Awards Night Thursday 25th June
TAP is inviting artists, old and new, to participate in our 20th Birthday Art Exhibition celebration.
Deliver work by Monday 29th June. Entry fee is $25/per work
TAP TURNS 20
what a blast!!
TAP Gallery will be celebrating its 20th year this month with a huge exhibition, open to all artists. The exhibition opens next week Wednesday 1st July 6-9pm, and is free to the public to attend. All artists are welcome to participate and exhibit their work, and all mediums including sculpture, photography, printmaking and painting will be on display. This exhibition will be on view until 12th July. To celebrate TAP's 20th year the celebrations will culminate in a fantastic burlesque performance party on 4th July. Not to be missed!
Performers on the program represent some of the finest in Sydney:
Tug Dumbly
Venus Vamp
Rober Balas
Colonel Funtastico
Angela Stretch
The Order of Perpetual Indulgence
Mia Mortal
Jenny Campbell
Manik Jones
Pterodactyl Man
Hiske Weijers
Chafic Ataya
Raf Massdog Trio
Live Art
Great Food
Fine Wine
Good Times
TAP Gallery has supported emerging visual artists & community groups since 1989. Not only visual artists, TAP has also supported the performing arts, and given fresh Sydney playwrites their first showing. Many Burlesque events have been staged at TAP, as well as film, poetry & songwriting. You will witness some of the amazing & talented performers that have graced TAP Gallery over the years on the TAPESTRY night, TAP's 20th Birthday.
All welcome!
TAP Gallery: 278 Palmer St Darlinghurst (One block from Oxford St)
Contact: Lesley 93610440
REGAN VASCONCELLOS
"Free Radicals"
Opening Night Friday 10th July 7pm
Regan Vasconcellos was born in British Guyana. He is presently exhibiting his work titled “Free Radicals” in Sydney Australia. He has exhibited in Washington D.C., New York, Seoul Korea, London England, and Brazil.
Regan believes Art is everywhere and in everything. For him things like the crack of a smile, a chipped tooth, and a wrinkle are sketches from life’s ink pen. He says that life is an ongoing piece of Art and the process can be seen in people, in their faces, their dress, and in all their physical appearances.
Most of his Art from the “Free Radicals” exhibit has a raw unfinished look that is almost like a sketch. He does this to emphasize how life as Art is not ever complete and that it’s not often filled with order. His strokes appear wild and random but each line or scratch is deliberate and adds meaning to the work.
Drinks with the artist Friday 10th July 7pm. Exhibition runs from Monday 6th - Sunday 12th July
JUSTIN PEARSON
'Recent Works'
Opening Night Friday 17th July 6-8pm
"Flying Dutchman" Oil on cavas by Justin Pearson
This exhibition is on display from Monday 13th - Sunday 26th July, 12-6pm.
NATHAN BRINDLE
'Untitled'
Opening Night Wed 22nd July 6-9pm
'Untitled' is recent works by Nathan Brindle. The exhibition is of individual drawings pieced together to create a framework of ideas, branching out to produce a story line about different situations.
Nathan constructs and deconstructs his subject matter by use of lines, markings, and strokes placed on paper. Simple or bold impressions, he builds each marking to alter the atmosphere giving depth and life to the work, with every intention for them to speak with one another. Frame by frame, piece by piece, you are drawn in by the images on display, which generate a narrative base structure giving it an installation like ambiance.
This exhibition is on display from Monday 20th - Sunday 26th July, 12-6pm.
MELANIE LEE
Monday 27th - Friday 31st July
Melanie Lee is an artist who likes to explore and express herself via colour and form. Painting what and where and how the mood takes her, Melanie uses her art as a way to both create and escape her world. To capture, explore and evoke emotion is part of her artistic journey.
Melanie has exhibited previously at the Tap Gallery.
Environmental Art Award-07
Images of the Cross-07
Melanie has also exhibited as part of a group exhibition with TAH, Togetherness Art for Humanity at Sydney Parliament House and The Global Gallery at Paddington.
The up and coming exhibition in the window gallery at The Tap Gallery will be Melanie's first solo show.
This exhibition is on display from Monday 27th - Friday 31st July, 12-6pm.
