EXHIBITION ARCHIVE 2025
NEWCOMERS 25
Farnaz Dadfar • Emily Isabel Taylor • Saskia Vander
Marking the second annual Newcomers series, recent art-school graduates have been invited to usher in the new year of exciting programs.
Each artist embraces a sense of fragmentation, where the act of repairing broken matter, reshaping images and reframing personal narratives translates to an act of resilience and regeneration. Whether as through painting, bronze, glass or recycled plastic, each carries the memory of lived experience and produces something stronger and more adaptable than before.
Exhibition dates: 12 March – 12 April 2025
Farnaz Dadfar • Emily Isabel Taylor • Saskia Vander
Marking the second annual Newcomers series, recent art-school graduates have been invited to usher in the new year of exciting programs.
Each artist embraces a sense of fragmentation, where the act of repairing broken matter, reshaping images and reframing personal narratives translates to an act of resilience and regeneration. Whether as through painting, bronze, glass or recycled plastic, each carries the memory of lived experience and produces something stronger and more adaptable than before.
Exhibition dates: 12 March – 12 April 2025
HENRI MATISSE / ROBERT MOTHERWELL
Etchings Aquatints Lithographs Linocuts Woodcuts
It is with great pleasure that Annandale Galleries is able to bring you this exhibition of two of the Titans of Modern Art in our first exhibition in over ten years of modernist masters. There are over twenty works by each artist, with Matisse in the front gallery and Motherwell in the large gallery upstairs.
Also accompanying Matisse and Motherwell in the downstairs gallery are a selection of posters from the Bill & Anne Gregory Collection, done for PABLO PICASSO in collaboration with the 20th Century master lithographer Fernand Mourlot.
Exhibition dates: 7 May – 28 June 2025
Etchings Aquatints Lithographs Linocuts Woodcuts
It is with great pleasure that Annandale Galleries is able to bring you this exhibition of two of the Titans of Modern Art in our first exhibition in over ten years of modernist masters. There are over twenty works by each artist, with Matisse in the front gallery and Motherwell in the large gallery upstairs.
Also accompanying Matisse and Motherwell in the downstairs gallery are a selection of posters from the Bill & Anne Gregory Collection, done for PABLO PICASSO in collaboration with the 20th Century master lithographer Fernand Mourlot.
Exhibition dates: 7 May – 28 June 2025
FLOW STATES
Barks, Larrakitj & Sculpture
Flow States brings together a selection of recent and private-collection works from leading artists of north-east Arnhem Land, having passed through the Buku-Larrŋay Mulka Centre with whom Annandale has collaborated for three decades. While the works on display represent only a fraction of the work of renowned artists that have passed through Annandale Galleries, they nonetheless point to pivotal moments where Yolŋu art was challenged and shaped by community members
Exhibition dates: 31 July – 30 August 2025
Barks, Larrakitj & Sculpture
Flow States brings together a selection of recent and private-collection works from leading artists of north-east Arnhem Land, having passed through the Buku-Larrŋay Mulka Centre with whom Annandale has collaborated for three decades. While the works on display represent only a fraction of the work of renowned artists that have passed through Annandale Galleries, they nonetheless point to pivotal moments where Yolŋu art was challenged and shaped by community members
Exhibition dates: 31 July – 30 August 2025
JOHN LESSORE
Passages
Despite being raised by distinguished painters, directing the Norwich School of Art and presently residing in major public collections such as the Tate and The Royal Academy, John Lessore places little value on accolades or artistic pedigree. When complimented on his work, Lessore responds with “I have a determined ambition to paint beautifully: and am still trying”. This could be simple modesty, but more likely stems from a realisation that painting is often a paradoxical process of catching up to moments that have already passed. The best of painters know to accept the challenge, but also the inevitability that it will never be achieved.
