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Spirit into matter

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Monica Rohan in 2026 Mosman Art Prize

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Monica Rohan in 2026 Mosman Art Prize

Congratulations to Monica Rohan who is a finalist in the 2026 Mosman Art Prize with her work Netted. Established in 1947, the Mosman Art Prize is the longest running municipal art prize in Australia. Winning entries are acquired for the Mosman Art Collection, a valuable collection that surveys Australian painting....

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COMING SOON - Adam Pyett, ’Stories of daylight’

Adam Pyett has spent years painting around the Macedon Ranges, a region whose volcanic landscapes, dense forests and distinctive light have long inspired artists, writers and visitors alike. It is a place where geology, history and imagination sit unusually close together. For tens of thousands of years, the Country has been cared for by the Traditional Owners of the Kulin Nation. Later came the goldfields, pastoral settlements, grand gardens, and generations of painters, each leaving their own mark upon the landscape. It is a place layered with histories, where every return offers another way of seeing. Pyett’s paintings quietly enter this ongoing conversation, recording not simply what is seen, but what it feels like to return.

’Stories of daylight’ will be showing in the gallery from 2 - 26 September.

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Congratulations to Monica Rohan who is a finalist in the 2026 Mosman Art Prize.

The Mosman Art Prize is Australia’s premier open painting prize open to entrants from across Australia over the age of 16.
Each year the winning artwork is acquired forming the basis of the Mosman Art Collection.
Now in its 79th year the Mosman Art Prize has provided a historical timeline of contemporary painting practice in Australia.

Congratulations Monica and best of luck to all finalists!

Mosman Art Prize
Mosman Art Gallery, NSW
21 August - 26 October 2026

Image details:
Monica Rohan, ‘Netted’, 2026, oil on board, 60.0 x 80.0 cm

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COMING SOON - Jason Fitzgerald, ’Unearthed’

A trained cabinet maker, Jason Fitzgerald’s sculptural practice allows him to do away with precision and more playfully explore the parameters of materials and function. Jason’s hand-built objects are increasingly tactile and organic, taking cues from the natural landscape.

“These works sit somewhere between ruin and object. They feel unearthed rather than made, as though recovered from an uncertain past rather than assembled in the present. Fragments appear to have endured long after their original purpose was forgotten, bearing the physical burden of time while resisting a fixed narrative.” - Jason Fitzgerald, 2026

’Unearthed’ will be showing in the gallery from 5 - 29 August.
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Image details:
(i) Jason Fitzgerald, Murder (3 parts), 2026, glazed stoneware with rust finish, 21.0 x 23.0 x 10.0 cm
(ii) Jason Fitzgerald, Hoops 1, 2026, glazed stoneware with rust finish, 26.0 x 22.0 x 19.0 cm
(iii) Jason Fitzgerald, Substructure 2, 2026, glazed stoneware with rust finish, 34.0 x 27.0 x 9.0 cm

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Congratulations to Jacqueline Hennessy, winner of the People’s Choice Award in the 2026 Salon des Refusés.

Established in 1992, the Salon des Refusés is the ‘alternative selection’ to the Archibald and Wynne Prizes, and has become a much-anticipated exhibition in its own right.

Hennessy’s winning portrait depicts fellow artist Eliza Gosse. Speaking about the work, she says:

“I came to know painter Eliza Gosse during our studies at the National Art School and have long admired her practice. This portrait, rendered in a restrained sepia palette, draws on the language of photography while quietly unsettling its claim to fully capture the subject.” — Jacqueline Hennessy, 2026

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A big congratulations to Archer Davies who has been awarded the 2026 Brisbane Rotary Art Show major prize with his work, ‘Rose Velvet’.

Now in its 42nd year, the Brisbane Rotary Art Show raises funds for charities and Rotary initiatives supporting youth programs, disaster relief and mental health services. Archer’s winning work can be seen on display in the foyer of Central Plaza 1, at 345 Queen Street until 31 July.

For more information, head to the Brisbane Rotary Art Show’s page @brisbanerotaryartshow

Image credit: Archer Davies, ‘Rose Velvet’, 2025, oil on linen, 46.0 x 51.0 cm

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COMING SOON - Celia Gullett, ’Spirit into matter’

Celia Gullett’s paintings resist easy resolution, unfolding instead through a sustained conversation with colour, surface and time.

Gullett doesn’t begin with a fixed image but with materials. Coarse loom-state linen, the grain of timber, the absorbency of the surface and the behaviour of paint all participate in the work from its earliest moments. She describes painting as “a way of understanding what it is to be alive, to be human. We have two realities, the one around us and the one within us... Making paintings is a way I can merge the two realities and make a material object.”

Gullett’s paintings invite a slower form of looking, one in which meaning emerges gradually through sustained attention rather than instant recognition.

’Spirit into matter’ will be showing in the gallery from 5 - 29 August.

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Drew Connor Holland is featured in the exhibition, New Religion, currently showing at Ngununggula.

Bringing together contemporary artworks and historical objects, New Religion explores the enduring power of images, asking why certain symbols, rituals and systems of belief continue to shape the way we see the world.

Drew is one of eight contemporary artists commissioned by Ngununggula to create a new body of work for the exhibition, presented alongside significant loans from major public collections. His installation explores the emotional and symbolic authority projected onto objects through narrative, ritual and collective belief. Among the works is a cast of his mother’s face, made when she was a young woman and reimagined by the artist as a precious relic.

New Religion
Ngununggula | Southern Highlands Regional Gallery
27 June – 18 October 2026

Image credit: install views of Drew Connor Holland’s work in New Religion.
Photography by Mim Stirling.

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NOW SHOWING - James Guppy, ’Sculptures and birds’

’Sculptures and birds’ is currently showing in the gallery and online until 1 August.

Please click the link in bio to view online.

Image details:
(i) James Guppy, Listening for Louise, 2026, acrylic on jute, 96.0 x 77.0 cm
(ii) James Guppy, Barbara’s Egrets, 2026, acrylic on jute, 96.0 x 77.0 cm
(iii) James Guppy, Judd’s dinnertime, 2026, acrylic on canvas, 30.0 x 25.0 cm

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