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Welcome to Annandale Galleries

Annandale Galleries opened in 1991 in a former Methodist Church built in 1860 and subsequently converted to a Masonic Hall in 1920. There are three exhibition spaces totalling over 240 square metres.

We run a schedule of prominent Australian contemporary and Indigenous artists, as well as being the Australian representative of such international luminaries as Zadok Ben-David and William Kentridge.  

Annandale Galleries acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation who are the traditional custodians of the land on which we live and work.

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

ELEMENTS OF SYMPATHY Tané Andrews – Dennis Golding – Orson Heidrich – Kai Wasikowski
ELEMENTS OF SYMPATHY
Tané Andrews – Dennis Golding – Orson Heidrich – Kai Wasikowski
Curated by Andrew Chrisite
Elements of Sympathy brings together artists who work with refined mechanical and digital processes in contrast or cohabitation with the natural world. Prompted to consider the pharmakon–the ancient Greek term for both poison and medicine–their materials and methods investigate liminal spaces where notions of authorship, activism and bodily autonomy are constantly giving and gaining ground against the artificial aspects of contemporary life. This challenge has resulted in a display of works full of growth and decay, in both theory and practice.

“The value of [the pharmakon] is not in its ability to cure, but its ability to expose the weakness in our thinking, and cause harm to our misguided actions. These artists are calling us to acknowledge significant and complex societal failings across ecological sustainability, systemic racism, and technological co-dependence, and as a matter of course, giving us the freedom for meaningful introspection and communal dialogue.”

—Andrew Christie, Exhibition curator
Exhibition dates: 18 September – 23 October
Opening: 18 SEPTEMBER: 6:30–8:30pm