Legacy, Linage and the Market: Honouring Jorna Newberry and the future of Western Desert Art

The team at Nanda\Hobbs is honoured to present a landmark exhibition of works by the late Jorna Newberry, inviting you to join us celebrating the enduring legacy she leaves behind.

To mark the opening, Director, Ralph Hobbs, and Author, Ken McGregor, will lead a keynote discussion surrounded by Newberry’s final body of work—exploring her significance, the current direction of the desert art movement, and what collectors, curators, and art lovers need to know.

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We’re beyond proud to announce that four of our represented artists have been named finalists in the 2025 Archibald and Wynne Prizes—a massive achievement for Nanda\Hobbs and an extraordinary moment of recognition of these distinctive voices in contemporary Australian art.

Congratulations to Jonathan Dalton, David Fairbairn, Loribelle Spirovski and James Powditch. This year’s selection reflects incredible depth, power, and range—and we are honoured to be alongside our artists on this journey.

Nanda\Hobbs is thrilled to be exhibiting at Aotearoa Art Fair again this year with a amazing line-up of artists at our two booths—in the galleries and works on paper sections.

Renata Pari-Lewis is among eleven prominent Australian artists currently showing a the Broken Hill City Art Gallery. The exhibition is the result of an intensive two-week residency taken by the artists—known as the "Block Back-Ins" Art Collective—in the landscape surrounding Broken Hilll in May 2024. 

Image: Renata Pari-Lewis, Before the Beginning and After the End, 2024, Acrylic on canvas, 180 x 480cm

JUST RELEASED: Lottie Consalvo and her exhibition Long Dawn is profiled in a six-page feature by Camilla Wagstaff in the latest edition of Art Collector. 

Congratulations to Lottie Consalvo—winner of the 2025 Muswellbrook Art Prize—judged by Anne Ryan, curator of Australian Art, Art Gallery of NSW.

ABC Radio National's Nick Bryant interviewed Roger Swainston on Saturday 24 March about his quest to paint every species of rock lobster in the world—eight are on currently on show in our Project Space until Saturday 29 March. Click to listen to this fascinating interview.

Nanda\Hobbs is delighted to present three exceptional artists at the 2025 Melbourne Art Fair— David Fairbairn, Lottie Consalvo and Yoshio Honjo. 

Coyle’s recent work, which he showed at Nanda\Hobbs gallery in Sydney this year, is utterly transfixing.

The AFR's Salesroom has reported that a painting by Jun Chen sold for $18,750 at Shapiro's sale of Art and Objects from the Estate of Ray Hughes on Tuesday 24 September against estimates of $8000 to $10,000. It's the second highest price recorded at auction for Chen and is 25% higher than the current gallery price for a work of a similar size.

The Post newspaper has published an interview with New Zealand born Marie Mansfield who enjoyed sell-out success with Nanda\Hobbs at Sydney Contemporary 2024. 19 Sep 2024.

Congratulations to Peter Gardiner for taking out the prestigious John Leslie Art Prize 2024 for landscape painting at Gippsland Art Gallery.

This year at Sydney Contemporary we are thrilled to present two exhibits. Find us at our usual location (Booth E02) and our new location (Booth A03) as part of Sydney Contemporary's Works on Paper exhibition. 

Arts writer Rex Butler reviews Suzanne Archer's stellar career in an indepth article in Art Collector's JUL-SEP edition just released.

With contributions by critic John McDonald and N\H director Ralph Hobbs, the article documents her artistic journey from the late 1960's to now—wiith her latest body of work to be exhibed in a major solo show at Nanda\Hobbs in August. 

We're thrilled to announce Stephanie Eathers runner up selection in the 2024 Vincent Prize by judge Jude Rae.

SMH, 17 June 2024
Zilinsky, who won the Portia Geach Memorial Award in 2020, said a friend had shown Elordi her work before suggesting he would be a good subject to paint. Zilinsky sketched Elordi, 26, in Stanwell Tops, NSW, on the set of the mini-series adaptation of Richard Flanagan's novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North.