The selection of works featured in our annual show for collectors represents the culmination of the gallery’s search of collectable pieces from private collections across the country.
Past Exhibitions
2021
30 April 2021 - 26 May 2021
Kerry McInnis’ new exhibition is an homage to the River – in all its abundance. These drawings and paintings are imbued with a sense of celebration and respect for the natural element and life force of the River.
1 April 2021 - 27 April 2021
Drawing on Western Australia’s landforms and structures, including its rivers, flatlands, and salt pans, the artist's topographic perspectives emphasise the geological and cultural fragility specific to north western regions of the state.
4 March 2021 - 28 March 2021
This exhibition represents a celebration of critical ideas and narratives as artists embrace a uniform format of a 40 x 40cm canvas.
16 January 2021 - 28 February 2021
Our annual 'Summer Show' features stunning new works from the gallery’s established and early-career artists. Showing concurrently is 'The Monstrous and the Sublime: James Gleeson & Deborah Kelly'.
2020
26 November 2020 - 2 December 2020
Drawing is a fundamental and liberating practice that allows artists to express themselves with directness, honesty and freedom.
7 November 2020 - 25 November 2020
Dagmar Cyrulla’s new exhibition does not resemble the work that she set out to make at the beginning of the year. Recent Works instead tracks the first-hand experience of the artist living through a pandemic: the inevitable frustrations, the hour-long calls,
9 October 2020 - 28 October 2020
Influenced by modernist literature and its characteristic undoing of paradigms and meaning, Carroll’s process deconstructs form and image.
19 September 2020 - 8 October 2020
Eleanor Millard’s landscapes arrest the speed of life. In her artworks, the furious pace of the everyday suddenly stops, and gives way to a painted meditation. " I try to paint the stillness
29 August 2020 - 17 September 2020
For his new exhibition, 'Tropical Future World', Nigel Sense invokes the instincts and emotions experienced during his overseas trip to South-East Asia, immediately prior to Covid-19.
14 August 2020 - 27 August 2020
Featuring ten epic and transcending large-scale paintings.
18 July 2020 - 14 August 2020
This group exhibition showcases a collection of impressive contemporary works of art, including new works in stock from the gallery’s stable of artists.
27 June 2020 - 16 July 2020
Min-Woo Bang's forthcoming exhibition is a highlight at Wagner Contemporary this year. In his new body of work, the artist expresses an emotional and visual response to recent occurring events: the bush fires and
6 June 2020 - 24 June 2020
Al Poulet paints with the urgency of a young artist. “I struggle to look at a work of mine from a week ago, because I think ‘that’s old and I can already do better’,” he explains.
9 May 2020 - 31 May 2020
This exhibition features artists who examine the psychology of the human condition and reveal - or subtly suggest - deeper-level emotions and feelings which lie beneath the surface of behaviour and experience.
18 April 2020 - 6 May 2020
This April, celebrated artist, Melissa Egan, returns to Wagner Contemporary with her highly anticipated new body of work, "In Your Dreams". Each day, according to Egan, the bushland at her doorstep "sets the stage for something unexpected to happen."