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An Amnesty International Human Rights Innovation Fund 2010 Grant Project

MANUWANGKU
Under The Nuclear Cloud

Photographs by Jagath Dheersekara

Curated by Sandy Edwards

17 - 29 January 2012
Launch: Tuesday 17 January, 6.30pm

RSVP by Friday 13 January
Contact Natalie Wasley 0429 900 774 or natwasley@gmail.com

Open Mon to Fri: 9:30am-5:30pm
Sat 21 and 28 Jan: 11am-3pm
Public holiday 26 Jan: 11am-3pm

Click here for Exhibition Invitation

Artist Statement (Jagath Dheersekara)

Muckaty is situated on Warlmanpa country, 120 km north of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory. Traditional Owners call the area "Manuwangku". Nomination of their traditional land as a domestic nuclear waste dump site in 2007, coupled with proposals for Australia to "lease" uranium and take back radioactive waste from overseas nuclear power operations, have generated justifiable fear and concern amongst the Aboriginal communities in and around Muckaty (Manuwangku). They have responded to the nomination with ongoing protests to defend their right to live in a clean and safe environment, free of hazardous waste. The photo project “Manuwangku, Under the nuclear cloud” for which I received Amnesty International Human Rights Innovation Fund Grant in 2010, is focused on this community under threat. Living with them and experiencing their socio-cultural life and activism, I attempted to document the spirit, connection to land and the collective voice of this community as they try to resist institutionalised racism manifesting in this instance in a move to convert their traditional lands to a dumping ground for nuclear waste.

From the Curator's Notes (Sandy Edwards)

Jagath spent time living with the communities documenting ‘their spirit, connection to land, and collective voice’. We are familiar with images of protest and action that have in fact taken place in the community however Jagath chooses to take a different approach. With great sensitivity and a nonintrusive camera (not an easy mode and one which can only be achieved with complete collaboration by those being photographed) he records the daily life of a broad range of community members, men, women and children. The images are disarmingly simple yet leave a strong impression ... Muckaty is a small community sitting in a low scrub desert landscape with the predominant colours created by soft red earth, long green grasses and blue cloud scudded skies. By contrast the built environment is striking for its vibrant primary colours in the walls of rooms and on people’s clothing. With a naturalistic eye Jagath records with great subtlety the relationships between family and community members. We see them in kitchens, living rooms and bedrooms as well as in the outdoor environment. Children play pool, women gather plants, make art and watch television, men are shown in relation to women and children. There is much revealed in body language. We experience a poignancy at viewing such normalcy of life knowing that it may well be destroyed for this tribal group.

Home is Where Your Art is... Pine Street's Staff Exhibition

Launch: Friday 2 December, 6pm
Runs until Friday 16 December
Open Monday - Friday 9am - 5.30pm

Come and celebrate Summer at the opening of Pine Street’s Annual Staff Exhibition – witness first hand the creative skills of the artists working at our Centre. The exhibition will feature an inspiring display of artworks across the disciplines of ceramics, printmaking, silver jewellery, sculpture, painting, drawing, stencil art and more. Come and enjoy the art, and perhaps pick up some creative gift ideas for Christmas.

Foreground Art by Isabel Watts
Background Art by Rebecca Baird
Invitation Design by Craig Bunker

Click here for Exhibition Flyer

Double Pass

Featuring collaborative ceramics works by Pine Street tutor Evan Wills and Pine Street students Emma Peters, Melinda Craig, Sophie Tourrier, Summer Chan, Tatiana Wans, Tristan Harmen, Zoe Mahony.

Launch: Friday 18 November 6.30pm
Exhibition Dates: 18 - 30 November
Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm, Saturday 11am - 4pm

Launch: Wednesday 2nd November at 6:30pm

Exhibition Dates: Wednesday 2nd - Saturday 12th November 2011

Opening Hours: Monday - Friday 9:30am - 5:30pm
Saturday: 12pm - 3pm

www.guyjameswhitworth.com

This is Guy’s first Sydney exhibition in almost a decade and his first ever made up of life drawings and portraits.

‘What I was really trying to do was capture the inner being whilst using colour and line to describe the outer.’ He says smiling, ‘These aren’t traditional portraits as such but an attempt to try and depict the sitter’s dreams and passions.’

The bright neon colours used in these recent works offer a dramatic contrast to his previous exhibition of mostly black and white paintings which had a far more superficial, fashion magazine feel.

The pieces making up this exhibition range from quite small, intimate portraits to large, oversize explosions of colour and form.

ABC Sydney said ‘this show is sure to be a hit’ and What’s on Sydney called the show ‘exciting’ and ‘not to be missed.’

Click on the links below for media write ups about Guy's upcoming show:

ABC

Timeout

Liveguide

Pine Street’s Annual Outreach Exhibition 2011

Venue: Carriageworks Foyer, 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh (This venue is wheelchair accessible)
Exhibition Dates: 12 - 22 October
Official Launch: Thursday 13 October, 3.30pm
Opening Hours: Mon to Fri 9am - 5pm; Sat 9am - 1pm

Join us at Carriageworks for the launch of our annual Outreach Exhibition. The City of Sydney’s Councillor Phillip Black will be officially opening the show on 13 October at 3.30pm.

Featuring works produced in Pine Street’s 2011 Outreach programs, including 2D and 3D mediums - painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, mosaics, and jewellery.

Click here to download an invitation flyer

NSW CONSUMER ADVISORY GROUP
Mental Health Inc. presents

Recovery In Art

@ Pine Street Creative Arts Centre

Exhibition Dates: 20 Oct - 28 Oct 2011

Opening launch: Friday 21 October 12 noon
Launch RSVP to NSW CAG required
Email: info@nswcag.org.au or phone: 02 9332 0200

For more information go to www.nswcag.org.au

Opening Hrs: Mon - Fri 9.30am - 5.30pm; Sat 12pm - 3pm

Click here to download the invite flyer

Vijaya Sen, in association with The City of Sydney presents....

INSIDE OUTSIDE

An Exhibition of Paintings

4 - 15 October 2011

Launch: Saturday 8 October at 11:30am
RSVP: 0415 247 190 or 0405 221 853

Opening Hours: Monday - Friday 9:30am - 5:30pm
Saturday: 11am - 2pm

Vijaya and her artwork

Artist’s Statement

My childhood absorption in art led me to complete a BA (Visual Arts) at the Australian National University where I graduated in 1998. Since then I have pursued art, developing in a range of styles and materials and, when living in Canberra, regularly exhibiting my work in both group and solo exhibitions. This is my first solo exhibition in Sydney following my inclusion in a private exhibition in North Sydney last year.

