John Douglas: Introspective Retrospective Exotic, Hypnotic, Homoerotic Art 11-18 August. Official function Tuesday 12th August 6pm.

John Douglas: Introspective Retrospective

John Douglas: Introspective Retrospective

Exotic, Hypnotic, Homoerotic Art

John Douglas is an award-winning Australian multimedia artist whose exhibitions have received acclaim and caused controversy both in his home country and internationally. Introspective Retrospective will be his first retrospective exhibition in Australia.
A student at the Queensland College of Art until his expulsion for being a “disruptive and disturbing influence”, John left the school to find immediate success in state and regional art galleries. He has since been part of many group and solo exhibitions in Australia, including many for the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras festival and a special exhibition as part of the Sydney 2002 Gay Games cultural festival. International solo exhibitions include shows in Paris, Fort Lauderdale, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Geneva, and Shanghai.
11th – 18th August
Opening Night – 12th August 6pm
John Douglas - Introspective Retrospective - TAP Gallery

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Level 1, 259 Riley St, Surry Hills NSW 2010

John Douglas – Introspective Retropective

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DANIELLE JOY GOLDING Figurative Portraits & Botanical Flowers. Opening Tuesday 22 July 6pm.

Danielle Joy Golding – Portraits and Flowers

All welcome to attend

DANIELLE JOY GOLDING

Figurative Portraits & Botanical Flowers.

Opening Tuesday 22 July 6pm.

Danielle Jay Golding - Figurative Portraits and Botanical Flowers TAP Gallery


Artist’s statement from Danielle Joy Golding 16/3/2025

This body of work, collection of work, is basically 35 pieces, in diameter, and come from drawn-out sessions during later Covid, during just last year. Covid isn’t ended, but my works were created anyway, and I have varied the medias used, for example, you will see silk paintings here, and digital art, and the usual oil paintings on board, with Botanical Flowers, every-day portraits, looking closely at color, linework, ambience and my semi-delicate works here on Habotai silk, paper and canvas board, with inks and oil and the Procreate program on my Pad and Apple Pencil.

The digital art is shown here with a number of staff and client portraiture, from Wayside Bondi, and Procreate was used for these, but not artifical intelligence. My handwork is on the portraiture drawings, and the artistic decision-making, also, the oil paintings, about 12 figurative paintings, basically figurative women, hopefully, not over-commercialized women, an old theme of mine was once commercialisations of Women, magazine women, cosmetic and aesthetic images, of women. Some time ago, I had an exhibition of such works.

Most of the works here are for sale, unless otherwise stated, the price listing and room sheets are available, and names, prices and works included, all works are furtherly negotiable and modestly priced, the works listed are all from my recent collection of works, called “New Works” and all created during 2024 and 2025.

Brief Artist’s Bio:

I have 12 years of art study behind me at NAS Art School, at St George Tafe and Sydney University, and this is my fourth exhibition at the TAP Art Gallery. I have had three here before: “Down and out and other Disprivileged“, ”On the Curve of Her Psyche”, and “QLD and Other images,” in the past five years. I have had experience in other Galleries, but the TAP Art Gallery Is famiiar to me now, as well.

I live in Bondi, where I have lived for thirty five years, as a local, and work studiously in my converted Studio, I could do more work but I spend a lot of my time musing, so that is what happens, with me, on my own, and I try to pull myself into Reality and work (because when will it be recognized as real work?

I would ike to thank Rosie and Lesley and Jacqui for all and any assistence with this exhibition. And I would like to tell everyone, that art is achievable for evrone, if not to do, then to watch as an audience. It’s there for everyone. .


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

Danielle Joy Golding – Portraits and Flowers

Inviting artists – NEXT GROUP SHOW – Almost Famous – opening DRINKS Wednesday 6 August 2025 6pm

ARTISTS ARE INVITED TO SUBMIT WORKS FOR OUR NEXT GROUP SHOW.

Only $25 exhibition fee for each work.

The exhibition has an open theme and all artwork are guaranteed to be displayed

Calling all artists to exhibit
in the
NEXT OPEN GROUP SHOW
All works guaranteed to be hung! You are cordially invited to attend the 2025 exhibition

ALMOST FAMOUS ARTISTS

Opening night and drinks with thee Artists
Wednesday 6th August 6 pm

Exhibition runs from 4th – 10th August 2025, 12-6 pm daily.

Please deliver works by Sun, 3rd August, 12 – 6pm.
Fee for exhibiting: $25 per work.

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

Almost Famous Group Show 2025

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 .
Level 1, 259 Riley St, Surry Hills NSW 2010

Cassandra Brisbane – OF WATER & LIGHT a watercolour exhibition from 21 April. Extended until the 4th May.

Cassandra Brisbane – Of Water and Light

Cassandra Brisbane - OF water and Light - Tap Gallery

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

Cassandra Brisbane – Of Water and Light