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Exhibitions

Sunday 30 November
2025

Group Show

The Story of the Moving Image

ACMI
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Ayoung Kim

Delivery Dancer's Arc: 0° Receiver

ACMI
Thursday 22 August – Friday 2 January

Group Show

Art + Film

ACMI
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Group Show (Kaltjiti Arts)

Paintings from the Sand Dune Country

APY Gallery
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Group Show

The Beth Brown and Tom Bruce AM Gift

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 22 February – Sunday 30 November

Nell

Face Everything

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 11 October – Sunday 1 March

Maria Kontis

And I Would Say These Things To No One But You

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 6 September – Monday 23 February

Group Show

Always Modern: The Heide Story

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 13 May – Sunday 25 January

John Nixon

Song of the Earth

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Wednesday 26 November – Monday 9 March

Tammy Kanat

Circle of Her

Jewish Museum of Australia
Thursday 18 September – Sunday 22 March

Inbal Nissim

Regards From Your Future

Jewish Museum of Australia
Monday 6 October – Sunday 22 March

Group Show

TXT XXV

Five Walls
Friday 14 November – Saturday 13 December

Group Show

Various Small Fires

Gertrude Contemporary
Friday 31 October – Saturday 13 December

Hany Armanious

Stone Soup

Buxton Contemporary
Friday 21 November – Saturday 11 April

Group Show

Coral Futures

Linden New Art
Saturday 15 November – Sunday 1 February

Richard Lewer

I Only Talk to God When I Want Something

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 15 November – Sunday 1 March

Group Show

The City Wakes, The City Sleeps

TarraWarra Museum of Art
Saturday 29 November – Sunday 1 March

Group Show

Rest Time

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 11 October – Saturday 14 February

Pia de Bruyn

Female Trouble

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 11 October – Saturday 14 February

Corinna Berndt

jpg Fossils

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 8 October – Saturday 14 February

Abbra Kotlarczyk & Briony Galligan

Arranging by chance

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 11 October – Saturday 14 February

Peter Thomas

New World Fauna

Fox Galleries
Thursday 13 November – Sunday 7 December

Nipa Doshi

MECCA X NGV Women in Design Commission 2025

NGV International
Thursday 25 September – Wednesday 1 April

Rosanna Ceravolo & Jordan Fleming

Soft Monument

Oigall Projects
Wednesday 12 November – Sunday 30 November

Group Show

Whispers in the Walls

Arts Project
Monday 13 October – Friday 19 December

Group Show

ABSTRACTION 25

Charles Nodrum Gallery
Saturday 15 November – Saturday 6 December

John Nixon

Song of the Earth

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Wednesday 26 November – Monday 9 March

For over five decades, Australian artist John Nixon (1949–2020) produced abstract art driven by a spirit of experimentation and a deep engagement with radical modernism. An influential and collaborative figure both in Australia and internationally, Nixon is celebrated for the remarkable breadth of his practice. While abstract and non-objective painting remained his primary focus—explored under the banner of his Experimental Painting Workshop (EPW)—his expanded concept of art extended across multiple disciplines, including experimental music, photography, theatre, film, and printmaking.

Song of the Earth is the first major survey to trace Nixon’s career from his beginnings in the late 1960s and 1970s as a minimal and conceptual artist, through to his striking 1980s installations combining paintings with readymade objects, and into the final decades of his life, marked by continued experimentation and the expansion of his painting practice. With a profound personal belief in the intertwining of art and life, Nixon often incorporates found objects and materials into his paintings and installations. This fusion lends his work both intellectual rigour and poetic resonance, the everyday objects at once ordinary and elevated. ‘My art is not only an analysis of form (the conceptual edge of painting and sculpture) … but a metaphor for life’, Nixon said in 1993.

