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Exhibitions

Saturday 28 February
2026

Group Show

THE HOOLIGANS

White Rabbit Gallery
Friday 19 December – Sunday 17 May

Group Show

Infinite Scroll

4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
Saturday 27 September – Sunday 26 July

Tina Havelock Stevens

!!

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Saturday 8 November – Sunday 1 March

Kate Mitchell

In the Eye of the Giant

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Monday 17 November – Monday 1 June

Group Show

High Colour

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Saturday 31 May – Sunday 9 August

Group Show

Big Brother Movement

Fairfield City Museum & Gallery
Saturday 9 August – Saturday 21 March

Group Show

RELIC

Fairfield City Museum & Gallery
Saturday 29 November – Saturday 14 March

Columbiere Tipungwuti

Japarra (The Moonman)

Michael Reid Gallery
Thursday 26 February – Saturday 21 March

Yasmin Smith

Elemental Life

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Friday 3 October – Monday 8 June

Kate Mitchell

Set States

CHALK HORSE
Saturday 8 November – Sunday 22 March

Mary Tonkin

Among the Trees

S.H. Ervin Gallery
Saturday 3 January – Sunday 1 March

Group Show

Set / Scene

.M Contemporary
Thursday 15 January – Saturday 28 February

Group Show

SEARCHERS: Graffiti and Contemporary Art

National Art School Gallery
Saturday 17 January – Saturday 11 April

Group Show

All the World’s Memories

UNSW Galleries
Friday 13 February – Sunday 3 May

Group Show

Palpable: Works on Paper from the Mosman Art Collection

Mosman Art Gallery
Saturday 21 February – Sunday 22 March

art tart

Pat Larter

Utopia Arts Sydney
Saturday 7 February – Saturday 28 February

Caroline Walls

She Once Was

Olsen Gallery
Wednesday 11 February – Saturday 7 March

Rachelle Lawler

Call Me When We Land

Olsen Gallery
Wednesday 4 February – Saturday 28 February

Catherine Clayton-Smith

Breeding Beauty

Olsen Gallery
Wednesday 4 February – Saturday 28 February

Tisna Sanjaya

Cultural Amnesia

The Cross Arts Projects
Saturday 21 February – Saturday 28 March

Jon Cattapan

The War at Home: Drawings and paintings

Dominik Mersch Gallery
Saturday 28 February – Saturday 21 March

Group Show

Rewilding

Darren Knight Gallery
Saturday 7 February – Saturday 21 March

Ted Hillyer

Ted Hillyer

Robin Gibson Gallery
Saturday 21 February – Saturday 21 March

Joshua Searle

The Birds Who Drank The Sun

Saint Cloche
Wednesday 28 January – Sunday 8 February

Saint Cloche presents The Birds Who Drank the Sun, Joshua Searle’s next solo exhibition and the gallery’s first exhibition of 2026. Continuing his exploration of memory, inheritance and cultural reclamation, Searle brings together painting and sculpture to reflect on colonial histories and the endurance of the sacred within Colombian culture.

The exhibition draws inspiration from a colonial tapestry housed in Bogotá’s Museo Arqueológico, where birds rendered through Spanish eyes appear as symbols of consumption and erasure. Imagined as drinking the sun, these birds allude to the theft of Colombia’s gold, once understood by Indigenous peoples as the sweat of the gods, or the sun itself.

Alongside these works, Searle presents Tasting the Divine, a series of paintings depicting toucans eating ripe papaya, inspired by his trek to the Lost City in Santa Marta. Here, the bird becomes a bearer of abundance, offering an alternative encounter with the sacred grounded in balance and reciprocity rather than possession.

“In Tasting the Divine, I shift from extraction to abundance,” Searle says. “Watching toucans eat papaya in Colombia, there was no sense of ownership or excess, only balance. The sacred isn’t something to be possessed, but something experienced through coexistence with nature, where nourishment, care and belonging are shared.”

Extending these ideas into three dimensions, the exhibition debuts El sudor del sol (The Sweat of the Sun), a major new ceramic work commissioned by Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery. Its mirrored surface reflects both the material presence of gold and its spiritual resonance within Indigenous cosmologies, where gold symbolises balance and divine connection. Across the surface, phrases drawn from everyday Colombian expression, todo bien (“all good”), qué rico (“how nice”), querer es poder (“to love is power”), son ladrones (“they are thieves”), ground the work in living language, weaving intimacy, resistance and resilience into cultural memory.

Through these layered works, The Birds Who Drank the Sun reimagines how the sacred endures beyond colonial histories, not in what has been taken, but in what continues to live through land, language, and the collective body of a people.

