Agatha Gothe-Snape's wall drawing, Three physical doorways, one conceptual wedge and a gentle breeze (2017), in the National Gallery of Australia collection, will be on exhibition at Shepparton Art Museum as part of the NGA's Sharing the National Collection program. It is being exhibited as part of SAM's The Writing’s on the Wall exhibition and will be installed in the SAM atrium alongside a work by Lawrence Weiner also from the NGA collection.

Jazz Money’s River’s Flow (In Every Future) is currently on view at Murray Art Museum Albury. The major commission, launched by Art Gallery of New South Wales Director Maud Page on Wiradjuri Country, honours Milawa Bila (the Murray River) and rivers as teachers. The large-scale text-on-textile work occupies the museum’s double-height entrance atrium and forms part of here and now, the museum-wide nginha artistic program marking MAMA’s tenth anniversary. Until 19.07.26.

Jazz Money’s three-part neon work, Three Pieces of Light, is being exhibited this week in Switzerland along with paintings by Betty Pumani as part of Fondation Opale’s booth at Art Genève. Fondation Opale is a private foundation and museum located in Lens in the Swiss Alps founded in 2018 by Bérengère Primat housing a collection of over 1,900 artworks by Australian First Nations artists.

Angela Brennan’s How an Apple Falls and How the Universe Expands has been acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales with support from the Contemporary Collection Benefactors. The painting was first exhibited in Brennan’s solo exhibition, On Being an Atom, presented by The Commercial at Sydney Contemporary this year and is currently on display in the 20th-century galleries on the ground level of AGNSW’s Naala Nura building.

Self-portrait as a pair of restless legs, 2025, the eponymous work from Mitch Cairns' solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Wollongong Art Gallery this year, has been acquired by of the AGNSW with the support of the Contemporary Collection Benefactors.

Coverage of Archie Moore: kith and kin at QAGOMA in The Guardian. 'It's important to have it here': Archie Moore's astonishing Venice Biennale-winning artwork comes home to Brisbane'.

Following its exhibition in the Australia Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale, Archie Moore's Golden Lion winning installation, kith and kin, will be on exhibition at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 27.08.25 - 18.10.26. The year-long exhibition will be accompanied by a re-print of the Venice catalogue, available from QAGOMA Store.

Augusta Vinall Richardson in Primavera 2025: Young Australian Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Congratulations to all the artists and curator, Tim Riley Walsh, on last night's opening of Primavera 2025 at MCA, Sydney, the museum's annual exhibition of artists under 35 years old. Vinall Richardson has created a pair of sculptures in corten steel and bronze for the exhibition. "‘I am trying to humanise a material that is historically seen as unforgiving, mechanical and practical.’ Exhibition: 04.09.25 - 08.03.26

Please join us for opening of Lillian O'Neil: Full crimp at The Commercial, Saturday 06.09.25, 2-4pm. The exhibition will be open regular gallery hours, Thursday - Saturday, 11-4, during Sydney Contemporary. The gallery is a 10 minute drive from Carriageworks.

Congratulations to Augusta Vinall Richardson, announced today as one of five artists in Primavera 2025: Young Australian Artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, curated by Tim Riley Walsh. 'The selected artists for Primavera 2025 reflect the innovation and sheer talent of the emerging contemporary Australian art world. Over the course of close to fifty studio visits I conducted across the country I saw intriguing shifts in how young practitioners are engaging with a rapidly changing socio-political and technological landscape. How this translates into creative practice is the focus of this presentation. My ongoing interest as a curator is art’s power to make us look anew at subjects that typically evade representation or understanding. What is out of view or exceeds our senses. These five artists help broaden our world view and begin to unravel the complexity of the current era.' Exhibition dates: 05.09.25 - 08.03.26

In 2024, the National Portrait Gallery acquired Archie Moore's series of 34 monochrome self-portraits, Mīal — a Bigambul word meaning “Aboriginal man”. After being exhibited in Canberra last year, this important body of work is going on a regional tour commencing at Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery (31.05. 25–03.08.25) and then to Redcliffe Art Gallery (16.08.25–08.11.25), Tweed Regional Gallery (27.02.26–20.09.26), Artspace Mackay (27.06.26–20.09.26) and Hervey Bay Regional Gallery (10.10.26–13.12.26).

