Australian Free Exhibitions in August

By news on August 12, 2025 in Landscape painting

Australian Free Exhibitions in August
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Best free exhibitions to check out in the month of August across Australian cities, metropolitan and regional. The month of August is here, and it’s a great time to explore the diverse range of free exhibitions across Australian cities, metropolitan and regional areas. Here are some highlights to check out:

Western Australia: free exhibitions

  • Hatched: National Graduate Show 2025 at Forrest Chase (2 August to 5 October)
  • Jump Cuts at Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre, Moores Building Art Space (2 August to 8 September)
  • Cathy Blanchflower: Aeon and Eveline Kotai: Road Trip Continued at Art Collective WA (9 August to 13 September)
  • Artist in Print at Linton & Kay Galleries, Subiaco (11-31 August)
  • Between the Sheets at Gallery Central (15 August to 18 September)
  • TAFE to FAME: 125 Years of Art and Design in Perth (until 23 August)
  • My Country Stays in My Dreams at Artitja Fine Art Gallery (23 August to 7 September)
  • KNOW MY NAME: Australian Women Artists at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery (until 30 August)
  • The West Australian Pulse 2025 at Art Gallery of Western Australia (until 31 August)
  • Silence Listening: A Midwest Truth-Telling Exhibition at Museum of Geraldton (until 31 August)

Northern Territory: free exhibitions

  • Jenna Mayilema Lee: Of Smoke and Rain at Northern Centre for Contemporary Art (5 August to 27 September)
  • Water: The Artists of Waralungku and Shordi Krik: A Collaboration with the Indigenous Literary Foundation and Barunga Community (until 22 August)
  • Exhibitions at Outstation Gallery (August)

Australian Capital Territory: free exhibitions

  • Material Transformations and holy arm gauntlet at Craft + Design Canberra (7 August to 20 September)
  • Patternmakers and Hank Reynolds: Remedies at Tuggeranong Arts Centre (15 August to 11 October)
  • M16 x CAB | 40th Anniversary Satellite Exhibition at Civic Art Bureau (until 17 August)
  • Bronte Cormican-Jones and Will Lynes at Canberra Glassworks (21 August to 26 October)
  • Light Source at Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University (22 August to 19 October)

Queensland: free exhibitions

  • Geoffrey Schmidt, Barbara Pierce and Gail Mabo at Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville (1 August to 14 September)
  • Immerse: The Dance of Light and the Coming of Form and The Familiar Faces at NorthSite Contemporary Arts, Cairns (4 August to 27 September)
  • What Remains Grows at Red Hill Gallery (from 8 August)
  • Under a Modern Sun: Art in Queensland 1930s-1950s at Queensland Art Gallery (16 August 2025 to 25 January 2026)
  • New Light: Photography Now + Then at Museum of Brisbane (17 August to 6 October)
  • Light and Land at Edwina Corlette Gallery (until 19 August)

Victoria: free exhibitions

  • Darren Sylvester ‘Party up on Skull Rock’ at Neon Parc, Brunswick (1-30 August)
  • Liam Fleming: Glass in Twelve Parts at Tolarno Galleries (2-30 August)
  • colour.field.echo and Danger Danger Danger Danger Danger & Related Works at fortyfivedownstairs (5-30 August)
  • Mike Parr: Human Animals at STATION (9 August to 6 September)
  • Katrin Koenning: Mirrors at Manningham Art Gallery (13 August to 18 October)
  • ernesto.pees.on.tings at Wurru Wurru Biik (15-17 August)
  • Five Acts of Love at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (until 24 August)
  • Rockpools at West Space (until 30 August)
  • Protest is a creative act at Museum of Australian Photography (until 31 August)
  • Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits at RMIT Gallery (until 16 August)

New South Wales: free exhibitions

  • Anya Pesce: Abstract Fetish and Nemo Jantzen at.M Contemporary (2-23 August)
  • Hermannsburg Potters present Relha Kurrka at ArtHouse Gallery (until 16 August)
  • EJ Son: Fountain at Artspace (22 August to 19 October)
  • Joshua Charadia: Seconds Turn to Minutes Turn to Seconds at N.Smith Gallery (until 23 August)
  • Teresa Baker: Everything I Carry With Me at COMA (until 23 August)
  • Naminapu Maymuru-White Guwak – the ancestors at Sullivan+Strumpf (until 23 August)
  • The Story So Far: Helen Britton at Australian Design Centre (28 August to 1 October)
  • Lyndal Walker: Reflection Unveiled at STATION (until 30 August)
  • Exhibitions at New England Regional Art Museum (from 15 August)
  • Karla Dickens: Locked On at The Lock-Up (23 August to 16 November)
  • In a Part of Your Mind, I am You at Ngununggula (until 24 August)
  • Emerging 2025 at Gosford Regional Gallery (until 24 August)

Tasmania: free exhibitions