Best Photos of the Day

Gemma Smith, Compression dissolve, 2024, installation view The Intelligence of Painting, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2025, acrylic on canvas, courtesy the artist and Sullivan + Strumpf © the artist, photograph: Hamish McIntosh.

Eleanor Louise Butt, Within the Garden (Autumn Painting 2), 2022, installation view The Intelligence of Painting, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2025, oil on cotton, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, purchased with funds provided by the MCA Foundation, 2023 © the artist, photograph: Hamish McIntosh.

Jude Rae, SL508, 2024, installation view The Intelligence of Painting, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2025, oil on linen, courtesy the artist and The Commercial © the artist, photograph: Hamish McIntosh.

Maria Madeira, Remains, 2019, installation view The Intelligence of Painting, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2025, rock powder, red earth, glue, charcoal, pencil and sealer on canvas, Nani McMullin collection. Purchased 2024, © the artist, photograph: Hamish McIntosh.

Julie Nangala Robertson, Mina Mina Jukurrpa (detail), 2024, installation view The Intelligence of Painting, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2025, acrylic on linen, Private collection, Sydney © the artist, photograph: Hamish McIntosh.

Installation view The Intelligence of Painting, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2025, left to right: Karen Black, Mountain High, 2024, oil on polyester, Glenn McKay collection, Brisbane, courtesy the artist and Ames Yavuz Gallery; Kerrie Poliness, Non-Objective Wildflower Painting, light blue with red, indigo, blue, purple, yellow, lilac and white lines, 2024, acrylic on canvas, courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne © the artists, photograph: Hamish McIntosh.

Warraba Weatherall, To know and possess, 2021-2025, installation view, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2025, cast bronze, 30 parts: parts 1-10: Purchased 2022. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation, Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, part 11: Private Collection, image courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, photograph: Jessica Maurer.

Warraba Weatherall, Front to back: InstitutionaLies, 2017/2025, and To know and possess, 2021-2025, installation view, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2025, To know and possess: parts 1-10: Purchased 2022. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation, Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, part 11: Private Collection, image courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, photograph: Jessica Maurer.

Warraba Weatherall, Trace, 2025, installation view, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2025, wood, aluminium, paint, Co-commissioned by MCA Australia and Hawai’i Contemporary image courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, photograph: Jessica Maurer.

Diena Georgetti, The Civilisation of the Abstract (detail), 2025, installation view, Commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2025, image courtesy the artist, 1301SW, Sydney and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia © the artist, photograph: Jessica Maurer.