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  • Participatory

    Open Field Agency

    We have been asked to propose creative ideas that could make this new public place meaningful,...

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  • Augmenting Spatiality by RAP PAR

    Installation

    Augmenting Spatiality

    Inter-national light and sound installation including recorded ambient sound from Istanbul....

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  • Abercrombie Lane, Sydney

    Installation

    Food on the table

    Participatory art based on the concept of a communal meal in a laneway prepared from discarded...

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  • Banker Baker Spanglemachine Maker by Justene Williams

    Installation

    Banker Baker Spanglemachine Maker

    Video performance within complex sets projected high onto the wall of the building in Curtin Place....

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  • Har Bour View by Jon Campbell

    Installation

    Har Bour View

    Large text banner with the words HAR BOUR VIEW against a pastel...

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  • For Rent by Rocket Mattler

    Installation

    For Rent

    Life size photograph of a suburban house with a painted metal sign stating, ‘Room for rent, apply...

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  • Rush by Nike Savvas

    Installation

    Rush

    Thousands of multi-coloured strips suspended from cables to form an animated ceiling for the...

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  • Woodwork by Simon Yates

    Poster Installation

    Woodwork

    Large paper photocopies pasted to the wall featuring old typewriters and telephones with hidden...

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  • Mapping Community by Erin Turner and Peita Blythe

    Mural

    Mapping Community

    As local residents, we understand the vibrant tapestry of Newtown – its iconic spaces and...

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  • Portal by Skunk Control

    Installation

    Portal

    Light can be affected depending on the type of material it passes through. We have used complex...

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  • Nicole Foreshew 2013 born in darkness before dawn

    Installation

    born in darkness before dawn

    Larger-than-life images of Aboriginal women draped in cloth were projected onto the façade of the...

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  • WindGrid 2012 Tim Knowles

    Installation

    WindGrid, WindLab, WindWalk

    Three public artworks celebrating the power of the...

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  • A leaf from the book of cities 2012 Makeshift

    Installation

    A leaf from a book of cities

    On the edges of an organic farmer’s market in the thick of the city, a curatorium of thinkers,...

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  • Family Unit: Chill Trailer 2009 Laneways program

    Installation

    Family unit: chill trailer

    A mobile trailer that opened up and expanded with events and...

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  • Infinity Forest 2009 Laneways program photo

    Installation

    Infinity forest

    A temporary forest with an unexpected concentration of nature and an intimate reflective...

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  • Urban Bar Code 2009 Laneways program

    Installation

    The_Urban_Barcode

    The barcode of Jan Gehl'’s “Life Between Building” was re-created using white fluorescent tubes....

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  • The Meeting Place 2009 Laneways program

    Installation

    The meeting place

    A playful installation encouraging participation and...

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  • I dwell in the city 2009 Laneways program

    Installation

    I dwell in the city

    Prosthetic skins were applied to the brick walls, and a barely audible heartbeat pulsed through the...

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  • 7m bar 2009 Laneways program

    Installation

    Seven Metre Bar

    An interactive installation celebrating inaction on climate change, with a drinking bar at an...

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  • Always was always will be 2012 Reko Rennie at Taylor Square

    Mural

    Always was always will be

    A mixture of traditional imagery and contemporary techniques explores what it means to be...

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  • We are here 2013 Foley Street - Launch with Art Month

    Mural

    WE ARE HERE

    A mural that extends along the façade of Foley Street, parallel to Oxford Street, in Darlinghurst....

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  • Lynette Wallworth 2012 Rekindling Venus: in plain sight

    Poster Installation

    Rekindling Venus: In Plain Sight

    A series of posters of coral triggered a mobile phone application connecting viewers to a virtual...

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  • Cycle-In Cinema 2012 MRA

    Installation

    Cycle-in Cinema

    A three day pedal powered cinema, screening a changing program of short...

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  • CAMP Stonewall 2010 Annie Kennedy

    Installation

    CAMP Stonewall

    An installation celebrating the achievement of the gay rights movement over the past 40...

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  • Drift 2011 David Cross

    Installation

    Drift

    A huge yellow tunnel sprouting jets of water, inflated over the Taylor Square...

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  • Unravel 2009 Louisa Dawson

    Installation

    Unravel

    A giant roll of bitumen appeared to roll out a section of road where Bourke Street once ran....

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  • Underworld 2010 Dale Miles

    Installation

    Underworld

    A series of colourful, large scale, spider legs emerging from the disused underground men’s...

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  • Archaeology of bathing

    Sculpture

    Archaeology of bathing

    An installation reflecting upon the history of bathing at Woolloomooloo...

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