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

Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize, 16 to 31 May 2026

Spatial Shift 2024, oil on linen 120 x 120cm

Adriane Strampp is a finalist in the Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize.

The Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize is the highest value art prize for women in Australia and provides a unique platform to engage, connect, support and profile women artists across Australia and internationally.

The Prize also showcases a commitment to celebrating emerging Indigenous women artists and promoting their creative talents on a national stage.

Supporting the arts inspires and strengthens communities socially, educationally, and economically- fostering creativity, empathy and beauty. Established by Ravenswood School for Girls to advance art and opportunity for women artists in Australia, the Art Prize is an annual acquisitive prize, with a total prize money of $58,000.

The Opening Night (proudly presented by Taylor) and Exhibition of Finalists is based in Sydney. Online engagement with artists and communities across Australia is facilitated via a live stream of the Opening Night, a virtual tour of the exhibition and online artwork sales platform. Artists also enter the Art Prize online, finalists being selected to exhibit their artworks in a two-week Exhibition of Finalists.

Launched in 2017, the Art Prize has grown exponentially and gained significant recognition including a multimedia marketing campaign achieving a combined reach of 3.1 million people and 7.1 million combined impressions via cross media platforms.

Ravenswood Centenary Centre,
Gate 3, Henry Street,
Gordon, NSW

HOURS
16 – 31 May 2026
10.00am to 4.00pm

St Columba’s Art Prize, 1-6 May 2026

Pink Light 2025 oil on linen 122 x 122cm

Adriane Strampp is a finalist in the St. Columba’s Art Prize with Pink Light, 2025.

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

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

 

 

The Architecture of Light, King Street Gallery On William 21 October – 15 November, 2025

Silent World 2025 oil on linen 162 x 205cm

“The delicately evocative paintings featured in Adriane Strampp’s The Architecture of Light (2025) exhibition are largely autobiographical. Not only in the sense of their subject matter – set in or against the backdrop of her industrial, inner-city home and her parent’s country garden – but also through the incorporation of several genres of painting in the Western art tradition that she has explored at different times in her oeuvre: landscape, still life and the domestic interior. Over time, Strampp has orchestrated the painting of these subjects as a basis from which to build her own visual language and style, which is now on display at King Street Gallery on William.”
– Excerpt from Kirtsen Rann’s catalogue essay, 2025.

View catalogue here.

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

Calleen Art Award 31 August – 5 October 2025

Still Life with Catcus 2024 oil on linen 91 x 91cm

Adriane Strampp is a finalist in the Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery.

The Calleen Art Award is an annual acquisitive painting prize and exhibition. It presents the best of contemporary Australian painting in any style, theme or subject.

The Award was established in 1977 as an acquisitive art prize by Mrs Patricia Fagan OAM to encourage originality, creativity and excellence in the visual arts, and is made possible by the generous support of the Calleen Trust.

Hours:
Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 4pm; Sunday 10am to 2pm

Cowra Regional Art Gallery
77 Darling Street Cowra
Cowra, NSW 2794

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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