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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February

Melbourne: 28 Nov 2025 – 26 May 2026. The exhibition celebrates the wide-ranging photographic practices of more than eighty women artists working between 1900 and 1975.

Sydney: Until 11 April. Unfinished Business brings together the voices of 30 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living with disabilities from remote, regional, and urban communities across Australia.

Canberra: Until 6 Sept 2026. Trent Parke’s photographic series The Christmas tree bucket 2006–09 is a tender and darkly humorous portrayal of his extended family coming together to celebrate Christmas.

Melbourne: 11 Feb – 25 April 2026. Familial brings together six international artists whose work navigates the emotional and psychological terrain of family.

March

Sydney: Until 7 Feb 2027. From his archive of more than 200,000 images, Close Up celebrates the historic moments and pivotal people he famously captured.

Melbourne: 5 March – 7 August 2026. Between the mid-1970s and early 1990s, artist and social documentary photographer Viva Gibb (1945-2017) documented the suburbs of North and West Melbourne, where she lived.

Melbourne: 7 March – 24 May 2026. Photos of flowers from the NGA collection by prominent photographers drawn such as Robert Mapplethorpe and four groundbreaking Australian photographers.

Melbourne: 10 March – 5 May 2026. TOPshots is an annual celebration of emerging photo-media artists selected from a large pool of entries.

April

Sydney: 9 April event 6-9pm. Unfinished is a free event to show/see photo-based work in progress or recently completed personal projects run by photographers for photographers.

Sydney: 15 April – 9 May 2026. An exhibition of fine art photography celebrating the intersection of maritime history and the human form.