Jazz Money is participating in the inaugural Ulaanbaatar Biennale, set to take place from 6 to 20 June 2025 in Mongolia’s capital. “On the Horizon, Under the Moon”, the biennale is curated by Tian Zhang and will explore themes of place, land, and home, inviting both Mongolian and international artists to contribute.

Matthew Harris is exhibiting in Unbecoming at La Trobe Art Institute. "Unbecoming examines the ‘queer gothic’, characterising it through dark, horror-tinged imagery and themes; states of collapse and decomposition; and a focus on isolation and the individual. These themes are posed as counter-narratives to more dominant and typical framings of queerness through emergence, togetherness and communality." Curated by Tim Riley Walsh. Exhibition: 22.05.25 — 10.08.25, Bendigo.

Celine has acquired two more sculptures by Augusta Vinall Richardson for its new Sydney store opening this weekend. The Celine Art Project encompasses over 250 artworks displayed across the leading French fashion house’s international flagship stores integrated into store designs that include vintage and commissioned furniture. The Celine Art Project was initiated in 2018 by Hedi Slimane, Celine’s then creative director. Celine have acquired three sculptures by Vinall Richardson for the collection since early 2024.

Congratulations to Lillian O’Neil, one of 23 artists shortlisted for the Ramsay Art Prize at the Art Gallery of South Australia. The Ramsay is a $100,000 acquisitive prize for artists under 40, this year judged by artists Julie Fragar, Michael Zavros and Emma Fey, Deputy Director of AGSA. Exhibition dates: 31.05.25 - 31.08.25

Erik Jensen, editor-in-chief and chief executive of Schwartz Media, has curated an exhibition that reflects on the friendship and artistic relationship between artists Angela Brennan and Elizabeth Newman, “explored through the restaging of two early works by the artists that once hung in the kitchen of their St Kilda sharehouse". Marine Parade: Angela Brennan and Elizabeth Newman opens at Schmick Contemporary, Sydney, Thursday 10.04.25, 6-9pm. Angela Brennan painted a portrait of Erik Jensen that was shortlisted for the 2024 Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

The Aichi Triennale announced today that Yasmin Smith is one of 60 artists from 22 countries and territories participating in the 2025 Triennale, curated by Hoor Al Qasimi. Triennale dates: 13.09.25 - 30.11.25

The Commercial is working on a special project throughout February 2025. We are open by appointment.

Two early portraits by Michael Riley — Maria and Darrell — have been acquired by the Murdoch University Collection, Perth.

Two paintings by Matthew Harris have been acquired by Murray Art Museum Albury. I Know Alone and Just Us Two feature in the current exhibition at MAMA, Hold the world to its word, and were part of the artist’s first exhibition at The Commercial in early 2024.

Mathew Harris’ public light installation, A Point in Time and Space, has recently been installed at 602 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne, as part of the Make Room initiative. Co-funded by government and private philanthropy, Make Room provides essential supportive housing for individuals who have experienced homelessness.

Nigel Milsom will be in conversation with art historian Dr Lisa Slade about the history of birds in art at Maitland Regional Gallery, Sunday 08.12.24, 11am.

Augusta Vinall Richardson features in the just released book of the Celine Art Project collection, curated by Hedi Slimane. Slimane was the creative, artistic and image director of the leading French fashion house 2018 — 2024. The 500-page book features a double page spread of each artist in the collection arranged alphabetically and is an edition of 500, exclusively gifted to celebrities and VIP clients of Celine.

