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Exhibitions

Saturday 28 February
2026

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Nell

Face Everything

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

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

Hany Armanious

Stone Soup

Buxton Contemporary
Friday 21 November – Saturday 11 April

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

Nipa Doshi

MECCA X NGV Women in Design Commission 2025

NGV International
Thursday 25 September – Wednesday 1 April

Group Show

Houses, Spouses, Crises and Chrises

Arts Project Australia Gallery
Saturday 31 January – Saturday 7 March

Tourmaline

Transcendent

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Friday 12 December – Sunday 15 March

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Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Friday 12 December – Sunday 15 March

Taree Mackenzie

Wave Works

Neon Parc
Friday 30 January – Saturday 28 February

Nick Selenitsch

Amalgam

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 31 January – Saturday 28 February

Vivienne Westwood & Rei Kawakubo

Westwood Kawakubo

NGV International
Sunday 7 December – Sunday 19 April

Ruth Howard

Woven Mantle

Benalla Art Gallery
Friday 14 November – Saturday 28 February

Group Show

Wyndham Art Prize 2026: Finalist

Wyndham Art Gallery
Monday 19 January – Sunday 22 March

Elyas Alavi

Face to Face / روبه‌رو

Futures Gallery
Thursday 5 February – Saturday 28 February

Group Show

Wet Areas

Gallery Jones
Sunday 1 February – Tuesday 31 March

David Bradley

EPOCH

Lyon Housemuseum
Thursday 31 July – Sunday 31 May

Group Show

Through Our Eyes

Blak Dot Gallery
Saturday 14 February – Sunday 8 March

Group Show

A Conch Choir

Blak Dot Gallery
Saturday 14 February – Sunday 8 March

Jessie Hartwig-Boutkan

A Swell Like You

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 12 February – Sunday 1 March

Isaac Hood

EAT

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 12 February – Sunday 1 March

Nancy Cover

The Bloom Room

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 12 February – Sunday 1 March

Ruby Ann May Archer

Animula

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 12 February – Sunday 1 March

Elijah Värttö

Forms & Figures of Noise & Omittance

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 12 February – Sunday 1 March

Aster Denisenko

Conversations with the Past

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 12 February – Sunday 1 March

Group Show

Summer Daze

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 12 February – Sunday 1 March

Tina Stefanou

Motet Fail

West Space
Saturday 14 February – Saturday 18 April

Cindy Huang

Landings

Gertrude Contemporary
Saturday 7 February – Saturday 21 March

Jordan Dymke

Who Am I?

Gertrude Glasshouse
Friday 30 January – Saturday 28 February

Augusta Vinall Richardson

Temporary Configurations

Gertrude Contemporary
Saturday 7 February – Saturday 21 March

Wayne Magrin

We'll be home by daybreak | 1995 - 2025

Lennox St. Gallery
Wednesday 4 February – Saturday 28 February

Group Show

Molten Tongues

Incinerator Gallery
Saturday 31 January – Saturday 28 March

Group Show

GRAPHIC

Boom Gallery
Thursday 26 February – Saturday 21 March

Group Show

Fresh! 2026

Craft
Saturday 14 February – Saturday 28 March

Cam Summers

And Where's The World You're Living In

Backwoods Gallery
Friday 20 February – Sunday 8 March

Daniel Hollier

Bent Straight, Straight Bend

Five Walls
Friday 6 February – Saturday 28 February

Nicholas Mahady

Pressure

Daine Singer
Saturday 7 February – Saturday 7 March

Group Show

Three Painters — Katherine Hattam, Milly James, Maureen Poulson Napangardi

Sarah Scout Presents
Friday 13 February – Saturday 28 March

Scotty So

Oh This Archival Dior Hat?

