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Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW)
Art Gallery Road, Sydney 2000. T (02) 9225-1744, 1800-679-278. W www.artgallery.nsw.gov.auAdmission charges apply to some exhibitions. H Daily 10.00 to 5.00. To Aug 28 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2022 are the most engaging art events of the year, eagerly anticipated by artists and audiences alike. The Archibald Prize for portrait painting is a who’s who of Australian culture from politicians to celebrities, sporting heroes to artists. To Jan 2023 Daniel Boyd: Treasure Island – the artist’s first major exhibition to be held in an Australian public institution. Featuring more than 80 works from across his nearly two-decade career, the exhibition unpacks the ways in which Boyd holds a lens to colonial history, explores multiplicity within narratives, and interrogates blackness as a form of First Nations’ resistance. Until 2023 The Aquilizan Studio: Making It Home – Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan are creating one of their impressively scaled cardboard sculptures for the opening of the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ expanded building in late 2022. In a project titled Making it Home, selected school and community groups have been invited to create their own cardboard “dream homes”, which may become part of the Aquilizans’ sculpture and its new speculative neighbourhood.
Australian National Maritime Museum
Wharf 7, 58 Pirrama Road, Pyrmont 2009. T (02) 9298-3777. W www.sea.museumOn now, art from the National Maritime Collection on show in a series of mini exhibitions, four large works, on display: Captain Thomas Robertson, The Red Jacket in Hobson’s Bay, 1856–57; Henry Gritten, Hobart Town 1856, 1856; Rupert Bunny, The Great White Fleet Entering Sydney Harbour Through the Heads, c.1908; and The Gospel Ship, 19th century.
China Cultural Centre in Sydney
Level 1, 151 Castlereagh Street, Sydney 2000. T (02) 8228-3050. E info@cccsydney.org W www.cccsydney.org H Mon–Fri 10.00 to 1.00 and 2.00 to 5.00. Please check the website for exhibition information and updates.
Gaffa Gallery
281 Clarence Street, Sydney CBD 2000. T (02) 9283-4273. E gallery@gaffa.com.au W www.gaffa.com.au H The Gallery will be temporarily closed for renovations from July 1. Gaffa is an independent creative precinct, artist-run in attitude and execution.
The Ken Done Gallery
1 Hickson Road, The Rocks 2000. (02) 8274-4500. Daily 10.00 to 5.30. Some of most familiar subjects can be found in this new and vibrant collection of paintings. From large canvases to smaller works on paper, embraces his signature colours and quintessential style in this captivating body of work. The publication , is a comprehensive and extensively illustrated monograph on art and design, and celebrates the man, his life’s work, and his legacy. Also available as a limited edition, including a small print and encased in a yellow Perspex sleeve. Limited edition prints, posters and other art-related products, including four mini books published by Thames & Hudson themed on the reef, the beach, Sydney, and the outback
