Exhibitions Archive

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 …

  I see it first from a distance. It is framed by the doorway and engulfed in bright light. I can’t tell what it is yet, but I do know it has drawn my attention. As I approach, I notice a young …

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 …

It took me three attempts to actually find the new Bill Henson exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. This has nothing to do with the AGNSW’s signage or the directions I was given by their ever-helpful staff. It’s not …

This year’s Vivid festival again brought Sydney alive with art. We had Kraftwerk and the parti-coloured Opera House; we had Wagner-a-la-multimedia and Johnny Cupcakes. But one of the most striking and jaw-dropping works presented under the Vivid umbrella was ‘test pattern ’, …

On entering the Art Gallery of New South Wales to view the  Biennale exhibit I was struck by the sheer haunting beauty of  Steadfast, video footage of a lake from Biennale artist Phil Hastings. Its  scope and immensity is like walking into a slow …

Eat your heart out, The Amazing Race contestants. I trekked across Sydney by ferry, water taxi, bus and foot, visiting four spectacular venues in just one day for the 18th Biennale of Sydney. I braved the miserable winter winds and a swarm …