Christopher Pyett: Years of Colour

Saturday 27 June – Sunday 25 October 2026

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Alison Tedesco: Street Stories

Saturday 27 June – Sunday 25 October 2026

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In the chambers of the sea: Frankston to the cities.

14 November 2026 to 11 April 2027

Alison Tedesco: Street Stories

Saturday 27 June – Sunday 25 October 2026

Christopher Pyett: Years of Colour

Saturday 27 June – Sunday 25 October 2026

ALEKS DANKO: A(GAP)E

Saturday 14 March – Sunday 14 June 2026

Maquette: Sculpture Award

22 November 2025 – 22 February 2026

Rosemary Laing, between a rock and a place with no fish, a collaboration with Stephen Birch, 2003, type C photograph, 70 x 135 cm. McClelland Collection.

Eternal Oblivion

23 August – 9 November 2025

Blowing In A New Era

Saturday 5 July – Sunday 10 August 2025

Teho Ropeyarn, Atagu Alumu, 2024

Current / Teho Ropeyarn

8 March – 29 June 2025

Brian Robinson, Terraqueous: On Stranger Tides 2024, vinyl cut, 100 x 200 cm. Image courtesy the artist and Mossenson Galleries © the artist

Current / Brian Robinson

7 December 2024 – 23 February 2025

Mira Gojak Consolation, 2005, mixed media, 2 parts: 250 × 213 × 140 cm; 133 × 140 × 385 cm, McClelland Collection, Donated under the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program. Photo by Kinfolk Imagery

Visionary: Recent Donations to the McClelland Collection

30 March - 24 November 2024

Ron Mueck, Wild man, 2005. Photo Mark Ashkanasy.

Ron Mueck's Wild Man

30 March - 24 November 2024

Rick Amor, The Dog, 1990, Collection of McClelland Gallery

Rick Amor Drawing Award

30 March - 21 July 2024

John Meade The Puschelhockers 2018 fur steel acrylic paint metallic screen print ink hairclips Photo Kinfolk Imagery

John Meade: It's Personal!

2 December 2023 - 17 March 2024

Current: Gail Mabo, Lisa Waup, Dominic White

29 July - 19 November 2023

The McClelland Collection

18 March - 17 July 2023

Dancing the music: Philippa Cullen 1950–1975

18 March - 16 July 2023

Lenton Parr, Daedalus 1965, steel, enamel paint, 64.1 × 130.0 × 41.0 cm. Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Gift of Sue Walker AM through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2010. © Courtesy of the artist's estate.

Centre 5: bridging the gap

12 November 2022 - 5 March 2023

Fiona Foley, <em>The Magna Carta tree 2</em>, 2021, Inkjet print. Courtesy the artist and Andrew Baker Art Dealer.

Fiona Foley: Veiled paradise

25 June – 9 October 2022

<em>A thousand different angles</em>, installation view, 2022. Photo Christian Capurro.

A thousand different angles

23 February – 5 June 2022

David Fenoglio, <em>Material landscape</em>, 2021, charcoal on paper, 55 x 75 cm.

Rick Amor drawing award

28 August 2021 – 6 February 2022

Andrew Seward. 2016. Mulberry summer 2016, watercolour. Courtesy of artist

Splash contemporary watercolour award

28 August 2021 – 6 February 2022

Saskia Muecke, <em>Untitled #2: Studies in nature series</em>, 2021. Photo Mitch Pelns Ross.

Mary & Lou Senini student art award for ceramics 2021

28 August 2021 – 6 February 2022

Janet Laurence, <em>Forensic sublime (Crimes against the landscape series: Styx Forest)</em>, 2008, mirror, oil glaze, Duraclear on Shinkolite, 101 x 455 cm. Purchased with assistance from the Robert Salzer Fund and The Fornari Bequest, 2009. Copyright the artist. Photo courtesy ARC ONE Gallery.

The McClelland collection: 50 years

15 May - 15 August 2021

Philip Samartzis. 2010. recording at Watts Hut Eastern Antarctica. Courtesy the artist

Site & sound: Sonic art as ecological practice

2 December 2020 – 2 May 2021

James Geurts. Time Zero: International Dateline 2020. bronze. Courtesy the artist, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide and Berlin, and Contemporary Art Society, London.

The McClelland national small sculpture awards 2020

July – December 2020

Erwin Fabian and Anne Marie May. 2020. Inside Out. Installation View. Photo by Christian Capurro

Inside out: Space and process

March 2020 – 3 January 2021

Jacqueline Stojanović, Concrete Fabric, 2019, detail. Photo Christian Capurro.

