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Featured exhibitions spotlight one standout show at a time, helping you see what not to miss. It is a way of slowing the scroll and connecting more deeply with the art being shown across Newcastle and the region.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS IN NEWCASTLE
Discover what’s on across Newcastle’s galleries right now. This page brings together all current art exhibitions from independent spaces, artist-run initiatives, and major institutions across the city. Updated daily, it’s the easiest way to explore Newcastle’s vibrant visual arts scene and plan your gallery visits.
Re
Pseudonym Gallery warmly invites you to 'Re'a solo exhibition by Newcastle based artist Joshua Bollback Butler. Joshua is a storyteller, creating rich tapestries of flora and fauna, woven together to give viewers a window into his soul. Come and join us for drinks on Saturday…
October 3, 2026 – October 17, 2026
Life and Line
Life and Line brings together the work of Lynnette Passeri and Elizabeth Mead in a conversation between ceramics and painting. Across clay and canvas, line becomes contour, gesture and rhythm, revealing the movement of the hand and the process of making. The exhibition explores the…
October 2, 2026 – October 18, 2026
Muse
Muse is first major survey of globally recognised and Newcastle-based artist Angela Tiatia. Drawing together twenty years of video, photography and installation, this exhibition invites audiences to be immersed in the largest ever presentation of Tiatia’s visually luscious and politically incisive art practice. This timely…
September 26, 2026 – February 21, 2027
Confluence of Order and Chaos
Peter Mottershead returns to Cstudios Art Gallery for his third solo exhibition, presenting a new body of work developed over the past twelve months. Confluence of Order and Chaos explores the relationship between human order and the perceived chaos of natural systems and entropic forces.…
September 26, 2026 – October 10, 2026
Myth
In MYTH, Hunter Valley artist Bianca Vern-Barnett explores the point where the inner, imagined world meets collective memory, storytelling and shared experience. Her practice begins with stories that capture her attention, considering why certain narratives endure and what they might reveal about personal experience. Approaching…
September 26, 2026 – October 18, 2026
The Surrounds Around
Sydney artist Liz Payne presents her first exhibition in Newcastle with The Surrounds Around, a multidisciplinary body of work spanning painting, textiles and design. Payne works across art, craft and design, using bold colour, pattern, texture and form to explore abstraction. In this exhibition, botanical,…
September 26, 2026 – October 18, 2026
Soft Edge
Soft Edge brings together embroidery, textiles, painting and assemblage in a body of work exploring repetition, mirrored imagery and imagined narratives. Helena Newcombe combines embroidery with acrylic paint, using stitching to add texture and detail to painted surfaces. Animals appear throughout the exhibition as symbolic,…
September 26, 2026 – October 18, 2026
Izabela Pluta / Cavitation
A monumental solo project by internationally recognised, Newcastle-based contemporary artist Izabela Pluta as part of a major international co-commission with TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art, Poland, and presented with key partner New Annual Festival. Cavitation unfolds across water, sound and fractured cartographies, examining how systems…
September 25, 2026 – January 31, 2027
TRIO
An exhibition by practising artists Yvette Ten-Bohmer, Andy Devine and Grant Vercoe The exhibition's title creates a space where each artist exists independently while remaining connected within a greater whole. Like individual voices in conversation, their distinct practices come together to reveal a shared sense…
September 25, 2026 – October 11, 2026
Welcome to the Suburbs
'Welcome to the Suburbs' is a group show featuring works by artists across a range of media inspired by their suburb. We have a special guest artist who is well known for her images of suburban dwellings Catherine O'Donnell and currently represented by Dominik Mersch…
September 24, 2026 – October 18, 2026
Suburban Alchemy
Suburban Alchemy Nicole de Mestre explores the transformative potential of discarded materials and the overlooked resources embedded within everyday urban life. Found objects, industrial remnants and household waste-all destined for landfill-are collected from the suburban landscape and reimagined. The ordinary becomes extraordinary. Discarded rope, wire,…
September 23, 2026 – November 1, 2026
Australian Gothic
Our exhibition explores the evolving genre of Australian Gothic through the lens of artists living and working on Awabakal and Worimi Country. Australian Gothic offers a powerful way to express the darker, more complex realities of living in Australia- stories that have been shaped by…
September 12, 2026 – November 1, 2026
Synergy
The University Galleries at Callaghan are pleased to partner with Newcastle Art Space to present their 2026 Mentorship Exhibition SYNERGY. Curated by Melody Suranyi (mentee) and Jo O'Toole (mentor) the theme and title of this year’s Newcastle Art Space Mentorship Exhibition - Synergy - is…
September 4, 2026 – November 14, 2026
DAY TRIPS FROM NEWCASTLE
Day Trips from Newcastle brings together exhibitions just outside the city, ideal for a short drive and a slower look. From Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery through to Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Singleton Art + Cultural Centre, and Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, these listings encourage audiences to explore the wider region through art.
