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In keeping with the season, 580 George Street presents In Full Bloom, a pop-up art and photography installation exhibition from emerging artists and photographers. Curated by weAREtheIMAGEmakers and aMBUSH Gallery, works will be on display at HSBC Tower Lobby, 580 George Street, Sydney until September 25. Get down and check it out.
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Sydney’s annual public arts festival, Art & About, commences on Thursday 1 October with a night of free celebrations in Hyde Park.
The City of Sydney produced festival brings stimulating and engaging art and events to Sydney visitors and residents from 1 – 25 October.
The leafy canopy of Hyde Park North is the perfect venue to celebrate the launch of Art & About. Art & About is part of Crave Sydney, a major celebration of Sydney’s unmatched way of life, offering 31 days of food, outdoor art and fun.
When: 1 October, 5.30pm-8pm
Where: Hyde Park North, Grand Central Walkway
What: Live music from Tijuana Cartel and roving performers
For full details visit www.artandabout.com.au
To mark the beginning of National Body Image and Eating Disorder Awareness Week artist Josephine Bradley Scott and The Butterfly Foundation and have teamed up to celebrate the human form in all it’s varied glory. These Walls Can Talk is a charity exhibition born from Josephine’s passion for turning body image into something positive. “The way we feel about our bodies is of huge concern. I want to connect with viewers in a way that will encourage them to think and talk about their own unique attributes.” All proceeds from the sale of the artworks goes to The Butterfly Foundation.Exhibition opens 2nd September 12.00pm – 6pm, Per Square Metre Gallery, 191-193 Johnson Street, Collingwood
Every year City of Sydney commissions a major community-based public art project as part of Art & About. This year, Reef Knot’s ‘I Heart Kings Cross’ project was chosen to engage with the truly diverse and spirited community of Kings Cross as well as local artists.
Over two months Reef Knot will collaborate with a team of artists to run assorted knitting circles in Fitzroy Gardens and other local businesses. Then, in early October 2009, the finished pieces will be installed throughout the Cross in a celebration of colour, tolerance and diversity.
Come along to the knitting circles, which will run in conjunction with Kings Cross Organic Market, to be held every Saturday, commencing now and running until the end of September, 10am-4pm in Fitzroy Gardens. All materials will be supplied, however participants are encouraged to bring their own recycled wool. In case of wet weather, workshops will be held at Kings Cross Recreation Centre (the Rex Centre), 58a Macleay Street (entrance next to Maggie’s café and restaurant). At the completion of the series of knitting circles, the knitted pieces will be installed on various trees, poles and landmarks.
I remember a while ago my friends invited me on an impromptu art exhibition visit after work. Feeling like something cultured to do I said I’d come along (the temptation of being picked up in the city after work was also calling me, who can resist).
Took us a while to find the place, as the venue was actually in a room above a bar on Johnstone Street (I forget the name). As we climbed the rickety flight of stairs I could hear some haunting scary-in-a-kitsch way breed of keyboard music. Then, I was awestruck. It was like a homeless acid fairy had created some magical land out of all the plastic crap anyone had ever lost or thrown away in their lives.
Bright remnants of identifiable childhood
toys and then a lot of stuff that was once a part of something else were
everywhere. The effect was a carefully constructed, created a sort of shine to
some bowerbird lord who demanded that everything useless be put to use once
again. Needless to say the effect was very cool.
For someone who is obsessed with detail to the point where I’m convinced I was a Private Eye in a previous life, the installation was endlessly intriguing. The installation questions our need for all the useless crap in our lives, reinventing the no longer wanted.
If you’d like to step into this amazing plastic fantastic cave, there’s a second chance. The artist, 21-year-old Paul Yore has created a second installation, , which is now on exhibition at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, 7 Templestowe Road, Bulleen, until November 15. More info at heide.com.au
