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The works by Buxton Contemporary Collection artists Tracey Moffatt and Gordon Bennett are included in Octopus 21: On Fire curated by Tim Riley Walsh: Octopus 21: On Fire is an iteration of Riley Walsh’s exhibition and publication project On Fire: Climate and Crisis...

Buxton Contemporary collection artists Rob McHaffie, Rose Nolan and Tony Garifalakis, and This is a poem featured artist Lou Hubbard have kindly donated works for the Conners Conners fundraiser exhibition. Established in November 2019, Conners Conners aims to provide...

Westspace presents Fayen d’Evie's exhibition We get in touch with things at the point they break down // Even in the absence of spectators and audiences, dust circulates... Working as both artist and curator, d’Evie advocates for radical accessibility within the...

New Futures TM is the third in a series of short films by Laresa Kosloff with the use of commercial stock footage to explore the sociopolitical conditions of late capitalism. This new film tells the story of a biohacking company that can medically upgrade...

Buxton Contemporary collection artist Nicholas Mangan is included in the curated exhibition Trust and Confusion held at Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong. Trust & Confusion is about the conversation of certainty and chance; the transformative power of bodies,...

Mikala Dwyer in collaboration with composer James Hayes presents Ode to the ʻōʻō a sound and sculptural work in the Gertrude Glasshouse space. Carceral-like architectures of animal captivity are suggested through the use of sound. Expanding on the artist’s recent...

Taloi Havini presents The Soul Expanding Ocean #1, a new ambitious work commissioned for Ocean Space in Venice, Italy, as a part of a two-year curatorial cycle entitled The Soul Expanding Ocean and curated by Chus Martínez. In November and December 2020, Havini was a...

Buxton Contemporary Collection artists Daniel Crooks and Raquel Ormella have each been com­mis­sioned to cre­ate new work for the Tar­raWar­ra Bien­ni­al 2021: Slow Mov­ing Waters. Curat­ed by Nina Miall, the exhi­bi­tion responds to two relat­ed cues: the idea of...

Buxton Contemporary collection artist Rob McHaffie presents a new series of paintings in A cuddle is understood universally held at Darren Knight Gallery in Sydney. A keen observer of everyday life, he draws on subjects close at hand to explore what is happening...

Only a few days left to see Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now Part one, and Transfer Station 1 (2011) by Buxton Contemporary Collection artist Mira Gojak at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. The work was previously exhibited at Buxton...

Unfinished Business: The Art of Gordon Bennett is the first large-scale exhibition of Buxton Contemporary Collection artist Gordon Bennett’s work and features 200 artworks ranging from installation and sculptural assemblage to painting, drawing, video and ceramics. 

Buxton Contemporary Collection artists Louise Weaver and Stephan Bram are included in A shining light, an exhibition of new works acquired by Geelong Gallery over the past year. The exhibition takes its title from a 1986 song The shining path by British group Shriekback, and the song’s opening lines resonate in this uncertain times: ‘We had lived a blessed time but we knew nothing’.

An exhibition of new paintings by Buxton Contemporary Collection artist David Griggs is currently on view at Station Gallery, Melbourne and will be open to public until 20th of February 2021 with the closing event to be confirmed. Griggs’ new phantasmagoric portraits draw on the pop cultural archive of horror and surrealist collage techniques.

Com­mis­sioned by Aarhus Euro­pean Cap­i­tal of Culture, Mother Tongue, a video work by the Buxton Contemporary Collection artist Angelica Mesiti, takes the songs in the Danish Højskolesangbogen (The National Folk High School Songbook) as its conceptual starting point. The Højskolesangbogen is the foundational anchor of the Danish tradition of fællessang (communal singing), which originated in the socialist movements of the late 1800s as a form of protest and is today a symbol of national identity and togetherness. To adhere to fællessang is to perform the vernacular of a collective ‘mother tongue’.