Exhibition dates: 31 July – 30 August 2025
Passages
Despite being raised by distinguished painters, directing the Norwich School of Art and presently residing in major public collections such as the Tate and The Royal Academy, John Lessore places little value on accolades or artistic pedigree. When complimented on his work, Lessore responds with “I have a determined ambition to paint beautifully: and am still trying”. This could be simple modesty, but more likely stems from a realisation that painting is often a paradoxical process of catching up to moments that have already passed. The best of painters know to accept the challenge, but also the inevitability that it will never be achieved.
Exhibition dates: 31 July – 30 August 2025
CHARLES COOPER
Geographics
There are few artists who apply as much dedication to a single subject as Charles Cooper. Since the late eighties he has painted roundabouts, intersections, pedestrian crossings and street markings - each time managing to unearth something remarkable about the humble road. In Geographics, his attention has turned almost exclusively to the meandering tar lines which fill the cracked bitumen of Sydney streets, where the artist lives and works. He focuses on the continual cycle of fracture and repair experienced quite literally by the urban landscape. These remedial tar lines indicate a tension between our efforts to impose order and nature’s responsive resistance.
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Exhibition dates: 17 September - 18 October 2025
Geographics
There are few artists who apply as much dedication to a single subject as Charles Cooper. Since the late eighties he has painted roundabouts, intersections, pedestrian crossings and street markings - each time managing to unearth something remarkable about the humble road. In Geographics, his attention has turned almost exclusively to the meandering tar lines which fill the cracked bitumen of Sydney streets, where the artist lives and works. He focuses on the continual cycle of fracture and repair experienced quite literally by the urban landscape. These remedial tar lines indicate a tension between our efforts to impose order and nature’s responsive resistance.
Download Charles Cooper's CV
Exhibition dates: 17 September - 18 October 2025
JULIE HARRIS
Sigur Series
For the past four decades, Julie Harris has approached painting with vigorous dedication and unrelenting inquisitiveness. Her practice is refreshingly hard to pin down, and with each visit to the artist’s Blackheath studio there is a promise of newly explored territory. Now in her seventies, Harris notes that she is increasingly aware of the steady passage of time and what that means for her artistic career. With a longstanding love of Korean art practices and philosophies, her work has always had the hallmarks of meditative repetition but increasingly punctuated by explosive gestures that suggest a newfound restless curiosity.
Exhibition dates: 17 September - 18 October 2025
Sigur Series
For the past four decades, Julie Harris has approached painting with vigorous dedication and unrelenting inquisitiveness. Her practice is refreshingly hard to pin down, and with each visit to the artist’s Blackheath studio there is a promise of newly explored territory. Now in her seventies, Harris notes that she is increasingly aware of the steady passage of time and what that means for her artistic career. With a longstanding love of Korean art practices and philosophies, her work has always had the hallmarks of meditative repetition but increasingly punctuated by explosive gestures that suggest a newfound restless curiosity.
Exhibition dates: 17 September - 18 October 2025
Wäwamanydji - Two Brothers
Bambarrarr Marawili & Wulu Marawili
From their clan's homeland of Yilpara, they tell the story of Bäru (saltwater crocodile) and the nesting site of Garraŋali, the wellspring of the Maḏarrpa people's identity (the clan to which Bambarrarr and Wulu belong). Whether on etched road signs, bark paintings, or larrakitj (hollow stringybark log), every work contains the powerful and protective fire-imbued waters brought by the Bäru — a source of strength, unity and sureness of purpose for Maḏarrpa people.
Exhibition dates: 5 November - 13 December
Bambarrarr Marawili & Wulu Marawili
From their clan's homeland of Yilpara, they tell the story of Bäru (saltwater crocodile) and the nesting site of Garraŋali, the wellspring of the Maḏarrpa people's identity (the clan to which Bambarrarr and Wulu belong). Whether on etched road signs, bark paintings, or larrakitj (hollow stringybark log), every work contains the powerful and protective fire-imbued waters brought by the Bäru — a source of strength, unity and sureness of purpose for Maḏarrpa people.
Exhibition dates: 5 November - 13 December