Image: John Bokor photographed in his Bulli studio by Riste Andrievski, 2025.
On Saturday OCTOBER 11 from 2pm, please join us at King Street Gallery on William for an informal exhibition tour with still life painter, John Bokor, through his current exhibition, Twenty.
KSGoW would like to invite you to walk with John Bokor through his current exhibition Twenty on Saturday 11 October for an informal exhibition tour and artist talk. Please join us at the gallery from 2pm. Refreshments will be provided on arrival. As this is a complimentary, ticketed event, registrations are essential. Register via the button below.
John Bokor is a contemporary Australian-born artist who has been represented by King Street Gallery for just over 18 years. John graduated from the National Art School in 1993 with a diploma in Painting, and once again in 2000 with a Bachelor of Fine Art.
Bokor has had 25 solo exhibitions in both commercial and regional galleries across Australia, with his most recent solo exhibition ‘Between Two Rooms’ at King Street Gallery in 2023. His work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions including The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, 2024 and 2018; The Dobell Drawing Prize at the National Art School, 2023 and 2021; the Sulman Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2021; Muswellbrook Art Prize at Muswellbrook Regional Art Gallery, 2020; ‘Baked Goods’ at the University City Arts League in Philadelphia, 2016; ‘Planting Dreams’ at the State Library of NSW in Sydney, 2016; and ‘Still Life’ at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, in 2013.
Bokor’s work is held in many public and private collections, including the Art Gallery of Ballarat, the Art Gallery of NSW, the Australian Club, the State Library of NSW, the Kings School Art Collection, NSW Parliament Art Collection and several university collections around Australia.
John lives and works in Bulli, south of Sydney. King Street Gallery has represented John since 2005. We’re delighted to present Twenty in conjunction with Maggie Hensel-Brown’s current exhibition, Jetsam. Both are on display until October 18.
If you require accessibility accommodations or a visitor assistance please contact King Street Gallery staff via email: art@kingstreetgallery.com, or phone: 02 9360 9727. This event may be recorded.
🔔When: Saturday, October 11
📅 Time: From 2pm to 3pm
📍Where: King Street Gallery on William, located 177-185 William Street, Darlinghurst.
“There is a gentle familiarity that lingers in Bokor’s paintings and drawings. Perhaps it’s the joyful clutter of domestic life, the casual poetry of a dining table strewn with everyday objects, each one steeped in warmth and memory, that draws us in, inviting us to feel at home, or even to imagine ourselves as characters within the scene. What might first appear as disorder reveals itself as quiet harmony; the scattered objects, far from chaotic, seem to hold the composition together with intention and grace. Bathed in the radiant hues of Bokor’s palette, these moments glow with a quiet joy, at once intimate, vibrant, and human.”
– Susi Muddiman OAM, 2025
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