O’Keeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith: making modernism
Opens 1 July - buy timed tickets online
Passion and procession: art of the Philippines
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Art After Hours
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Open until 10pm Wednesdays
Celebrate NAIDOC week, starting with a talk in the exhibition Mervyn Bishop, then join Uncle Mervyn for one of his famous slide nights and enjoy music by Leah Flanagan. Or take inspiration from Victorian watercolours and explore Pre-Raphaelite passion with novelist Kate Forsyth, or watch the Henry James adaptation, The innocents.
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Bulgari Art Award 2017
One of Australia’s finest colour painters, Tomislav Nikolic, is the recipient of this year’s $80,000 BVLGARI ART AWARD.
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Sydney Modern Project
Learn more about the project to transform the Gallery with new and expanded spaces for art, performance, film, study and cultural programs.
Enter your artwork
Online entry forms are now available for the 2017 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes, until 7 July. Deliver your work from 3 July.
School holidays
Get making this July with a range of artmaking activities for kids and teens, including free drop-in workshops for the whole family.
Bayanihan Philippine Art Project
Celebrating contemporary Filipino art and culture with a series of exhibitions, performances, creative writing and community programs across multiple venues.
NAIDOC Week 2017
Join us at the Gallery for this celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, with a host of events, including a special Art After Hours on 5 July.
Art prizes database
Find out more about the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes – including entry information – and explore the finalists and winners year by year.
Inside ARTEXPRESS
Explore artists and works back to 2005 in the annual exhibition of outstanding student artworks, developed for the HSC examination in Visual Arts in NSW.
Come dine with us
CHISWICK at the Gallery is the perfect spot for lunch, a quick bite, a drink at the bar, or dinner on a Wednesday. Dining packages available.
Michael Brand on Instagram
You can follow Gallery director Michael Brand on Instagram, where he posts photos of art and life in Sydney and further afield.
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Victorian flashbacks
Filmmakers have never ceased to draw on stories from the Victorian era. The Gallery's 'Straight-laced and scandalous' film series showcases feature films that explore the rituals and political consciousness of the late 19th century.
Brett Whiteley Studio
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Enter the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship
Online applications now open Each year, the Brett Whiteley Studio invites applications for a major travelling art scholarship to a talented young artist/painter with an established body of work who is best able to demonstrate the use and benefit of the scholarship to further their art education in Europe.
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Our members organisation organises talks, workshops and other events. Some are exclusive to members; for others, members pay a discounted price.