Opening tonight in Adelaide: Archie Moore — Dwelling: Adelaide Issue | Adelaide Film Festival / Samstag Moving Image Commission Samstag Museum of Art at the University of South Australia | 5.30 — 7.30pm | exhibition until 29.11.24. Archie Moore’s ambitious new large-scale installation work, Dwelling: Adelaide Issue, is the thirteenth AFF & Samstag Art Moving Image Commission and the fifth iteration of Moore’s installation Dwelling, in which he recreates the mise-­en-scene of his childhood home this time with a significant new moving image component. This ongoing investigation of memory and the effect of colonisation draws on visual, auditory, haptic and olfactory elements.

It is a great pleasure to announce that The Commercial is representing Travis MacDonald and to welcome him warmly to the gallery. MacDonald is a figurative painter of sometimes intimate social spaces and urban arcadias. Atmospheric veils of colour envelop incidental pictorial moments. Monuments are liquid, edges are soft, time passes and space recedes. Light, perspective and transparent materials operate together in the expansion of conventional two-dimensional supports to include the spatial depth between a painting’s surface and the wall upon which it hangs. MacDonald’s paintings carry influences: contemporary activations of Clarice Beckett’s tonal reckonings of landscape, utopian spaces of the Nabis unified by soundtracks of colour. Travis MacDonald (b. 1990 NZ, l. Victoria AU) was awarded the 2024 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize by judges Josè Da Silva, Jane Devery and Jason Smith. MacDonald has had a significant international trajectory. In recent years, he has exhibited in Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Sweden, the United Kingdom as well as on significant contemporary art platforms online. Travis is exhibiting in a group show at The Commercial opening 23.11.24.

Congratulations to Archie Moore and Ellie Buttrose for being jointly awarded the 2024 QAGOMA Medal for their landmark achievement at the Venice Biennale 2024. The medals were announced at the QAGOMA Foundation dinner in Brisbane 05.10.24.

Augusta Vinall Richardson is exhibiting a major new sculpture in the inaugural Melbourne Sculpture Biennale: The Burden of Objects at Villa Alba Museum, 44 Walmer Street, Kew. Augusta is giving an artist talk Sunday 13.10.24 at 1pm. Exhibition 09.10.24 — 13.10.24, 10am — 5pm.

Mitch Cairns’ Ballpoint from his recent solo presentation by The Commercial at Sydney Contemporary has been acquired by The Wesfarmers Collection, Perth.

Jazz Money has developed a major new outdoor work for the 2024 Canberra Art Biennial. Located by Lake Burley Griffin adjacent to Canberra Contemporary Art Space, “Only Country Lasts Forever responds to the buildings and infrastructure of Canberra, asking viewers to consider the manipulation of Country that creates the landmarks of the nation's capital. Interrupting view lines across the Canberra line axis of the parliamentary triangle, the imposing text reminds audiences of the ever present, sovereign soil below their feet, and the simple truth that only Country lasts forever.” (Jazz Money) exhibition 27.09.24 — 26.10.24

Jazz Money's feature documentary, WINHANGANHA, continues to screen internationally including at Harvard Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts USA as part of the Ancestral Futures: Indigenous Cardinal Relations Symposium, 04.10.24 and Filmhaus Nürnberg, Germany 06.10.24 as part of the Australian First Nations Cinema Program. Visit NSFA website for further details.

Works by Matthew Harris, Stephen Ralph and Michael Riley are included in Hold the world to its word at Murray Art Museum Albury. Curated by Michael Moran, the exhibition “recognises the notion of an inherently good and just world is a fragile one. That faith in promises held personally and collectively is easily eroded.” The exhibition includes works by Hoda Afshar, Matthew Harris, Spence Messih, Stephen Ralph, Sandra Selig, and what, alongside the collective et al., and works by Michael Riley and Susan Hiller. Exhibition until 16.03.25

Augusta Vinall Richardson's bronze wall sculpture, Tumbling, trying to, has been shortlisted for the 2024 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize at Woollahra Art Gallery. Exhibition: 13.09.24 — 20.10.24.

