NUDES ON TAP 2018 – PHOTOGRAPHIC ART PRIZE in conjunction with HEADON PHOTO FESTIVAL 14-20 MAY. Presentations Saturday 19 May 5pm.

Congratulations to Andrea Westcott winning 1st prize judges Choice in the NUDES ON TAP.

Thank you to our special judge SIMONE PLANT, founder & CEO of MAISON ROUGE a place where curious minds come to create.

‘Scum – A Self Portrait’ . by Andrea Westcott

 

Congratulations to Rod Capon, 1st Prize Peoples Choice with his artwork ‘Burning Desire’

Rod has won an exhibition in Gallery 2. Keep your eye out for this fabulous photographer.

 

 

 

NUDES ON TAP IS AN ANNUAL PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION

IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE HEADON PHOTO FESTIVAL EVERY MAY

THE EXHIBITION IS NOW OVER UNTIL NEXT MAY 2019

 

 

APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE BELOW

No need to preregister, just bring your work by the due date between 12-6pm. All works guaranteed to be hung.

 

 

THE REAL REFUSE – ARTWORKS NOT SELECTED FOR THE ARCHIBALD, WYNNE & SULMAN 2018 Saturday 26 May 5pm! Prizes to be won.

For the past 22 years TAP Gallery has hosted the REAL REFUSES

Not every one can get hung in the AGNSW but you can be hung at TAP GALLERY.

If we encourage each other every year one of us will get hung at some time in our artistic life.

Being hung in the AGNSW is a prestigious achievement. Never give up!!

2018 Archibald Prize

Calling all artists not selected for the ARCHIBALD, WYNNE & SULMAN – you are invited to submit your work for THE 22ND REAL REFUSES! Presentations Sat 26 May 5pm

Calling all artists not selected for the ARCHIBALD, WYNNE & SULMAN – you are invited to submit your work for THE 22ND REAL REFUSES! Presentations Sat 26 May 5pm

 

Real Refuses:

THE DEMOCRATIC ARCHIBALD PRIZE !

ALL WORKS GUARANTEED TO BE HUNG!!

Saturday 26 May marks the 22nd Anniversary of Australia’s largest Art “non” Event – Real Refuses – where artists not selected for the ARCHIBALD, WYNNE, SULMAN, and DOUG MORAN Art Prizes exhibit their work at TAP Gallery in Darlinghurst to win the popular “People’s Choice Award”, selected by the public on the night.

Real Refuses has become firmly established as part of the “Archibald Season”.

While it is an exhibition of rejected artwork, it is much more than that…

It is about giving a fair go to all the artists involved in Australia’s largest art events.

Not everyone can win an Archibald but here everyone can exhibit along side their peers. (You’ll find past winners of Australia’s biggest art prizes here as well!)

In the past an extraordinary range of subjects have been shown, from musicians, actors, politicians including the NSW Premier, Mayor of Willoughby, Anthony Mundeen, Tony Abbott, Leo Sawyer, the then Prime Minister John Howard, Madame Lash, Elizabeth Cummings, Professor Bruce James Brew, and Jaiwei, (a winner of the Sulman.)

We can’t wait to see the works not selected this year!

TAP GALLERY, 259 Riley St Surry Hills (please note we have moved)

GALA OPENING: Saturday 26 May 5-8pm 2018

(includes the “People’s Choice Award”)

Prizes to be won!

ON VIEW  20 JULY – 17 AUGUST, 12-6pm Daily

CONTACT: Lesley Dimmick, TAP GALLERY on 02 9361 0440.

LUDLITES group photography exhibition in conjunction with the HEADON photo Festival.

LUDLITES group photography exhibition in conjunction with the HEADON photo Festival.

OFFICIAL FUNCTION SATURDAY 5TH MAY 5-7PM

ON VIEW DAILY 1-13 MAY

LUDLITES group photography exhibition - Tap Gallery - circular composition with air bubbles and landscape

 

LUDLITES group photography exhibition.

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Email: info@tapgallery.org.au * Tel: 0400610440 .
Level 1, 259 Riley St, Surry Hills NSW 2010

LESLEY DIMMICK – ‘DRIVE’ Artist Talk 4pm Saturday 21st April. Exhibition on view 11-22 April daily 12-6pm

Artist Talk 4pm Saturday 21st April

All welcome to share drinks & food

and the fabulous Vincent Van Gogh animated movie:

“LOVING VINCENT”

 

DRIVE may be entered along the middle lines of a social sculpture that of a continuous work that contains many disparate components, with a multiplicity of sensational aspects within Lesley Dimmick’s life, held with a unity of purpose.  Lesley’s relation to art – and to life – is one of dynamic assimilation.  It presents us with a series of dialogic events and puts us on the road to the heart of the artist as field worker, wanderer who encounters what is happening and keeps a record on canvas.

 

LESLEY      The real theme is the drive to paint.  This is something that we all have in us, but this is something that has been in my mind very early on, in my childhood, the dream of being a successful artist, painter. 

 

In DRIVE we have a presentation of a freighted discourse of a woman whose character has depended on what is happening, on the success and the access to those artists, painters, musicians, poets, actors, photographers, performers, singers, playwrights, composers, songwriters, digital artists, sound artist, video and film-makers, inventors, comedians, magicians, and the many varieties of observers, administrators, collectors, curators, directors and producers etc. she deals with everyday. 

 

LESLEY      The wonderful thing about being an artist is that it’s a profession to know the future but we can’t, or not that we want to know but it  fascinates us in what is going to occur, what adventures are we going to have?    But you have to be on the road, and you have to have the drive to get there.   The road is a real important thing for many artists who like to travel and see other things, view the world, see the desert, see the bush and the water.   The fascinating people that come into your life, it’s all a kind of inspiration. 

 

The choices that come in DRIVE are through a converging of perspectives from on the road, of converging interests, unintended byways, intuitive angles and the resolve of Lesley’s determination of a whole range of openings to the readiness for potential and it is because of this that there is a commingling of lived experiences with the actual experience in the time of the event.  What is known is the mobility of experience and experience in the making.

 

Angela Stretch

 

ALL WELCOME TO ATTEND THE LAUNCH SATURDAY THE 14TH OF APRIL

With special guests speakers  Dr Debra Keenahan Lecturer, Humanitarian And Development Studies (ssap).

and Sally Atkins, long friend, high school art teacher & established artst.

 

ANJA MEIXNER in conjunction with HEADON PHOTO FESTIVAL. Tuesday 8 May 6pm Artists talk Saturday 13th 4pm

 

My subjects were always Vanitas (transcience), fragility of nature and how far away human beings are from nature, the battle with the sexes and love, also the difference between the inner self and the loud outer world with all the unnecessary and false values in the eye of our mortality.

This time I want to call my exhibition “World Wehmut I”  (“World Wehmut II ” follows on the 5th june 2018, 6 pm, at Tap gallery) as so many things are in degenerated disorder on this planet.

It will be about my very actual feelings, what all this wrongs of pollution and unfairness, dirty oceans and wrong macho male decisions create in my heart.

It is the effort to create immediate archaic images of my soul who are truely connected with what really would be important and meaningful to life on this planet rather than money, progress, power, industry, machines.

I am always in search for true love on all levels.

The German word ” Wehmut” menas something like “Melancholy”.

This exhibition follows my last four ones : “Unknown Seas” (Germany 2017),  “Echoes in Eternity” (Sydney 2016), ” Call of the Wilderness” (Germany 2015) and “Beyond Calculation” (Sydney Global Gallery 2014).