Circular Quay Little Sydney Lives Exhibition 2024
These images were taken by kids aged 5 to 12.
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Circular Quay Australian Life Exhibition 2024
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Picture perfect glimpses of Australian Life.
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Sydney The Pioneers PIONEERS
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PIONEERS is a 60-minute outdoor dance and theatre piece about the formation of Australia’s bravest dance crew, The Pioneers
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Circular Quay Little Sydney Lives 2023
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Cheeky, delightful and often surprising, their images provide insight into the lives and imaginations of our junior go-getters.
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Circular Quay
Australian Life 2023
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Take an intimate journey through contrasting scenes of community, curiosity and yearning with this year’s Australian Life photography prize finalists.
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Sydney Murmurations
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Murmurations is the 2023 Hyde Park Barracks annual art commission by First Nations artist Tony Albert and Sāmoan–Australian artist Angela Tiatia with Lille Madden, Alina Olivares-Panucci and Corin Ileto.
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Darlinghurst Dylan Mooney Still Thriving
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In Dylan Mooney’s Still Thriving series, large-format portraits focus on love in queer communities, deftly illustrating issues affecting the artist’s lived experience in ways that are poignant and very much of our moment.
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Darlington Fintan Magee Lost Figures
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Lost Figures tells the story of Patyegarang and William Dawes.
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Hyde Park Little Sydney Lives 2022
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Unsuspecting in their talents, Sydney’s youngest photographers have been creating lively new works that capture their fresh perspectives.
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Hyde Park Australian Life 2022
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Take an intimate journey through contrasting scenes of love, destruction, and cheek with this year’s Australian Life photography prize finalists.
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Sydney Mike Daly Tidal
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TIDAL is a data visualisation of concurrent tides in Sydney and its coastal sister cities: San Francisco, Nagoya, Wellington, Portsmouth and Guangzhou. The visualised tidal data is of the future – forecasts for the year 2050.
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Potts Point Fenella Kernebone Here Lies Your Story
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Here Lies Your Story is a text-based mural with its words collected from across the Kings Cross community.
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Sydney Kristian Molloy I Am Responsible
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Large murals printed on billboards throughout our area prompt contemplation and reflection.
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Sydney Little Sydney Lives Photography Exhibition 2021
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Small in stature but big on heart, Sydney’s youngest photographers have been busy snapping their perspective of Sydney.
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Sydney Australian Life Photography Prize
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Take a cinematic journey through vastly contrasting scenes with this year’s Australian Life photography prize finalists.
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Darlinghurst Will Cooke As One Door Closes, Another Opens
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As One Door Closes, Another Opens is a progressive shift towards a positive future through colour and geometry.
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Surry Hills Ian Strange Intersections
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Intersections creates large LED beams of white light that pierce through the entire building. The artwork creates a spectacular light installation visible from the street.
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Pyrmont Jessica Wilson and Ian Pidd Passenger
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Hyde Park Barracks Jonathan Jones untitled (maraong manaóuwi)
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A major site-specific installation at Hyde Park Barracks.
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Customs House Branch Nebula DEMO
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Experience the virtuosity of professional skating, BMX, parkour and dance interacting in a way never seen before. DEMO is a high intensity performance that will leave you breathing on a different plane.
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Hyde Park Little Sydney Lives 2019
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Small in stature but big on heart, Sydney’s youngest photographers have been busy snapping their perspective of Sydney.
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Hyde Park Australian Life 2019
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Take a journey through fire and serenity with this year’s Australian Life photography prize finalists.
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Darlinghurst Jason Wing, Dennis Golding Gadigal mural
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Produced by Art & About Sydney and the Australian Design Centre
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Sydney Ash Keating Gravity System Response
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Ash Keating transforms a non-descript corner of Sydney into an energising, colourful abstraction.
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Customs House Mundane Matters Wasteland
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Sydney-based creative studio Mundane Matters transforms ocean plastic into a delicate, beguiling, and thought-provoking art installation.
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Hyde Park Little Sydney Lives 2018
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Get a children’s-eye view on Sydney.
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Hyde Park Australian Life 2018
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Peer into a side of Australian life that you have never encountered. Or perhaps you encounter every day.
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Sydney CBD Elizabeth Commandeur and Mark Starmach Intangible Goods
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You can get anything you want in our consumption-fuelled society, except the stuff we increasingly need: bravery, connection, calm, purpose. Until now!
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Circular Quay Stalker Theatre, Creative Dandi and Drifterz Crew Frameshift
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An aerial theatre show combining vertical performance and b-boy dancing.
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The Rocks Anri Sala The Last Resort
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An installation of sculpture and sound by French-Albanian artist Anri Sala that transforms the Observatory Hill Rotunda.
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Hyde Park Little Sydney Lives 2017
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An outdoor gallery revealing how kids see Sydney.
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Hyde Park Australian Life 2017
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22 thought-provoking photographs that look beyond the usual images of our country to reveal new insights into our identity.
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Waterloo We Live Here We Live Here
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#WeLiveHere2017 is a community-led art project.
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Martin Place Bandaloop
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A vertical dance performance.
