Intimacy

28 March 2026 - 5 July 2026

Gallery 1 | Free

Intimacy brings together artists whose practices align with the personal, the meditative, the internal and the profound, to create an experience that will stay with the viewer long after they leave the exhibition. With the flood of images available at the swipe of a finger, the average person spends 15-30 seconds looking at a work of art, and suggests an alarming equivalence between the screen of a device and the broader wall of a gallery, a window, or even the world beyond. Intimacy inverts this – rather than filling the space with ‘Instagrammable’ art works, which tends to favour form and size over substance, Intimacy encourages audiences to spend time with each work, creating memorable and rewarding moments, a personal and emotive whole. Sensitively arranged and lit, and avoiding the fake, the clever, the ironic and the spectacular in favour of the felt, the experienced and the authentic, Intimacy arranges art works that pack an intense emotional punch, curated specifically for the large RMOA space to create an opportunity for communion with each work, and each viewer.

Artists: Ron Adams, Roy Ananda, Nick Ashby, John Baldessari, Vicky Browne, Kirsty Bruce, Eugene Carchesio, Regi Cherini, Julie Fragar, Ian Friend, Miles Hall, Michelle Hamer, Caitlin Hespe, Carol Jerrems, Talitha Kennedy, Jo Lankester, Norman Lindsay, Don Nace, Robert Preston, Joel Rea, Edward Ruscha, Sandra Selig, Edward Steichen, Elizabeth Shaw, Gemma Smith, Ben Trupperbaumer, Lorna Quinn and Paul Trefry

Curated by Jonathan McBurnie

Ian Friend (b. 1951) Shore II, 2020, Indian ink, Zecchi ink and graphite on Khadi paper, 15 x 21cm. Image courtesy of Carl Warner and Jan Manton Gallery, Brisbane.