The King’s School Art Prize, 11 -13 June 2026

Where the Light Falls 2023-25, oil on linen, 152 x 152cm

Adriane Strampp is a finalist in The King’s School Art Prize with Where the Light Falls.

The King’s School Art Prize, a $20,000 award is a prestigious prize recognising the best contemporary artwork created by an Australian-resident artist represented by a commercial gallery. Entry is by invitation only, ensuring a high standard of work and contributing meaningfully to the national fine arts industry. 

Over the past 26 years, the Art Prize has become one of the country’s most respected school-based art awards, with The King’s School acquiring significant works for its collection. It has helped elevate the profile of many established and emerging artists and become a mark of distinction within the Australian arts community.

Horrocks Hall
The King’s School
87-129 Pennant Hills Road,
North Parramatta NSW 2151

Bayside Painting Prize, Bayside Gallery, 1 May – Sunday 14 June 2026

Temporal State 2026, oil on linen, 91 x 91cm

Adriane Strampp is a finalist in the Bayside Painting Prize with Temporal State, oil on linen, 91 x 19cm.

The Bayside Painting Prize is nationally recognised as Melbourne’s premier painting prize. The finalist exhibition brings together a broad range of artists from across Australia, both established and lesser known, whose varied approaches to the painted medium conveys the breadth and diversity of painting in Australia today.

The Prize features a non-acquisitive Major prize of $25,000, a $10,000 Beckett Local Prize (acquisitive), and a $1,000 People’s Choice Award.

The Prize serves as a valuable initiative for Bayside City Council to engage the community with exceptional works of art at both local and national scales, while enriching its collection with distinguished works that have a connection to the region.

The judges for the 2026 prize are:

  • Jacqueline Doughty, Assistant Director – Curatorial, Art Gallery of Ballarat
  • Dr Shelley McSpedden, Senior Curator & Head of Exhibitions, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
  • Joanna Bosse, Curator, Bayside Gallery

 

BAYSIDE GALLERY
Brighton Town Hall
Corner Wilson and Carpenter Streets
Brighton VIC 3186

HOURS
Gallery open from Wednesday to Friday, 11am–5pm, Saturday and Sunday, 1pm–5pm

Muswellbrook Art Prize, 19 March – 23 May 2026

Evening Garden, Somerset 2025 oil on linen 122 x 122cm

Adriane Strampp is a finalist in the Muswellbrook Art Prize with Evening Garden 2025.

Since 1958, the Muswellbrook Art Prize has grown and evolved and is today one of the richest prizes for painting in regional Australia. Finalists for the Muswellbrook Art Prize vie for a total of $70,000 prize money across three prize categories: Painting ($50,000 acquisitive), Works on Paper ($10,000 acquisitive), and Ceramics ($10,000 acquisitive).

Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre
1-3 Bridge Street Muswellbrook NSW
Hours: Monday-Saturday – 10:00am – 4:00pm

Without Boundaries: Women in the Visual Arts, King Street Gallery on William 27 January – 14 February

Confluence 2015 oil on linen 122 x 122 cm

KSGoW begins their 2026 exhibition calendar with the group exhibition Without Boundaries: Women in the Visual Arts, presenting the works of notable women artists from across Australia’s contemporary landscape. This exhibition coincides with the 2026 national conference titled Women UNLIMITED, a series built from one defining belief: true leadership emerges when we are free to redefine possibility, unbound by limits. Featuring works by Alex Bray, Genevieve Carroll, Lorraine Connelly-Northey, Lucy Culliton, Elisabeth Cummings, Harrie Fasher, Sue Ford, Myfanwy Gullifer, Maggie Hensel-Brown, Kitty (Kutuwalumi Purawarrumpatu) Kantilla, Ildiko Kovacs, Joanna Logue, Makinti Napanangka AM, Amanda Penrose Hart, Lisa Roet, Wendy Sharpe AM FRSN, Adriane Strampp and Savanhdary Vongpoothorn.

KING STREET GALLERY ON WILLIAM
177 William St, Darlinghurst
NSW 2010 AUSTRALIA
+61 2 9360 9727art@kingstreetgallery.comHOURS:
10am – 6pm Tuesday – Saturday
Sunday by appointment

Every Picture Tells a Story, King Street Gallery on William 18 November – 13 December

Adriane Strampp, Sketchbook from Morocco Sep/Oct 2025

Playing with the idea that ‘every picture tells a story,’ King Street Gallery on William’s forthcoming summer exhibition will explore the idiosyncratic nature of an artist’s approach to the creation of an artwork, from initial conception to contemplation and completion.

Every Picture Tells a Story brings together artists’ creative endeavours in the form of concertina books, sketchbooks, and handmade books.  As completed works within their own right, these books will accompany an artwork (painting, sculpture or another medium), inviting reflection on the artists’ individual approaches.

