Bill Henson

Renowned Australian artist, Bill Henson will have his first exhibition in Sydney in seven years, at the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery. The exhibition will feature more than 20 new works.

© Bill Henson. Untitled, 2017-2018, HW-SV SH38 N28B. Archival inkjet pigment print, 127 x 180 cm, edition of 5 + 2 AP. 
Courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
© Bill Henson. Untitled, 2017-2018, HW-SV SH38 N28B.
Archival inkjet pigment print, 127 x 180 cm, edition of 5 + 2 AP. Courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.

There is an artist talk open to the public this Saturday, 18 May, at 3pm where Bill Henson will talk about the new body of work.

As well as this, embarking on a new collaboration with Bill Henson, the Sydney Art Quartet will performs Chiaroscuro - an evocative, dreamlike response to Henson’s latest work. This concert will be set within Henson’s exhibition at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, for two nights only on May 22 and 23 starting at 7pm.

Details

Opening Reception: Friday, 17 May, 6 - 8pm

Exhibition Dates: Friday, 17 May - Saturday, 8 June

Opening Hours: Tuesday – Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday 11am-6pm

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November

Sydney: The exhibition delves into the State Library of NSW's vast collection of two million images, showcasing 400 photos – many displayed for the first time.

February

Melbourne: Jill Orr’s The Promised Land Refigured is an exhibition that reworks the original project created in 2012 with new insights that have emerged in the past eleven years.

March

Melbourne: Environmental Futures features five artists whose work addresses how the natural world is affected by climate change and encompasses photography, sculpture and installation both within the gallery spaces and around the museum grounds.

Ballarat: Nan Goldin is an American artist whose work explores subcultures, moments of intimacy, the impacts of the HIV/AIDS and opioid epidemics on her communities, and photography as a tool for social activism.

Sydney: The Ocean Photographer of the Year Award, run by London based Oceanographic Magazine is in its 4th year and has quickly achieved recognition amongst photographers around the world.

Albury: The National Photography Prize offers a $30,000 acquisitive prize, the $5000 John and Margaret Baker Fellowship for an emerging practitioner, and further supports a number of artists through focused acquisitions.

April

Sydney: Photographers Harold David, Lyndal Irons, Ladstreet, Selina Ou, David Porter, Greg Semu, and Craig Walsh exhibit a diverse and varied snapshot of Penrith and western Sydney as it has changed and grown over the last sixty years.

The City Surveyor’s ‘Condemnation and Demolition Books’ is a key photographic collection held in the City Archives comprising almost 5000 photographs and associated glass plate negatives.

May

Ballarat: Art Gallery of Ballarat presents Lost in Palm Springs, a multidisciplinary exhibition that brings together fourteen creative minds who respond to, capture, or re-imagine the magical qualities of the landscape and the celebrated mid-century modern architecture of Palm Springs, California and across Australia.