At university and since graduation my output has included dry point etchings in some of which I responded to travels in India and Italy. A number of these were shown in a 2001 exhibition at the Megalo gallery. Other exhibitions also featured Australian and Parisian images in gouache and acrylic. In 2007 I won 2nd Prize at the City Heart art exhibition with a water colour portrait. I took part in a solo exhibition at the Theo Notaras Multicultural Building in 2009 and the Belconnen Community Centre’s Artist Proof group exhibition in the same year. In addition I was invited to submit work to a community exhibition at a Civic venue the following year.

Portraiture involving family and friends has been a constant in my art with some of my favourites being detailed pencil drawings. I also paint using acrylic medium, exploiting its potential for colour and immediacy; and more recently I have used oils. For my current exhibition, Inside Outside, I have concentrated on acrylic and water colour painting.
My works express my sense of selfhood, my cultural background and my natural surroundings. Some are highly symbolical of experiences and influences, allowing me to express personal and individual responses to life and art in a meaningful way.

Inside Outside expresses ideas, imaginings and feelings in relation to subjects ranging from people close to me, cultural influences, pets, places that include churches and beaches and, of course, nature.

Vijaya Sen October 2011

Annual Students' Exhibition

Part of the City of Sydney's Art & About Festival

16 - 28 September 2011

Official launch: Friday 16 September, 6pm.

We are very please to announce that the City of Sydney’s Lord Mayor, Clover Moore, will be opening the exhibition!

Come and celebrate Spring at our annual exhibition, featuring artworks from Pine Street programs run throughout the year - ceramics, porcelain, printmaking, silver jewellery, painting, drawing, stencil art and more.

All our Term 4 2010 and Term 1, 2 and 3 2011 students are invited to submit works created in our studios.

Click here to download the info letter and entry form (page 2 of the letter).

Click here to download the exhibition flyer

Market Street, Linocut by Mike Cook, Pine Street Printmaking Student

29 August - 10 September

Launch: Wednesday 31 August, 6.30pm - 9.00pm

Opening Hours: Monday - Friday 9:30am - 5:30pm, Saturday 11am - 4pm,
Closed Sunday

What are masks? Six artists from different and diverse backgrounds form together like Voltron in an attempt to peel back the concept, reveal the meanings, and expose the monsters and disfigured freaks that lurk behind them. Join the artists for opening night drinks on the 31st August - lucky door prize for the best mask!

Featured Artists:

Lewis McKeown
Bunkwaa
Christie Torrington
Zihni Chirali
Smeooze
Sytak
Tamara Killick

Click here for the exhibition press kit

Tamara Killick

Christie Torrington

Lewis McKeown

"Uncivilised Scenes"

40 Photographs by Sally McInerney

10 - 22 August

Launch: Thursday 11 August 6pm

Opening Hours: Monday - Friday 9:30am - 5:30pm, Saturday 11am - 4pm,
Closed Sunday

Click here for the invitation flyer

Sometimes the workings of Nature coalesce with signs of human industry so that a truce is formed between the two powers - the wild and the civilised - and a beautiful, transient third territory appears, a prospect of the world going on without us.

Archival pigment photographs on Canson Rag paper

AWY 087 Koorawatha 2009

Algal blooms Gunning 2004

White chair near Blacketts Creek 2004

Pine Street Printmakers

20 - 30 July 2001

An exhibition of works by Pine Street's printmaking students

Sydney Diaries: Urban Constructs

Exhibition: 1-18 July 2011

Opening night: Friday 1 July 6-8pm

Opening Times: Monday – Friday 9:30am - 5:30pm, Saturday 12:00am – 3:00pm

Featuring the work of: Jessica Angelina Rungkat, Christine Pizzuti & Aditi Bhonaghiri

Sydney Diaries: Urban Realities is an exhibition exploring Sydney through the eyes of three Sydney based photographers. With each artist focusing on their own individual personal interpretation and exploration of the city, Sydney is captured in dream like colours and in more classic black and white images.

As all three photographers were born overseas, namely in India, Italy and Indonesia the city of Sydney is captured through the multicultural eyes of the people that call this city home.

Please join us at Pine Street Gallery, 64 Pine Street, Chippendale for our opening night drinks on Friday 1 July 2011 from 6 - 8pm.

City of Sydney’s Pine Street Creative Arts Centre,
in partnership with the City's Sustainability Unit present....

WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY 2011

Children's Fine Art & Digital Art
Competition & Exhibition

'Forests: Nature At Your Service.’

3 – 16 June, Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm,

Saturday 11 June 11am - 4pm.

Official Launch: Pine Street Gallery Saturday 4 June from 1.30pm
Announcement of Winners at 2.00pm

Click here for 2011 Competition Flyer and Entry Form
Please note: Entries are now closed

The City of Sydney's Pine Street Creative Arts Centre plans specific events and exhibitions each year which provide opportunities for children to participate in and display their valuable and unique creative expressions to a wider community audience. The showcase children's event in the Pine Street calendar is the WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY Children's Art Competition and Exhibition.

Open to entries from children aged 5 - 12 years old, this annual competition and exhibition encourages environmental awareness through the arts, with the aim of educating children and their families to integrate sustainable actions into their everyday lives. World Environment Day is not just about recognizing our environment but also about encouraging people to 'think and be green'.

2011 COMPETITION THEME

World Environment Day is presented by the United Nations Environment Program.

The theme for 2011 is Forests: Nature At Your Service. Forests provide services that are essential to maintaining our quality of life. Even in urban areas, trees and other vegetation are vital in promoting biodiversity, regulating the effects of climate change, improving water quality, and maintaining soil fertility.

Create an artwork that reflects on this theme - you could even explore the concept of the 'urban forest', depicting the biodiversity of the City. You could create an artwork describing a local native species of plant, tree, animal, insect or bird that lives in your backyard or school yard, and how you share this space.

EXHIBITION LAUNCH

Artworks will be displayed and winners announced at the official exhibition launch on Saturday 4 June, from 1:30pm. Official announcement of winners will take place at 2:00pm. Pine Street Creative Arts Centre, first floor Gallery, 64 Pine St Chippendale. The exhibition will run from 3 – 12 June, Monday to Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm.

More Information

Phone (02) 9245 1503

Email Pine Street’s Children’s Program Coordinator, Bess O’Malley bomalley@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au

Avoid, Reuse, Recycle... find out how at www.zerowaste.org.au

Chippendale Weed Tour

Saturday 11 June, 11:30am

Meet in the Pine Street Gallery
(First Floor)

Join naturalist Diego Bonetto as he presents a 1.5 hour walk around Chippendale's urban wilderness. Chippendale Weed Tour will take audience along the edges, footpaths and in forgotten corners, presenting the botanical reality that surround us. Learn about uses and abuses related to the most downtrodden of all species: weeds.

This is a family friendly event, all welcome, easy stroll around the streets of Chippendale.

