STREETWARE 2011

Streetware in it's second year, is an initiative of the City of Sydney to provide opportunities for emerging artists to develop skills working in the public domain.

Selected artists and collectives were invited to install artworks in the City's southern laneways and temporarily transform unused spaces into creative canvases to catch the attention and imagination of passersby.

Artist submissions were carefully considered site specific responses which reflect on larger issues and bring innovation and a thoughtful sensitivity to the life, culture and experience of the city.

• Jumbo + Zap: Crims & Crooks by Jumbo + Zap fills Sands Street with wallpaper of giant comic gangster characters referencing the Razor Gang era and 1920s Sydney identities.

  

• Numskull: Heart of the City by Numskull represents the sympathetic plight the everyday person undertakes when searching for love and looking round the corner for their next elusive experience.

  

• Beastman: Beastman's characters represent friends and family in a world of hope and survival, a near perfect place with no defining race or culture, but rather a mash up of different cultures.

  

• YOK: Looking to the future depicting symbols of cooperation a mural
  by Yok is installed in Pitt St between Central & Liverpool.

  

• Shannon Crees: Exploring the relationship between human kind and their surroundings Dungate Lane is brought to life by Shannon Crees with animals and colours atypical of Australia.

  

• Claire + Mie Nakazawa: Hidden Sweets by Claire + Mie Nakazawa exposes Sydney's hidden treasures in the abstract mural installed in Dungate Lane.

  

• Brett Chan: Immersed in a black and gold colourway that reflects the cosmos, Carruthers Place is transformed into a sacred space in the heart of Sydney.

  

• Jason Wing: 'Urban Jungle' by Jason Wing, based on a traditional Aboriginal cave painting reminds us to breathe and acknowledge natural intangible forces common to us all.

  

• Penelope Cain: Penelope Cain has installed Cubicle Farm where suited office workers operating in a field of lettuce and trees apears in Nithsdale Lane.

  

• Georgia Perry: Inspired by the Go Betweens song, Round and Round, Georgia Perry encourages you to explore her bold, colourful and graphic mural installed in Nithsdale Lane.

  

• Daniel Tanner: The Cartographer 2 by Daniel Tanner seeks to elicit the wanderer buried within each of us and invites the viewer to look at familiar spaces in different ways.

  

Streetware is part of the City of Sydney's Sustainable Sydney 2030 plan to create a sustainable, liveable, creative and vibrant city.

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