Adam Manning: Embodied Rhythm
Embodied Rhythm explores rhythm as something lived, felt and shared across sound, painting and moving image. Rather than treating rhythm as something fixed or measured, the exhibition considers how pulse and pattern are shaped by memory, place, culture and relationships. At the centre of the…
September 26, 2026 – November 29, 2026
Wetlands Impressions
Local artists Merran Kilgour and Eugenia Dunlevie have joined forces for "Wetlands Impressions" on show at the Hunter Wetlands Centre Artspace from 26 September 2026. Merran and Eugenia share a passion for capturing images of the landscape in all its guises. The multi award-winning artists…
September 26, 2026 – October 22, 2026
The Quiet Room
Jono Everett - The Quiet Room Singleton Arts + Cultural Centre Newcastle artist Jono Everett presents his first museum solo exhibition, and his largest exhibition to date, at Singleton Arts + Cultural Centre. The Quiet Room explores home, memory and the emotional weight carried by…
August 22, 2026 – November 15, 2026
I Have More To Say
I Have More To Say explores the quiet turning points of everyday life: decisions made, conversations avoided and moments understood but left unsaid. Through carefully staged photographic scenes, Jasmine Poole and Christopher Sewell use collected objects to give physical form to memory, uncertainty and change.…
August 21, 2026 – November 15, 2026
2026 Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize
The 2026 Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize brings together contemporary photographic work from across Australia, exploring the ways photography can be used to communicate ideas, question assumptions and construct new ways of seeing. Presented by the Australian Photographic Society, the annual prize focuses on photography driven…
August 13, 2026 – October 10, 2026
Water
Spanning fifty years of practice, Water brings together paintings and drawings by Peter Gill from 1976 to the present, tracing an enduring fascination with rivers, creeks, gardens and coastlines. From the waterways surrounding his Muswellbrook home to landscapes encountered through travel, Gill is drawn to…
August 13, 2026 – December 23, 2026
Upriver Downriver
Building on the 2023 iteration of Upriver Downriver, Maitland Regional Art Gallery will embark on a major exhibition energising all our Gallery spaces to celebrate the expansive range of art and ideas resonating throughout our region.
July 11, 2026 – October 11, 2026
COMING SOON
Bringing together exhibitions that are about to open across Newcastle and nearby galleries. It’s a way to look ahead, make plans, and follow what’s next as new work prepares to go on view.
Completely Normal and Other Lies
Kimberly Swan’s observations of everyday objects, interiors and familiar scenes take on new meaning in Completely Normal and Other Lies. Created over twelve months, the works began without a set theme, gradually becoming a personal record of her experience of perimenopause. Through oil paintings, installation…
October 10, 2026 – October 21, 2026
Tender
Tender brings together established artists Jackie Gorring and Jill Orr in a collaborative exhibition of printmaking, sculpture and watercolour. Based in Victoria, Gorring works across handmade relief prints, sculpture and ceramics, with a practice characterised by humour, experimentation and a sense of creative play. Orr…
October 16, 2026 – October 31, 2026
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