CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Carlos Barrios

RAW

6 - 23 May 2026

Exhibition opening with the Artist

to be launched by

The Hon. Michael Yabsley

Former NSW Government Minister

Saturday 9 May 2026

2.30 - 4.30 pm

Carlos Barrios

Artist in Conversation

with

Eleane Eguia

Journalist and Podcaster

Saturday 23 May 2026

2.30 - 4.30 pm

Carlos Barrios

Carlos Manuel Barrios Rosa was born in San Salvador, El Salvador, Central America in 1966. Barrios' father was an archaeologist who introduced him to the art and artifacts of ancient Central American cultures from an early age. Barrios first began to paint at the age of six. Barrios was mentored by the artist Ramón Merino in El Salvador who taught him the technique of oil painting. Barrios immigrated to Australia in 1990 where upon arrival in Sydney he joined the East Sydney Technical College, which was later established as the National Art School.

The primary subject matter of Barrios' work includes the human form, animals and spirits. Barrios works with the mediums of oil, charcoal, acrylic, mixed media and bronze. Carlos Barrios had won numerous art awards including Salvadorian Art Prize, El Salvador1995, Zacatecoluca Art Prize, El Salvador1995, Cultural Diversity Art Prize, Fairfield 1997, Spanish Club Art Prize, Sydney 1999 and 2000 and Liverpool City Art Prize 2009. His artwork was exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Melbourne Exhibition Centre, and the Australian Museum. Carlos Barrios has twice been a finalist for the Art Gallery of New South Wales Sulman Art Prize, in 2005 and 2006. He was also a finalist for the Blake Prize for Religious Art, in 2006 and 2007. Carlos Barrios had exhibited extensively in different states in Australia, Miami in U.S.A, and in China.

View Carlos Barrios Catalogue

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

Miguel Olmo

Perpetual Pendulum

1 - 18 July 2026

Exhibition opening with the Artist

to be launched by

Katherine Roberts

Senior Curator

Manly Art Gallery & Museum

Saturday 4 July 2026

2.30 - 4.30 pm

Miguel Olmo & Asher Milgate

Artists in Conversation

with

Matt Cox

Senior Curator and Artist Liaison

Tilt Industrial Design

and

Former Curator of Asian Art

Art Gallery of NSW

Saturday 18 July 2026

2.30 - 4.30 pm

Miguel Olmo

“Perpetual Pendulum” is a dynamic exploration of creative evolution, presenting a survey of both longstanding and newly developed works. This exhibition embraces the fluid nature of the artistic process, honoring the creative shifts that occur when one medium transforms into another. Rather than being bound by a singular style or medium, each piece is an invitation to witness the artist’s journey, a journey that is as much about responding to circumstances as it is about re-envisioning the final form of the work.

In “Perpetual Pendulum,” Miguel takes us through an ever-swinging cycle of creation, from sculpture to digital media, from physical installations to sound art, highlighting the common threads that bind his work together. The consistent use of recyclable materials and the creation of works in series reflect his commitment to sustainability and thematic continuity, even as the form evolves.

Guided by the philosophy that each new creation is a critique and a continuation of the last, this exhibition is a testament to the artist’s belief that art is a living process, one that is perpetually in motion.

View Miguel Olmo’s Catalogue

Asher Milgate

The sun is my religion

1 - 18 July 2026

Exhibition opening with the Artist

to be launched by

Katherine Roberts

Senior Curator

Manly Art Gallery

Saturday 4 July 2026

2.30 - 4.30 pm

Asher Milgate & Miguel Olmo

Artists in Conversation

with

Matt Cox

Senior Curator and Artist Liaison

Tilt Industrial Design

and

Former Curator

Asian Art Gallery of NSW

Saturday 18 July 2026

2.30 - 4.30 pm

Asher Milgate's photographic practice operates as an embodied inquiry into landscape, memory and post-colonial legacy.

His approach is shaped by four decades of relationship with the Wiradjuri community in Wellington, New South Wales. As an artist of Anglo-Celtic heritage, Milgate carries the weight of inherited colonial narratives with grandparents involved in the Aborigines Inland Mission in 1940's and his work reflects a quiet insistence on listening, accountability and long-term cultural engagement. Each print in the sun is my religion is handmade - torn, exposed, sewn and reassembled. The fibre-based silver gelatin paper holds not just an image, but memory made material, where silver and salt, shadow and stitch conspire to form something both fragile and certain. These works become propositions rather than documents, holding tension between rupture and repair, testimony and Silence, personal memory and collective history.

Materiality sits at the core. The matte paper evokes skin more than surface, a site of touch, trauma and care. Each stitch is both mark and act, acknowledging matrilineal labour, industrial repetition and the photographic medium's role in shaping how histories are recorded, circulated and reimagined.

From a distance, the compositions echo fractured aerial surveys - visual traces of land management and inherited systems of separation. This is deliberate. Through spatial metaphor and visual language, Milgate invites us to reconsider how land is perceived and whose stories are prioritised in that act of seeing.

While the exhibition draws its title from a quote by Hans Heysen, the work speaks to a wider lineage of artists who have reimagine Australia and the landscape. Heysen's reverence for light and gum trees provided Milgate's early entry point, visceral and cultural alignment that offered a way in. David Hockney's composite photography expanded his sense of how landscapes might be constructed. Andy Warhol's stitched prints. Blak Douglas's political commentary underscores the power of visual art to confront settler narratives and center First Nations sovereignty.

Milgate's practice moves beyond homage. It offers a grounded, personal lens shaped by lived responsibility, research and relationship.

In this space, photography becomes a practice of witness, one that invites reflection and response.

View Asher Milgate’s Catalogue

2026 Exhibition Program

Maryanne Wick and Ros Auld

11.03.26 - 28.03.26

Mostafa Azimitabar

15.04.26- 02.05.26

Carlos Barrios

06.05.26 - 23.05.26

Asher Milgate and Miguel Olmo

08.07.26 - 25.07.26

Yvonne Boag

29.07.26 - 15.08.26

Tony Costa

26.08.26 - 12.09.26

Nick Ferguson and John Murray

23.09.26 - 10.10.26

Bronwyn Berman

14.10.26 - 31.10.26

Dapeng Liu

04.11.26 - 21.11.26

Summer Sojourn
End of Year Group Exhibition

25.11.26 - 12.12.26

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