Anna Schwartz Gallery, together with the 20th Biennale of Sydney and Carriageworks will present a new video work titled ‘Walk The Line’ by Australian artist Lauren Brincat for special guest on Friday 3 June at Carriageworks.

Working with performance and sculpture, Lauren Brincat constructs situations where the audience is invited to share her experience of everyday events. Brincat is known for her performative videos that document the artist walking in urban or natural environments, such as Walking in Traffic, 2012 and Dressing down, 2012, where the artist documents herself slowly unbuttoning her shirt. ​

During the Biennale, Brincat’s sculptural work Salt Lines: Play It As It Sounds, 2015-2016, has been on display at Carriageworks. Responding to the scale of Carriageworks’ large industrial spaces, the work is some five metres tall, can stretch to a length of 42 metres and has more than 1000 individual pleats. Conceived as a musical instrument where the body of the sculpture is made of pleated sails and brass tubing that play in response to movement, the work is activated each day by performers to reveal its broad spectrum and expressive character.

Mossgreen, Australia’s leading art business, is delighted to announce further expansion with the opening of a grand new Sydney premises featuring two large-scale exhibition galleries and auction rooms in Woollahra. Housed in The Bond, an iconic 1880s heritage building and former Masonic Hall on exclusive Queen Street, the new Mossgreen premises will open with the auction of renowned Australian photographer Max Dupain (1911-1922): Estate Photographs on 19 June 2016 and a commercial exhibition of works by New Zealand 2017 Venice Biennale representative Lisa Reihana.

Situated over all three levels of the historic The Bond building in the heart of Sydney’s art district, Mossgreen’s Sydney business will focus on the auction of single owner collections and commercial gallery exhibitions. Originally built as a tobacco factory in the 1880s, the building has been long associated with art events and most recently housed Rex Irwin Gallery and Anne Schofield Jewellery who will remain in the building.

Mossgreen will celebrate the opening of the new Sydney premises with the inaugural Sydney auction featuring the collection from one of Australia’s most significant photographers Max Dupain offered directly from the archive of the artist. Dupain is renowned for having created some of the most iconic Australian imagery of the 20th century, photographs which reflect a nation and its culture, and which resonate with the collective Australian consciousness like few others. The auction on 19 June 2016 will offer 500 original photographs by Dupain with estimates ranging from $700 to $30,000, including the most complete selection of images from his acclaimed Beach Series featuring his famous Sunbaker, 1937 (estimate: $20,000-30,000) and Bondi, 1939 (estimate: $5,000-8,000).

Carriageworks and Vivid Sydney present THE NIGHT MARKET, Sydney’s first large-scale immersive contemporary food and wine event, featuring some of the industry’s most respected names cooking live over flames and celebrating regional New South Wales produce, over two special winter evenings on 4 and 18 June 2016.

Curated by renowned Sydney chef and Creative Director of the Carriageworks Farmers Market, Mike McEnearney, the line up of the inaugural presentation of THE NIGHT MARKET features 50 stallholders representing New South Wales’ leading restaurants and providores including Archie Rose, Billy Kwong, Cake Wines, Cornersmith, Efendy, Icebergs, Pepe Saya, Porteno, Single Origin Roasters, Thievery and Young Henrys.

Inspired by the theme of ‘Cooking with Fire’, THE NIGHT MARKET invite visitors to engage with and learn from leading chefs as they cook live with flames, transforming exclusively New South Wales regional produce into inspired, bespoke food offerings.

More than 50 NSW producers will be showcased at THE NIGHT MARKET, including providores and winemakers from across the 14 wine regions of NSW from the Hunter Valley to the Canberra Region in the south, as well as beer and spirit makers. Each stallholder will profile the regional source of the produce they are using.

For the 32nd Kaldor Public Art Project, Sydney-based Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi artist Jonathan Jones will present barrangal dyara (skin and bones), marking the first Kaldor Public Art Project presented with an Australian Aboriginal artist and one of the largest and most significant to-date.

This ambitious contemporary art project will transform Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden from 17 September until 3 October 2016. A vast sculptural installation across 20,000 square-metres of the garden incorporating a native kangaroo grassland and thousands of ceramic shields will blanket the site, which will be activated and enlivened by presentations of Aboriginal language, performances, talks, special events and workshops each day. A major component of the Royal Botanic Garden’s Bicentenary Celebrations, barrangal dyara (skin and bones) is presented free to the public, and enormous numbers of visitors to the site over 17 days are anticipated.

barrangal dyara (skin and bones) will recall the 19th century Garden Palace building where it originally stood in Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden, between 1879 and 1882, before it devastatingly burnt to the ground, taking with it countless Aboriginal objects collected along the colonial frontier. The project is artist Jonathan Jones’s response to the immense loss felt throughout Australia due to the destruction of these culturally significant items. It represents an effort to commence a healing process and a celebration of the survival of the world’s oldest living culture despite this traumatic event.

Carriageworks, as part of Vivid Sydney 2016, presents SYDNEY TABLE, a series of bespoke dining experiences created by Sydney’s leading forces in food and creative industries from 27 May until 18 June 2016. Each dinner, 50 guests will be treated to an evening designed and prepared by some of Australia’s most exciting talents from the fields of food, music, art and design.

A variety of produce served will be sourced from the Carriageworks Farmers Market showcasing the best produce and local suppliers that NSW has to offer matched with local wines.

Carriageworks Farmers Market Creative Director Mike McEnearney worked with Carriageworks Director Lisa Havilah to curate the event and the pairings of chefs with creatives. Guests will have the opportunity to experience world class chefs in their element up close in the unique space, Bay 21.

The National Art School presents NAS Nights on Thursday 28 April 2016. NAS Nights is an exciting opportunity to experience the National Art School’s striking historic sandstone campus after dark, in a fun after-hours atmosphere with art, food, wine, music, talks and tours.

The first NAS Night of 2016 features the exhibition Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize with artists’ talks in the gallery, lively guided tours of the historical campus, live music and a range of refreshments to purchase at the pop-up bar and café. The free event brings the campus to life and allows a broader public to experience the beauty of the National Art School after dark.

The Australian Centre for Photography (ACP) has unveiled a new exhibition entitled Transfer, presented from 16 April until 15 May 2016, exploring the ideas around transition, moving and the complexities of in-between spaces. Featuring the work of both Australian and international artists, ‘Transfer’ features a diverse range of photographic forms by artists including Rachel Ireland, Leila Jeffreys, Katrin Koenning, Deb Mansfield, Stacy Mehrfar, Kurt Sorsenen and Jeroen Toirkens.

Transfer represents the final exhibition to be presented at ACP’s premises on Oxford Street in Sydney’s Paddington before the centre undertakes an exciting period of site-specific projects around greater Sydney and around Australia over the coming two years.

ACP’s site-specific pop-up exhibitions – situated across greater Sydney and around Australia – will be presented in collaboration with a number of major cultural organisations to produce photo-media experiences that will surprise and inspire diverse audiences.