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Exhibitions

Wednesday 4 March
2026

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

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

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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r e a : c l a i m e d

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

Vivienne Westwood & Rei Kawakubo

Westwood Kawakubo

NGV International
Sunday 7 December – Sunday 19 April

Group Show

Wyndham Art Prize 2026: Finalist

Wyndham Art Gallery
Monday 19 January – Sunday 22 March

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

Tina Stefanou

Motet Fail

West Space
Saturday 14 February – Saturday 18 April

Cindy Huang

Landings

Gertrude Contemporary
Saturday 7 February – Saturday 21 March

Augusta Vinall Richardson

Temporary Configurations

Gertrude Contemporary
Saturday 7 February – Saturday 21 March

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

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

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

Group Show

Darebin Art Prize 2026

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 25 February – Saturday 20 June

Little Darlin'

Saxon Quinn

Lennox St. Gallery
Wednesday 4 March – Saturday 28 March

Noel McKenna

The Distance Between

Niagara Galleries
Wednesday 25 February – Saturday 21 March

Helen Maudsley

Helen Maudsley

Niagara Galleries
Wednesday 25 February – Saturday 21 March

Little Darlin'

Saxon Quinn

Lennox St. Gallery
Wednesday 4 March – Saturday 28 March

Saxon Quinn’s latest body of work, Little Darlin’, is bold, colourful and chaotic, incorporating a whole range of textures to make huge, bright, layered pieces on canvas. The works bring together manic faces, stylised bodies, figures and markings. He draws recognisable influences from pop culture (from Nina Simone to Biker Mice and Street Sharks) alongside slightly more cryptic nods to his personal history, including childhood sketchpads that his mother held onto for the past 35 years. In the works that make up Little Darlin’, he sketches a horse’s head and repeats stylised versions of sculpted figures and colourful faces throughout the series, a direct response to his mother, Australian artist Dianne Coulter, and her influence on him. Saxon’s mum is a talented, imaginative, and well-celebrated sculptor and painter who has been exhibiting since 1975.

“I grew up surrounded by Mum’s work. She had and still has a large studio on the property, which was originally a shearer's shed, converted into a studio and gallery,” Saxon explains. “I was always drawn to the figurative works, and still marvel at the accuracy of the pieces.”

“As a kid, some figures would scare the shit out of me, and my friends, with their glass blown eyes that gave a spooky watchful eye” he continues. “But for the longest time now, each visit back home, I’ll take a few minutes to sneak down to the studio, uninterrupted, and walk around her work. It’s definitely a nice place to be. The weight of the works makes it feel safe and familiar. Until the inevitable, ‘Sax, Sax, Sax, where are you buggerlugs? Oi chip, are you down here?’”

Saxon specifically wanted his mother's work to occupy the front of Lennox Street Gallery, allowing viewers to see the calibre of her work first, both for its own sake, and to contextualise his own paintings. It’s a fitting way for viewers to cross-reference the mother and son’s respective works. And for Saxon, inviting his mother to be involved in the show is partly a thank you for guiding him towards a career as an artist. Dianne would often encourage Saxon to pick up a brush, emphasising the benefits it would have on him: a place of calm and security.

Dianne explains that for her, maintaining her art practice has always been a way of understanding the world. “I love the zone of creating,” she says. “It spills over into all aspects of my life, somewhat chaotically. But it's like the air you breathe, it’s essential.” Being invited to exhibit with her son is something she describes as “humbling and tender” and “a balm for a mother’s heart”.

It's a sweet collaboration, speaking to a mother-son relationship that sounds aspirational, even enviable, for many. But despite the gratitude and the creative partnership, no mother-son relationship is perfect.

“A young boy getting raised by a single mum is always going to be difficult, from both sides of the coin,” Saxon explains. They lived in Allendale, in regional Victoria, when Saxon was a child. His parents had separated when he was 12 years old, and his father died a few years later, in 2003. Even now, Quinn says his mother sometimes says things like, “I hope I was a good mum.” Quinn tells her that she’s given him more than he could have asked for.

“We’ve always had this interesting relationship... We’re as thick as thieves and every call ends with ‘I love you’. And yet, a day together and we’re driving each other mad,” he laughs.

Dianne says, “His patience endured despite my chaotic approach, which does drive him batshit crazy.”

Despite this, and in part because of it, the show is an attempt to show gratitude to the woman who raised him.

“This is her beautiful work. This is what I lived with, and this is who raised me. And this is how it's influenced or shaped me,” Saxon explains. “The show is a thank you to her. Thanks for everything. Thanks for the guidance. Thanks for giving me the ability to do this and to guide me.”

He continues: “If I can show up for my kids half as much as she has, I’ll be stoked.”

