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Outsider Gallery Now Gallery 144 | Press Release
Outsider Gallery Now Gallery 144 | Press Release
We are pleased to announce that on 5 February 2026, Outsider Gallery will become Gallery 144. Named after its home at 144 Commonwealth Street, Surry Hills, this new name marks the next chapter in the gallery’s evolution, as it expands its curatorial program to encompass a wider range of contemporary art-making practices.
Upcoming | New Skin: Curated by Tai Mitsuji
Upcoming | New Skin: Curated by Tai Mitsuji
The artwork comes undone in ‘New Skin.’ Old forms are shed, assumed coherency crumbles, and the singular face of the artwork fragments and is reimagined. ‘New Skin’ presents a series of works that briefly flirt with recognisable forms, only to reject them—and, instead, cast us into the unknown. Moving across painting and sculpture, the exhibition looks to bring together works that make strange the familiar. Here, the internal anatomy of the artwork is given visibility as its constituent parts shift to form and reform a ‘New Skin.’
Gallery 144 | Website
Gallery 144 | Website
Gallery 144 is a Sydney contemporary art gallery in Surry Hills presenting curated exhibitions of emerging and established Australian and international artists, with collectible artworks, talks, and events that reframe the Sydney art scene.
Group Exhibition: SUPERPOSITION | Outsider Gallery
Group Exhibition: SUPERPOSITION | Outsider Gallery
Superposition is a group exhibition of painting and sculpture exploring the interdependence of opposites: the spaces between sacred and mundane, order and chaos, growth and decay. Referencing the primordial nonduality of reality, Superposition considers how apparent contrasts codefine and give rise to one another.
Group Exhibition: POSTNORD! | Outsider Gallery
Group Exhibition: POSTNORD! | Outsider Gallery
Postnord — a neologism reflecting the limitations of intellectual comprehension, encloses a collection of works blurring both form and abstraction. From figurative explorations of unity and connectedness to neo-absurdist reflections on the boundary between self and other, inner and outer, we are invited into a series of moments which are as serious as they are light.
Mohamed Khadra: Conference of the Birds | Catalogue
Mohamed Khadra: Conference of the Birds | Catalogue
Featuring a series of oil on wood panel landscapes, the ethereal paintings of Mohamed Khadra blend a lifetime of extensive travel with the contemplative depths of mysticism. Drawing on Eastern landscape traditions, the works evoke a nostalgic journey through imagined valleys and resting places, gently inviting moments of reflection and introspection. Maintaining a delicate balance between form and emptiness, Khadra employs dreamy, energetic palettes to articulate spiritual landscapes that resonate with the human quest for wholeness.
Dream Machine | Catalogue
Dream Machine | Catalogue
A group exhibition bringing together painting, ceramic sculpture and mixed media in a sequence of intuitive, dreamlike associations. Moving between figuration, abstraction and the surreal, the works share a heightened visual sensibility—bold colour, layered surfaces and imagery that hovers between the familiar and the uncanny.
Brock Q. Piper: Rituals of Illumination | Outsider Gallery
Brock Q. Piper: Rituals of Illumination | Outsider Gallery
In Rituals of Illumination, Sydney based artist Brock Q. Piper presents a series of intricate and layered oil paintings depicting interior scenes. These scenes are diffused and intersected by atmospheric plays of light, figures in dialogue, and the seemingly out of place presence of wild animals, which form the central motif in each composition.
Heath Nock: Super Huge Mega Extreme | Catalogue
Heath Nock: Super Huge Mega Extreme | Catalogue
In Super Huge Mega Extreme, Heath Nock presents a body of oil paintings that position the monster truck at the heart of both personal narrative and cultural critique. Based in Lake Macquarie, NSW, and deeply influenced by his upbringing among travelling showmen, Nock draws from vivid childhood memories of attending monster truck rallies with his father. These early encounters with spectacle, performance, and power form the foundation for his exploration of how masculine identities are shaped and performed in contemporary culture.
Tahlia Undarlegt: Sacred Ground | Catalogue
Tahlia Undarlegt: Sacred Ground | Catalogue
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