From Star Charts to Chronic Scars: The New Season at N.Smith

If your calendar has been looking dangerously mundane, consider this an intervention. Over the coming months, N.Smith Gallery exhibition is a lineup that moves seamlessly from quiet, domestic psychological battlegrounds to celestial charts, desert kinship, and irreverent porcelain creatures.

On View Now: The Intimate & The Astral (24 Sept – 17 Oct)

• Savannah Jarvis: The House Watches

  When words fall hopelessly short of describing chronic pain, images step into the breach. Meanjin-based painter Savannah Jarvis unpacks the invisible toll of physical endurance, using hypervigilant interiors and still lifes to say what language never quite could.

• Natasha Walsh: Transmutation of the Night Sky

  Four-time Archibald finalist Natasha Walsh takes alchemical star mapping into miniature territory. Painting in oil directly onto raw copper sheets, Walsh treats metal not just as a support, but as an unruly creative accomplice reacting to ancient planetary rulers.

Coming in Hot: Voices from Mimili (October – November)

• Robert Fielding (with Mimili Maku Arts)

  Marking his first-ever commercial gallery partnership, celebrated Yankunytjatjara, Western Arrernte, Afghan, and Pakistani artist Robert Fielding brings a sharp multidisciplinary eye to memory, colonial fallout, and cultural endurance direct from the APY Lands.

• Women’s Group Exhibition (with Mimili Maku Arts)

  Betty Campbell, Betty Mula, Puna Yanima, Umatji Tjapalyi, and Pauline Wangin prove that the best stories are shared ones. Expect vivid, collaborative canvases that speak directly to Country, community knowledge, and collective strength.

Closing the Year: Ceramics, Subconscious & Motion Blur (19 Nov – 12 Dec)

• Vipoo Srivilasa: The Things We Keep

  Master ceramicist Vipoo Srivilasa balances weight with pure joy, tackling identity, migration, and spirituality through delightfully expressive porcelain oddities that refuse to take themselves too seriously.

• Joshua Charadia: Only A Thin Membrane Between Us

  Blurring the lines between photography and drawing, Charadia explores the jittery speed of modern consciousness. If life feels slightly out of focus lately, his motion-blurred canvases will feel eerily familiar.

N.Smith Gallery Beyond Our Walls

• James Tylor: Looking back on a decade of groundbreaking daguerreotypes and Kaurna objects in Turrangka… In The Shadows at the Art Gallery of South Australia (until 1 Nov).

• Thea Anamara Perkins: Taking family archives and First Nations identity global at the 18e Biennale de Lyon (until 13 Dec).

• Kyra Mancktelow: Going big at the 2026 NGV Triennial with her most monumental, Quandamooka-rooted commission yet.