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Art Month returns this March, inviting you to meander through its galleries and into the flux and flurry of Sydney’s art conversations.
A highlight on Sydney’s social and cultural calendar, Art Month Sydney demonstrates the full expressive nature of the city through a collection of curated talks, studio visits, tours, workshops, panel discussions, exhibitions and precinct nights aiming to bring you the best of our dynamic arts scene.
The festival facilitates access to Sydney’s leading and emerging artists and their stories. Under the artistic directorship of Barry Keldoulis, 2016 brings a new and exciting program focusing on Sydney as an ‘Engine of Creativity’.
“If we think of the city as an engine that drives creativity, what are the parts of the motor that move differently but in union to produce forward motion?” says Keldoulis. “It’s often said that artists aren’t artists because they want to be, but because they have to be. If it’s the artists’ creative juices that are the fuel, what, are the pistons that fire, the drive shafts that crank, and the wheels that turn to get this engine of creativity moving.
Art Month 2016 throws the elemental pieces of that engine down in front of you, artists, art schools, studios, galleries, institutions, both ‘bricks and mortar and virtual’, collections private and public, for you to piece together how these form a working whole.”
Explore unseen areas of Sydney as artists open their galleries and studios, see the city at night with exciting precinct nights, hear from artists about their practice, and see the city through the artists’ eyes with tours of inner and outer Sydney.
In partnership with Concrete Playground Sydney and Cake Wines, Art at Night is the perfect opportunity for an after hours art adventure over three evenings, in three precincts during the three week duration of Art Month.
Thursday March 3, 6-10.30pm – East Sydney
Galleries on the art trail include: Alaska Studios and Alaska Projects; Object: Australian Design Centre; Black Eye Gallery; Chalk Horse; Conny Dietzschold Gallery; Creative Live Work Spaces; Firstdraft; GALLERY 9; King Street Gallery on William; The Mansfield Gallery; Minerva; National Art School; STACKS Projects; Stanley Street Gallery; Tap Gallery Sydney; Watters Gallery; William Wright | Artists Projects and Workshop Makery who have all put together amazing programs. After admiring the art on display head over to the Cake Wines Art Bar at National Art School from 7.30-10.30pm, who are hosting an array of activities including: NAS Alumni and student performances, and projections across the walls, Alumni performances, and an interactive drawing workshop, as well as Art Month presenting a series of performances including Liam Benson, Fflluxx, Wisteria Hysteria and Sweetie from FBi Radio on the decks.
Thursday March 10, 6-10.30pm – Paddington & Woollahra
The neighbourhoods of Paddington and Woollahra form one of Sydney’s original art precincts. Galleries on the trail are: Arthouse Gallery; Australian Galleries Sydney; Barometer; Dominik Mersch Gallery; Janet Clayton Gallery; Jensen Gallery; .M Contemporary; Olsen Irwin; Palmer Art Projects; Piermarq; Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery; Sabbia Gallery; Saint Cloche; Sarah Cottier Gallery and Stills Gallery. Follow the Art at Night trail from 6pm-8pm before heading to the official Art Bar by Cake Wines at Bonython courtyard, a lush secret garden on Underwood Street, for drinks, music and performances from 7.30-10.30pm. Performances from Noula Diamantopoulos, Caroline Garcia and Sweetie from FBi Radio.
Wednesday March 16, 6-10.30pm – Chippendale & Redfern
Explore the different galleries, Artist Run Spaces (ARIs) and creative spaces that make the Chippendale and Redfern neighbourhoods one of Sydney’s most dynamic art precincts. Galleries on the trail are: The Bearded Tit; The Commercial; Eveleigh Creative Precinct; Galerie pompom; Harrington Street Gallery; Home@735; Kensington Contemporary; MOP Projects; M2 Gallery; Smallspaces; Spot81; UTS Gallery; Wellington St Projects and 107 Projects. Uncover all the area has to offer before heading to the official Art Bar by Cake Wines at the Eveleigh Creative Precinct for drinks, music, installation, projection and performances from 7.30-10.30pm. The exhibition throughout this building includes work from Elaine Campaner, Sarah Contos, Lucas Davidson, Michael Krebber, Rosemary Laing Lara Merrett, Eddie Peake and Gemma Smith, with performance work by Lian Loke, Wade Marynowsky and Sweetie from FBi Radio.
In 2016, Art Month introduces an additional curated exhibition and annual private art collectors exhibition.
Green Eyed Monster Eating its Own Tail, an exhibition curated by Art Month Sydney Artistic Director Barry Keldoulis at The Paramount Building and Golden Age Cinema & Bar, will showcase artists that make art, about art and the art world. Artists include Tracey Moffatt, Tom Polo, Christine Dean, Grant Stevens, Elvis Richardson, John Citizen (aka Gordon Bennett) and PJ Hickman.
For the budding collectors, the Collectors’ Space celebrates private art collections and partners with long term sponsors, AON, and, for the first time in 2016, Bresic Whitney, to present an exhibition at an unoccupied inner city house. The space, located on Australia Street in Camperdown, will exhibit works from the collections of Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Courtney Gibson, Danny Goldberg, and Jasper Knight.
Art Month Sydney
1 to 20 March, 2016
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