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David Rosetzky at the National Portrait Gallery
David Rosetzky’s work Lyu with Orchid (2017) is currently on view at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG), Canberra, as a part of the retrospective exhibition looking back at highlights of the National Photographic Portrait Prize from the past twenty years. A part of the NPG collection, Lyu with Orchid exemplifies Rosetzky’s layered approach to photograph, wherein his collaboration with his sitters and use of multiple exposures echoes the fluidity of identity and queer experience.
On the work, Rosetzky explained the following, ‘This portrait of champion Australian ballroom dancer Lyu Masuda is from my ongoing series of analogue, black-and-white, double-exposure photographs made with a 35mm film camera. The process allows me to combine one exposure with another in ways that cannot be fully anticipated. I am interested in the misalignments, chance compositions and unexpected relationships that emerge through this technique. Having worked with portraiture for many years, this series brings together images of flowers with individuals from LGBTQIA+ communities’.
National Photographic Portrait Prize Retrospective 22 August – 11 October 2026 National Portrait Gallery Canberra, ACT
Sutton Gallery are pleased to present works by Karen Black and Peter Robinson in this year’s edition of Sydney Contemporary. Marking the 10th anniversary of the fair, the presentation brings together two forerunning practitioners who are interested in complicating traditional modes of representation. Reworking surfaces through energetic gestures, both artists question the neutrality of their medium while conveying the intense and frenetic nature of the human experience.
Sutton Gallery | Booth B08 Sydney Contemporary 2–6 September 2026 Carriageworks Sydney, NSW
Arlo Mountford in conversation with Rhett Davis at MAMA Albury
Arlo Mountford will be in conversation with author Rhett Davis to mark the inclusion of his work in the National Photography Prize 2026 at Murray Art Museum Albury. Taking place Sunday 12 September from 11am–12pm in the museum galleries, Davis will speak with Mountford about how A.I. can be used as a creative tool, how it reshapes our sense of history, and what it means to manipulate technology in order to comment on the stories we inherit and the ones we fabricate.
Mountford’s work Doubling Down is currently on view at MAMA until 22 November 2026. First installed at Sutton Gallery in 2025, the work blends the artists memories with the technologies of artificial intelligence through the genre of the travelogue. On the work, Mountford explained the following:
“Doubling Down sits in this conceptual space, playing with both history and personal memory. It depicts improbable chance meetings and combines them with personal diary accounts and family stories, charting an alternative path through the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries using my and my family’s past towards an alternate present. In this respect it is science fiction.”
In-conversation | Arlo Mountford: The Art of AI Saturday 12 September, 11am–12pm Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA) Albury, NSW
Gordon Bennett, Vivienne Binns, Raafat Ishak, Nicholas Mangan, Rosslynd Piggott and Nusra Latif Qureshi in Monash University Museum of Art Publication ’50 Years / 50 Works: A MUMA Collection Index’
Sutton Gallery artists Gordon Bennett, Vivienne Binns, Raafat Ishak, Nicholas Mangan, Rosslynd Piggott and Nusra Latif Qureshi are featured in the forthcoming publication 50 Years / 50 Works: A MUMA Collection Index (2026).
Edited by Stephanie Berlangieri and Dr Rebecca Coates, the book brings together 50 significant works from the Museum’s Collection and 50 newly commissioned responses from contributors spanning Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA)’s history and wider communities of knowledge and practice. Through personal, poetic and critical reflections, artists, curators, poets, academics, museum staff and members of the Monash community offer a multifaceted account of the Collection’s evolution and the many ways it has been encountered over time.
On Saturday 5 September Monash University Museum of Art will celebrate the launch of the publication by hosting an afternoon of rapid-fire five-minute conversations between artists represented in the Collection and the writers who responded to their work. The afternoon will begin with a reflection on the legacy of late Sutton Gallery artist Vivienne Binns from Stephanie Berlangieri and artist Liang Luscombe. Later in the afternoon, Sutton Gallery artist Nicholas Mangan will be in conversation with curator Melanie Oliver, discussing his work A World Undone in the Monash University Art Collection.
Publication Launch 50 Years/50 Works: A MUMA Collection Index Saturday 5 September, 2–4pm Monash University Art Museum Naarm/Melbourne, VIC