For the past 7 years Diego has been working with WeedyConnection, an environmental art campaign. The project involves an online resource launched in 2006, short documentary films, various site-specific installations in the form of Self-Guided Tours, interactive games on mobile platforms and Facebook interventions. www.weedyconnection.com

Image courtesy of
Stefano Ceretti

IDAHO the Exhibition 2011

FRAGILITY – Strength of Spirit

Commemorating International Day Against Homophobia

Exhibition dates: 17 to 28 of May 2011.
Launch: Tuesday 17 May, 6.00 to 8.30pm

Click here for the exhibition catalogue (8MB PDF)

The IDAHO Exhibition is a community development campaign created by IDAHO Sydney to provide an opportunity for people to articulate their responses to homophobia and violence. A call out was made to artists and students across the world to enter artworks that deal with homophobia/identity.

The 2011 exhibition and events will bring together the many different communities within New South Wales and the world, remembering the past and creating awareness for future.

Join us at the launch on Tuesday 17 May and witness the impressive choral skills of Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Choir!

For further information please feel free to contact Nick at IDAHO Sydney. Ph: 02 9557 8065 www.idahosydney.org

100 Voices -

Part of IDAHO Exhibition 2011

Saturday 21 May, 11am - 4pm

Pine Street Gallery

The Pride History Group is working to preserve and pass on Sydney’s lesbian, gay and transgender memories to another generation. 100 voices is the Group’s next big project. This project will make its large collection of oral history interviews available for public access in 2012.

Get involved! Interview, be interviewed, preserve the stories on Saturday 21 May at Pine Street Gallery.

Wear It Purple Day -

Part of IDAHO Exhibition 2011

Saturday 28 May, 11am - 3pm

Pine Street Gallery

IDAHO Sydney are proud to present a youth friendly day hosted by Wear It Purple, to support rainbow youth at risk.

Special performance by FLAMBA, commemorating International Day Against Homophobia.

For more information or to get involved visit
www.wearitpurple.org

Artwork by Ben Forrest

Click here for 2SER Interview about Wear It Purple Day

Waste Not

Community Film Screening

Monday 30 May, 6pm

Join us in Pine Street's gallery for a free community film screening. Waste Not is TEC's 25min film about recycling and green living - 'Highly Commended' international Greenflicks competition, Flickerfest; accepted for Cannes short films; and St Kilda and Rhodes Film Festivals.

Click here more information on the documentary, and to view the trailer

Chinese Traditional Furniture & Porcelainware

Last day is Saturday 14 May, 11am - 3pm

smart ARTS 2011

YOUTH ART EXHIBITION

1 - 30 April 2011

Join us for the opening night of the annual smart ARTS Festival 2011 (1- 15 April)! The smart ARTS exhibition will showcase artworks by young artists, 15 - 26 years of age from all across Sydney.

smart ARTS 2011 provides young Australians with an unique opportunity to freely express themselves through art. Support local emerging artists & creative young people by checking out this amazing show. The 2011 exhibition will feature painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, street art, textiles & much more!

The opening launch will include installations, live liquid-light & film projections from projection bombing tribe, Punk Monk Propaganda & live music from the amazing young musicians from Sydney Youth Orchestra. Attendees will also enjoy beautiful lanterns & awesome interactive art installations made by young people in pre-festival workshops at Pine Street Creative Arts Centre.

Come and get a rare glimpse into the creative and vibrant culture of Sydney’s youth!

To find our more about smart ARTS Festival 2011 & all of the awesome events happening between 1-15 April, click on the link below:

www.pinestreet.com.au/smartarts

Australians All

Part of the City of Sydney's Living in Harmony Festival

Featuring photography by Louise Whelan

Opening: Thursday 17 March, 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Runs until Saturday 26 March

From Icelanders in Epping to Hmongs in Liverpool, Louise Whelan's photographic exhibition AUSTRALIAN’S ALL reveals the richness and cultural diversity that is twenty first century Australia.

Whelan's over 50 vibrant images on display are a selection of the larger body of a work in progress – a photographic documentation of all ethnic communities in NSW.

Curator of photographs Alan Davies, of the State Library of NSW, believes that “these photographs will enable future generations of Australian to have a visual record of early 21st century Australia and to appreciate the contribution of their forebears to our changing culture.”

Opening Hours:

Weekdays: 9am - 5pm
Saturday 5th: 11am - 4pm
Saturday 12th: closed
Sundays & Public Holidays: closed

For more info:

www.domproust.com

or call 02 9245 1503

A selection of work by...

DOMINIC PROUST

1-14 March 2011

Official Launch Tuesday 1 March
6pm - 8.30pm

OPEN: Saturday 5 March, 11am - 4pm

NOT OPEN: Saturday 12 March

I like to keep my art focused on small events, the metamorphosis of insect larvae, the extinction of a seemingly pointless species, or the opening of a can of food. Usually I work on a miniature scale that suits these phenomenon and requires focused attention from the viewer. I favour traditional print media, primarily wood block, lino, and lithography. I also illustrate using watercolour and gouache.

I draw a lot of my inspiration from the Japanese zukushi prints. These prints particularized things as varied as animals, toys, and theatre characters. I'm also greatly inspired by the idea of a cabinet of curiosities. Cabinet of curiosities were kind of personal mini-museums. They contained objects from around the world that were yet to be identified or scientifically catalogued. Among the collected objects there could be fraudulent natural history specimens or true specimens believed to have come from mythical beasts. It is this blend of fact and fiction giving a sense of wonder, that I try to recreate in my work.

I have been exhibiting in group shows since 2007, this is my first solo exhibition.

KISS

expressions of love

19 - 26 February 2011

Official Launch: Sunday 20 February 11am - 4pm

Through a series of colour photographic images, taken with the aid of an interactive kissing frame installation, the gesture of kissing is embraced to transcend society’s boundaries of gender, age, race, colour and creed.

A selection of the KISS images will be exhibited at Pine Street's Gallery, to coincide with the New Mardi Gras Festival 2011. Visit the KISS booth at the Sydney Star Observer stall, then take a short stroll down to the gallery and you can pick up your photo memento from the Fair, as well as check out the exhibition!

The gallery is 5 minutes walk down Cleveland Street from Victoria Park, on the first floor of 64 Pine Street, Chippendale.

Curated by Nick Baldas

A joint initiative by by IDAHO Sydney and the City of Sydney’s Pine Street Creative Arts Center, Supported by Sydney Star Observer.

For More Info

Nick Baldas
P: 0420 422 611
E: nick@nickbaldas.com

Joint Exhibition

Jen Fitzell and Lynne Wallis

14 - 17 February

Official Launch Monday 14 February,
6pm - 8pm

Join us on Valentines Day 2011 to view the work of these two talented artists

Jen Fitzell has been drawing, printmaking and painting for many years. Her current work reflects her interest in live music, focusing on the communication between people that this creates.

