From a celebration of native flowers to ceramics, these are the exhibitions every art lover should see this November
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Art lovers are in for a treat this month with a diverse range of exhibitions opening across the city.
Spanning every medium, from photography to ceramics, pop all of these into your calendar and enjoy soaking in Canberra’s creative scene.
Wildflower Exhibition
Running only until Monday 10 November, Wildflower: Medium & Muse is a beautiful collaboration between two local creatives.
Coming together to promote well-being and meaningful purpose, floral artist Rhiannon Berry (aka The Roseologist) and photographer Lauren Sutton have created a collection of botanical prints, contemporary dried floral wreaths and paper daisy mirrors where native wildflowers are the medium and muse.
The aim? To reify the beauty of Australian wildflowers and use creative engagement to help promote a sense of well-being and meaningful purpose in our lives.
Until Monday 10 November | 7 Young Street, Barton | More information here.
Canberra Potters 2024 Members’ Exhibition
The Canberra Potters Members’ Exhibition is back for another year!
This showcase features ceramic works crafted by Canberra Potters members over the past year, celebrating their commitment to exploring and expanding the boundaries of this ancient art form. You’ll see a wide variety of pieces, from delicate porcelain vessels to striking hand-built sculptures and everything in between.
Until Sunday 1 December | Canberra Potters Gallery, 1 Aspinall Street, Watson | More information here.
Pattern Recognition
Pattern Recognition celebrates female and non-binary artists from the ACT region who use abstraction and design principles to explore colour perception and spatial relationships, highlighting the way artists approach colour, geometry, and form.
While the artists in the exhibition explore similar visual terrain, their underlying conceptual investigations and influences vary and include post-colonial and feminist frameworks, climate activism, architecture, memory, extended pictorial space, mindfulness, and sensory engagement with the materials. The exhibition investigates regeneration, exploring the influence of traditional craft disciplines on contemporary art practice.
This is a collaborative project presented as part of the 2024 Craft + Design Canberra Festival, so don’t miss out!
Until 25 January 2025 | Canberra Contemporary Art Space, 44 Queen Elizabeth Terrace, Parkes | ccas.com.au/current
Kulata Tjuta: Tirkilpa
Kulata Tjuta is an ongoing cultural maintenance project that shares the skills of carving and making the punu kulata (wooden spear) across generations.
Starting as a project involving a small group of men in Amata, it grew to include over 100 Aṉangu men across the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. As the largest and most significant installation of the culturally important and visually spectacular Kulata Tjuta (Many Spears) Project, you’ll see large-scale, multi-disciplinary installations that incorporate film, sound, live performance, and other artistic collaborations.
Saturday 23 November until July 2025 | National Gallery of Australia, Parkes Place East, Parkes | More information here.
Carol Jerrems: Portraits
This is a major exhibition of one of Australia’s most influential photographers.
On show exclusively at the National Portrait Gallery from the end of November until 2 March 2025, Jerrems’ intimate portraits of friends, lovers and artistic peers transcend the purely personal and have come to shape Australian visual culture. Set against the backdrop of social change in the 1970s, head along to see it for yourself.
Saturday 30 November until Sunday 2 March 2025 | National Portrait Gallery, King Edward Terrace, Parkes | More information here.
Hiroe and Cornel Swen: Making a Creative Life
This is a groundbreaking exhibition celebrating the lifelong creative partnership of two of Canberra’s most admired artists: Hiroe and Cornel Swen, charting their course from Kyoto to Canberra.
Running until 16 March 2025, this exhibition marks the first time both artists’ works are showcased together, offering profound insights into their individual journeys and shared contributions to Canberra’s cultural landscape. You’ll have the chance to view a selection of Hiroe and Cornel’s works, including archival images and previously unexhibited pieces. It’s a unique glimpse into their creative connection!
Until 16 March 2025 | Canberra Museum and Gallery, 176 London Circuit, City | More information here.
Feature image: Lauren Sutton.
