Sydney Contemporary 2022
Carriageworks
Sydney, Australia
08-10 September 2022
In the realm kärchering the grime of daily life off our souls, one of the highlights each year is Australasia’s Premier Art Fair and festival for the senses that is Sydney Contemporary where within the confines of multi-arts precinct Carriageworks, one is presented with the chance to see and buy works from close to five hundred aboriginal, local and international artists all in one spot.
Having evolved to become a veritable celebration of the art community, including talks, performances and massive installations, both well established as well as young galleries get the chance to not only showcase their work to serious art collectors and institutional curators. In addition, Sydney Contemporary offers a chance to thousands of members of the public to experience artworks in all their glory in the third dimension across a myriad of media from paintings, photography to sculptures.
Framed by talks about debating points and hyped phenomena prevalent in the day and age of mass digital consumption like e.g. the buzz around NFTs and an engaging, interactive program, Sydney Contemporary caters to the hands-on tangible end of the spectrum by having a dedicated section focussing on showcasing paper based art centred around drawings, watercolour, limited-edition prints, artists books and zines.
Needless to say, the presentations are contextualised by hands-on workshops e.g. pertaining to Century Japanese woodblock techniques, letterpress printing and a series of workshops by live and experimental printmaking performance collectives.
A feast for the eyes are Sydney Contemporary’s large scale installations that are featured under the moniker Amplify, e.g. a fur forest greeting visitors adjacent to the entrance, a paper mâché representation of the moon’s surface or photographic series being projected on the exterior façade of Carriageworks. Performance art by artistes Rakini Devi, Salote Tawale and WeiZen Ho and an exquisitely curated array of beautiful pop-up bars proffering curated sustenance round out an experience that offers surprises in every nook and cranny of the largest and most significant contemporary multi-arts centre of its kind in Australia, i.e. Carriageworks.
The 2022 incarnation has once proved that Sydney Contemporary ( https://sydneycontemporary.com.au ) is one of the most influential and enjoyable fairs in Oceania and positioned Sydney as an international hub for the arts.