Lynn Wallis has been drawing and painting throughout his life of playing music. His work reveals his interest in architecture, his late night walks home from work, and time spent living near the sea.

SHROUDED

“WE ALL HAVE THINGS WE HIDE BEHIND”

Launch: Tuesday 1 February at 6:30pm

Exhibition Dates: 1 - 12 February 2011

Monday – Friday 9:30am – 5:30pm
Saturdays 11am – 4pm

Emerging Sydney photographer BRENTON PARRY is set to launch his first solo photographic exhibition. Through his photography, the 37-year old Sydney-based graphic designer, blogger, aerial circus student and former lifesaver has created an intensely aesthetic look through a series of powerful images highlighting the deep insecurities people experience when they believe they are not quite good enough.

The exhibition explores Parry’s own personal struggle with being part of Sydney’s gay scene, although he is often perceived to be in the thick of it.

“My life has been one great journey – a chaotic collection of events. But all along this journey
I developed a love for photography, which centres on outer beauty and in particular portraiture photography, which centres on the often more hidden inner beauty. Shrouded has allowed me to bring both together”, says Parry.

Click here for the Press Release

For more information visit www.brentonparry.com

or contact Paul Slezak on
0411 225 691 or email paul@2dots.com.au

Love Thy Temple...
"The Goddess Within"

INTRODUCING… ANGELINA PAPAS

Inspirational pieces of Art & Poetry through the eyes of Spirit & Mythology

Who Am I as Woman in the contemporary world of today? Getting to know ‘Thy Self‘ through the cycles of nature & nurture. A journey of empowerment as a whole family is moved & challenged by a wife & mother’s quest for truth.

THIS EXHIBITION IS EVERY WOMAN’S STORY………

LAUNCH: TUESDAY 25 JANUARY, 6PM - 8.30PM
UNTIL SATURDAY 29 JANUARY 2011
MON - FRI 9.30AM - 5.30PM
SAT 11AM - 3PM

Click here to download the flyer (PGF File)

Sharing Our Stories: A Forum Celebrating Sexuality, Sex and Gender Diversity in Multicultural Communities

Click here to hear an interview on 2SER Radio with IDAHO Sydney representative Nick Baldas

When: Tuesday 14 December 5:30pm drinks for 6pm start
Concludes: 9:30pm
Cost: Free - Drinks and refreshments will be provided - please advise us if you have any access or dietary requirements
Where: NSW Teachers Federation, 37 Reservoir Street, Surry Hills
RSVP/Enquiries: Maria Chan on 02 9246 7312 or mchan@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au
How to get to this event: 3 minutes walk from Central Train Station

In partnership with a range of community organisations, the City of Sydney is hosting a free community forum to explore sexual and gender diversity in multicultural communities and to celebrate their journeys and strengths.

Join us for film screening of Tony Ayres’ China Dolls* and hear personal stories and experiences from a panel of speakers, including youth, family, artists, practitioners and service providers.

Visit the KISS booth at the forum to add your lips to the exhibition below!

Breaking the Silence

Not Violent, Not Silent Exhibition

17 - 28 November

Monday - Friday 9:30am - 5:30pm
Saturday 11:00am - 4:00pm

This moving selection of artwork and poetry has been created by public school students from across the Sydney Region and forms an important part of the Breaking the Silence in Schools Program.

Supported by Suzanne Grae in partnership with the White Ribbon Foundation, the program aims to educate students about violence against women and girls.

Opening: Wednesday 17 November
6:30pm to 8:00pm
Beverages & canapes will
be served on the night.

Click here to download the invite

DISPOSABLE

Nick Baldas

Exhibition dates: 3 - 12 November 2010
Meet the artist - Saturday 6 November 11am - 4pm

In today’s western world, we are moving at an ever increasing pace. We are constantly upgrading our lifestyles and supersizing what we produce, eat, think and feel… disposing of everything that we deem no longer nourishes our mind, body or spirit.

Nick’s new exhibition DISPOSABLE explores the journey of organic objects that have ‘expired’. It highlights the delicate balance between society and the physical world, by recycling unwanted materials and thoughts.

Nick new exhibition hopes to inspire the reuse of the found object and unwanted materials, creating desirable objects that question, confront and reflect the western view of materialism.

For more information contact:

Nick Baldas
Ph: 02 9557 8065
E: nick@nickbaldas.com
w: www.nickbaldas.com

KISS

Do you believe in Truth, Love and Beauty? If you do be part of the KISS exhibition 2011!

Visit Pine Street Gallery on Saturday 6 November between 11am and 4pm and have your photo taken for the exhibition in February 2011.

As a ‘Thank You’, you will be able to pick up a hard copy of the image during the 2011 exhibition being held as part of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival. Just drop into the gallery during Fair Day, Sunday 20 February 2011, and pick up your 'kiss' momento.

The exhibition will also travel to Customs House Library for International Day Against Homophobia 2011

La Catrina’

Photographic Exhibition by Robert Duran

Opening night gala - Wednesday 20 October, 6:00pm

Exhibition Dates: 18 - 29 October
Opening hours: Monday - Friday, 9am - 6pm

Opening by CARLOS BARRIOS, Plein Air Art Prize Finalist Parliament House 2010, Blake Prize Finalist 2005, 2007, Sulman Prize Finalist 2005. Special performance by Miss Burlesque Australia runner up Briana Bluebell!

Combining his Mexican heritage, architectural background and passion for photography, Roberto Duran is one artist you can rely on for a consistently edgy and unusual approach to photography.

His most recent collection of artworks explores the many interpretations of the Mexican Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) goddess ‘La Catrina.’ Some see her as ugly, others beautiful and others mysterious, strange and interesting.

Duran has sourced make-up artists, burlesque performers and body painters using their skills to create a collection of images that capture the essence of the festival that is celebrated to honor deceased loved ones. It may sound gloomy or morbid however it’s a very cheerful and colorful holiday.

Click here for invitation flyer

For further enquiries please contact

Roberto Duran on: 043131 2344

Email: robertogduran@gmail.com

http://lacatrina.redbubble.com

Pine Street 's Annual Students' Exhibition

Launch: Friday 24 September, 6:30pm

The Exhibition will run until Thursday 7 October

Come and help us celebrate the creative talents of the students who are part of the Pine Street community – you may even be inspired to sign up for a class yourself! The exhibition will feature a stunning display of artworks from the programs we have run throughout the year including digital art, ceramics, printmaking, silver jewellery, sculpture, painting, drawing, stencil art and more.

Students' who were enrolled in 2010 classes are eligible to submit works for the exhibition. Click here for entry details and forms.

