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Potter Museum of Art
19 Feb – 6 June 2026

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Heather B Swann, Leda and the Swan, 2021

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Buxton Contemporary

21 November 2025 – 11 April 2026

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Hany Armanious, Flat Earth, 2017.

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We are pleased to announce the inclusion of several Buxton International Collection artists in Phaidon’s recent publication, Great Women Sculptors.

This significant volume presents an expansive and inclusive history of sculpture, featuring over 300 artists from more than 60 countries across 500 years. Each entry is accompanied by an image and newly commissioned text, highlighting both established figures and leading contemporary voices.

Featured Buxton International Collection artists include Mikala Dwyer, Eva Rothschild, Renee So, Huma Bhabha and Tschabalala Self.

Tschabalala Self’s Submission, 2025 marks the first acquired work by the artist to enter the Buxton International Collection. The work exemplifies Self’s distinctive approach to constructed figuration, where layered textiles, patterned surfaces and painted forms coalesce into complex meditations on identity, embodiment and the politics of representation.

A significant addition to the Collection, Submission reflects Self’s ongoing inquiry into the tensions between the observed, the imagined and the self-defined body. As the artist notes ’Submissions is not only about control, submission can be an act of love, or acceptance.’ The Work resonates with the Collection’s focus on embodied and abstracted figuration - seen in artists such as Daniel Richter - and on practices that explore interior, affective and social worlds as exemplified by artists like Tal R.

MUMA
26 July – 20 September 2025

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Nusra Latif Qureshi, The Inventory of Noble Causes, 2019

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Bonewhite Clay Head with Vertical Cloud, 2024, incorporates many of Manders’ key concerns, including material tension, the paradoxical co-presence of the organic and the rational, and the mythic and the logical. The work sits within his primary conceptual enquiry – the architecture of the mind – as part of the Self Portrait as a Building series.

As such, this piece represents a significant contribution to his practice: emblematic of his core themes, and rendered with an incredibly poetic combination of delicacy and rupture.

It aligns closely with the current collecting strategy, which includes Abstract Abject, embodied and abstracted figuration, and explorations of psychological or interior worlds. Manders’ contorted psychological self-portraits resonate with other key works in the Buxton International Collection, including Mike Parr’s Volte Face (12), 2022, and Huma Bhabha’s Fury, 2021. Curator, Emily Cormack

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IMAGE: Mark Manders, Bonewhite Clay Head with Vertical Cloud, 2024

POESIS is a new choreographic work created in collaboration with performers Tara Jade Samaya and Benjamin Hancock, featuring music by Chiara Costanza.

POESIS explores the concept of counterpoint, drawing on ideas from sensory ecology, physical intelligence, and mythology. It delves into the evolution of perception, examining how our sensory systems shape our actions, kinesthetic engagement, and understanding of the world. The work also explores the role of movement in expanding sensory experience.

The full performance appeared at DANCEHOUSE on April 3, 4, & 5, 2025.

Buxton Contemporary
1 November 2024 to 31 May 2025

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Tony Clark, Seated & reclining, 2008

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ACCA

1 September – 17 November 2024

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Rupert Betheras and Fabian Brown Japaljarri, Pipeline, 2024

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA)
5 April – 30 June 2024

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Nick Mangan, Termite Economies, 2018

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IMAGE: Nicholas Mangan, Termite Economies, 2018-20, installation view, Nicholas Mangan: A World Undone, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2024, image courtesy the artist, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sutton Gallery, Australia and LABOR, Mexico © the artist, photograph: Hamish McIntosh

Arnolfini Arts, Bristol

9 March – 26 May 2024

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Tala Madani, Shit Mom, 2024

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Gropius Bau, Berlin
24 March to July 9 2023

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Daniel Boyd, Untitled (TGRTMA), 2021

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MUMA
27 April – 8 July 2023

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Renee So, Woman VI, 2020

Renee So, Relaxation, 2019

Renee So, Woman I, 2017

Renee So, Boots, 2012

View the artist: Renee So

Buxton Contemporary

9 December 2022 – 16 April 2023

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Peter Tyndall, (Free Pencil Movement protest banner), 2004

NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
23 November 2019 – 23 February 2020

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Nick Mangan, Termite Economies, 2018

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IMAGE: The Posthuman City. Climates. Habitats. Environments NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore. 2019/20

Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA)
27 July – 6 October 2019

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Nick Mangan, Termite Economies, 2018

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IMAGE: Nick Mangan, Termite Economies, 2018

UNSW Galleries
21 June – 7 September 2019

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Nick Mangan, Termite Economies, 2018

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IMAGE: Installation view, Material Place: Reconsidering Australian Landscapes’ UNSW Galleries, 2019. Pictured: Yukultji Napangati, Untitled 2010; Robert Andrew, Touching Pindan2016; and Nicholas Mangan, Termite Economies 2018. Photo: Zan Wimberley

Jam Factory

1 March – 28 April 2019 

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Jamie North, Remainder #12, 2017

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Tarrawarra Museum of Art
24 November 2018 – 11 March 2019

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Patricia Piccinini, Kindred, 2018

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IMAGE: Patricia Piccinini, Kindred 2018 (paintings by Joy Hester), Patricia Piccinini and Joy Hester: Through Love, Tarrawarra Museum of Art 24 Nov. 2018 – 11 Mar. 2019

Taipei Biennial 2018
17 November 2018 – 10 March 2019

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Nick Mangan, Termite Economies, 2018

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IMAGE: Nicholas Mangan, Termite Economies, 2018, installation view. Courtesy: the artist and Taipei Biennial

City Gallery Wellington
6 April – 28 July 2019

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA)
28 September – 25 November 2018

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Eva Rothschild, The Way In, 2018

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IMAGE: Eva Rothschild: Kosmos, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA). 28 Sept. – 25 Nov. 2018

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
24 March – 5 August 2018

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Patricia Piccinini, Kindred, 2018

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IMAGE: Patricia Piccinini Curious Affection Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art. 24 Mar. – 5 Aug. 2018

Dunedin Public Art Gallery

3 December 2016 - 17 April 2017
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Kushana Bush, Exorcism, 2014

Kushana Bush, Reading the Bird Entrails, 2014

Kushana Bush, Flogging, 2014

Kushana Bush, The Paper Play, 2014