Image: William Kentridge, ‘Sapling’, 2026, bronze, 152.5 × 138.4 × 46.3 cm, edition of 5. Courtesy the artist and Annandale Galleries, Sydney
Annandale Galleries will present new work by William Kentridge and by the Yolŋu artist Gunybi Ganambarr at Sydney Contemporary from 3 to 6 September 2026, sharing Booth A05 at Carriageworks in Sydney. The gallery’s own listing gives an opening on 3 September, and its presentation of Ganambarr is made in association with Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka, the art centre at Yirrkala in north-east Arnhem Land.
The Kentridge selection pairs bronzes with prints. It includes ‘Sapling’ (2026), a bronze measuring 152.5 by 138.4 by 46.3 centimetres from an edition of five, and ‘Oak Leaf’ (2021), a bronze of 88 by 110 by 30 centimetres, also from an edition of five. Alongside them is ‘How To Explain Who I Was’ (2024), a print of 153 by 178 centimetres in an edition of 20, combining photogravure, photopolymer, drypoint, hand-painting, chine-collé and collage on Hahnemühle natural white paper. Annandale Galleries, which describes itself as Kentridge’s Australian representative, cites more than three decades of sustained collaboration with the artist, and frames the booth around recurring motifs of leaves, trees and books shared between the sculptures and the prints.
The gallery’s text quotes Clare Lilley, writing in ‘The Gravity of Form’ for the Yorkshire Sculpture Park exhibition ‘The Pull of Gravity’, on sculpture that “walks and falters, pauses and remembers” within a “landscape of metaphor, memory, and resonance.”
Ganambarr, who works from his home community of Gängän and has had six solo shows with the gallery over two decades, is represented by works in reclaimed and industrial metal, among them ‘Milŋurr ŋamil font’ (2025), a steel piece of 132 by 112 by 118 centimetres, and an etched aluminium work of 2024 measuring 244 by 244 centimetres. According to the gallery, his work is held by every major Australian institution and by international collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and his awards include the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (2018), the Western Australian Indigenous Art Award (2011) and the Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Artist Award (2008); in 2026 he appeared in the Biennale of Sydney at White Bay Power Station and was a finalist in both the Wynne and Sulman Prizes at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Sydney Contemporary marks its tenth edition this year, with more than 100 galleries from nine countries at Carriageworks over four days, according to the fair. Annandale Galleries follows the fair with ‘Galay Ga Dhuway – Husband and Wife’, a show of bark painting, larrakitj and sculpture running 9 September to 10 October at 110 Trafalgar Street, Annandale, where the gallery is open Wednesday to Saturday, 11am to 4pm.
