German artist Sabine Hornig will create the largest permanent public artwork to date at Barangaroo South. Commissioned by Lendlease and the Barangaroo Development Authority, Shadows by Sabine Hornig will be installed across a 170-metre walkway connecting the three international towers at Barangaroo South. Due to be finished by the end of 2018, the vast site-specific installation will see Hornig’s photographic images of indigenous Sydney flora layered onto high curtains of multi-coloured glass walls in the walkways and passages between the towers, providing a visual axis for pedestrians traversing the site. In developing her work, Hornig spent time in and around Sydney, sourcing imagery that is native to the areas surrounding Sydney Harbour. The final designs in the artwork feature native plants, transparent shadows and reflections that are combined to create a botanical discovery route along the Through-Site-Link. The transparent glass in the artwork reflects what Hornig describes as “beautiful iridescent shadows” that will reflect the viewers’ own faces and bodies. Pedestrians become participants in the art and “people will literally walk through the imagery,” she says.

Underbelly Arts today announced the program for the 2017 Underbelly Arts Lab and Festival that will be presented for the first time at the National Art School, marking the Festival’s ten-year anniversary. New Festival Director Roslyn Helper revealed 21 ambitious new projects by Australian artists will be presented at the 2017 Festival running from 7-8 October 2017 and spanning a diverse range of mediums including installation, performance, dance, sound, visual art, intervention, digital art, radical opera, activist and participatory practices.

Sydney Contemporary, Australasia’s international art fair, today announced the 15 Australian and International artists exhibiting in the 2017 Installation Contemporary program. Spanning a range of mediums from painting and sculpture, drawing and ceramics, through to installation and video, the artists in Installation Contemporary will present ambitious and large-scale artworks across the entire Carriageworks multi-arts precinct in Redfern, Sydney, for the Fair being presented from 7 to 10 September 2017.

Responding to the unique architecture of Carriageworks, Installation Contemporary is an exhibition of inspiring, striking and innovative installations ranging from the handcrafted to the digital, throughout the Carriageworks precinct. Curated this year by Rachel Kent (Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia) and Megan Robson (Assistant Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia), Installation Contemporary showcases ambitious and large-scale artworks by established and senior artists including Betty Kuntiwa Pumani, Nike Savvas and Maio Motoko alongside a younger generation of artists including Richard Lewer, Lara Merrett, Sanné Mestrom and teamLab.