Cassandra Brisbane – Of Water and Light
Extended until May 4
12 – 6 pm daily
A collection of watercolour portraits by Cassandra Brisbane
TAP Gallery: tapgallery.org.au
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Email: info@tapgallery.org.au * Telephone: 0400610440 .
Level 1, 259 Riley St, Surry Hills NSW 2010
Cassandra Brisbane – Of Water and Light
INVITING ARTISTS TO SUBMIT WORK
Real Reuses Show 2025
THE DEMOCRATIC ARCHIBALD PRIZE
ALL WORKS GUARANTEED TO BE HUNG!!
Saturday 24th May 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 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 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
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.
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
www.tapgallery.org.au
tapgallery.org.au
Youtube: @TapGallerySydney
Instagram: @tapgallery and #tapgallery
Email: info@tapgallery.org.au * Telephone: 0400610440 .
Tap Gallery Bookings 2025
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!