MARS Gallery
Saturday 14 February – Saturday 14 March

Group Show

Pillars

Arc One Gallery
Friday 30 January – Saturday 28 February

Julia Trybala

New Paintings

Station Gallery
Saturday 31 January – Saturday 14 March

Ronnie Van Hout

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Station Gallery
Saturday 31 January – Saturday 14 March

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

Saturday 28 February
2026

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Nell

Face Everything

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

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

Hany Armanious

Stone Soup

Buxton Contemporary
Friday 21 November – Saturday 11 April

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

Nipa Doshi

MECCA X NGV Women in Design Commission 2025

NGV International
Thursday 25 September – Wednesday 1 April

Group Show

Houses, Spouses, Crises and Chrises

Arts Project Australia Gallery
Saturday 31 January – Saturday 7 March

Tourmaline

Transcendent

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Friday 12 December – Sunday 15 March

r e a

r e a : c l a i m e d

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Friday 12 December – Sunday 15 March

Taree Mackenzie

Wave Works

Neon Parc
Friday 30 January – Saturday 28 February

Nick Selenitsch

Amalgam

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 31 January – Saturday 28 February

Vivienne Westwood & Rei Kawakubo

Westwood Kawakubo

NGV International
Sunday 7 December – Sunday 19 April

Ruth Howard

Woven Mantle

Benalla Art Gallery
Friday 14 November – Saturday 28 February

Group Show

Wyndham Art Prize 2026: Finalist

Wyndham Art Gallery
Monday 19 January – Sunday 22 March

Elyas Alavi

Face to Face / روبه‌رو

Futures Gallery
Thursday 5 February – Saturday 28 February

Group Show

Wet Areas

Gallery Jones
Sunday 1 February – Tuesday 31 March

David Bradley

EPOCH

Lyon Housemuseum
Thursday 31 July – Sunday 31 May

Group Show

Through Our Eyes

Blak Dot Gallery
Saturday 14 February – Sunday 8 March

Group Show

A Conch Choir

Blak Dot Gallery
Saturday 14 February – Sunday 8 March

Jessie Hartwig-Boutkan

A Swell Like You

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 12 February – Sunday 1 March

Isaac Hood

EAT

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 12 February – Sunday 1 March

Nancy Cover

The Bloom Room

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 12 February – Sunday 1 March

Ruby Ann May Archer

Animula

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 12 February – Sunday 1 March

Elijah Värttö

Forms & Figures of Noise & Omittance

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 12 February – Sunday 1 March

Aster Denisenko

Conversations with the Past

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 12 February – Sunday 1 March

Group Show

Summer Daze

Brunswick Street Gallery
Thursday 12 February – Sunday 1 March

Tina Stefanou

Motet Fail

West Space
Saturday 14 February – Saturday 18 April

Cindy Huang

Landings

Gertrude Contemporary
Saturday 7 February – Saturday 21 March

Jordan Dymke

Who Am I?

Gertrude Glasshouse
Friday 30 January – Saturday 28 February

Augusta Vinall Richardson

Temporary Configurations

Gertrude Contemporary
Saturday 7 February – Saturday 21 March

Wayne Magrin

We'll be home by daybreak | 1995 - 2025

Lennox St. Gallery
Wednesday 4 February – Saturday 28 February

Group Show

Molten Tongues

Incinerator Gallery
Saturday 31 January – Saturday 28 March

Group Show

GRAPHIC

Boom Gallery
Thursday 26 February – Saturday 21 March

Group Show

Fresh! 2026

Craft
Saturday 14 February – Saturday 28 March

Cam Summers

And Where's The World You're Living In

Backwoods Gallery
Friday 20 February – Sunday 8 March

Daniel Hollier

Bent Straight, Straight Bend

Five Walls
Friday 6 February – Saturday 28 February

Nicholas Mahady

Pressure

Daine Singer
Saturday 7 February – Saturday 7 March

Group Show

Three Painters — Katherine Hattam, Milly James, Maureen Poulson Napangardi

Sarah Scout Presents
Friday 13 February – Saturday 28 March

Scotty So

Oh This Archival Dior Hat?

MARS Gallery
Saturday 14 February – Saturday 14 March

Group Show

Pillars

Arc One Gallery
Friday 30 January – Saturday 28 February

Julia Trybala

New Paintings

Station Gallery
Saturday 31 January – Saturday 14 March

Ronnie Van Hout

- 0 +

Station Gallery
Saturday 31 January – Saturday 14 March

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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