Location

Saint Cloche
37 MacDonald St, Paddington NSW Australia 2021

Date

Wednesday 28 January – Sunday 8 February

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Exhibitions

Saturday 28 February
2026

Group Show

THE HOOLIGANS

White Rabbit Gallery
Friday 19 December – Sunday 17 May

Group Show

Infinite Scroll

4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
Saturday 27 September – Sunday 26 July

Tina Havelock Stevens

!!

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Saturday 8 November – Sunday 1 March

Kate Mitchell

In the Eye of the Giant

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Monday 17 November – Monday 1 June

Group Show

High Colour

Art Gallery of New South Wales
Saturday 31 May – Sunday 9 August

Group Show

Big Brother Movement

Fairfield City Museum & Gallery
Saturday 9 August – Saturday 21 March

Group Show

RELIC

Fairfield City Museum & Gallery
Saturday 29 November – Saturday 14 March

Columbiere Tipungwuti

Japarra (The Moonman)

Michael Reid Gallery
Thursday 26 February – Saturday 21 March

Yasmin Smith

Elemental Life

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Friday 3 October – Monday 8 June

Kate Mitchell

Set States

CHALK HORSE
Saturday 8 November – Sunday 22 March

Mary Tonkin

Among the Trees

S.H. Ervin Gallery
Saturday 3 January – Sunday 1 March

Group Show

Set / Scene

.M Contemporary
Thursday 15 January – Saturday 28 February

Group Show

SEARCHERS: Graffiti and Contemporary Art

National Art School Gallery
Saturday 17 January – Saturday 11 April

Group Show

All the World’s Memories

UNSW Galleries
Friday 13 February – Sunday 3 May

Group Show

Palpable: Works on Paper from the Mosman Art Collection

Mosman Art Gallery
Saturday 21 February – Sunday 22 March

art tart

Pat Larter

Utopia Arts Sydney
Saturday 7 February – Saturday 28 February

Caroline Walls

She Once Was

Olsen Gallery
Wednesday 11 February – Saturday 7 March

Rachelle Lawler

Call Me When We Land

Olsen Gallery
Wednesday 4 February – Saturday 28 February

Catherine Clayton-Smith

Breeding Beauty

Olsen Gallery
Wednesday 4 February – Saturday 28 February

Tisna Sanjaya

Cultural Amnesia

The Cross Arts Projects
Saturday 21 February – Saturday 28 March

Jon Cattapan

The War at Home: Drawings and paintings

Dominik Mersch Gallery
Saturday 28 February – Saturday 21 March

Group Show

Rewilding

Darren Knight Gallery
Saturday 7 February – Saturday 21 March

Ted Hillyer

Ted Hillyer

Robin Gibson Gallery
Saturday 21 February – Saturday 21 March

Joshua Searle

The Birds Who Drank The Sun

Saint Cloche
Wednesday 28 January – Sunday 8 February

Saint Cloche presents The Birds Who Drank the Sun, Joshua Searle’s next solo exhibition and the gallery’s first exhibition of 2026. Continuing his exploration of memory, inheritance and cultural reclamation, Searle brings together painting and sculpture to reflect on colonial histories and the endurance of the sacred within Colombian culture.

The exhibition draws inspiration from a colonial tapestry housed in Bogotá’s Museo Arqueológico, where birds rendered through Spanish eyes appear as symbols of consumption and erasure. Imagined as drinking the sun, these birds allude to the theft of Colombia’s gold, once understood by Indigenous peoples as the sweat of the gods, or the sun itself.

Alongside these works, Searle presents Tasting the Divine, a series of paintings depicting toucans eating ripe papaya, inspired by his trek to the Lost City in Santa Marta. Here, the bird becomes a bearer of abundance, offering an alternative encounter with the sacred grounded in balance and reciprocity rather than possession.

“In Tasting the Divine, I shift from extraction to abundance,” Searle says. “Watching toucans eat papaya in Colombia, there was no sense of ownership or excess, only balance. The sacred isn’t something to be possessed, but something experienced through coexistence with nature, where nourishment, care and belonging are shared.”

Extending these ideas into three dimensions, the exhibition debuts El sudor del sol (The Sweat of the Sun), a major new ceramic work commissioned by Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery. Its mirrored surface reflects both the material presence of gold and its spiritual resonance within Indigenous cosmologies, where gold symbolises balance and divine connection. Across the surface, phrases drawn from everyday Colombian expression, todo bien (“all good”), qué rico (“how nice”), querer es poder (“to love is power”), son ladrones (“they are thieves”), ground the work in living language, weaving intimacy, resistance and resilience into cultural memory.

Through these layered works, The Birds Who Drank the Sun reimagines how the sacred endures beyond colonial histories, not in what has been taken, but in what continues to live through land, language, and the collective body of a people.

Location

Saint Cloche
37 MacDonald St, Paddington NSW Australia 2021

Date

Wednesday 28 January – Sunday 8 February

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Google

Website

https://saintcloche.com/collections/the-birds-who-drank-the-sun

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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