Exhibitions

PEOPLE OF A TIME AND PLACE – Razorhurst Series – an exhibition by Sean Burgess 2-15 June. Opening function WED 4th June 6pm

People of a Time and Place – Razorhurst II

People of a Time and Place - Razorhurst - Sean Burgess - Tap Gallery
People of a Time & Place Volume II: Razorhurst Series
TAP Gallery | 2–15 June 2025

Sydney wasn’t built on sunshine. It was shaped in the backstreets — by villains, fighters, and survivors who clawed for scraps of power, pride, and survival.

In People of a Time & Place: Volume II, Sydney painter Sean Burgess drags Razorhurst’s ghosts back into the light. Not the polished legends — the raw ones. The bloody, broken, defiant ones. The faces that built the city’s backbone long before the harbour sparkled for postcards.

This is the Sydney they don’t put in the brochures: sharp-edged, restless, alive. Each canvas pulls from a time when life was brutal and every choice left a scar. Burgess doesn’t whisper their stories — he spits them back into the world with grit under his nails.

Artesque: villains, fighters, survivors — no apologies, no pretty endings. Just the truth of a city born fighting.

Wed 4th June 6pm: Show open!
Sat 7th June 6pm: “The Shivoo!

– Live music, free drinks and a guided tour with the artist.
Sat 14th June 6pm: Meet the Artist – Farewell Razorhurst.

Sean Burgess – Sydney painter * A Team Potato production.

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Email: info@tapgallery.org.au * Telephone: 0400610440 .
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Phil Austin - Monokrom Mardi Geras - TAP Gallery

MONOKROM Mardi Gras – Phil Austin Opens Tuesday 17th 6pm.

PHIL AUSTIN

Phil Austin is a street photographer focused on capturing honest moments of self-expression. At Sydney Mardi Gras, he uses black and white photography to document the power of people being unapologetically themselves. Stripping away color puts focus on emotion, gesture, and human connection — revealing stories that might otherwise be lost in the noise. Phil’s work aims to show that authenticity isn’t just a personal choice, but a public statement with the power to inspire change.t with the power to inspire change.Monokrom Mardi Gras – Phil Austin

 

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Monokrøm Mardi Gras

Phil Austin
Opening Night: Tuesday 17th June, 6 pm
16th – 22nd June, 12 – 6 pm
@leica.lad

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Email: info@tapgallery.org.au * Telephone: 0400610440 .
Level 1, 259 Riley St, Surry Hills NSW 2010

Monokrom Mardi Gras- Phil Austin

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Pride Art Prize Tap Gallery

PRIDE ART PRIZE 2025

Pride Art Prize 2025

Pride Art Prize 2025 -Tap Gallery

You Can Donate to this Exhibition through the

Australian Cultural Fund Project

that has been set up for this event.   All funds go to the artists.

Click here

ALL DONATIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE!  

Pride Art Prize 2025 - Tap GalleryTHERE WILL BE A PERFORMANCE BY QUEER PERFORMERS AT 8 – 10 PM ON SATURDAY 28TH JUNE AT 8 – 10PM GET YOUR TICKETS HERE<

Sydney Pride Month 2025 -TAP Gallery

Sydney Pride festival launches Pride Month Celebrations: Love, Respect, Empower!

The Sydney Pride Month 2025, taking place from June 1st to June 30th, will celebrate diversity, unity, and equality under the theme “Love, Respect,Empower.”

This vibrant month-long event will bring together the LGBTQIA+ community and allies to honour love in all its forms, encourage mutual respect,and empower individuals to embrace their authentic selves.

With a rich lineup of Theatre, art exhibitions, workshops, and performances, the festival aims to create a space of inclusion and joy. It serves as a powerful reminder of the progress made and the work that continues toward a more equitable and compassionate society.

The Sydney Pride Month also pays tribute to the trailblazers who paved the way for LGBTQIA+ rights and visibility. It honours the courageous activists of the first Sydney Mardi Gras in 1978, who marched for equality despite facing police brutality and discrimination. Their bravery marked the beginning of a movement that transformed Sydney into a symbol of pride and acceptance.

The festival also reflects on the global significance of the 1969 Stonewall Riots
in New York, a watershed moment in the fight for LGBTQIA+ liberation.

By remembering these pivotal events, Sydney Pride celebrates the progress made while recognizing the ongoing struggle for equality and justice.

Information about the Sydney Pride month and schedule of events will be
available mid May. Visit www.sydneypride.com and celebrate Love, Respect, Empower this Pride month.

Festival Coordinator
Glenn Hansen

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Level 1, 259 Riley St, Surry Hills NSW 2010

Pride Art Prize 2025

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Journey through Soul and Spirit - TAP Gallery

Journey Through Soul & Spirit – Art Exhibit & Wellness Event 7-20 July

Journey Through Soul & Spirit – Art & Wellness

Journey Through the Soul & Spirit - TAP Galleryhttps://loveempowermentclinic.com.au/services/retreat-and-workshops


Journey Through the Soul & Spirit - TAP Gallery

Journey Through the Soul & Spirit - formidable dater - TAP Gallery

Journey Through the Soul & Spirit - eagle - TAP Gallery

Journey

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Journey Through Soul & Spirit – Art & Wellness

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2025 Bookings - TAP Gallery

TAP Art Gallery is now taking bookings for 2025

Tap Gallery Bookings 2025

TAP ART GALLERY

welcomes all artists in all mediums & genre.

The gallery is a space for hire & gives the artist their own power of curatorial.

TAP has supported up & coming artists since 1989 and has become

recognised as an important established institution in the Sydney art scene.

Many of these artists have become successful award winners including the Archibald, Wynne & Sulman Prizes.

$680 PER WEEK & 25% ON SALES

Call 0400610440      email: tapgallery@gmail.com

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Email: info@tapgallery.org.au * Telephone: 0400610440 .

Tap Gallery Bookings 2025

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30th Real Refuses TAP Gallery

ALL WELCOME TO ATTEND THE ARTISTS TALK THIS SATURDAY 31ST MAY 4PM. ARTISTS WHO ENTERED THE ARCHIBALD, WYNNE & SULMAN THIS YEAR? – IF YOU ARE NOT SELECTED, AN OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW YOUR WORK IS IN THE 30TH REAL REFUSES

Real Refuses Show 2025

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REAL REFUSES

THE DEMOCRATIC ARCHIBALD PRIZE 

ALL WORKS GUARANTEED TO BE HUNG!!

Saturday 24th May</span > marks the 30th Anniversary of Australia’s 3rd largest Archibald  Event – Real Refuses – where artists not selected for the ARCHIBALD, WYNNE, SULMAN Art Prizes exhibit their work at TAP Gallery in Surry Hills 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 alongside 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 well known 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

GALA OPENING: Saturday 24th May 5-8pm 2016

(includes the “People’s Choice Award”)

proudly sponsored by MEL W & CO

Prizes to be won!

ON VIEW  20-31 May 12-6pm Daily

CONTACT: Lesley Dimmick, TAP GALLERY on 0400610440.

TAP Gallery: tapgallery.org.au
Youtube: TAP TV – @TapGallerySydney
Instagram: @tapgallery and #tapgallery
Email: info@tapgallery.org.au * Telephone: 0400610440 .
Level 1, 259 Riley St, Surry Hills NSW 2010

Real Refuses Show 2025

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