To keep you across our city’s tastiest visual treats, we give you Art Beat—a series all about Sydney's best exhibitions and art shows (and all the feels that only great art can give, of course). Some people might say art isn’t for everyone, but we disagree. There are no rules, and what you like is totally your own—whether it's pottery, pop-art or Bey and Jay going apeshit in the Louvre.
From a jeweller turned sculptor, to one of Australia's greatest painters and an art dinner by the sea—February does pack a punch with art.
So here you go. We give you a taste of all the arty sights, shows and exhibitions you should be seeing this month.
Exhale
Opening on 13th January, Holly Ryan’s Exhale at Jerico Contemporary promises to be as gentle as the exhibition title suggests. Though her expert craftsmanship has always elevated her eponymous line of jewellery to art, it was sculpting her own mannequins for fashion week that marked a new path. A year after her premiere exhibition, the artist returns again with tender sculptural forms rendered from Hebel and an impulse to create. Here, Ryan marries historical references of European abstract art with Wabi-Sabi, the Japanese aesthetic of imperfection, to carve slow dancing bodily forms and faces that gaze with a sweet intensity.
What: Exhale When: 13 February - 9 March 2019 Where: Jerico Contemporary
View this post on InstagramThough celebrations of summer usually start to cool as the weather does, Last Days of Summer cooks up nostalgia for the season before it’s even over. A few menu faves include oysters (of course), a salad blue swimmer crab with white peaches, verjus jelly, almonds and mint, roasted lobster, and a liquorice and lemon sorbet to polish it all off. All of this, with a view of the actual ocean on the last light of summer, of course. Book in here before everyone else does.
What: Last Days of Summer art dinner When: 6:30PM Thursday 28 February 2019 Where: Pilu at Freshwater
After more art? Check out photographer George Byrne's images of LA's candy-coloured suburban sublime.
Image credit: Ebony Russell, Piped Dream - Pink Tiara (Nothing Breaks Like a Heart), 2019.