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PRIDE ART EXHIBITION & AWARDS 2018. Calling artist to submit works. Prizes to be won. Presentations Saturday 30 @ 5pm

Sydney Pride Festival 2018

“TRUE COLOURS”

WHERE IT ALL BEGAN

 

The Sydney Pride Festival 2018 “True Colours” will launch at Stonewall Hotel on Friday 15th June and run until the 30th June.

This year’s Pride theme is “TRUE COLOURS”. Remembering The Pioneers that have lead the way and fought for our rights, the heroes of Stonewall and the 78er’s who paved the way. The LGBTQI community are all under one fabulous Umbrella and together we continue to create change and acceptance. Homosexuality is no longer illegal in Australia, Marriage Equality has been achieved and our community has shown it’strue colours high and proud. This year we celebrate the 40 years of Mardi Gras and remember the people, events and stories from our LGBTQIA family.

Sydney Pride Festival is a time to pass on the history and raise awareness and education of our LGBTQI Charities. This year we will be putting a focus on the strength of our Community in our pursuit for acceptance and total Equality for all our LGBTQI brothers and sisters. Sydney Pride can reach out and help those struggling with Sexual identity, bullying, drugs or just feeling that life is too hard to stand strong and ask for help. We can pass on our knowledge and learn from each other the importance of Standing Together in Solidarity. This is Pride!

The Sydney Pride Festival is a special time for the LGBTQI community as we remember the history and celebrate the present and look forward to a day when everyone is Equal. Sydney Pride Festival is a not for profit event which supports a wide range of LGBTQI Charities, Organizations and businesses. This Sydney Pride festival will include events throughout Sydney that are fun and affordable for everyone. The events will raise much needed funds for Charity and showcase our community and achievements.

This is a time to remember The History of the Stonewall Riots and the beginning of Gay liberation as we know it. The Sydney Pride festival is dedicated to those that lead the way back in 1969 who fought for equality and human rights and the incredible strength of our friends who marched in the first Sydney Mardi Gras in 1978.

Homosexuality is still illegal in many countries and the LGBTQI community struggles around the world are heartbreaking. The Sydney Pride festival is a time for us to stand strong with our community, family and friends. Together we can bring change and acceptance to not just Australia but our entire rainbow world.

Last year the Sydney pride Festival contained over 50 events. The festival will feature Art, Cinema, Trivia, Debates, Sports, Fundraising activities and Club events across Sydney. The Sydney Pride Festival would like to thank the volunteers, event organizers, sponsors and LGBTQI community and all our friends for all their support.

We are currently seeking expressions of interest in holding events.

Enjoy the festivities!

Glenn Hansen

Sydney Pride Festival

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PYRMONT ART PRIZE 20 & 21 MAY @ PIRRIMA PARK

CALLING ARTISTS TO ENTER

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SATURDAY 20TH – SUNDAY   21ST MAY, 11 AM – 5 PM

PYRMONT ART, FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL 

presents the 7th ANNUAL PYRMONT ART PRIZE – Cash Prizes & Gift Vouchers to be won!

EVEN BIGGER & BETTER THAN EVER

PIRRAMA PARK, PYRMONT

On SATURDAY 20 & SUNDAY 21 MAY, a great day has been planned for the celebration of the tenth annual Pyrmont Art Prize. This year the event will be held in Pirrama Park at the old Police Water site on the panoramic foreshore of Sydney Harbour, at the end of Harris Street, Pyrmont. This exciting venue has recently been converted for public use by the City of Sydney.

The day will feature over 300 new artworks on display for the prestigious PYRMONT ART PRIZE, with thousands of $ in prizes to be won. Official guest speakers and prominent judges have been invited, and a People’s Choice Award will also be presented from the attending public.

Live music and unique performances are always a special feature of the Festival. This year the festival will include street theatre and local talented musicians who will perform all day on stage. This event presented in conjunction with the Pyrmont Festival’s – Mudgee wine & food in Pirrama Park. Tickle your taste buds with unique gourmet cuisine and local produce direct from Mudgee. Bring your picnic rug and choose from a diverse range of cuisines for lunch and try some of the 120 wines from 30 of Mudgee regions top winemakers.

All artists are invited to enter the art prize, whether they are well known or not and artists are invited to create an art piece for public display and sale. This popular art event has been well attended by the community in past years, and many beautiful, original artworks may be purchased on the day.

All artworks must be 12’x12’ in size. Canvases can be picked up from TAP Gallery; 259 Riley St Surry Hills, or you can supply your own canvas. Please not all works must be unframed, on stretched canvas.

Any enquiries call TAP on 0400610440

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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.

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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.

 

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ANNOUNCING THE LAUNCH OF GALLERY 2!

Yes we have expanded!

The new room has a unique character and is a welcome expansion of space.

Gallery 2 is available for hire:

SEE BELOW

NOW taking bookings for 2018.
Announcing our new additional gallery/performance space, seating 20, available for:

  • Workshops                                                    $25 per hour
  • Painting and Drawing Classes                   $25 per hour
  • Film Screenings (in-house projector and screen available)
  • Private Dinners
  • Seminars
  • Exhibitions :-     30 small paintings
  •                           15 large paintings
  • Hen’s nights
  • Corporate parties
  • Product Launches
Nightly Events – $200                         Weekly Events – $400

 

 

 

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Mor Mor Mutthi Mutthi presents “Mungo Man Coming Home” – Exhibition from 23 to 29 October, Opening on Tuesday 24 October from 6 pm

My name is Mor-Mor and I am  Mutthi-Mutthi, mother born in Balranald, which is Western New South Wales, Australia.

I am the youngest of eleven children. I have two children, a son Daryl and a daughter Kaleana. I come from the Mungo Mutthi-Mutthi Tribe, my mother Mrs Alice Kelly, deceased was the custodian of Lake Mungo and the Tribal Elder of the Mungo Mutthi-Mutthi people. My father Alfred Kelly, also deceased was the Tribal Elder of the Wamba and Nyiampaa Tribes.

I have been spirit painting since my return from New Zealand in to my Mungo Mutthi-Mutthi Tribal ground in early 1993.

The presentation of my art is my spiritual link to my Sacred Lady of Lake Mungo, which dates back beyond 30,000 years. My very strong Spiritual link to my Mungo Mutthi-Mutthi Sacred Lady inspires me to create My Spiritual drawings, paintings and stories. Through my Spiritual drawings and paintings I show my Spiritual Ancestors who lived in Love, Peace and Harmony for over 40,000 years.

My spiritual Ancestors and I have affiliated with Mother Earth and my Sacred Tribal land since time Immemorial and Creation was by our Sacred Spirit.

Each drawing and bark painting tells its own distinctive individual Sacred Story and all the Sacred Stories interconnect back to the Sacred Spirit of Our Creation.

© Mor-Mor Mungo Mutthi-Mutthi Creations

 

MAN MUNGO

The return of MAN MUNGO after 40 years in custody in Canberra. A 40,000 year old sketelal remain found at MUNGO in 1974.

DRINKS WITH THE ARTIST + SLIDE NIGHT: TUESDAY 24TH OCTOBER 6PM

MUNGO CELEBRATION NIGHT Saturday 28th 6pm

Featuring guest speakers, entertainment & nibbles.

Below is the story of MUNGO!

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