Jazz Money is presenting at Sydney Contemporary as part of a panel discussion on the subject of Poetics, Politics and the Personal: A Method. Panel members: Luke Letourneau, Jazz Money, Marikit Santiago and Daniel Browning. Carriageworks, Saturday 7 September, 3 — 4pm.

The Commercial is exhibiting at Sydney Contemporary at Carriageworks with a solo exhibition by Mitch Cairns in Booth H02. Jude Rae's solo exhibition at the gallery in Marrickville will be open regular visiting hours: Thursday — Saturday, 11 — 4. Sydney Contemporary dates: 05.09.24 — 08.09.24. The gallery is a 10 minute drive from the art fair.

The Australian Government has acquired Archie Moore’s kith and kin. Commissioned by Creative Australia and curated by Ellie Buttrose, it was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation at La Biennale di Venezia 2024. kith and kin is being acquired by the Australian Government to be gifted to the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane who, along with their acquisition partner Tate, London, will see two of the world’s leading art museums ensure its enduring legacy on the global stage. The joint custodianship maps geographically Moore's matrilineal (Kamilaroi/Bigambul) and patrilineal (English/Scottish) kinship. The acquisition/donation was announced last night at the National Gallery of Australia at an event attended by the Australian Prime Minister, Federal Minister for the Arts and Governor-General.

Jazz Money is exhibiting a new neon work in the group exhibition, Echoes, at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. The exhibition presents works that “uncover past lives, alter egos and feedback loops, Echoes explores reverberations in the human experience.” Exhibition 23.08.24 — 09.11.24

Congratulations to Travis MacDonald announced today as winner of the 2024 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize for his painting, The top of the pond. The $ 30,000 acquisitive award was judged by José Da Silva, Jane Devery and Jason Smith and will be on exhibition at Geelong Gallery until 03.11.24.

The Commercial is looking forward to presenting a solo exhibition by Mitch Cairns at Sydney Contemporary at Carriageworks 05 — 08.09.24. Cairns brings a signature combination of wit and discipline to his figurative oil paintings. The Commercial is in Booth H02. Contact the gallery to receive a preview of works ahead of the fair via this link.

Jazz Money's second book of poetry, mark the dawn, has been published by University of Queensland Press. mark the dawn is the recipient of the UQP Quentin Bryce Award. Buy mark the dawn online at this link.

It is a great pleasure to announce that The Commercial is representing Angela Brennan and welcome her warmly to the gallery. Brennan (b. 1960, l. Naarm/Melbourne) is an artist whose practice over four decades is a thesis in colour and its relationships. She creates exuberant, primordial experiences in oil paint. While predominantly abstract, her paintings, footnoted with external references in titles, text and figurative elements, "build a potent self-image of the artist, reflecting her various interests, beliefs and preferences" (Michael Graf). For art of such unbridled joy, Brennan’s work houses an erudite core. It is sensate, material, intellectual. The Commercial will be presenting an exhibition of Brennan’s paintings from her recent solo show at the Art Gallery of Ballarat in October this year.

Works by Matthew Harris and Jazz Money are on exhibition at Casula Powerhouse, Sydney, in the ACCA touring exhibition, Between Waves, curated by Jessica Clark. "Between Waves amplifies concepts related to light, time and vision – and the idea of shining a light on our times – as expressed by the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung word ‘Yalingwa’. The exhibition presents the work of ten First Nations artists and collectives". Casula exhibition dates: 27.07.24 — 29.09.24.

UNSW Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition by Lillian O'Neil: The light that spills across the ground between shadows. The exhibition is curated by Director José Da Silva, giving Sydney audiences the chance to see O'Neil's recent large scale analogue collages in the wake of the 2024 Adelaide Biennial at the Art Gallery of South Australia. UNSW Gallery exhibition: 28.06.24 — 08.09.24.

Augusta Vinall Richardson's bronze wall sculpture, Floating, was acquired by The Celine Art Project and installed in the recently opened Celine Gold Coast Pacific Fair store designed by Hedi Slimane.

