Past
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Between Bodies
Sylvia Wilson & Natalie Scholtz 7 March - 25 April 2026 Between Bodies is the first collaboration by Sylvia Wilson and Natalie Scholtz, two women of colour whose metaphysical portraits navigate identity, belonging and Australianness. Sylvia Wilson, a First Nations Martu curator and visual artist, navigates the inherited weight of culture, Country, and continuity shaped through both disconnection and reclamation. Natalie... Read more -
Marcus ‘Double O’ Camphoo Kemarre & Maisie Petyarre Bundey
Melbourne Art Fair 2026 19 - 28 February 2026 Melbourne Art Fair 19 - 22 Feb 2026, Booth K1, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) 8 Hele & cbOne Gallery presents Marcus ‘Double O’ Camphoo Kemarre & Maisie Petyarre Bundey There are always anecdotes of artists that gave me the hunch there are painters like Marcus Camphoo... Read more -
The Evidence of Things Not Seen
Artists at Chapman & Bailey 19 December 2025 - 31 January 2026 To celebrate the end of a huge year we invite our friends and supporters to celebrate with all of us at Chapman & Bailey, with a lively exhibition by artists who work across our varied departments bringing their skills and experiences to provide the best fine art services. Take a... Read more -
Revisions
Patrick Waterhouse 22 November - 13 December 2025 Opening celebration Saturday 22 November 3.30 - 5.30pm with the artists, and visiting community from Warlukurlangu Artists (NT) In the past Kardiya (Walpiri word for anyone who is not Aboriginal Australian) recorded whatever they wanted. Slowly we have been rewriting that narrative. Correcting the record. We are inserting... Read more -
Moon Havoc
Rod Moss 25 October - 15 November 2025 The drawings are of the rocky ridgetops and outcrops in and around Mparntwe/Alice Springs, encountered on walks from his front door. The title work takes its name from the poetic fragment inscribed across it: ‘Moon havoc fell upon the soil with sacred sadness.’ Such inscriptions occur in some drawings to... Read more -
The Paintweavers - Ömie Barkcloth Art of Papua New Guinea
Ömie Artists 20 September - 18 October 2025 The Paintweavers: Ömie Barkcloth Art of Papua New Guinea
In collaboration with Ömie Artists of Oro Province, Papua New Guinea.
Celebrating 50 years of Papua New Guinea’s Independence (1975 – 2025) Read more -
Lirrwati to Wilkinkarra
A Nanala Family Exhibition 16 August - 13 September 2025 Warlayirti Artists
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Rain On The Rock
Valerie Brumby 24 July - 16 August 2025 A special exhibition of the original artworks by Aṉangu artist Valerie Brumby for the picture book Rain on the Rock. Please join us to celebrate with the artist and the author for the book launch for what is sure to be an iconic Australian children’s book. Valerie Brumby grew up... Read more -
NAIDOC at Collins Square
Next Generation: 7 - 11 July 2025 A selection of artworks by new generation First Nations cultural leaders. These up and coming artists were taught by their grandparents but do things their own way. They honour the legacy of their ancestors with a new vision as strong contemporary artworks reflecting their communities and remote art centres. In... Read more -
Nature Script
Kate Elsey 28 June - 19 July 2025 Underneath over the top Clouds hover And bones Garnish the land Threads of veins in leaves Circulating the trees Holding up the sky Capturing water Trickling the versant Etching stories Of time Into rock The face of our life Is written in clay In mountains In our form Kate Elsey... Read more -
Waiting For Stevie
Sarah Brown 18 May - 15 June 2025 Sarah Brown AM, renowned CEO of Purple House and celebrated Mparntwe (Alice Springs) artist, brings the energy and sparkle of Central Australia in her first solo show in Melbourne. Sarah Brown’s landscape paintings express the love of country that she has dedicated her life to. The dramatic desert skies, rich... Read more -
Cloud Nine
Marieke Dench: 17 May - 21 June 2025 Marieke Dench’s new body of paintings is a contemplation of happiness across diverse national geographies. Known for her ability to translate statistical data into striking visual artworks, Dench here transposes the facts and figures of happiness-by-continent into the form of billowing clouds. Traditionally associated with divine presence, change and interconnectedness,... Read more -
Identity Crisis
Mary Schepisi 15 March - 10 May 2025 We are delighted to present the new series of textile works by the artist and well-known philanthropist Mary Schepisi. Through the intimacy of embroidery and the thoughtful integration of found fabric pieces, IDENTITY CRISIS questions the allure of the fashion industry and challenges its mass consumption. ‘HOMAGE TO LOUISE BOURGEOIS... Read more -
