Sydney Exhibitions

There are a range of Sydney exhibitions so just look in the columns that follow for something that suits your tastes.

ART GALLERY OF NSW

Art Gallery Road, The Domain
Open daily 10am-5pm
Ph: 9225 1744

• Gifted to 15 April
  A collection of indigenous art, including work by Emily Kam Ngwarray, Mawalan Marika and Ginger Riley Munduwalawala.
• Tezuka: The marvel of manga to 29 April
  An exhibition focusing on Tezuka Osamu — Japan’s leading and most historically significant manga artist.
• The Archibald Prize to 13 May
  One of Australia’s oldest and most prestigious art awards, which always attracts attention for its celebrity portraits.
• Howard Arkley 10 March–6 May
  A retrospective of the 30-year career of the foremost painter of Australian suburbia.
• Paradise then. Arthur Fleischmann in Bali 1937–39 5 May–8 July
  The Bratislavian-born sculptor spent two years in Bali before coming to Australia, inspiring some of his most exquisite figurative sculpture, depicting a culture far more innocent than the one impacted by tourism in the decades that followed.

AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM

Darling Harbour
Open daily 9:30am-5pm
Ph: 9298 3777

• Between the Flags: 100 Years of Surf Lifesaving to 29 Aprilbr> In the International Year of the Surf Lifesaver, this exhibition celebrates the lifesavers who have made our beaches safer places, helped Australians to enjoy the surf and played a role in creating Australia’s beach culture.

AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM

College Street
Open daily 9:30am-5pm
Ph: 9320 6000

• Eaten alive to 22 April
  Learn who preys on what, and how, in this dog-eat-dog wildlife exhibition.
• Colliding Worlds: First Contact In The Western Desert, 1932–1984 from 6 April
  The intriguing story of the last aboriginal groups to come face-to-face with Europeans, some as late as the 1980s.

BYRON KENNEDY HALL

Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park

• The Amazing Human Body 10 March–11 June
  Following a controversial but popular world tour, this educational exhibition of more than 18 real human bodies arrives in Sydney. Tickets through Ticketek on 132 849

HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUM

Queen's Square, Macquarie Street
Open daily 9:30am-5pm
Ph: 8239 2311

• Convicts: Sites Of Punishment to 15 July
  A look at the prison system and its associated punishment at nine significant Australian convict sites proposed for World Heritage Listing.
  
• Convicts, Catholics and St Mary’s throughout 2007
  Investigate the extraordinary history of Catholicism in New South Wales, the building of the first St Mary’s Cathedral, and its relationship to Irish Catholic convicts.
  
• A Place For The Friendless Female: Sydney’s Female Immigration Depot to 14 October
  Track the voyages made by immigrant women to the colony, with a fascinating look at their belongings which were recovered from beneath the barracks’ floors.

JUSTICE AND POLICE MUSEUM

Corner Phillip and Albert Streets, Circular Quay
Open Sat-Sun 10am-5pm
Ph: 9252 1144

• Tough Men, Hard Times: Policing The Depression to 10 February 2008
  Explores the conflict and tension that confronted Sydney’s police during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART

140 George Street, The Rocks
Open daily 10am-5pm
Ph: 9245 2400

• Multiiplicity to 25 March
  A focus on prints and ‘multiples’, including Andy Warhol’s hotdog bean.
  
• Stephen Birch: Looking Out My Back Door 15 March–20 May
  The first major solo exhibition for the Sydney-based artist — sculptures including garbage bags, chandeliers and trees.
  
• Craigie Horsfield: Relation 15 March–3 June
  A vision of humanity and art, from the renowned British photographer and film-maker.
  

MUSEUM OF SYDNEY

Cnr Phillip and Bridge Streets, Sydney
Open daily 9:30am-5pm
Ph: 9251 5966

• Bridging Sydney to 29 April
  An exciting exhibition commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
• Homes In The Sky: Apartment Living In Sydney from 12 May
  Traces the controversial place of apartment developments in Australia’s identity and urban culture.

CUSTOMS HOUSE

31 Alfred Street, Circular Quay
www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/customshouse

• Drinking Customs: An Exploration Of Pub Culture Around Sydney to 31 March
  A fascinating look at the social history of drinking, and how attitudes towards it have changed over the years.
• Commuters At The Quay to 31 March
  In this pictorial display at the Customs House Library, see the changing face of Circular Quay from early settlement to present day.

POWERHOUSE MUSEUM

500 Harris Street, Ultimo
9217 0111

• Smart Works: Design And The Handmade from 30 March
  Covering the likes of fashion, lighting, furniture and jewellery, this takes a look at what the term ‘handmade’ really means, and why it matters.

SH ERVIN GALLERY

Watson Road, Observatory Hill, The Rocks
Open Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat & Sun 12-5pm
Ph: 9258 0173

• Salon Des Refuses to 29 April
  Every year the S.H. Ervin Gallery’s guest selectors go behind the scenes at the Art Gallery of New South Wales to choose an alternative exhibition of portraits and landscapes from the entries to the Archibald and Wynne Prizes.

SYDNEY OLYMPIC PARK

Homebush
9714 7888

• Art Express to 22 April
  Some of the most promising young artists from Western Sydney will have their work on display at The Armory, in a collection entitled ‘Gentle by Nature’.

IMAX

Darling Harbour
open daily 10am-10pm
Ph: 9281 3300
www.imax.com.au

• Watch “Shackleton” and retrace legendary explorer Ernest Shackleton and his team’s steps as they fought for two years to survive in the Antarctic; encounter some of the underwater world’s most exotic creatures in “Deep Sea 3D” or trek into Botswana’s Kalahari Desert with “Lions 3D: Roar of the Kalahari” These films and many others screen on the huge IMAX screens at Darling Harbour. Session times are set on a week-to-week basis with session times updated every Monday.