Jacqueline Stojanović: Concrete fabric

26 November 2019 – 16 February 2020

Jordan Marani. Haus Werk II. 2019. pencil and acrylic on board 30 x 40cm. Courtesy the artist

Haus Werk: The Bauhaus in contemporary art

24 November 2019 – 15 March 2020

Travis John Ficarra, Dwarf Fortress, 2019. giclee print on canvas, 112×150 cm. Image courtesy the artist

Mary & Lou Senini student art award for painting/printmaking 2018

26 August – 14 October 2019

Robert Jacks. 2012. 45-90 paper cut. paper, 28.0 x 21.0 cm. Collection of McClelland Sculpture Park+Gallery. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Lyn Williams AM, 2013.

SERIAL

29 July – 10 November 2019

Josef Stanislaw Ostoja-Kotkowski. Nymphex. 1966. gelatin silver photograph from electronic image, 50.6 x 60.8 cm. Image courtesy the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Gift of Dr George Berger 1978, reproduced with kind permission of the Estate of J S Ostoja-Kotkowski.

Solid light: Josef Stanislaw Ostoja-Kotkowski

1 April – 14 July 2019

Pia Van Gelder. Psychic Synth II #3. Video still. Image courtesy the artist

Pia van Gelder: Psychic synth II/Apparition apparatus

1 April – 14 July 2019

Jennifer Mills. Mills In the echo chamber WARNING NUEAO Brendan, 1976. watercolour with ink on paper.

Splash McClelland contemporary watercolour award 2018

26 November – 17 March 2019

Annette Warner. Atlas of Memory. Exhibition view. 2018

Annette Warner atlas of memory: (re)visualising Gordon Ford’s natural Australian garden

29 July – 11 November 2018

Sanné Mestrom, Black paintings, 2014, installation view. Photo Christian Capurro.

Sanné Mestrom: Black paintings

29 July – 11 November 2018

Another Dimension. Exhibition View. 2018.

Another dimension

1 April – 15 July 2018

Siri Hayes. Wanderer above a sea of images. chromogenic print 108.0 x 135.0cm. 2008. Courtesy the artist and Monash University Museum of Art.

Framing nature

26 November 2017 – 18 March 2018

Ashley Perry. Garabu Ganyabara (One for Holding). 2017. Tasmania Oak, Glass, Mortar, Stone Knife, Echidna Quills.

Mary & Lou Senini student art award for sculpture 2017

26 November 2017 – 22 January 2018

Tina Wentcher, Two Balinese girl dancers (Two Legong Dancers) 1930-40, bronze with patinated highlights.

Tina Haim – Tina Haim-Wentscher – Tina Wentcher sculptor: 1887–1974

24 July – 12 November 2017

Stephen Haley. Simmer City. 2016. digital lightjet print 125.0 x 125.0 cm.

Stephen Haley: Out of place

24 July – 12 November 2017

Matthew Bird, Dormitorium 2017, timber, steel, fixings, paint, electroplated zinc coated trampoline, motorised turntable, sheep skin toppers, caster wheels, projectors, animated digital projections, LED strip lighting, quilted and memory foam pillows, gutter bristles, electrical clamps. Featuring choreographer and dance artist Shelley Lasica. Photo Peter Bennetts

Matthew Bird: Dormitorium

5 March – 9 July 2017

Michael Young. Untitled (Wall Sculpture), 1968.

Resonance: Selected works from the McClelland collection

5 March – 9 July 2017

Jason deCaires Taylor. Vicissitudes. installation view: depth 5m Grenada, West Indies. 2011. Courtesy of the artist

Human / Animal / Artist: Art inspired by animals

20 November 2016 – 19 February 2017

Sonia Payes. Woman in Silver Woman in Black, 2016.

Sonia Payes: Parallel futures

3 July – 6 November 2016

David Jensz. Rupture, 2013.

David Jensz: Sculpture

19 March – 19 June 2016

Jacqui Stockdale. Drawing the Labyrinth, 2015.

Jacqui Stockdale: Drawing the labyrinth

19 March – 10 June 2016

Ron Mueck, Wild man, 2005. Photo Mark Ashkanasy.

McClelland collection

19 March – 19 June 2016

Montebetti and Campbell. Andy Thomas, 2002.

