Exhibitions

LOVE STREAM – PRIDE FESTIVAL ART EXHIBITION. From 22nd JUNE 2020


Sydney Pride Festival 2020.

Love Stream Exhibition

ON now at Tap Gallery and also with selected works in our online gallery.

Pics from the opening at Tap are on Tap’s Social Page .

The Sydney Pride Festival 2020 “Love Stream” launched on Sydney Pride Facebook on the Thursday 4th June. Sydney Pride Festival will run from the 4th until the 30th June.

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the LGBTQIA community. More than 220 pride celebrations around the world have been cancelled or postponed, as of April 3, 2020. Global Pride, an online event with numerous national hosts, has been scheduled for June 27, 2020.

The Sydney Pride Festival 2020 “Love Stream” will be an online platform for Pride Month. In a time we can not be together to remember the History and celebrate Sydney Pride we Integrate our community together online. Sydney Pride Festival is a grass roots festival and a time to pass on the history and raise awareness and education of our LGBTQI Charities. This year we will be putting the focus on how we have changed through the Pandemic and our online community has become more important than ever.

Sydney pride festival 2020 will remember our pursuit for acceptance and total Equality for all our LGBTQI brothers and sisters. Sydney Pride can reach out and help those struggling with Sexual identity, bullying, drugs or just feeling that life is too hard to stand strong and ask for help. Connecting together in Solidarity. This is Love Stream Pride!

Sydney Pride Festival is a not for profit event which supports a wide range of LGBTQI Charities, Organisations and businesses. This Sydney Pride festival 2020 will include online links to LGBTQIA entertainment, Talks, Documentaries, Children Story time, Health and fitness, Education, Movie and TV Recommendations and much more. We will have an online Calendar with what’s on each day and links where to find it. 

This is a time to remember the Stonewall Riots and the beginning of Gay liberation as we know it. The Sydney Pride festival is dedicated to those that lead the way back in 1969 who fought for equality and human rights and the incredible strength of our friends who marched in the first Sydney Mardi Gras in 1978.

Last year the Sydney pride Festival contained over 100 events. The festival featured Art, Cinema, Trivia, Debates, Sports, Fundraising activities and Club events across Sydney. This year will be very different but we feel it is very important to change during these very different times and stay connected.

The Sydney Pride Festival would like to thank the volunteers, event organisers, sponsors and LGBTQI community and all our friends for all their support.

We are currently seeking expressions of interest in adding your current event or producing a new online event for our wonderful community. If you would like to be part of the online festival. Please send email to info@sydneypride.com

Glenn Hansen

 

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VENUS NOW – NYK SYKES Head On 2020 now online

https://www.headon.com.au/exhibitions/venus-now

EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION

Inspired by the ancient Roman goddess, Venus, my work here explores classical beauty in a modern context. It has contrast, transformations and narrative. It is sensual, erotic and emotional.

This body of work references the long history of the portrait and the nude in painting and photography and reflects on that tradition in our multi-cultural world.

ARTIST BIO

Nyk Sykes was born in Sydney and raised in Australia and the UK. He has won awards from New York, London and Paris for his fashion, nude, portrait, arts and entertainment photography.

Last year, Sykes’s work featured the artbook Nudes 5, by the prestigious New York publisher Graphis. His work was published alongside such acclaimed contemporary photographers as Albert Watson and Howard Schwartz.

Sykes’ photography has been exhibited in Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Sydney, Venice and Zurich. His work has been published in the USA, China, Germany, France and Russia as well as Australia.

Sykes was educated at the Australian National University (ANU) and trained in photography at Ultimo TAFE.

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MERAKI ARTISTS now online with Head On Photo Festival 1-17 May

Meraki Artists

in association with Tap gallery

presenting their works online this year as part of the

Head On Photo Festival

from 1-17 May.

“What is Kalos?”

Click the title to view their online show.

About Head on

We are so excited to announce the full program for this year’s Head On(line) Photo Festival. Did you know that we are the first photo festival in the world to run entirely online?So don’t miss a thing – check out the full line up of wonderful exhibitions and amazing free events and workshops,all launching on 1st May.

See program

Event program

See our full program of extraordinary workshops, artists talks and panel discussions.  All free and all online but you must register. Check it out – there’s something for everyone!
We’re excited to add a fascinating new event ‘Saving Lives with Images‘ – sign up and discover the role of  photography in saving lives, reuniting missing children with families and making the world a safer place.
Event program

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TAP ART GALLERY OPEN BY APPOINTMENT ONLY 0400 610 440

DUE TO THE CORONAVIRUS SITUATION AND WITH CONSIDERATION TO THE HEALTH OF ALL OUR ARTISTS, PATRONS AND SPONSORS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE GOVERNMENT’S  LATEST REGULATIONS AND ADVICE, LESLEY HAS DECIDED TO OPEN THE GALLERY BY APPOINTMENT.

Lesley & Anja’s exhibition, scheduled for April will still go ahead circumstances willing.

Government regulations at the moment limit guests to 20 at a time so please rsvp if you intend to come.

Please bring your own masks & hand wash. limited amounts will be available for guests. 

 

 

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ANYONE WISHING TO RETRIEVE ARTWORK OR VISIT AN EXHIBITION CAN DO SO BY CALLING 0400 610 440 AND MAKING AN APPOINTMENT.

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POSTPONED ARCHIBALD, SULMAN & WYNNE – REAL REFUSES 18 – 29 MAY.

POSTPONED

Real Refuses

THE DEMOCRATIC ARCHIBALD PRIZE !
ALL WORKS GUARANTEED TO BE HUNG!!

Saturday 23 May marks the 24TH Anniversary of Australia’s largest Art  Event – Real Refuses – where artists not selected for the ARCHIBALD, WYNNE, SULMAN, and DOUG MORAN 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 along side 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 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 (please note we have moved)

GALA OPENING: Saturday 23 May 5-8pm 2018

(includes the “People’s Choice Award”)

Prizes to be won!

ON VIEW  18 – 31 MAY 12-6pm Daily

CONTACT: Lesley Dimmick, TAP GALLERY on 0400 610 440.

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Inviting artists to submit artwork for our next Group Show ENCHANTED GARDEN abstract & realism landscape exhibition opening Wed 24th March 6pm

Group Show – Enchanted Garden

Inviting artists to contribute artworks for the Rural & Urban landscape exhibition

( which means an open theme)

Opening Night will be Wednesday 24th March 6 PM

You are all cordially invited to attend a very special event

THE ENCHANTED GARDEN

Saturday 27th March 5pm.

A fundraiser for the  book about the history of TAP Gallery to be published very soon celebrating 30 years of art & performance supporting the subculture of SYDNEY and beyond.

Featuring live music, canapes & beverages.

Entry by donation 

Door prizes to be won.

KRIS HADES will be performing excerpts from “The Garden of Earthly Delights” – indoor garden lounge music inspired by Hieronymus Bosch 

MIA MORTAL & PAUL VASSALLO  will also be performing “Diablo’s Enchanter”

Tap Gallery Group Show Enchanted Garden

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