31 July – 05 September 2026
Special opening event 5.30pm Friday 31 July 2026
All welcome. Free

Michael’s artwork includes a strong line of narrative works over three decades, drawing on personal experience, the Bible, film, dreams, life. Beginning with paintings from the 1990s this exhibition weaves together a diverse mix of stories and dreams across a landscape of expansive compositions.

Michael Donnelly is a Melbourne/East Gippsland-based artist whose practice spans figurative drawing and painting, portraiture, and landscape, exploring both religious and environmental themes. Since 1984, he has had numerous solo exhibitions across Melbourne, including at Brunswick Street Gallery, St Paul’s Cathedral, and Westspace. He has also exhibited widely in group and prize exhibitions, including the Blake Prize and the inaugural Michael Beazer Works on Paper Prize at East Gippsland Art Gallery.

Image: Paul Kelly Singing to the Prawners, Oil on Linen, Diptych, 96.5×245 cm, 2024 (detail)