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Exhibitions

Wednesday 18 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

Maria Kontis

And I Would Say These Things To No One But You

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

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

Maquette: Sculpture Award

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 22 November – Sunday 22 February

Group Show

New Directions

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 15 November – Sunday 22 February

Group Show

Textiles X Art

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 11 December – Saturday 21 February

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

Mason Kimber

Keystone

Sophie Gannon Gallery
Tuesday 3 February – Saturday 21 February

Huseyin Sami

Colour Chronicles

Sophie Gannon Gallery
Tuesday 3 February – Saturday 21 February

Group Show

The 13th Koorie Art Show 2025

Koorie Heritage Trust
Saturday 6 December – Sunday 22 February

Vivienne Westwood & Rei Kawakubo

Westwood Kawakubo

NGV International
Sunday 7 December – Sunday 19 April

Arthur (Jalyirri) Dixon

Untitled

Niagara Galleries
Wednesday 28 January – Saturday 21 February

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

Alycia Wilson

Undercurrent

Red Gallery
Wednesday 11 February – Sunday 22 February

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

Group Show

DECADE

Lon Gallery
Wednesday 28 January – Saturday 21 February

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

Group Show

one septillion stars

CAVES Gallery
Friday 30 January – Saturday 21 February

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

Fresh! 2026

Craft
Saturday 14 February – Saturday 28 March

Daniel Hollier

Bent Straight, Straight Bend

Five Walls
Friday 6 February – Saturday 28 February

Group Show

Gatetopia: fences, creatures and conforming

West Space
Friday 6 February – Wednesday 25 February

Nicholas Mahady

Pressure

Daine Singer
Saturday 7 February – Saturday 7 March

Robert ‘Mac’ Nagle

Popes and Pillars

No Vacancy
Tuesday 10 February – Saturday 21 February

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

Robert ‘Mac’ Nagle

Popes and Pillars

No Vacancy
Tuesday 10 February – Saturday 21 February

Robert’s compositional technique evolved out of a life lived in Italy, New York and the accidental weekend onboard the Caribbean Islands; all essential ingredients for an artist of the Victor D’Amico Institute, The Students Art League of NY and more recently the American Academy in Rome.

His paintings are shot through with melancholy and the fleetingness of life and yet desolately beautiful. They have moved with some remnants of earlier collage, into slightly abstract figuration; what was photo media driven collage, is now “what was the alter boy seeing”.

This show is a map of the artist’s path, from anxiety to acceptance; of what new vistas opened for him after the seemingly never ending tragedy of life lived in New York, since the AIDs epidemic of ’82 and COVID in 2020.

Reminiscent of Marcel Duchamp’s “The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even” (1915-23). There are strong panels, and reflected panels that are sparer, partially effaced, and a cryptic allure to its symmetry: a Rorschach blot, a butterfly’s wings. But the reflections are mismatched in weight as well as appearance;

The palette of squeezed-from-the-tube primary colours, the paint-by-number seemed to deny any emotional possibility for abstraction. But something starts happening: with colour, the mark-making comes alive despite the painter’s reserve.

The paintings seem to come out of the fragments of art history — out of the dead, in other words, rumbling and rattling beneath the swirling strokes. There was Duchamp, of course, and also Picasso, whose ghoulish prostitutes in “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” (1907) have faces scarred while here the figuration spiral heavenly as once sculptura of Roman antiquity against the gravity of time.

The paintings have sex, and death; but this art has comprised a galaxy of allusions where, even in the shadow of mortality, invention and even hope might bloom. You only truly live when you become aware you will die — only live, as Heidegger insisted, “when one becomes free for one’s own death,” and so can make authentic choices in your one and only life. For Robert these are life-affirming works: a calculated method that has opened onto a new artistic freedom.