Matthew Harris' The British Museum series, recently acquired in full by the National Gallery of Victoria, is on exhibition in Wurrdha Marra at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia Federation Square, Melbourne.

Congratulations to Nigel Milsom and Jude Rae shortlisted for the 2024 Sulman and Wynne prizes respectively at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. A portrait of Matthew Harris by Sally Ross has been shortlisted for the Archibald Prize. Winners announced Friday 07.06.24.

The book accompanying Archie Moore's Venice Biennale exhibition, kith and kin, is now available online. The small black monograph draws upon the artist’s research with family, community and archives to celebrate First Nations sovereignty and kinship ties. The 304 page book is edited by Archie Moore, Ellie Buttrose and Grace Lucas-Pennington, designed by Žiga Testen, Stuart Geddes with essays by Archie Moore, Djon Mundine, Diane Bell, Felicity Meakins, Larissa Behrendt, Macarena Gómez-Barris, Raymond Kelly and Melissa Lucashenko. The book is available in Australia from Perimeter Books via this link and in Europe from Spector Books via this link.

Today the Federal Minister for the Arts and Leader of the House, Tony Burke MP, spoke at length in the Australian House of Representatives in celebration of Archie Moore's historic win of the Golden Lion for Best National Participation at the Venice Biennale. In conclusion he said, "kith and kin is a sublime expression of Aboriginality but also of the humanity that ultimately connects us all, and all Australians can be rightly proud of this triumph." Mr Burke's speech was echoed by the shadow minister. Read full Hansard transcription of speech here.

The National Gallery of Australia has installed Archie Moore's 2021 Family Tree next to The Aboriginal Memorial. The Aboriginal Memorial was conceived by Djon Mundine and realised by 43 artists from Ramingining and neighbouring communities of Central Arnhem Land in 1987-1988. It comprises 200 hollow log coffins commemorating all the Indigenous people who have lost their lives defending their land over the 200 years since colonisation. The Aboriginal Memorial is on permanent display at the National Gallery of Australia. Moore's Family Tree is one of two precursors to the significantly larger genealogical drawing that forms part of Moore's exhibition kith and kin in the Australia Pavlion at the 2024 Venice Biennale.

There has been an immense amount of press coverage both Australian and internationally of Archie Moore's exhibition kith and kin in the Australia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Here are links to a few highlights: Verónica Tello in Memo, Lorena Allam in The Guardian, Julian Tomkin in The Australian, Daniel Browning on ABC, Browning, Bremer, Tan, Tilly and Liddy on ABC, Gareth Harris in The Art Newspaper, Peggy Kasabad Lane in Art Monthly Australasia, Wes Hill in Art Forum.

The Art Gallery of Western Australia is presenting The Medium is the Medium || Agatha Gothe-Snape Material, a solo exhibition by Agatha Gothe-Snape and the artist's first exhibition at AGWA, Perth, curated by Robert Cook. The exhibition is situated across three of levels of the museum, focussing on "several key wall works made between 2015 and 2024, a form that represents just one aspect of Gothe-Snape’s output that also includes performance, installation, sculpture and drawing. Nonetheless, these wall paintings each engage with the central concerns of an extended practice that is consistently involved with shaping dynamic occasions to experience how we materially (and immaterially) negotiate pathways through contingent and persistent frameworks of belief, experience and knowledge." 11.05.24 — 06.10.24.

Augusta Vinall Richardson has been shortlisted for the 2024 National Works on Paper exhibition at Mornington Penninsula Regional Gallery. The $20,000 acquisitive prize is announced 31.08.24 with exhibition continuing until 24.11.24. Judges of this year’s prize are: Dunja Rmandic (Curator – Exhibitions MPRG), Erica Green (Director, Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia), Lisa Waup (artist and 2022 NWOP finalist), Trent Walter (Director, Negative Press).

