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19 September -29 November 2026
Spring Introductions 2026 | Introducing Mark Naismith Smith, Pj Twomey and Chris Rochester..
Spring’s here, and so is a brand-new lineup — we’re thrilled to introduce three artists joining the gallery family for Spring Introductions 2026: Mark Naismith-Beeley, P J Twomey, and Chris Rochester.
These three fresh faces are joined by recent work from our represented artists — Christine Druitt Preston, Claudio Valenti, Daniel Pata, David Manks, Edith Cowlishaw, Francesca Raft, Judy Trick, Kerwayne Berry, Madeleine Tuckfield-Carrano, and Nikki Adams — so there’s plenty to see, old favourites and new discoveries side by side.
Spring Introductions 2026 opens 19 September and runs weekends or by appointment through 29 November 2026.. Come say hello at the opening on Sunday 20th September 3pm. All welcome.
Mark Naismith-Beeley paints Sydney Harbour the way locals actually see it — not the postcard version, but the working one, all ferries, tugs and boatyards caught in shifting light.
Mark’s connection to the water goes back to his childhood in Aberdeen, Scotland and watching the world go by from the deck of his father’s cargo ship.
For this show he’s bringing a suite of new plein air harbour works: Restoration, 2025 (which he calls ‘a harbour scene in the process of renewal‘), Resilience, 2026, Moonrise over Sleeping Harbour, 2026, Kanangra, 2025, and Dusk at Rozelle Bay, 2026 — together tracking the harbour from full daylight right through to moonrise.
P J Twomey paints from her studio at Headland Park in Mosman, working the blurry line between realism and abstraction.
Water is her constant subject — coastal forms, restless movement, the sense of something happening just beneath the surface.
For Spring Introductions she’s showing Floating, 2025, where ‘light and foam create fragmented, abstract patterns‘ evoking drift and dislocation; Impermanence of Being, 2025, a meditation on ‘contingency, transition, and the quiet dissolution of certainty’; and Edge of Control, 2026.
Chris Rochester trained in painting at the National Art School and has been making work for over two decades now, with pieces in public and private collections around the country.
For this show, he’s bringing along something a little unexpected: an oil on Belgian linen portrait of his friend Jamie, titled Dirty Jan Six.
As Chris tells it: Jamie had recently moved into the artist cooperative where I was living as a young street artist named ‘The Dirt.’ We agreed I should paint his picture. When he arrived for his portrait he was wearing the bandleader’s uniform jacket. I think he had Sergeant Pepper’s in mind, but I was put more in mind of Rembrandt’s portrait of ‘Jan Six’, by those shiny buttons with the green tunic. I think the painting ended up somewhere in between.