Location

Lennox St. Gallery
322-324 Lennox St, Richmond VIC 3121, Australia

Date

Wednesday 4 March – Saturday 28 March

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Exhibitions

Wednesday 4 March
2026

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

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

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

Vivienne Westwood & Rei Kawakubo

Westwood Kawakubo

NGV International
Sunday 7 December – Sunday 19 April

Group Show

Wyndham Art Prize 2026: Finalist

Wyndham Art Gallery
Monday 19 January – Sunday 22 March

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

Tina Stefanou

Motet Fail

West Space
Saturday 14 February – Saturday 18 April

Cindy Huang

Landings

Gertrude Contemporary
Saturday 7 February – Saturday 21 March

Augusta Vinall Richardson

Temporary Configurations

Gertrude Contemporary
Saturday 7 February – Saturday 21 March

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

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

Julia Trybala

New Paintings

Station Gallery
Saturday 31 January – Saturday 14 March

Ronnie Van Hout

- 0 +

Station Gallery
Saturday 31 January – Saturday 14 March

Group Show

Darebin Art Prize 2026

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Wednesday 25 February – Saturday 20 June

Little Darlin'

Saxon Quinn

Lennox St. Gallery
Wednesday 4 March – Saturday 28 March

Noel McKenna

The Distance Between

Niagara Galleries
Wednesday 25 February – Saturday 21 March

Helen Maudsley

Helen Maudsley

Niagara Galleries
Wednesday 25 February – Saturday 21 March

Little Darlin'

Saxon Quinn

Lennox St. Gallery
Wednesday 4 March – Saturday 28 March

Saxon Quinn’s latest body of work, Little Darlin’, is bold, colourful and chaotic, incorporating a whole range of textures to make huge, bright, layered pieces on canvas. The works bring together manic faces, stylised bodies, figures and markings. He draws recognisable influences from pop culture (from Nina Simone to Biker Mice and Street Sharks) alongside slightly more cryptic nods to his personal history, including childhood sketchpads that his mother held onto for the past 35 years. In the works that make up Little Darlin’, he sketches a horse’s head and repeats stylised versions of sculpted figures and colourful faces throughout the series, a direct response to his mother, Australian artist Dianne Coulter, and her influence on him. Saxon’s mum is a talented, imaginative, and well-celebrated sculptor and painter who has been exhibiting since 1975.

“I grew up surrounded by Mum’s work. She had and still has a large studio on the property, which was originally a shearer's shed, converted into a studio and gallery,” Saxon explains. “I was always drawn to the figurative works, and still marvel at the accuracy of the pieces.”

“As a kid, some figures would scare the shit out of me, and my friends, with their glass blown eyes that gave a spooky watchful eye” he continues. “But for the longest time now, each visit back home, I’ll take a few minutes to sneak down to the studio, uninterrupted, and walk around her work. It’s definitely a nice place to be. The weight of the works makes it feel safe and familiar. Until the inevitable, ‘Sax, Sax, Sax, where are you buggerlugs? Oi chip, are you down here?’”

Saxon specifically wanted his mother's work to occupy the front of Lennox Street Gallery, allowing viewers to see the calibre of her work first, both for its own sake, and to contextualise his own paintings. It’s a fitting way for viewers to cross-reference the mother and son’s respective works. And for Saxon, inviting his mother to be involved in the show is partly a thank you for guiding him towards a career as an artist. Dianne would often encourage Saxon to pick up a brush, emphasising the benefits it would have on him: a place of calm and security.

Dianne explains that for her, maintaining her art practice has always been a way of understanding the world. “I love the zone of creating,” she says. “It spills over into all aspects of my life, somewhat chaotically. But it's like the air you breathe, it’s essential.” Being invited to exhibit with her son is something she describes as “humbling and tender” and “a balm for a mother’s heart”.

It's a sweet collaboration, speaking to a mother-son relationship that sounds aspirational, even enviable, for many. But despite the gratitude and the creative partnership, no mother-son relationship is perfect.

“A young boy getting raised by a single mum is always going to be difficult, from both sides of the coin,” Saxon explains. They lived in Allendale, in regional Victoria, when Saxon was a child. His parents had separated when he was 12 years old, and his father died a few years later, in 2003. Even now, Quinn says his mother sometimes says things like, “I hope I was a good mum.” Quinn tells her that she’s given him more than he could have asked for.

“We’ve always had this interesting relationship... We’re as thick as thieves and every call ends with ‘I love you’. And yet, a day together and we’re driving each other mad,” he laughs.

Dianne says, “His patience endured despite my chaotic approach, which does drive him batshit crazy.”

Despite this, and in part because of it, the show is an attempt to show gratitude to the woman who raised him.

“This is her beautiful work. This is what I lived with, and this is who raised me. And this is how it's influenced or shaped me,” Saxon explains. “The show is a thank you to her. Thanks for everything. Thanks for the guidance. Thanks for giving me the ability to do this and to guide me.”

He continues: “If I can show up for my kids half as much as she has, I’ll be stoked.”

Location

Lennox St. Gallery
322-324 Lennox St, Richmond VIC 3121, Australia

Date

Wednesday 4 March – Saturday 28 March

Save to Calendar

Google

Website

https://lennoxst.gallery/exhibitions/110-little-darlin-saxon-quinn-x-dianne-coulter/

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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