Location

No Vacancy
34-40 Jane Bell Ln, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia

Date

Tuesday 10 February – Saturday 21 February

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Exhibitions

Wednesday 18 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

Maria Kontis

And I Would Say These Things To No One But You

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

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

Maquette: Sculpture Award

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 22 November – Sunday 22 February

Group Show

New Directions

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 15 November – Sunday 22 February

Group Show

Textiles X Art

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 11 December – Saturday 21 February

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

Mason Kimber

Keystone

Sophie Gannon Gallery
Tuesday 3 February – Saturday 21 February

Huseyin Sami

Colour Chronicles

Sophie Gannon Gallery
Tuesday 3 February – Saturday 21 February

Group Show

The 13th Koorie Art Show 2025

Koorie Heritage Trust
Saturday 6 December – Sunday 22 February

Vivienne Westwood & Rei Kawakubo

Westwood Kawakubo

NGV International
Sunday 7 December – Sunday 19 April

Arthur (Jalyirri) Dixon

Untitled

Niagara Galleries
Wednesday 28 January – Saturday 21 February

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

Alycia Wilson

Undercurrent

Red Gallery
Wednesday 11 February – Sunday 22 February

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

Group Show

DECADE

Lon Gallery
Wednesday 28 January – Saturday 21 February

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

Group Show

one septillion stars

CAVES Gallery
Friday 30 January – Saturday 21 February

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

Fresh! 2026

Craft
Saturday 14 February – Saturday 28 March

Daniel Hollier

Bent Straight, Straight Bend

Five Walls
Friday 6 February – Saturday 28 February

Group Show

Gatetopia: fences, creatures and conforming

West Space
Friday 6 February – Wednesday 25 February

Nicholas Mahady

Pressure

Daine Singer
Saturday 7 February – Saturday 7 March

Robert ‘Mac’ Nagle

Popes and Pillars

No Vacancy
Tuesday 10 February – Saturday 21 February

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

Robert ‘Mac’ Nagle

Popes and Pillars

No Vacancy
Tuesday 10 February – Saturday 21 February

Robert’s compositional technique evolved out of a life lived in Italy, New York and the accidental weekend onboard the Caribbean Islands; all essential ingredients for an artist of the Victor D’Amico Institute, The Students Art League of NY and more recently the American Academy in Rome.

His paintings are shot through with melancholy and the fleetingness of life and yet desolately beautiful. They have moved with some remnants of earlier collage, into slightly abstract figuration; what was photo media driven collage, is now “what was the alter boy seeing”.

This show is a map of the artist’s path, from anxiety to acceptance; of what new vistas opened for him after the seemingly never ending tragedy of life lived in New York, since the AIDs epidemic of ’82 and COVID in 2020.

Reminiscent of Marcel Duchamp’s “The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even” (1915-23). There are strong panels, and reflected panels that are sparer, partially effaced, and a cryptic allure to its symmetry: a Rorschach blot, a butterfly’s wings. But the reflections are mismatched in weight as well as appearance;

The palette of squeezed-from-the-tube primary colours, the paint-by-number seemed to deny any emotional possibility for abstraction. But something starts happening: with colour, the mark-making comes alive despite the painter’s reserve.

The paintings seem to come out of the fragments of art history — out of the dead, in other words, rumbling and rattling beneath the swirling strokes. There was Duchamp, of course, and also Picasso, whose ghoulish prostitutes in “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” (1907) have faces scarred while here the figuration spiral heavenly as once sculptura of Roman antiquity against the gravity of time.

The paintings have sex, and death; but this art has comprised a galaxy of allusions where, even in the shadow of mortality, invention and even hope might bloom. You only truly live when you become aware you will die — only live, as Heidegger insisted, “when one becomes free for one’s own death,” and so can make authentic choices in your one and only life. For Robert these are life-affirming works: a calculated method that has opened onto a new artistic freedom.

Location

No Vacancy
34-40 Jane Bell Ln, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia

Date

Tuesday 10 February – Saturday 21 February

Save to Calendar

Google

Website

https://www.no-vacancy.com.au/popesandpillars

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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