Sydney will celebrate colour this spring with the Art & About Sydney 2012 taking place in the city from 21 September to 21 October.
The event will see the city’s streets, parks, squares and laneways inspired by works from international and Australian artists, curators, major cultural institutions and the people of Sydney. Lord Mayor Clover Moore M explains that Art & About Sydney has been celebrating art for the last 11 years in some of the most unconventional places, taking art out of the traditional confines of the gallery and displaying it in the public domain.
He adds that the City invests $23 million each year in the arts and culture to increase opportunities for artists, encourage community participation, and support new and emerging art forms.
Highlights of Art & About Sydney 2012
Sydney music label Modular co-presents Friday Night Live, Art & About Sydney’s free opening night party on Friday 21 September at Martin Place. The City’s vintage buses will take visitors on a guided tour of all the installations and late-night openings of major galleries, museums and cultural institutions.
An award-winning installation by Sydney artist James Dive and The Glue Society, I Wish You Hadn’t Asked makes its Australian premiere at Art & About Sydney outside Hyde Park Barracks.
The Hotel Australia at the corner of Castlereagh Street and Martin Place, which played host to the crème of society until its demolition in 1971 will be re-created by the large-scale video installation Last Drinks – One more round at the Hotel Australia.
A month of music in unusual spaces, co-presented by Modular and the City of Sydney will include a series of secret lunch-time gigs featuring some of Australia’s most buzz-worthy bands.
Inspired by Bauhaus’ Joseph Itten’s colour theory and basic shape, The Banner Gallery will see art patron and Itten’s former student John Kaldor (Kaldor Public Art Projects) collaborate with graphic designer Analiese Cairis to design the banners, which will line the City’s main arterial roads for the duration of the festival.
The opportunity to discover the untold stories of the City’s biggest backyard, Hyde Park will be on offer at Emergence where 3D images will be projected onto trees to reveal the people, past and present who make up this beautiful green space.
From 21 September until 15 October, artist Jasper Knight and architect Isabelle Toland will transform the banality of the everyday into engaging pieces of conceptual art installations, which will be exhibited in various locations across the city.
Australia’s premier outdoor photographic exhibition, Sydney Life aims to celebrate unique perspectives of Sydney. The works of the 21 finalists and the $10,000 prize winner will proudly hang along the central walkway of Hyde Park North throughout the festival.
Celebrating a knee-high view of Sydney, Little Sydney Lives returns for a second year encouraging junior snappers aged three to 11 years to share their lens on how Sydney looks and feels to them. The 22 works of a future generation of artists will hang on bedsheet size canvases in Sandringham Gardens.
This year’s Village Art Project, The Great Crate will see a fully recyclable, 10m high x 10m wide giant cube housed outside Green Square train station.
From 21 September to 31 January 2013, four of the City’s laneways and public spaces along George Street will be transformed for City Spaces, the sixth annual laneway art program, which will feature curators, artists, architects and urban designers from across the globe.
George Street will host a massive, free closing night street party on Saturday 20 October. Co-presented by the City of Sydney and Crave, Moveable Feast will feature music, film and the culinary delights of the City’s new food trucks.
This feature is presented by Infolink .
The event will see the city’s streets, parks, squares and laneways inspired by works from international and Australian artists, curators, major cultural institutions and the people of Sydney. Lord Mayor Clover Moore M explains that Art & About Sydney has been celebrating art for the last 11 years in some of the most unconventional places, taking art out of the traditional confines of the gallery and displaying it in the public domain.
He adds that the City invests $23 million each year in the arts and culture to increase opportunities for artists, encourage community participation, and support new and emerging art forms.
Highlights of Art & About Sydney 2012
Sydney music label Modular co-presents Friday Night Live, Art & About Sydney’s free opening night party on Friday 21 September at Martin Place. The City’s vintage buses will take visitors on a guided tour of all the installations and late-night openings of major galleries, museums and cultural institutions.
An award-winning installation by Sydney artist James Dive and The Glue Society, I Wish You Hadn’t Asked makes its Australian premiere at Art & About Sydney outside Hyde Park Barracks.
The Hotel Australia at the corner of Castlereagh Street and Martin Place, which played host to the crème of society until its demolition in 1971 will be re-created by the large-scale video installation Last Drinks – One more round at the Hotel Australia.
A month of music in unusual spaces, co-presented by Modular and the City of Sydney will include a series of secret lunch-time gigs featuring some of Australia’s most buzz-worthy bands.
Inspired by Bauhaus’ Joseph Itten’s colour theory and basic shape, The Banner Gallery will see art patron and Itten’s former student John Kaldor (Kaldor Public Art Projects) collaborate with graphic designer Analiese Cairis to design the banners, which will line the City’s main arterial roads for the duration of the festival.
The opportunity to discover the untold stories of the City’s biggest backyard, Hyde Park will be on offer at Emergence where 3D images will be projected onto trees to reveal the people, past and present who make up this beautiful green space.
From 21 September until 15 October, artist Jasper Knight and architect Isabelle Toland will transform the banality of the everyday into engaging pieces of conceptual art installations, which will be exhibited in various locations across the city.
Australia’s premier outdoor photographic exhibition, Sydney Life aims to celebrate unique perspectives of Sydney. The works of the 21 finalists and the $10,000 prize winner will proudly hang along the central walkway of Hyde Park North throughout the festival.
Celebrating a knee-high view of Sydney, Little Sydney Lives returns for a second year encouraging junior snappers aged three to 11 years to share their lens on how Sydney looks and feels to them. The 22 works of a future generation of artists will hang on bedsheet size canvases in Sandringham Gardens.
This year’s Village Art Project, The Great Crate will see a fully recyclable, 10m high x 10m wide giant cube housed outside Green Square train station.
From 21 September to 31 January 2013, four of the City’s laneways and public spaces along George Street will be transformed for City Spaces, the sixth annual laneway art program, which will feature curators, artists, architects and urban designers from across the globe.
George Street will host a massive, free closing night street party on Saturday 20 October. Co-presented by the City of Sydney and Crave, Moveable Feast will feature music, film and the culinary delights of the City’s new food trucks.
This feature is presented by Infolink .
30.07.2012