In the Shadow of the Telegraph Line
Marcus 'Double O' Camphoo Kemarre & Joseph Williams Jungarayi 20 February - 8 March 2025 8 Hele & cbOne are excited to present at Melbourne Art Fair 20-23 Feb Marcus 'Double O' Camphoo Kemarre & Joseph Williams Jungarayi In collaboration with ARLPWE ART AND CULTURE CENTRE & NYINKKA NYUNYU ART AND CULTURE CENTRE Also showing at cbOne until 8 Mar Marcus and Joseph are founding... Read more -
Creative Energies
The Artists Behind Chapman & Bailey Group Show 13 December 2024 - 8 January 2025 Join us for our end of year celebration and special exhibition with staff and friends. Chapman & Bailey started 30 years ago by artists answering the demand for products and services with the knowledge and insight of an artist. In 2024 we reflect on the success of providing the full... Read more -
Barkly Groundswell
Group Show 16 November - 7 December 2024 Arlpwe Art Centre Artists of Ampilatwatja Barkly Regional Arts Nyinkka Nyunga Art and Culture Centre Utopia Art Centre Across 320km2 of mostly pastoral land the Barkly Region is Australia’s biggest local government area, but in such a remote and sparse region dotted with small Indigenous communities and even smaller... Read more -
Walking Bainggug
Emma Stuart 19 October - 9 November 2024 Emma Stuart paints the Australian landscape from the experience of bush walking to capture the sensation of being on country. With evocative brushstrokes and luminous colour, Emma captures the liminal shift between light and shade, between what is revealed and what is hidden, between the point of focus and distorted... Read more -
Connection to Country
Art of Australia's First Behavioural Ecologists 30 September - 4 October 2024 9th International Society for Behavioral Ecology Congress 29.09 – 04.10.2024 Melbourne Convention Centre The First Nations people of Australia are the oldest continuous living culture in the world, with a deep connection to country dating back at least 65,000 years. This rich history is embodied in creation stories, in... Read more -
Touch Sense
Group Show 21 September - 12 October 2024 Angela Mezzatesta Caitlin Rigby Michelle Yuan Fitz-Gerald Susan Peters Nampitjin Uma Christensen Five artists each with their own particular approach explore a sensory world. Sensing an experience and a language of the felt inner world that is too often dismissed in the present cerebral egocentric society. Each artist exhibiting,... Read more -
Breaking The Square
Roger Kemp & Bob Gibson 31 August - 18 September 2024 In collaboration with the Roger Kemp Trust and Tjarlirli & Kaltukatjara Art, cbOne Gallery brings together the timeless works of two visionary groundbreaking painters Roger Kemp (1908 – 1987) and Bob Gibson Tjungarrayi (b.1974). This exhibition celebrates the metaphysical vision and distinctive stylistic expression through two pioneers of contemporary art... Read more -
Cross Country: Art From Remote Art centres
Group Show at Collins Square 8 - 12 July 2024 NAIDOC WEEK 7 – 14 July 2024 Chapman & Bailey @ Collins Square Celebrating National NAIDOC Week, Collins Square hosts an informative exhibition of contemporary art from Aboriginal community owned Art Centres, presented by Chapman & Bailey in collaboration Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair (DAAF). Encounter the diversity of styles and... Read more -
Centering
Group Show 26 June - 24 August 2024 At mid-year we're reflecting on our exhibitions thus far and preparing for the projects ahead. We've rehung the few remaining paintings by Sarah Brown alongside artists of that country to expand on the landscape and culture of the central desert. Sarah Brown's landscape paintings express the love of country that... Read more -
Waru Walkat Junanyi - Drawing On Fire
Maruku Artists 20 April - 11 May 2024 For over 50 years Anangu, Aboriginal people from the Central and Western Deserts, have used heated wire to create markings, filled with stories, on their traditional wooden artefacts and tools. First seen by the Anangu on the stations when the cattle were being branded, they discovered heated fencing wire created... Read more -
Botanical Spells
Group Show 16 March - 13 April 2024 Anita Ophoven Carlo Golin Greg Elms Judith van Heeren Kohl Tyler cbOne Gallery is delighted to present Botanical Spells a group exhibition of artists with a devotion to plant material. Featuring the intricate coloured pencil drawings of Anita Ophoven, with high-definition scan-bed prints by Greg Elms, fantastical oil paintings by... Read more -
Emanate