Students must collect works on Friday 8 October

peepshow

Launch: Wednesday 1 September, 6.00pm -

Exhibition Dates: 31 August - 5 September

Peepshow will feature affordable paintings, drawings & works on paper made by emerging artists Lisa Lapointe, Melissa Hulme, Christie Torrington, & Melanie Williams. In the peepshow you will find a selection of beautiful & eclectic pieces that are sure to ignite your senses & inflame your sensibilities - don't blink or you’ll miss it! Click here for more info about the artists

Join the artists for opening night drinks at the launch of ‘Peepshow’ on Wednesday 1st of September, 6pm - 9pm. Exhibition concludes on the 5 September 2010. All are welcome, no RSVP required.

Pine Street Gallery, 64 Pine St Chippendale, NSW 2008
For more info, call (02) 9245 1503 or 0409 229 890
Gallery Hours: Mon - Fri 9am - 6pm, Sat: 11am - 5pm, Sun: closed

MyPlace_MyFace

Community Photo Exhibition

Launch: Tuesday 17 August, 6:30pm

First Floor Gallery, 64 Pine Street, Chippendale

The Exhibition will run until 28 August

A joint initiative of the City of Sydney’s Pine Street Creative Arts Centre and Homelessness Unit and Australian Centre for Photography

This exhibition features the 30 finalists in the MyPlace_MyFace photographic competition, which invited entries from amateur photographers, regardless of age or skill level. It also aimed to reach out to people who are experiencing or have experienced homelessness, alongside people who have a secure place to live. Click here for more info about the competition.

Pine Street & HopeStreet

Outreach Exhibition

Launch: 19 August, 3:30pm

The Exhibition will run until 9 September

Presented by the City of Sydney’s Pine Street Creative Arts Centre and HopeStreet Urban Compassion in association with Carriageworks

Carriageworks Foyer, 245 Wilson Street (corner Codrington Street), Eveleigh

This joint art exhibition features works from Pine Street’s and HopeStreet’s Outreach programs, with art works created by some of the most marginalised people in our community. This exhibition includes both 2D and 3D mediums, representing painting and drawing, printmaking, ceramics, mosaics and jewellery.

Five Actors - a pound of dogs

An original creation by Fine Line Collective

Nightly Performances 7:30pm - 8:45pm
Thurs 9th - Sat 11th Sept
Thurs 16th - Sat 18th Sept

To reserve places for Walk me! at Pine Street Creative Arts Centre Gallery, text or call 0423 638 289 with your name, the number of seats, the date you'd like to attend, a phone contact and an email contact. Your places will be confirmed
via email.

Entry is by donation. Places are limited so please text with cancellations or changes.

Original songs and stories with both bark and bite, told with masterful physical characterization.

"A curious and comic canine look at humankind"
- Shon Dale-Jones, Hoipolloi Theatre Co.

Chinese Painting & Calligraphy Exhibition

Official Opening Saturday 24 July, 10:30am - 4:00pm

Open on Monday 26 July 9:30am - 5:30pm

Contact Julie for more info: 0405 329 728

Soul Survivors

Portrait Series of Aboriginal, African-American and American Activists

by Kerry Awia Markey

3 - 14 July

Opening 2pm, Sat July 3

The Usual Suspect

New works by Rose Daridis

17 - 30 May 2010
Opening: Wed 19 May, 6pm - 9pm

For more info contact:
0421 33 99 30 or 02 9245 1503

or email: rosedaridis@y7mail.com
www.rosedaridis.com.au

Pine Street Mural Project

Saturday 27 March 2010 in the Basketball Courts @ Pine Street

Click here to view a film of the workshop

Thanks to funding from the City of Sydney's Local Action Plans (LAPS), the skills of the workshop facilitators and commitment from a team of volunteers, Pine Street Creative Arts Centre's old, worn out mural had a major facelift last month. 15 Pine Street students, their friends and relatives gave up an entire Saturday painting three of the four sections of the new mural - a native garden panel, a stencil art panel and a section for Pine Street/smARTarts Youth Festival logos. The fourth, Indigenous themed panel was painted on panels at workshops facilitated by Elizabeth Rooney at Glebe Youth Services. A number of kids and adults took part in the design and painting of these panels, which were then installed on site. The results are stunning! The fact that there has not been a single tag or piece of graffiti added over the last month reflect that quality, community driven murals are respected and tend not be get vandalised.

Comment from a volunteer on the day, as featured in the April CEO Update:

I had a wonderful day working as a volunteer with a group of other artists on the Pine Street Mural workshop. How incredible would it be if every suburb in Sydney had a creative arts centre like Pine Street. It is a truly inspiring and unique artistic network

Whole Mural BEFORE

Whole Mural AFTER

First section BEFORE

First section AFTER

Second section BEFORE

Second section AFTER

Third section BEFORE

Third section BEFORE

Fourth section BEFORE

Fourth section AFTER

YOUTH ART EXHIBITION

Wednesday 7 April - Friday 30 April

Opening night: Wednesday 7 April 6:30pm – 8:30pm

@ Pine Street, First Floor Gallery

Prior to the big smARTarts festival day on the 17 April, you can celebrate Youth Week 2010 by joining us at the smARTarts youth art exhibition opening launch!

The exhibition showcases the best of our local emerging artists. Come & meet the artists & pick up some affordable art! All proceeds go to artists, no commissions charged.

For more info about the smARTarts Festival, click here!

Or contact contact Christie or Tamara on:
9245 1503 or email: ctorrington@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au

Glebe Mural Project

Part of the City of Sydney's Living in Harmony Festival

OFFICIAL LAUNCH!

Saturday 24 April 12:30pm

Peter Forsyth Auditorium

Corner of Francis & Franklyn Sts, Glebe

 

Click here for the Invite Flyer

Click here to see a utube video about the project

To commemorate this year's Festival, Glebe community members have painted a mural promoting harmony and diversity inside the Peter Forsyth Auditorium. Come along to the mural launch and see a showcase of paintings from the workshops.

The project consisted of a series of 10 workshops, facilitated by artists from Pine Street Creative Art Centre, and the results are stunning.

Come along to the launch and see for yourself! BBQ lunch provided.

Art Treasures of the KGV Painting Class

Tuesday 23 February - Thursday 4 March

Cine Barrio & MAWAI presents a

3 Wise Men Event

Sunday 10 January from 6 - 9pm

Free Public Screening of the award winning film Viva Cuba!

Basketball courts, Pine Street Creative Arts Centre, 64 Pine Street Chippendale.

For more info call Pilar Angon on 0406 055 485 or email pangonu@yahoo.com.mx

Pine Street's Annual Tutors' Exhibition

11 - 19 December 2009

Launch: Friday 11 December
6:00pm - 8:30pm

Please join us at the opening of our annual Tutors' Exhibition, which celebrates the creativity and skills of the artists teaching at the Centre.