Location

Heide Museum of Modern Art
7 Templestowe Rd, Bulleen VIC 3105

Date

Wednesday 26 November – Monday 9 March

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Exhibitions

Sunday 30 November
2025

Group Show

The Story of the Moving Image

ACMI
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Ayoung Kim

Delivery Dancer's Arc: 0° Receiver

ACMI
Thursday 22 August – Friday 2 January

Group Show

Art + Film

ACMI
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Group Show (Kaltjiti Arts)

Paintings from the Sand Dune Country

APY Gallery
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Group Show

The Beth Brown and Tom Bruce AM Gift

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 22 February – Sunday 30 November

Nell

Face Everything

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 11 October – Sunday 1 March

Maria Kontis

And I Would Say These Things To No One But You

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 6 September – Monday 23 February

Group Show

Always Modern: The Heide Story

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 13 May – Sunday 25 January

John Nixon

Song of the Earth

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Wednesday 26 November – Monday 9 March

Tammy Kanat

Circle of Her

Jewish Museum of Australia
Thursday 18 September – Sunday 22 March

Inbal Nissim

Regards From Your Future

Jewish Museum of Australia
Monday 6 October – Sunday 22 March

Group Show

TXT XXV

Five Walls
Friday 14 November – Saturday 13 December

Group Show

Various Small Fires

Gertrude Contemporary
Friday 31 October – Saturday 13 December

Hany Armanious

Stone Soup

Buxton Contemporary
Friday 21 November – Saturday 11 April

Group Show

Coral Futures

Linden New Art
Saturday 15 November – Sunday 1 February

Richard Lewer

I Only Talk to God When I Want Something

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 15 November – Sunday 1 March

Group Show

The City Wakes, The City Sleeps

TarraWarra Museum of Art
Saturday 29 November – Sunday 1 March

Group Show

Rest Time

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 11 October – Saturday 14 February

Pia de Bruyn

Female Trouble

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 11 October – Saturday 14 February

Corinna Berndt

jpg Fossils

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 8 October – Saturday 14 February

Abbra Kotlarczyk & Briony Galligan

Arranging by chance

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 11 October – Saturday 14 February

Peter Thomas

New World Fauna

Fox Galleries
Thursday 13 November – Sunday 7 December

Nipa Doshi

MECCA X NGV Women in Design Commission 2025

NGV International
Thursday 25 September – Wednesday 1 April

Rosanna Ceravolo & Jordan Fleming

Soft Monument

Oigall Projects
Wednesday 12 November – Sunday 30 November

Group Show

Whispers in the Walls

Arts Project
Monday 13 October – Friday 19 December

Group Show

ABSTRACTION 25

Charles Nodrum Gallery
Saturday 15 November – Saturday 6 December

John Nixon

Song of the Earth

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Wednesday 26 November – Monday 9 March

For over five decades, Australian artist John Nixon (1949–2020) produced abstract art driven by a spirit of experimentation and a deep engagement with radical modernism. An influential and collaborative figure both in Australia and internationally, Nixon is celebrated for the remarkable breadth of his practice. While abstract and non-objective painting remained his primary focus—explored under the banner of his Experimental Painting Workshop (EPW)—his expanded concept of art extended across multiple disciplines, including experimental music, photography, theatre, film, and printmaking.

Song of the Earth is the first major survey to trace Nixon’s career from his beginnings in the late 1960s and 1970s as a minimal and conceptual artist, through to his striking 1980s installations combining paintings with readymade objects, and into the final decades of his life, marked by continued experimentation and the expansion of his painting practice. With a profound personal belief in the intertwining of art and life, Nixon often incorporates found objects and materials into his paintings and installations. This fusion lends his work both intellectual rigour and poetic resonance, the everyday objects at once ordinary and elevated. ‘My art is not only an analysis of form (the conceptual edge of painting and sculpture) … but a metaphor for life’, Nixon said in 1993.

Location

Heide Museum of Modern Art
7 Templestowe Rd, Bulleen VIC 3105

Date

Wednesday 26 November – Monday 9 March

Save to Calendar

Google

Website

https://www.heide.com.au/exhibitions/john-nixon-song-of-the-earth/

All exhibition content on this website has been sourced from the exhibiting gallery’s website or provided by other art enthusiasts. We do not own or seek to own any of this material. If you are concerned about any misuse of your content, please let us know here.

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