KING STREET GALLERY ON WILLIAM
177 William St, Darlinghurst
NSW 2010 AUSTRALIA
+61 2 9360 9727
art@kingstreetgallery.com

HOURS:
10am – 6pm Tuesday – Saturday
Sunday by appointment

 

 

Il Filo tra di Noi, Panicale Festa dell’ Uva, Panicale, Umbria 12 – 14 September 2025

Adriane Strampp is exhibiting a series of gouache studies made this summer in Umbria, as a part of the popular annual wine festival, in Panicale. Strampp is exhibiting alongside her mother Lita Strampp, who is exhibiting a series of watercolours.

The exhibition is held in a historic cantina once used for storing animals, as the village opens it’s cantinas to visitors from all over to sample local wines and produce.

All Italian gouaches can be seen here.

Hours:
11-13 ogni giorno| daily
19-21 Venerdi | Friday
18-21 Sabato | Saturday
17-20 Domenica | Sunday

Via Antonio Grossi
Panicale, (PG)
Umbria
Italy

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London: July – December 2025

Adriane Strampp is exhibiting two painting with fellow artists from The Chelsea Arts Club, London. Marsh and Tidelines are based on the Somerset coastline, Strampp’s family home.

The Chelsea and Westminster hospital has a permanent collection of art on display, from Veronese to Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Patrick Heron and Albert Irvin, and is a model of how art can add immeasurably to the quality of hospital life. The displays play a hugely positive role in the experience of patients, their visitors, and the staff.

Spread between the ground and first floors of the hospital and featuring the work of 23 Chelsea Arts Club members, the show has been curated and hung by Ginger Gibbons and Francis Tinsley, and organised by Sarah Delafield-Cook and Serena Richards.

!st Floor
Chelsea & Westminster Hospital
369 Fulham Rd.,
London SW10 9NH

Homage to Turner: West End Art Space 28 June – 12 July 2025

On a Clear Day (You Can See to Assisi) 2021 oil on linen 120x120cm

Homage to Turner, a group show at West End Art Space.

    This group exhibition brings together contemporary painters whose works reflect, reinterpret, or are in dialogue with the legacy of J.M.W. Turner. Known for his bold treatment of light, atmosphere, and emotion, Turner’s influence continues to resonate across generations of artists.

   Through a range of painterly approaches — from expressive abstraction to observational landscapes — Homage to Turner considers how contemporary painters engage with the qualities that defined Turner’s practice. Some works respond directly to his subjects or techniques, while others adopt a looser affinity, drawing on mood, movement, or materiality.

   Together, these works offer a quiet nod to Turner’s lasting presence in the language of painting.

Opening: Saturday, 5th July, 2- 4 pm

Hours:

Wednesday – Saturday 11am – 4pm

West End Art Space
112 Adderley Street,
West Melbourne Victoria 3003,
Australia

Tel: +61 415243917

St Columba’s Art Prize 2-7 May 2025

Still Life with Mirror 2023-24 oil on linen, 91 x 91cm

Adriane Strampp is a finalist in the St Columba’s Art Prize, in the Blue Mountains of NSW.

St Columba’s Catholic College,
168 Hawkesbury Road,
Springwood NSW

HOURS:
Friday 2 May to Sunday 4 May 4pm
Open to the Public by Appointment:Monday 5 May 9am-3pm; Tuesday 6 May 9am-3pm; Wednesday 7 May 9am-3pm

DRAWING ECOLOGIES / The Kedumba Collection 9 January – 2 February 2025

Hare 2010 graphite on paper 76 x 56 cm 2010

DRAW Space are delighted to collaborate with The Kedumba Drawing Collection to present DRAWING ECOLOGIES – an exhibition that explores drawing as a method of interpreting and relating to the natural world, traced through The Kedumba Collection’s archive of Australian contemporary drawing.

Curated by Eva Nolan

Established in 1990 by Jeffrey Plummer, with the support of the Blue Mountains Grammar School, The Kedumba Drawing Award continues as one of the longest-running, most prestigious acquisitive drawing prizes in Australia. The collection chronicles 35 years of Australian drawing history, featuring the work of some of Australia’s most celebrated contemporary artists.

A thematic thread woven throughout the collection’s extensive lineage is the representation of nature. From expressive landscapes to detailed animal studies, these images resonate with one another to create an ecology of drawings, collectively navigating the storied relationship between humanity and the natural world. Curating a selection of work from The Kedumba Collection, DRAWING ECOLOGIES explores the role of drawing in humankind’s perpetual contemplation of – and connection with – the natural world.

DRAWING ECOLOGIES features the work of: Chris Casali, Maryanne Coutts, Lucy Culliton, Anna Glynn, Anne Judell, Leith Maguire, Matin Rek, Mike Riley, Luke Scibberas, Adriane Strampp, Claire Tozer and Wendy Tsai.

DRAW Space
31A Enmore Road
Newtown NSW 2042

HOURS:
Thursday and Friday 11am – 5pm
Saturday 11am – 5pm
Sunday Midday – 5pm
Email: info@drawspace.org

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