Galleries Archive

Review: Underbelly arts festival

Review: Underbelly arts festival

The Underbelly arts festival spread its artistic magic all over Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour last weekend. With over 100 artists working on thirty projects, it was a beautiful contrast from the island’s natural beauty and industrial history to experimental, innovative artworks …
Photojournalists: grace under fire in conflict zones

Photojournalists: grace under fire in conflict zones

How to be a photojournalist in a conflict zone? Renowned Australian photographers Kate Geragthy and Stephen Dupont answered this question at the New South Wales State Library on July 23. Introduced by award-winning Sydney Morning Herald journalist Kate McClymont, the talk revealed …
Guan Wei: The Journey to Australia

Guan Wei: The Journey to Australia

Imagine you are on a boat with some people for several weeks on the endless ocean. The destination is a magic and strange land but for you and your shipmates, this is a one-way journey with no turning back. The boat is …
Review: Sydney Moderns, AGNSW Sydney

Review: Sydney Moderns, AGNSW Sydney

The current major exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales is Sydney Moderns. It has the subtitle Art for a New World, and the pictures shown – over 180 works by many of Australia’s most significant artists of the 1920s …
Head On Photo Festival: Aunty Barb holds her own

Head On Photo Festival: Aunty Barb holds her own

Barbara McGrady, or aunty Barb, as she is affectionately known in the indigenous community around Sydney, is a featured artist in the annual Head On Photo Festival. McGrady’s exhibition, Visions in Black and White – Images from Indigenous Australia, is on show …
Review: Jurassic Lounge closing night party

Review: Jurassic Lounge closing night party

Jurassic Lounge came to life for the final session this summer with a mammoth closing night party, complete with live music, art, comedy and popup bars. More than 2000 people turned up to celebrate the end of the fifth season. Nostalgia reigned …
Review: Jurassic Lounge, Australian Museum

Review: Jurassic Lounge, Australian Museum

Most Sydneysiders have fond memories of visiting the Australian Museum on school excursions, exploring the wonders of nature and the ancient world. Now many of them are coming back for a totally new experience. For the fifth year now the Museum has …