The exhibition will feature an inspiring display of beautiful artworks across the disciplines of ceramics, printmaking, silver jewellery, sculpture, painting, drawing, stencil art and more.

Come and enjoy the art, and pick up some creative gift ideas for Christmas!

Click here to download the invitation

new work - alexandra sideris

25 November - 7 December 2009

Launch: Wednesday 25 November

6:00pm - 9:00pm

The exhibition contains recent works on paper and a new jewellery collection. The 2D works are an exploration of the every day including street furniture and a series of images inspired by nature, combining a variety of media including gouache and collage. The new jewellery collection is made from handworked leather, sterling silver, semi precious stones and found objects, containing contemporary elements combined with a style reminiscent of the 1970s.

Multicultural Art Competition

2009 – Australian Identity?!

4 - 21 November 2009

First Prize 2009 - Night Drivers by Michael Fairweather

Running for the second year, the City’s Multicultural Art Competition 2009 aims to showcase illustrative artworks that tell a story and encapsulate the City’s cultural diversity.

The competition opened on Monday 20 July 2009 and closed on Monday 31 August 2009. A total of 96 artworks entered the competition, with artists from within the City of Sydney, metropolitan Sydney and as far away as Indonesia and Russia.

This year’s theme was - Australian Identity?!

The 2009 Multicultural Art Competition called on artists to explore what contemporary Australia means to them. From works presenting scenes of cultural diversity in everyday local communities to national icons such as the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Three Sisters, each of this year’s ten finalists drew inspiration from their own experiences of Australian life.

Exhibition Launch

The Launch of the exhibition for the 2009 Multicultural Art Competition was held on Saturday 17 August at Custom’s House at 12pm. Over 160 people attended the launch, where the Deputy Lord Mayor, Councillor Phillip Black, and Sylvia Ross, the Head of the School of Art at the College of Fine Arts, officially announced the finalists and major prize winners.

Multicultural Art Competition 2009 Winners

First Prize, Michael Fairweather, $2,000 cash prize
Second Prize, Richard Paik, $1,000 cash prize
Third Prize, Adriano Toniolo, $500 cash prize
Highly Commended, Amazing the Three Sisters by Yue Yoo Wang, $100 cash prize
Highly Commended, “Taken" - But Not Forgotten! Aboriginality- An Identity by Kathryn Dodd Farrawell, $100 cash prize
Highly Commended, Australians Enrich Each Other by Julia Lesiuk Sawicki, $100 cash prize
Highly Commended, Colourful Australia by Craig Andrews, $100 cash prize
Highly Commended, Building Together by Alexis Andrea Paraan, $100 cash prize
Highly Commended, Building Together by Full of Colour, Full of Culture by Fang Min Wu, $100 cash prize
Highly Commended, Celebrating Diversity by Stephanie Donnelly, $100 cash prize.
Winning Entries

Official Exhibition

Customs House, Circular Quay
When: Saturday 17 October – Friday 30 October 2009
Where: Customs House Library, Level 1, 31 Alfred Street, Circular Quay

Travelling Exhibition

Pine Street Gallery
When: Wednesday 4 November – Saturday 21 November 2009
Where: Pine Street Creative Arts Centre,
Level 1, 64 Pine Street, Chippendale

More Information

For further information contact:

Susana Ng
Manager, Social Planning, Access and Community Development
Tel: 02 9246 7874
Email: sng@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au

Paul Ortega
Coordinator-Multicultural Art Competition
Tel: 02 9265 9033
Email: portega@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au

urban art agenda

1- 22 October 2009

Inspired by New York graffiti of the 1980s, stencil art is a form of street art (or urban art) which has surfaced all over the globe in the last two decades.

As part of the City of Sydney’s Art & About program, Pine Street Creative Arts Centre will celebrate Urban Art Agenda #3. Join us to be part of the action!

Urban Art Agenda #3 is a global & local street art festival with the following urban arts events happening throughout October.

Click here for PDF Invitation

Click here for more info on Art & About

Click here for more info on Urban Art Agenda

Thursday, 1 October

Urban Art Agenda Gallery Exhibition Launch

6:00pm - 9:00pm @ Pine Street Gallery

Local & International Urban Art Exhibition Opening night & launch

Tuesday, 6 October

STENCIL ART & DIY MASTERCLASS

6.30pm - 8.45pm @ Darlington Activity Centre, cnr of Ivy & Shepherd Streets in Darlington

Learn about Stencil Art & why it has taken the world by storm! You can make stickers, paste-up’s, patches, t-shirts – whatever! It’s up to you & your DIY skills! Learn a range of DIY techniques with all materials provided. Bookings are essential (no thongs or open toed footwear at workshop). max 12 students.

$25 per person - Bookings essential: Phone 9245 1503 or email ctorrington@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au

Saturday, 17 October

Guided Street Art Tour - St Peters - Enmore - Newtown

1:00pm - 2.30pm Meet @ Mays Lane, St Peters
with Chris Tamm, Stencil & Street Artist (TBC)

$5 per person - Bookings essential: Phone 9245 1503 or email ctorrington@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au

Sunday, 11 October

STENCIL ART FORUM & MASTERCLASS: "Is it art or is it Art?"

1.00pm - 4.30pm @ Museum of Contemporary Art

Find out more about the phenomenon of stencil art as a contemporary art form. Learn from and interact with practicing stencil artists with a broad range of styles, approaches and experiences. A public forum about stencil art led by artists and curators.

Urban Art Agenda curator JD Mittman will present a fascinating insight into the gallery exhibition and will discuss the history of street art with a special focus on stencil art.

Includes screening of Taryne Laffar’s short film Who Paintin Dis Wandjina? and stencil activities.

Cost: $20/ 15 MCA Members & concessions
Bookings essential: jo.daniell@mca.com.au

For more info phone 9245 1503 or email ctorrington@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au

Annual Pine Street Students’ Exhibition

Pine Street Gallery
Launch: Friday 25 September at 6:00pm

Official Speaker: Lord Major Clover Moore

Exhibition open from Monday 21 to Tuesday 29 September
Monday - Friday 9:30am to 5:30pm, Saturday 11:00am - 4:00pm

Come and help us celebrate the creative talents of the students who are part of the Pine Street community. The exhibition will featuring an inspiring display of beautiful artworks from the programs we have run throughout the year including ceramics, printmaking, silver jewellery, sculpture, painting, drawing, stencil art and more. We will also be demonstrating the amazing art of Raku firing in our outdoor kiln. Come and witness this extraordinary process where heat and fire produce results which cannot be predicted!