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Hyde Park Hank Willis Thomas In Search of The Truth
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Between fake news and fact checking, the truth has never been more contested. Step inside The Truth Booth and add your voice to a global conversation on truth.
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Martin Place Legs on the Wall Highly Sprung
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All the bouncing and bendy details of these performances will be revealed early in 2017.
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Customs House Megan Geckler A Million Things That Make Your Head Spin
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Feel what it might be like to step inside a dazzling rainbow.
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Sydney Nick Cave HEARD·SYD
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NICK CAVE: HEARD·SYD is an intricate and spectacular series of public performances from one of the most important artists of his generation, American Nick…
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Potts Point Hidden Sydney - The Glittering Mile
Immersive theatre |
Kings Cross is a state of mind. No boundaries to its name, no limits to its life. But half a century later, has the Cross been crossed out?
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Sydney James Voller Terraced
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Terraced is a multi-part photographic installation within Sydney’s CBD.
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Sydney City Walls #3: Boundary Road
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A multi-wall landscape mural tucked away amidst dense Sydney streets.
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Pitt Street Mall Shaun Parker & Company Tut
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An epic new urban dance work from Shaun Parker & Company that takes place live on the city streets.
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Pyrmont Konstantin Dimopoulos The Blue Trees
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The Blue Trees is an environmental art installation by Egyptian-born Australian artist, Konstantin Dimopoulos.
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Haymarket More Human than Human: Blade Runner
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Inspired by Ridley Scott’s 1982 masterpiece Blade Runner, More Human Than Human sees a dystopian inner-city car park transform into a futuristic playground.
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Paddington Janet Laurence H2O Water Bar
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H2O: Water Bar is a laboratory-style installation that allows you to sample water sourced from various diverse regions in Australia.
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Sydney MOMO City Walls #2: MOMO for York Street
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City Walls is a series of surprise street art projects brought to you by Art & About Sydney and Elliott Routledge of Funstudio.
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Sydney City Walls #1: To be free is to have no fear
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City Walls is a series of surprise street art projects brought to you by Art & About Sydney.
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Sydney The Deep End: Jaws
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The Deep End is an outdoor cinema “screaming” that’s perfect for Sydney in summer.
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Hyde Park Julian Day and Luke Jaaniste - Super Critical Mass Games + Actions (for a Quiet City)
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Games + Actions (for a Quiet City) is a series of immersive public performances featuring ambient masses of volunteers playing identical instruments.
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Customs House Cave Urban Near Kin Kin
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Near Kin Kin is a soaring 21-metre bamboo sculpture, standing on the forecourt of historic Customs House Square.
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Paddington Dale Jones – Evans Top5Feet
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Top5Feet is inspired by the reservoir’s original purpose to provide water to parts of Sydney in the late 1880s.
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Hyde Park Cie. Willi Dorner Bodies in Urban Spaces
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Squeezing brightly clothed people into nooks and crannies, artist Willi Dorner plays with our perceptions of space.
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Sydney Numskull aka Elliott Routledge Here, Now
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A mural reminding us to slow down and smell the roses.
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QVB James Dive, The Glue Society Us
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Us is a public art project that consists of a temporary outdoor photo studio. People passing by are invited to be part of a formal group photo with fellow…
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Kings Cross Bourke and collaborators The Walking Neighbourhood
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Created by Lenine Bourke Tours devised and led by children in Kings Cross and Redfern.
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Sydney The Milk Bar
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Eamon Donnelly captures Australia’s disappearing milk bars on camera.
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Hyde Park Curators: Celina Stang, Luca Ionescu Neon Nomads
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Hyde Park south is home to an urban camp with one eye on the digital age and the other on a more nomadic past. Glowing tipis covered in LED art, film, sound,…
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Sydney Shaun Parker & Company Trolleys
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Part dance. Part spectacle. Part ballet. Five shopping trolleys appear in a public space
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Vaucluse Armchair Apocalypse
Immersive theatre |
Turn off the TV. Shut down the computer.
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Sydney Maya Barkai Walking Men Worldwide
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We see them every day – the “Walking Man” that tells us it’s safe to cross. It’s an international celebrity, a graphic sign that transcends all…
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Sydney Devexpa & The Cracking Art Group Snailovation
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Giant, colourful and funky, these brightly hued snails are not your common garden variety.
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Haymarket Sam Routledge and Martyn Coutts I Think I Can
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Join us on the concourse of Central Station, home to a large-scale model railway, and play as you create a new identity for yourself in an imaginary town.
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Hyde Park Out of the Dark Angus Muir and Alexandra Heaney Field
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Immerse yourself in the surreal and intriguing as you wander through a large field of mirrors reflecting constantly changing scenes of Hyde Park.
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Sydney James Dive and The Glue Society I Wish You Hadn't Asked
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Step inside this ordinary house where rain pours inside its walls, slowly destroying the private world within.
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Hyde Park Craig Walsh and Steven Thomasson, in collaboration with Australian Museum Emergence
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Every landscape hides countless untold stories… As night descends, the giant trees in Hyde Park South are illuminated.
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Sydney Town Hall Janet Echelman Tsunami 1.26
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Tsunami is a gigantic aerial net installation by acclaimed American artist Janet Echelman.