him commercial enamel paints in lemon yellow, cobalt blue and red, colours that helped him capture the extraordinary light of the region.

See ‘Kiata’ and more in ‘Nolan: Origins’, now at the Art Gallery.

📍 ‘Nolan: Origins’ is now open at the

🎟️ Exhibition tickets available now

Link in bio 🔗

Join and see the exhibition for FREE

Shop exclusive Sidney Nolan merchandise from the

Nolan: Origins is proudly supported by Major sponsors and partners and .

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Installation view of the ‘Nolan: Origins’ exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, featuring works by Sidney Nolan, all artworks © The Sidney Nolan Trust, all rights reserved, DACS/Copyright Agency, photo © Art Gallery of New South Wales.

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