Current exhibitions

Ridge Street Window Gallery

Olivia Arnold 33.8368° S, 151.2073° E - Tracing North Sydney Through Silhouette | 19 April to 27 May 2024

From June 2023, Olivia began a residency at Council's Ridge Street Artists Studios. Supported by Council's Creative Grants Program, Olivia undertook a 40-week drawing project, recording the suburban silhouettes found around her studio and home. This exhibition and accompanying book have been produced as documentation of the residency and drawing project. The book will be available for purchase, and to borrow from Stanton Library.
 

Olivia Arnold is a multidisciplinary artist working on Cammeraygal land. Since graduating from the National Art School, she has developed a practice that has a strong focus on materiality and observation of her environment. Olivia is one of five artists in residence at Council's Ridge Street Artists Studios.

Image: Olivia Arnold in her studio (image credit Millie Mitchell)

View the Ridge Street Window Gallery from the street until 10pm daily.

Inside Outside Sculpture Plinth

Sylvia Griffin Light as Air | 1 March to 15 April 2024

Marble, plaster, string, nylon thread

Sylvia Griffin is a multi-discipline contemporary artist with a practice ranging across sculpture, installation, textiles, video and photography.

Sylvia’s studio work is materially diverse, often incorporating indexical notions of absence and the leaving of traces. This often involves those materials traditionally employed in memorial culture – such as metal and stone – and other forms including textiles and more fugitive examples such as hair, fire, wax and light. The relevance of time, memory and ritual are important aspects in this work.

Sylvia Griffin lives and works in Sydney, Australia. She holds a PhD from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney and has exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions, awards and prizes both nationally and internationally, most recently in the B#Side War Project in Treviso, Italy. She has received various commendations, grants and scholarships, was the winner of the 2013 Willoughby Sculpture Prize, Drawing Prize winner of the 2022 North Sydney Art Prize, and has been shortlisted for several national awards.

Sylvia is currently an artist in residence at Council's Alfred Street Artists' Studios.

Visit the Inside Outside Sculpture Plinth in Ted Mack Civic Park day or night.