Every two years The Harbour Trust welcomes Australia’s largest contemporary visual arts event showcasing innovative and thought provoking works from around the world. Join SWIC on a guided private tour of works on display for The 21st Biennale of Sydney at Cockatoo Island.
On Cockatoo Island 20 artists will present works around movement, migration, production and participation, including works that grow or morph over the course of the Biennale.
Highlights-
Ai Weiwei’s Law of the Journey 2017- a 60 metre inflatable boat filled with more than 250 oversized figures, made from rubber used to manufacture the precarious vessels that carry refugees across the Agean Sea from Turkey to Greece.
Sydney artist Yasmin Smith will create a ceramics studio and open-air kiln alongside a ceramics installation featuring cast mangrove branches finished in a handmade ash wood glaze
DATE: Tuesday 20 March 2018
TIME: 10.30am – 12.30pm
VENUE: Cockatoo Island- a World Heritage Listed Site
COST: Free
RSVP TO: Kay Nicholas Email: [email protected] by Friday 9 March 2018
PLEASE NOTE that although there is no cost this is private guided tour and we have only been allocated 25 places, so please RSVP early to avoid disappointment.
RSVP BY: Friday 9 March 2018
TRANSPORT: Ferry to Cockatoo Island IMPORTANT INFORMATION Please be advised that this is a free service and we have been allocated a 10.30am departure time. You will be advised whether our ferry will depart from Circular Quay or from Barangaroo closer to the time. This will be a dedicated ferry wharf for those attending The Biennale.
FURTHER INFORMATION Our tour ends at 12.30 pm however you are welcome to stay on to revisit the works: enjoy a picnic lunch or visit one of the two cafés that will be open on the Island.