Uncommon Australians: The vision of Gordon and Marilyn Darling

13 December 2015 – 21 February 2016

Niamh Minogue, Untitled.

Mary & Lou Senini student art award for ceramics 2015

13 December 2015 – 26 January 2016

Tim Silver. Untitled (monument) 3, 2014.

Tim Silver: Talking to the shadows

13 December 2015 – 21 February 2016

Mary Lou Pavlovic and Ketut Suaka. Flora and Patra, 2012-14.

Australian artists in Bali: 1930s to now

20 September – 29 November 2015

Andrew Browne. Periphery #1, 2010.

Elemental

29 May – 6 September 2015

Andrew Rogers. I Am, 2012.

Andrew Rogers a retrospective: Maquettes 1996 – 2015

29 May – 6 September 2015

Geoffrey Bartlett. 280205, 2006.

Geoffrey Bartlett: 280205

22 February – 17 May 2015

Lina Buck. Untitled Number 1, 2014.

Mary & Lou Senini student art award for painting/printmaking 2014

6 December 2014 - 18 January 2015

2014 McClelland sculpture survey & award

23 November – 19 July 2015

Christopher Langton. Death Warmed Up, 2011.

Map12: Christopher Langton

16 November 2014 – 8 February 2015

Alex Seton. Durable Solutions 1, 2014.

Alex Seton: Last resort

16 November 2014 – 8 February 2015

Kumpaya Gigiriba and Ngamaru Bidu, Marra! (Catch It!), 2010.

We don't need a map: a Martu experience of the Western Desert

16 August – 2 November 2014

Roger Scott. Queenscliff, 1975.

Waves and water: Australian beach photographers

11 May – 3 August 2014

Arthur Boyd. Woman in a jinker, 1976.

Cream: Four decades of Australian art

11 May – 3 August 2014

Martin Hill. Watershed Guardian, 2003.

Martin Hill: Watershed

16 February – 27 April 2014

Ross Manning. In Bloom, 2013.

Sensory overload: Karen Casey, George Khut, Ross Manning and Kit Webster

16 February – 27 April 2014

Juan Ford. Lord of the Canopy, 2012.

Juan Ford: Lord of the canopy

16 February – 27 April 2014

Jasmine Targett. What the eyes do not see, 2013.

Mary & Lou Senini student award for sculpture 2013

1 December 2013 – 12 January 2014

Shaun Gladwell. BPOV MEAO (Behind Point of View, Middle East Area of Operations), edition 1/1, 2009-10.

Shaun Gladwell: Afghanistan

20 October 2013 – 2 February 2014

Penny Byrne. Tea for Two in Tuvalu, 2011.

Made to last: The conservation of art

20 October 2013 – 2 February 2014

Maria Fernanda Cardoso. Emu flag + Cpat (Fluro Orange), 2008.

Air born

23 June – 6 October 2013

Striped Honeyeater nest constructed from fine dry grass, covered and decorated with Emu feathers 11.2 x 27.0 x 19.0 cm. Specimen courtesy of Museum Victoria. Photo by David Sheehy

NEST: The art of birds

23 June – 6 October 2013

Owen Leong. Budi (from the series birthmark), 2010.

Made in China, Australia

17 March – 9 June 2013

Sonia Payes, <em>Iceman #2 (Iceman series 1)</em> 2010

MOMENTUM

17 March – 9 June 2013

Janet Laurence. The Alchemical Garden of Desire, 2012.

Janet Laurence: The alchemical garden of desire

18 November 2012 – 3 March 2013

John Gollings. 877.00m E145⁰ 12' 31.12'5 O37⁰ 25' 15.95', 2009.

Aftermath: Landscape photography by John Gollings from Black Saturday

18 November 2012 – 3 March 2013

Andrew Treloar. Hnagma, 2011.

Mary & Lou Senini student art award for textiles 2012

4 November 2012 – 13 January 2013

Clifford Last. Supplicant, 1986.

Awakening forms: Vincas Jomantas and Clifford Last

29 July – 28 October 2012

Nusra Latif Qureshi. Did you come here to find history?, detail. 2009.

Beyond the self: Contemporary portraiture from Asia

1 April – 15 July 2012

Kerry Peterson. Weeds 1, 2011.

Mary & Lou Senini student art award for ceramics 2011

13 November 2011 – 15 January 2012

Jan Nelson. Walking in Tall Grass, Lucy. 2010

Double vision

13 November 2011 – 5 February 2012