Click here to download complete Invitation

Annual Pine Street Outreach Exhibition

CARRIAGEWORKS FOYER
245 Wilson St (Cnr Codrington St), Eveleigh
Launch: Thursday 3 September at 3.30pm

Official Speaker: Deputy Lord Major Marcelle Hoff

Exhibition open from Wednesday 2 to Saturday 12 September
Monday - Friday 9:00am to 5:00pm, Saturday 9:00am - 1:00pm

This group exhibition will showcase an impressive range of 2D and 3D works created throughout the year by Pine Street’s Outreach program participants. Exhibiting groups include Bloke’s Business, The Bridge, CARITAS, Glebe House, Glebe Art Group, Guthrie House, House With No Steps, Northcott Ceramics, Northcott Painting & Drawing, Open Access Ceramics, Open Access Charcoal Drawing, Ozanam Learning Centre, Women & Families Affected by HIV

Click here to download complete Invitation

Christie Torrington

New Works : 2009 1 – 13 September 2009

Pine Street Gallery
Launch: Thursday 3rd September, 6:00pm – 9:00pm

Torrington’s latest exhibition explores the depth of loneliness & emptiness and its relation to inanimate objects. Combining her refined artistic sensibilities, powerful, razor-sharp fine art techniques and intensity of concept this exhibition is filled with a dark reluctance and a unique haunting grace.

“Memory is your image of perfection” – Barbara Kruger

Reminiscent of Beardsley’s inks, Torrington takes a measure of cult pop-horror and vamps it into a dark collection of special treasures.

Like looking in a long lost dead grandmas jewellery box and finding the bones of small birds, the intellectual warmth and depth of feeling of this show pushes you to question your belief in the closeness of material objects and your own personal distance to others. Our memories are defined by the collections of objects that make up our lives. These objects are so ingrained in the human psyche that they have become symbols of the domestic ideal.

Never before has a visual art opened so wide, such a fragile chasm.

Gallery Hours: Mon – Fri: 9.30am – 6.00pm. Saturday 11.00am – 4.00pm, Sunday: by appointment only, ph: 0409 229 890.

Image at left: chimera, ink on paper, 2009
www.myspace.com/christietorrington   
 
Click here to download complete Invitation

2009 Sydney, City of Villages Exhibition and Prize

14 July - 3 August 2009

City of Sydney and Pine Street Creative Arts Centre, in partnership with JCDecaux, are proud to support local artists through presenting the 2009 Sydney, City of Villages Exhibition and Prize.  

Australian artists working in the mediums of painting, printmaking, drawing and mixed media were invited to submit to Sydney, City of Villages. 

The works by ten selected finalists have been reproduced as giant posters and are currently exhibited in JCDecaux street furniture sites (14 July - 10 August 2009) and in a gallery exhibition at Pine Street Creative Arts Centre, Chippendale (14 July - 3 August 2009).

Urban Compassion Art Exhibition

Presented by HOPESTREET – Urban Compassion, City of Sydney’s Pine Street Creative Arts Centre and Homelessness Unit in Association with Carriageworks

Exhibition Dates: 1 - 11 JULY 2009

Official Launch by Deputy Lord Mayor, Cr Marcelle Hoff

1 July at 10:00am

Carriageworks Foyer, 245 Wilson Street (Corner of Codrington Street), Eveleigh. This venue is wheelchair accessible

Red Roofs by Tania

Mattress on Floor by A.J.

Chalmers Street by Night by Steve

In response to Local Action Plan Community Requests, this exhibition of paintings and photographs by people who are homeless in the city reflect the urban reality and issues that affect many Sydney-siders living on our streets. The exhibition showcases paintings produced by participants in HopeStreet’s Woolloomooloo art program, with the photographic aspect being the result of a City of Sydney project entitled “Through Your Eyes".

HopeStreet’s values of justice, compassion and hope are ever-present in the artworks.

To view the photo gallery and short documentary film about the photographic project, please go to: http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/galleries/ThroughYourEyes

To find out more about HOPESTREET – Urban Compassion, please go to: http://www.hopestreet.org.au/

Launch: 2 July 6pm

Pine Street Gallery, 1st Floor, 64 Pine Street Chippendale

Official Speaker: Sandra Williams, Sydney artist and printmaker who specialises in safer printmaking techniques, as does Pine Street Print Studio.

http://sandrawilliams.id.au/

'Three Faces of Eve'

Launch: Friday 19 June, 7:00pm - 8:45pm

Exhibition Dates: 19 - 29 June 2009

Pine Street Gallery, 1st Floor, 64 Pine Street Chippendale

This group exhibition explores the art expression of three women experiencing new and separate journeys. A Friend, Mother and Grandmother bring together varied works using a range of techniques and mediums. 'Three Faces of Eve' is a celebration of art and life.

City of Sydney’s Pine Street Creative Arts Centre,
in partnership with the City's Waste Education Team and Community Gardens Unit present....

IDAHO

The Exhibition

for INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST HOMOPHOBIA

Launch: Saturday 16 May 2009

12pm – 3pm

Film by Inga Ting

IDAHO on youtube

TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

Click here to register for workshops or submit an artwork

Click here for the Idaho blog

Living in Harmony Festival

19 March 2009 – 30 April

Youth in Harmony Photographic Exhibition Launch

Date: Wednesday, 22 April 2009
Time: 6:30pm for a 7pm start
Venue: Pine Street Creative Arts Centre, 64 Pine Street, Chippendale

The Youth in Harmony Photographic Exhibition showcases artworks by youth from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds participating in the Youth in Harmony Photographic Program. The Program provided a forum for youth to express themselves, promote dialogue on harmony and foster awareness, acceptance and greater inclusion by challenging stereotypes of refugee and asylum seeker youth.

To download the invitation flyer please click here

Bookings/ Enquiries: Larisa Asimus on 9319 0288
E-mail: cssyouth@eccnsw.org.au

Related Websites

Official Website
http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/WhatsOn

smARTarts 2009

YOUTH ART EXHIBITION: 25 March - 18 April

Opening: Wednesday 25 March 6 – 9pm
Gallery Hours: Mon – Fri: 9am - 6pm, Sat: 11 am – 4 pm Sun: Closed

Click here for full Festival Event Schedule

The smARTarts exhibition showcases the best of our local emerging young artists. Come and meet the artists and pick up some affordable art! Join us for the opening night launch at Pine Street Gallery, Chippendale. All proceeds go to artists, no commissions charged.

This is a photographic exhibition and peace education forum inspired by the 35 million people who took to the streets in Febuary 2003 to protest the impending war in Iraq. Our elected leaders refused to listen and the war began. To date, more than one million people have died. This exhibition will feature photographs of the 2003 demonstrations, culminating in an art auction. Proceeds of the auction will go to the Australian Red Cross to help fund their ongoing work in Iraq, Sydney Stop the War Coalition and the International Trade Union Conference in Iraq.

