Past
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Lunar Harmony
with Gallery Lane Cove 29 Jan - 21 Feb 2026 Opening Event: Wednesday 4th Feb Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Location: Gallery Lane Cove, Upper Level, 164 Longueville Rd, Lane Cove NSW 2066 CBD Gallery & Gallery Lane Cove presents Lunar Harmony Located at Gallery Lane Cove. Lunar Harmony is a dynamic group exhibition showcasing emerging Australian-Chinese artists across... Read more -
TAILS
Liam Ross Baker, Jenny Jia Li van Ratingen, Erin Murphy 21 Jan - 21 Feb 2026 CBD Gallery presents Tails , a group show exploring the independent freedom of the horse. The horse, symbolising vitality, perseverance, and freedom, holds deep significance in Chinese culture while also resonating within the Australian context as a marker of landscape, labour, and collective memory. Bringing these narratives together, the exhibition... Read more -
Inner Workings
Megan McKenzie 12 Nov - 20 Dec 2025 Megan McKenzie is a Sydney-based artist working in ceramics. Known for her delicate handling of clay and glaze, she creates sculptural forms—curves, loops, and circular shapes—that explore the interplay of light, colour and texture. Her works often balance between simplicity and complexity, inviting quiet attention to material and form. In... Read more -
Landscapes Reimagined
9 Oct - 8 Nov 2025 CBD Gallery presents Landscape Reimagined , a group exhibition exploring the intersection of landscape, memory, and perception through the diverse perspectives of five contemporary artists. Each artist reinterprets the natural world through their unique practice, revealing landscapes not just as physical places but as sites of personal reflection, emotion, and... Read more -
Sydney Contemporary 2025
4 - 7 Sep 2025 In 2025, CBD Gallery returned to Sydney Contemporary to expand its presence across two dedicated spaces at the fair: the Main Booth J08 and the Paper Booth B04, each offering a distinct perspective on Australia’s vibrant art scene. Read more -
Inner Currents
28 Aug - 4 Oct 2025 CBD Gallery presents Inner Currents: Abstraction and the Unseen Self Group Show 2025. Inner Currents explores how the processes of abstract art serve as a conceptual tool for artists to engage in self-discovery and reflect on lived experiences. Through abstraction, artists transcend literal representation, delving into the emotional and psychological... Read more -
New Voices
17 Jul - 16 Oct 2025 CBD Gallery is proud to present a special exhibition this July — New Voices, a curated showcase of the selected 2024 graduates from the National Art School. Read more -
Imbue
19 Jun - 12 Jul 2025 Michelle Van Eimeren is an emerging Australian artist based in Robertson, NSW. Her work explores the intersection of nature, memory, and the human experience. Driven by an intuitive exploration of materials and processes to understand the world through a diverse range of mediums, including painting, drawing, ceramics, and printmaking. A... Read more -
Cultural Baggage
15 May - 14 Jun 2025 Read more -
Leaves of the Brush
17 Apr - 10 May 2025 Leaves of the Brush from Martin Claydon investigates the act of painting itself. This inquiry mounts a response to questions of what painting can offer the experience of the modern world. Claydon's formidable composition of figurative imagery depicts the capacity of a painting, contrasting both its glory and its limits.
A devotion to the purity of painting is surrendered in the pursuit of reflecting the sheer mass of our cultural terrain. Colloquial forms are shaped around routine and banal objects in eccentric cubist renderings. A mode of debased language, compressed forms and an overload of information. Claydon's texture and brushwork suggest an attempt to contain an overwhelm within the works; both painter and canvas together besieged by the modern world. This fraught dynamic is expressed in pressured forms fighting for the eyes of the viewer. One can detect a repeated act of painting over and a landscape of elements below the surface or in the past, a process of severance from events, the painting gesturing beyond itself.
Martin Claydon was born in London in 1989 and is currently based in Crescent Head. He has a degree in Fine Art (Painting) from the National Art School, Sydney and also studied at Middlesex University. London. He was the recipient of the Lloyd Rees Memorial Art Prize (2015) and a finalist in both the Brett Whiteley Traveling Art Scholarship and the Black Swan Portrait Prize (2018). In 2024 Martin received the Lane Cove Hyecorp Property Prize. His work is held in public and private collections in both England and Australia, including the Sydney Town Hall archive, Lane Cove Council Chambers and Redlands Art Gallery. Read more -
Fragments of Eternity
20 Nov - 21 Dec 2024 Passages in Ballpoint By Melissa Bianca Amore …………………… “There is no other case in which the memory which recalls is sure to obey the memory which repeats. Everywhere else, we prefer to construct a mechanism which allows us to sketch the image again, at need, because we are well aware... Read more -
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
22 Aug - 28 Sep 2024 Nicole Zhang's new suite of paintings consider the everyday as a site of formation; the devotional soil on which we are shaped. Within her crowded, yet intimate tableaux, tragicomic figures navigate the rhythms of daily life and quietude with care. Recurring patterns and shapes envelop and mirror one another, in... Read more
