Australian Galleries

Opening Night Tuesday 29 September 6pm to 8pm Photographic portrait sessions with Brett Whiteley during the 1970’s were a combination of curation, chance and spontaneity as seen through the lens of my camera. Brett’s enthusiasm was contagious. His spirit still hovers over me now and then.

b. 1950 Abstract figurative painter and printmaker Graham Fransella was born in England and trained at the Bradford School of Art in Yorkshire from 1970 to 1973. He was awarded the Bradford School of Art traveling scholarship in 1972 and arrived in Australia in 1975. He has held numerous exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and internationally in Cologne, Germany and London.

b. 1960 Jenny Bell attended the National Art School and completed a Bachelor of Art at Sydney College of the Arts. Her drawings, paintings and works in relief distil decisive moments in the plain landscape she has spent almost a lifetime immersed in. The exterior traces of human and animal activity on the land, and the resultant biological processes that so captivate Bell hint at interior worlds particular to their environment. She explores this juncture with economy and restraint.

b. 1959 Highly celebrated figurative and still life painter Lewis Miller was born in Melbourne in 1959 and trained at the Victorian College of the Arts, where he also completed his post graduate studies. He exhibits regularly at Australian Galleries in Melbourne and Sydney. Miller has earned national recognition for his work in portraiture.

b. 1958 Dianne Fogwell is one of Australia's most distinguished printmakers, artist-book practitioners, and master printers. Nationally and internationally recognised for her innovative practice, she has spent more than four decades advancing the fields of printmaking and artist books as an artist, educator, curator, and publisher.

b. 1945 The product of a finely balanced alchemy; working with porcelain today is as much a highwire act as it was in the early eighteenth century, when the secret of making porcelain was first discovered in Europe Titania Henderson’s practice speaks to the heart of that fragile, delicate and most capricious material – white gold.

Opening Night Tuesday 4 August 2026 6pm to 8pm Artist Talk Sunday 2 August 2pm Philip Noakes has earned enviable recognition for the unique designs and unsurpassed quality of his work both in Australia and overseas. He creates pieces of great beauty and unparalleled technical mastery that expose both his passion and deep dedication to his art. Philip’s creativity is reflected in his designs that are influenced by changing environments.

"Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort." “Everything we see in our daily life is more or less distorted by acquired habit. The effort needed to see things without distortion takes something very much like courage"

b. 1951 Philip Noakes has earned enviable recognition for the unique designs and unsurpassed quality of his work both in Australia and overseas. He creates pieces of great beauty and unparalleled technical mastery that expose both his passion and deep dedication to his art.

b. 1980 Ayako Saito was born in Tokyo, Japan and studied art in Tamagawa University, Tokyo. She came to Australia in 2002 and completed an undergraduate degree and Honours in sculpture at the Australian National University, Canberra. In 2008 she received a Master of Visual Art. Her large outdoor sculptures have been exhibited at Sculpture by the Sea since 2008.