Rising – The Tattoo Movement @ M2 Gallery
M2 Gallery, we finally made it! We’ve been meaning to visit this spot on Elizabeth St for a while and it, well, hasn’t happened. Until now! Rising was an exhibition from The Tattoo Movement, an international group of tattoo artists led by Deepak Siamese IV. Rising featured work from Deepak Siamese IV, Ruben Alvarez and Ash ...
Kozyndan @ Outré
After 2 years Kozyndan have come back to Australia with a suitcase full of new artwork. Outré hosted the opening and after such a fun show last time we were keen to check it out. The exhibition featured digital work in the recognisable Kozyndan style. Also interesting were some bright and bold neon paintings that stepped ...
Kingdoms of Obsolescence – Andrew Ensor @ Newsagency Gallery
Kingdoms of Obsolescence was a retrospective collection from Andrew Ensor. The walls of Newsagency Gallery were beautifully hung with work from Ensor’s back catalogue. Ensor’s delicate drawings featured anthropomorphic birds, castles, text musings and floating figures. We are big fans of these kinds of shows. They give a peek of the evolution of the artists and give some amazing work ...
Katabasis: Come on Down – Sal Higgens @ Salerno
After visiting Sal Higgen’s debut solo show at Sheffer Gallery earlier this year, it was love. Her bold, sometimes splashy, sometimes quirky, and always nightmarish works drew us to another world. Her new works have a brighter and more electric palate. It is likely to lull viewers into a false sense of comfort: neon and candy pinks highlight demons and violence rather ...
Rewrites – Kate Sheldon @ A-M Gallery
It was a busy night at A-M Gallery last week for the opening of Kate Sheldon’s exhibition Rewrites. Maybe it’s the start of daylight savings, but there’s a summer buzz in the air that is getting arty folk out and about. Kate’s minimalist and abstract style is bold and engaging. This body of work explored ...
Wonderland Gallery Launch @ Wonderland
We just love finding new galleries, so last Thursday we headed to Summer Hill’s latest gallery – Wonderland Gallery Space. It was their official lunch exhibition What do you think this is… Wonderland? You may recall that we love to visit Sweets Workshop quite often and we’ve been wondering when more galleries will open in ...
Morning Chorus (Phoenix) – Sal Higgens @ Sheffer
Sal Higgens first grabbed our attention with her work in Face Apart at Salerno Gallery. We fell in love with her bold, visceral style. This week Sheffer Gallery was host to Higgens forst solo show in Australia. Morning Chorus (Phoenix) was an exploration of the historical representation of the human soul as a bird and ...
Sarah Hendy @ Chalk Horse
Last week Melbourne born artist Sarah Hendy gave a lucky Sydney audience the chance to enjoy the opening night of her second solo exhibition. Chalk Horse opened it’s doors to the cold night to reveal menacing black walls and eerily lit artworks. As a side note, it was not easy to photograph. Like Thieves Newly ...
Closer – Søren Solkær Starbird @ Art Equity
Now and then the stars align and amazing things happen. For us, this was when a friend mentioned that Søren Solkær Starbird was having an exhibition in Sydney. We had heard nothing about it, shame on us! Closer is Starbird’s collection of rock star portraits that has been on tour around Europe and the UK since ...
Newtown Shopkeepers – Nic Bezzina @ Chrissie Cotter
Nic Bezzina’s new body of work, Newtown Shopkeepers, is a photographic documentary of some of the most independent and iconic characters of Newtown. With funding help from the City of Sydney Archives Department, Bezzina set about creating snapshots of a community well known for it’s diversity and alternative culture. The exhibition was a well executed and ...
Worlds A P A R T @ Soldiers Rd
Soldiers Rd is the new kid on the block in the arty ‘hood of Surry Hills. The new gallery may have a lot of competition in the area, but we think that there’s no such thing as too much art! The gallery/studio is hidden upstairs in the labyrinth-like Hibernian House. For many Sydney artists, doing ...
100 Bedrooms – Ellen Disaster @ Kind Of
This was our first visit to Kind Of Gallery… apparently we’re the last people in Sydney to catch on because the place was packed. Like, seriously packed. Like, totally, like. 100 Bedrooms was part of the Head On Photography Festival. The project took Ellen Disaster into the bedrooms of 100 friends and strangers to catch ...
Aus Infront @ LO-FI
The Aus Infront folks were back this year with a visual response competition based on the theme word “Native”. After a great show that we covered last year we couldn’t miss the chance to check it out. This year the show was, well, different. The number of finalists was cut to 10, there was no framing, there ...
Shutter Speed @ Gallery Red
Yet another gallery has pooped up on our radar in Glebe! Hidden in the corner of that weird-little-arcade-square-thing (map) on Glebe Point Road is Gallery Red. We are so ashamed that we didn’t know this gallery was here. We saw them on Facebook, and decided we MUST check out more HeadOn Photo Festival action. So Friday ...
Chas Glover @ Newsagency Gallery
We love finding new galleries to check out and put on our radar. So it was with delight that we headed along to check out Newsagency Gallery, a little space on Stanmore Road that seems to throw on a show now and then. It’s a mysterious place, run sporadically as a side project to the owners’ ...
Girls Girls Girls @ The TATE
Weeks fly by, and with an opening every Wednesday night since their launch, we’ve missed a lot at the TATE already! But we’re back, this time to check out Girls, Girls, Girls. As the name implies this is an exhibition featuring girls: not as the subject, but as the artists. These talented ladies were Georgia Hill, ...
Undertones – April White @ Salerno Gallery
April White’s exhibition Undertones opened at Salerno Gallery last week. The show features a collection of works both old and new exploring the artist’s inner workings. The highly emotive and surreal self portraits were created with a mix of expressive pencil lines, paints and collage. There was a freedom in many of the works that ...
Yen Young Australian Artist Award + Anthea Boesenberg + 2 Group Shows @ Gaffa
Openings at Gaffa are always guaranteed to open your eyes to something new, because no matter which opening grabs your attention, you’re forced to check out 3 other exhibitions as well. This particular evening Gallery 1 was host to the Toni & Guy YEN Young Australian Art Award (quite a mouthful). The award was targeted to young ...