Simone Arnol & Bernard Singlton 22 February - 9 March 2024 22 - 25 Feb 2024 Melbourne Art Fair 2024, Booth M4 23 Feb - 09 Mar 2024 cbOne Gallery cbOne is honoured to launch at Melbourne Art Fair 2024 the new photographic collection by First Nations artists Simone Arnol and Bernard Singleton – Emanate. Living and working on country in... Read more -
Wati Ngintaka Perentie lizard Man
Reggie Uluru 22 February - 9 March 2024 22 - 25 Feb 2024 Melbourne Art Fair 2024, Booth M4 23 Feb - 09 Mar 2024 cbOne Gallery Chapman & Bailey, in collaboration with Walkatjara Art Uluru, is proud to present REGGIE ULURU. “I feel proud to teach young ones about country, my Tjukurpa, our learning stories, about the... Read more -
Stepping on Snails in Socks
Group Show 20 January - 10 February 2024 Stepping on snails in socks brings together five artists whose work mingles with the often-unconsidered abject states of being of our bodies. Curated by Julie Vinci and featuring paintings and digital prints by Ingmar Apinis , Aylsa McHugh , Oliva Mroz , Steven Rendall (courtesy of Niagara Galleries ) and... Read more -
A Ceramic Exploration in Form, Feathers and Fantasy
Mark Young & Rosie Nott 9 - 22 December 2023 Mark Young and Rosi Nott create artwork alongside each other, sharing an enthusiasm for art and making. Inspiring one another with their individual mastery and insights, their works offer material delight and fanciful play. Mark’s ceramic sculptures combine elements of organic form and colours inspired by coastal life, his rainforest... Read more -
Fibre Works from Gapuwiyak
Gapuwiyak Culture & Arts 9 - 22 December 2023 Gapuwiyak artists are best known for their innovative fibre art creations. Their animal sculptures, woven mats and coiled baskets feature especially bright colours using traditional and new techniques that share deep knowledge of plants, country and culture. Master-weavers make baskets and mats from Gunga (Pandanus Spiralis), which are often dyed... Read more -
Melting
Roger Byrt 11 November - 2 December 2023 cbOne Gallery is pleased to present Roger Byrt’s new subterranean paintings of melting glacial caves, accompanied with a sound composition by Barb Byrt. Melting is an exploration of gravity-defying landscapes; we’re not only taken into caves through Roger Byrt’s paintings but the canvases themselves can rotate into variable compositions. Well... Read more -
Paper Wangka (Paper Story)
Martumili Artists 14 October - 14 December 2023 cbOne Gallery is delighted to restage Paper Wangka (Paper Story) from Martumili Artist Gallery, Newman WA. Curated by Corban Clause Williams, Sylvia Wilson, and Robina Clause, Paper Wangka (Paper Story) was exhibited in May 2021 as an exhibition showcasing works on paper from established and emerging Martumili Artists. Corban, Sylvia... Read more -
In Yellow, Brillo Yellow
Andrew Southall 9 September - 7 November 2023 cbOne Gallery signals the start of spring with In Yellow, Brillo Yellow, a focus on the recent yellow works by prolific artist Andrew Southall including painting, sculpture and drawing. Andrew Southall offers us a deep dive into the yellow that has come into play throughout his extensive oeuvre. With half... Read more -
Structured Visions
Group Show 12 August - 2 September 2023 Structured Visions brings together six artists working with individually developed processes to explore colour, pattern and layering. Featuring works from Cathy Blanchflower, Emma Langridge, Jane O’Neill, John Aslanidis, Louise Forthun, and Marieke Dench, Structured Visions compares differing approaches to the “building” or formation of artworks and presents a visual dialogue... Read more -
Slow, Slow, Even Slower Still
Victor Meertens 1 - 29 July 2023 The setup the room whirls The shed hooks firm The objects Whirl the shadows cast the world in whirls of silhouettes Sound soft machines suspended In Tipping the image Around corners into Other Vast Corners Other worlds of Small objects in Expansive spaces Standing firm & Resolute in the Face... Read more -
Remember Now Old Man Nomad
Tennant Creek Brio 17 May - 17 June 2023 The Tennant Creek Men’s art program started in 2016 as an art therapy/outreach program set up by Anyinginyi Health Aboriginal Corp. The group, a mix of fringe dwellers and emerging cultural leaders, have continued to work together and often collaboratively, forming a unique and cutting-edge artists collective named ‘The Tennant... Read more -
Birrarung: On the River
Group Show 28 March - 28 April 2022 A tribute to living and working with the life source of Birrarung the Yarra River. Drawing on a mix of professional artists and the wider community of Birrarung devotees in response to living and working on the river. “Breaststroke is perfect for wild-water swimming. With eyes at water level, it... Read more
