Sydney Contemporary

The Sydney Contemporary Art Fair had a special interest for us this year as the Stanley Street Gallery (in Darlinghurst) featured the work of a rising young artist who we all know and love as the very talented Claire P.......

This is how her two paintings looked at the entrance to the Stanley Street Gallery "booth" at the Carriageworks yesterday ..........

It was actually very crowded most of the time - and we were there when Claire's largest work SOLD, late yesterday afternoon - so exciting!

The Art Fair was huge - a bit overwhelming actually for a single afternoon visit - but very exciting, enthralling and stimulating to see so much creativity all together in the one space.

I was just thrilled to see our other fave artist yesterday afternoon too - Ben Quilty, doing book signings for his fundraiser for the children of Syrian refugees (sigh!)

Although we thought his latest work, exposing the "bottom feeders" of our society, was pretty confronting in the space allocated!

Patricia Piccinini's super real work is always very thought provoking - and we love the fact she works in Canberra a lot (or at least some of the time).

And to continue the biotech issues theme I was very struck by Yhonnie Scarce's Strontium 90 installation too.......

 The Carriageworks at Everleigh looked beautiful in the early evening light as we were leaving at the end of an exciting day ......

We stayed in Surry Hills this visit - a favourite haunt of ours but a big change for us not to be in Coogee, as our home base in Sydney.  We dined well in Surry Hills with Claire and Nat: a wonderful dinner at Nour in Crown Street and breakfast at the iconic Bills this morning. The venerable old "Clock" hotel is a bit of a landmark in Surry Hills for us too

On the way out of Sydney this morning we could not resist a visit to our beautiful Coogee.

 It was just sparkling on this breezy, cool Spring morning ....

Beautiful Sydney!!