As well as the art auction, there will also be live music, film screenings, a Gleebooks stall and refreshments.

Performers

Hailing from nearby Newtown, Nimeo is a four piece rock/swing sound combining vocals, guitar, saxaphone bass and drums. The sound is an upbeat, hi energy mix. Their influences draw from Van Morrison, The Doors, Ani Difranco, Tom Waits and Noir Desir.

Sydney based African-style drumming group girlz@play bring to you high-energy rhythms and funky toe-tapping groves. girlz@play members have been performing and drumming up smiles on the streets, festivals and music venues around Sydney and beyond for the past 15 years. www.myspace.com/girlzplay

A Chorus of Women came into being when 150 women filled the Australian Parliament with the song "Lament" on 18 March 2003, the day Australia's intention to invade Iraq was announced.

Click here for PDF of Invitation Postcard

To view the inspiring photographs go to: http://www.worldsaidno.org/nowar.htm

For more information go to: www.worldsaidno.org

Pine Street End of Year Students' Exhibition

3 – 17 December 2008

Opening Night Friday 5 December 6:00 - 9:00pm

Without Boundaries

an exhibition of artists' books

Official opening by noted printmaker, book artist and lecturer Dianne Fogwell. All welcome!

Exhibition dates: 20 - 30 November
Opening Hours: Monday to Sunday 10:00am - 5:00pm

This exhibition of 75 artworks includes a diversity of approaches - artists’ books, book objects, altered books and other book-related artforms. More than fifty artists have responded to the opportunity to freely apply a wide range of techniques from varied artistic backgrounds encompassing printmaking, papermaking, bookbinding, sculpture, installation, poetry, photography, ceramics and textiles.

Koori Art Expressions - The Apology: first steps

Sydney Regional Students' Art Exhibition

3 - 15 November

Opening Tuesday 4 November 6.00pm to 7.30pm

Aboriginal Education is everybody’s business

A satellite event at the Carriage Works, 245 Wilson Street (Corner of Codrington Street ), Eveleigh. This venue is wheelchair accessible.

This exhibition is part of Bakehouse - an inclusive arts event. These joint exhibitions will display works produced over the last 12 months and will cover both 2D and 3D mediums, representing painting and drawing, printmaking, ceramics, mosaics and jewellery.

The works in the Outreach Exhibition are created by people with mental and physical disabilities, people from non-English speaking backgrounds, people who are homeless, people recovering from addiction, and those leaving rehabilitation and correctional centres. Participants in the exhibition will be representing local communities and many of our partner organisations including: The Boarding House Project, The Bridge, CARITAS, Connections, House With No Steps, Hope Street, Open Access Ceramics, Northcott Art Group, Glebe House and Guthrie House.

For more information go to:

http://www.carriageworks.com.au/whats_on

www.slicedbreadattraction.org.au

The “Fridaze” Exhibition is a compilation of selected works by a collective of artists that meet weekly to create and explore new materials and processes, alongside tutors from Pine Street.

This program is a partnership between Accessible Arts, the peak NSW body for Arts and Disability and Pine Street Creative Arts Centre. This program aims to strengthen and support the various and individual creative voices of artists with a disability.

For more information go to: http://aarts.net.au/projects/studio-project/

PEEPSHOW: Chippendale... behind closed doors

Sunday 19 October

An interactive, urban safari that exposes the secrets behind closed doors of the creative industries, the communities and the people that inhabit the suburb of Chippendale.

Pine Street is very excited to be collaborating with Queen Street Studios and Art & About this year.

What is PEEPSHOW? Essentially its an “open day” for visitors to interact with the Chippendale community through guided tours, open studios, product sampling, events, parties, performances and other cultural activities. It aims to raise awareness of the creative goods and services available in Chippendale and to showcase Chippendale's unique culture and people. Queen Street Studios are taking members of the public on chaperoned tours on an “open day”, where visitors will be able to interact with the Chippendale community through guided tours, open studios, product sampling, events, parties, performances and other cultural activities.

As part of the tour, visitors will come to Pine Street to explore and enjoy our ST2K Street Art Festival, which promises to be one of the events of the year!

For more information go to:

www.artandabout.com.au

http://www.queenstreetstudio.com/events.html

Celebrating Reconciliation Week, this exhibition features photographs taken at Redfern Community Centre on National Apology Day, 13 February 2008. The young photographers, aged between 5 and 22, successfully captured the range of emotions expressed on the day when Prime Minister Rudd said sorry to the stolen generations of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This is an exhibition you should not miss. Pine Street Creative Arts Centre and Redfern Community Centre were the originating collaborators on this Exhibiton.

For more information go to http://www.sydneychildrensfestival.com/

Sydney Children's Festival was launched on Tuesday 16 September by the new NSW Premier and Arts Minister, Nathan Rees. Premier Rees joined a crowd of hundreds of children from local primary school St Mary's Erskineville who previewed highlights of the festival, including an exhibition presented by Pine Street Creative Arts Centre. Featuring over 70 artworks made by children aged 5 - 12 years old, 'Why I Love Nature' is an art exhibition by children, for children. The original Pine Street exhibition coincided with World Environment Day earlier this year, the result of a nationwide art competition to encourage environmental awareness, with the aim of educating children and their families to integrate sustainable actions in their everyday lives. The artworks include mosaics, sculptures, mobiles, and a big model of a sustainable town made from recycled materials.

For more information go to: http://www.sydneychildrensfestival.com/

Ebb and Flow - Annual Tutors Exhibition

Opening 6:00pm Fri 19 Sept

Exhibition dates: 19 - 27 September

Come and celebrate Spring and witness the amazing talents of our panel of artists at our Annual Tutor's Exhibition.

2D and 3D works will be on display across the mediums of silver and beaded jewellery, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, stencil art, painting and drawing. Pick up some stunning original artwork or jewellery for yourself or as a present!

This exhibition, by artist and Pine Street staff member Alexandra Sideris, is made up of recent works on paper and handcrafted jewellery. The work is a representational series of geographical abstractions using pastel, gouache, pen and graphite on paper and semi precious stones, leather and sterling silver to construct the jewellery.

"Through Your Eyes" Exhibition

Opening Night: Thursday 24 April 6pm

Exhibition Dates: Thursday 24 April - Saturday 3 May

1st floor, 64 Pine Street Chippendale

This photographic exhibition is the end result of a joint project between the City of Sydney's Homelessness section, Pine Street Creative Arts Centre and people who are homeless in the City. The theme was "What does where you live mean to you?" Participants captured photographic images that reflect what being homeless means to them. A selection of the photographs are featured in this exhibition as well as a powerful short documentary film about the project.

Please click this link to view the photo gallery and short documentary film about the project.

http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/galleries/ThroughYourEyes