External landscapes and the environment are constantly shaping artists, affecting their subject matter but also the mediums they are using to create these artworks. These current environmental changes are being explored this week through art and literature.
Read moreBliss Review
When we tell stories, what do they do? This is one of the central questions animating Bliss, currently on show at Belvoir. Adapted from Peter Carey’s 1981 novel by Tom Wright and directed by Matthew Lutton, the play questions the way that men in Australia tell stories and the impact that it has on all of those who surround them.
Read moreBY0 Culture June 18-25
Memory and presence signify a broad range of artistic practice, and are the subject of works in this week’s Culture Guide. Between painting and photography, group and solo shows, the ties between the personal and the particular are explored.
Read morePerforming Reality: Real Real 2
What’s the opposite of real? Fiction, virtual? Can something or someone be more real; really real? Or doubly real; real real. On June 15, 2018 at 1.30pm a real performance will occur at Campbelltown Arts Centre and will be simultaneously broadcast via Facebook live.
Read moreBYO Culture Guide June 11-17
Returning to the medium of paint for this week’s culture guide does not mean that this approach is a stable practice. From place-based design to light works, painting continues to be a dynamic medium that responds to the realities and imaginations that are depicted.
Read moreAbove Ground: Artistic Director Joshua Thomson talks physical theatre and risk
FORM Dance Projects and Riverside Theatres are presenting the exciting double bill, Above Ground. The dance production presents physical theatre company Legs on the Wall’s Cat’s Cradle, which will be performed alongside Kathryn Puie’s Soft Prosthetics and Metal Gods.
Read moreArtist in Context: Daniel Riley
The invasion of what would come to be known as Australia by Arthur Phillip and the First Fleet, while often thought of as a beginning, should instead be thought of as an end, or a rupture with established cycles of time, land and people, to be replaced by the tyranny of linear time.
Read moreBYO Culture Guide June 3 - 10
This week BYO heads south. Taking the Illawarra line down to Thirroul and Wollongong, we’ll show you how Sydney doesn’t have a monopoly when it comes to art and culture in NSW. If you’re thinking about exploring further afield over the long weekend, it’s worth stopping in at these galleries to see what artists, who are continuing their practice outside of the big smoke, are up to.
Read moreBetween These Walls: Carriageworks
There’s a semi-apocryphal story about the establishment of Carriageworks. It is said that during a helicopter ride in 2002 with the then NSW Premier, Bob Carr, French avant garde theatre director Ariane Mnouchkine pointed down at the decommissioned Eveleigh railway yards and asked why wasn’t this space being used for the arts.
Read moreBYO Culture Guide May 28 - June 3
This week’s culture guide offers a selection of the broad swath of contemporary art. From practice-based spiritual work, to high-modern abstraction, these exhibitions together provide an insight into the diverse artistic practices being engaged with at the present time.
Read moreBetween These Walls: National Theatre of Parramatta
The point at which a fresh water river meets a salt water harbour contains some of the highest biodiversity in any aquatic ecosystem. The Riverside Theatres, home to the National Theatre of Parramatta (NToP) sits just above that point on the right bank of the Parramatta river.
Read moreBYO Culture Guide May 21 - 27
Landscape, time and memory bring this week’s collection of exhibitions together. From the light of Sydney’s waterways to the darkness of Belanglo forest, artists are taking inspiration from our natural environment as well as the social implications and associations tied to these landscapes.
Read moreGood Design Awards Winners Revealed
Last month Backyard Opera went behind the scenes to explore some of the most exciting innovations entered in the Good Design Awards, and now, the Good Design Awards have revealed their winners.
Read moreBYO Culture Guide May 14 – 21
Taking a break from the rounds of exhibition openings and gallery shows, this week’s Culture Guide highlights a selection of talks and workshops happening across Sydney this week.
Read moreThe Sugar House Speaks to the bitter-sweet familiarity of family and perseverance in the face of hardship
For a millennia we’ve been trying to dissect Sydney’s mystical rise from humble beginnings to a city of immense fortune, and Alana Valentine’s story following three generations of working-class Pyrmont women …
Read moreArtist in Context: Emily Parsons-Lord
Sitting down with multidisciplinary artist Emily Parsons-Lord is to feel elevated.
Read moreBYO Culture Guide May 7 – 13
With Head On Photo Festival kicking off last week, for this week’s culture guide we present five different takes on photography.
Read moreBetween These Walls: Urban Theatre Projects
Structured in a horseshoe shape around a central, grassy courtyard, Bankstown Arts Centre provides a hub for performance and the arts in South West Sydney.
Read moreBYO Culture Guide April 30 – May 6
Stretching the boundaries of art has often provoked the most intriguing insights into the nature of art and cultural practice. All of the exhibitions this week in their own ways asks us to reconsider the limits and borders that we place on art.
Read moreHandel’s Audacious Athalia makes its Australian debut
Handel’s daring Opera Athalia presents its world premiere for the first time in Australia this June. First performed in 1733, Handel’s Baroque Opera is based on the story of the Biblical Queen Athalia, who was determined to stamp out the Jewish line of Kings descended from David.
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