Newtown/St Peters Tour

28 March

Tour to celebrate the launch of our Sydney ARI Guide.

Links/Details of places visited on the following tour are at the bottom of this page

STREET ART

StArtonMatchBoxARITour28Mar09

Our first stop was where the local talent present their work for sale in front of the Martin Luther King Mural on King Street every weekend,

OH REALLY GALLERY

Oh Really Visit Match Box ARI Tour 21 March 2009

Next stop was OH REALLY Gallery, a platform for emerging street artists. It represents the pulsing life of street art in Sydney and is run by the boys behind Oh Really magazine, a publication focussed on street art/illustrations/photography and poetry. Generally, one week every month the gallery presents a solo exhibition, and for the rest of the time the gallery exhibits and sells the latest work of a diverse range of street artists. Additionally, every month, a different artist creates a work for the Gallery's back wall. (the March wall featured above was created by Ears.)

 

LITTLE FISH

Little Fish Visit Match Box ARI Tour 28 Mar 09

Across the road is ARI, Little Fish Gallery. After hearing an introduction to this DIY gallery, exhibiting artist Rodney Love gave an insight to his practice and the two series of works he was exhibiting Violence, Abjection and Ecstasy and Everything Ends

We are very familiar with Rodney's work - see what Rodney has created for our Match Box Gallery at here.

MAY LANE

Mays Lane Vist Match Box ARI Tour Newtown/St Peters 28 Mar 09

A stroll through the streets behind St Peters Train Station was next, particularly May Lane, the location of the May Lane Art Project, an outdoor gallery created by Tugi Balog, who runs his business, Graphic Art Mount behind the gallery wall. This amazing project has been running since 2005.

 

TORTUGA STUDIOS

Tortuga Studios Match Box ARI Tour 28 March 09

Next stop was the new Tortuga Studios - We were given a tour through their ARI Gallery, and numerous diverse artist studios which form this warehouse artspace.

 

AT THE VANISHING POINT - CONTEMPORARY ART (ATVP)

 

Introducing At the Vanishing Point on Match Box ARI Tour, 28 March 2009

Our last stop was At the Vanishing Point - Contemporary Art where Andrew introduced us to the space and Arts Program.

 

MATCH BOX TALK & LAUNCH OF SYDNEY ARI ART MAP & GUIDE

Match Box Projects Artist Talk and Launch of ARI Map at ATVP, Newtown, 28 March 2009

At ATVP we were exhibiting People to People, Place to Place:The Journey So Far, our ongoing project which inspired us to create this Sydney ARI Guide and Map. We introduce the project's Friendship Wall and Solo Match Box Galleries. This was followed by the official launch of the Sydney ARI Map.

Details of Places visited

Gain insights to each ARI visited by clicking on their link below:

 

Martin Luther King Mural

from Newtown Train Station walk 1-2 blocks down King St towards the city on the western side of the road. It is on the wall of a three-storey terrace building opposite the Newtown Gym and the Thai Pothong restaurant.

Oh Really Gallery

55 Enmore Road, Newtown (if looking on our map - it is a block down from Little Fish on the opposite side of the road)

http://www.ohreallymagazine.com/oh-really-gallery/

May Lane Art Project

see the following link for map and further details:

http://www.mays.org.au/about.htm