The International Jury of the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia today announced Archie Moore as recipient of the Golden Lion for best National Participation for his exhibition, kith and kin, in the Australia Pavilion curated by Ellie Buttrose. It is the highest honour awarded by La Biennale and the first time Australia has received any award at the Venice Biennale which it has attended since 1954. Deep congratulations and much love to Archie and Ellie and huge thanks to Creative Australia for their belief in and support of the project. We could not be more proud.

To enquire about Archie Moore and his Venice Biennale exhibition, kith and kin, in the Australia Pavilion, email the gallery via this link.

Archie Moore in Venice Biennale in New York Times. “Indigenous Artists Are the Heart of the Venice Biennale” by Julia Halperin.

The Venice Biennale opens next week. We are so excited in advance of Archie Moore’s solo presentation, kith and kin, in the Australia Pavilion being shared with the world. Warmest wishes to Archie, Ellie and team and everyone from Creative Australia for these final days of preparation. kith and kin officially opens with formalities at the Australia Pavilion in the Giardini at 10:45am Venice time, Wednesday 17 April and will be live streamed on Instagram @ausatvenice | Venice 10:45am = GMT 8:45am = AEST 6:45pm

VENICE: ‘In discussion with kith and kin’ | Presented by ArtReview in partnership with Creative Australia. During Venice Biennale vernissage week, ArtReview is presenting a series of panels focussed on kith and kin, Archie Moore’s presentation in the Australia Pavilion, Thursday 18 April 2024, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice. Session one — 9:30am-10:50am | Art for Abolition Archie Moore’s kith and kin brings attention to how First Nations Australians are one of the most incarcerated populations globally and the impacts this has on Indigenous families. This panel will discuss how art can highlight carceral practices that disproportionally target First Nations peoples and people of colour and champion the urgent need for law reform. Session two — 4:00pm – 5:00pm | Enacting First Languages In kith and kin, Archie Moore includes terms in his familial Gamilaraay and Bigambul languages and the Aboriginal names of his ancestors. This panel will reflect on how global First Nations practitioners use art to enact Indigenous language maintenance and imprint First Nations words in the present so that they can re-enter common usage. Full program details and registration via artreview.com

Berlin Artlink interview by Adela Lovric with Archie Moore in lead up to Venice Biennale: "Going beyond mere reference to kinship and familial relations, the titular phrase ‘kith and kin’ refers to First Nations understanding of attachment to place and time. Moore intertwines his ongoing genealogical research with broader histories of Australia, recognizing the cultural and linguistic losses resulting from colonization, and striving to reclaim them." Read here

Archie Moore in Frieze magazine Venice Biennale Roundtable. Dare Turner talks with First Nations artists Jeffrey Gibson, Archie Moore and Inuuteq Storch about working within the settler colonial framework of American, Australian and Danish pavilions. Read here.

On the eve of his presentation, kith and kin, in the Australia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale opening 20.04.24, Steve Gow interviews Archie Moore about his life and family background in The Saturday Paper. Read here.

In 2021, Powerhouse commissioned artist Amanda Williams to document the last days of the museum’s former Castle Hill Experimental Research Plantation. The commission was conceived as both an archival recording of the site and heritage interpretation. Williams documented the site and its ongoing changes throughout the expansion project, creating images that will enter the Powerhouse Institutional Archives. Another outcome is a major artwork commission titled The Last Stand 2021–23, comprising 32 works that demonstrate Williams’ diverse approaches to analogue photographic image making across eight conceptual engagements with the former plantation site. The Last Stand will be on display at Building J from its opening on 23 March 2024 and be accessioned into the Powerhouse Collection.

The National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, has announced Mitch Cairns as a finalist in the Darling Portrait Prize 2024. The judges of this year's $ 75,000 prize are Bree Pickering, Director, National Portrait Gallery; Erin Vink, Curator First Nations Art (local and global), Art Gallery of New South Wales and Tara Heffernan, Art Historian and Critic. Winner announced 21.06.24. Exhibition: 22.06.24 — 22.09.24