On Now and Coming Soon

Clare Belfrage – The Surround, solo exhibition

7 – 31 October 2026

Sabbia Gallery, Redfern, Sydney

I’m jumping straight to my artist’s statement – For a long time now, my work has echoed and responded to the living patterns and rhythms of life both observed and imagined. I am increasingly drawn to momentous energy in the natural world. This is something of a shift. It is less quiet. Maybe I’m looking for reassurance.

Plant life including those grand beings, trees, and rock life, are telling their stories. So much to learn from. The stories holding the living of a life are there in the patterns and rhythms including the mess and power of aberration, interruption, tilt, separation and collision, luxuriant saturation, desiccation, layered rupture and slow settling.

Q and A with Professor Lisa Slade, Hugh Ramsay Chair in Australian Art History, University of Melbourne and Artist, Clare Belfrage

2pm, 10 October 2026

Sabbia Gallery, Redfern, Sydney

It is always a delight and usually insightful to talk with Lisa Slade about life, art and making. We will be in amongst my solo exhibition, The Surround, at Sabbia Gallery. It’s a lovely opportunity to talk together about my most recent work and the thinking behind it.

Superabundance #16, 2026

40 Years, 40 Things, group exhibition

8 August – 3 October

Masterworks Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

It feels like a year of milestone celebrations! Masterworks Gallery is celebrating 40 years, and I’m delighted to be part of their celebratory exhibition showcasing a huge number of artists that they have worked with over this impressive period of time.

Developments

27 June 2026 – 3 January 2027

Lette Glass Museum, Coesfeld, Germany

The works of 32 artists from across the globe are contributing to this celebratory exhibition at the Lette Glass Museum. Works from the Museum collection alongside recent works from each artist will help describe developments in those artists’ careers as well as the history of this remarkable collection. I was able to send 3 new works that will sit in conversation with a work of mine from 2015.

Canopy, Layered Life, Blue and Green, Light Time, Celadon and Pink and, Canopy, Layered Life, Pistachio and Gold