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Courtney Kidd

James Angus, Truck corridor,, 2004, installation with a MACK truck. Angus has squeezed a MACK truck into the Level 2 Contemporary Project space. At the Art Gallery of NSW until 4 October.

Venice Biennale

It was probably Ricky Swallow’s Killing time (see Artnotes NSW #168 April 2004) that won him pride of place among the seventy-five potential applicants to represent Australia at the forthcoming Venice Biennale. His carved life-size table laden with fish and crustaceans was a hypnotic homage to the still life tradition and it will now be on show in Venice. Fortunately, it has been purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales for $180,000 with funds from the Rudy Komon Memorial Fund and the gallery’s Contemporary Collection Benefactors.

Stencils take to the street

Check out the stencil art at the World Square Retail (WSR) development on the quadrant of George, Liverpool, Goulburn and Pitt Streets in the heart of Sydney’s CBD. The developer, Multiplex, has teamed up with eighteen of the country’s most acclaimed graffiti artists from Citylights Project to paint the 170-metre hoarding surrounding the development. Outside the square will be on display until WSR opens its doors for trading in March next year. Then each panel will then be auctioned with the money raised going to charities supporting homeless youth. Participating artists include Richard Butler-Bowdon, James Dodd, Michael Fikaris, Kieran Mangan and Al Stark, all who have shown at the National Gallery of Australia and most recently at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne. KJD

Rejuvenated spaces

Once a brick factory, a bakery, and a wind tnnel testing laboratory, the raw sheds space of the Tin Sheds Gallery on City Road near Sydney University’s Wentworth Building has yet again reinvented itself and moved down the road. The new architect-designed (how could it not be?) premises are within the Faculty of Architecture’s Wilkinson Building, located at 148 City Road, University of Sydney. Call 02 9351 3115 … Meanwhile, the Brett Whiteley Studio has reopened after structural repairs. It is currently featuring key works from the artist who purchased the old T-shirt factory in 1985. Under his direction, the building was fitted out with a white-walled gallery space, studio and living quarters. Throughout October and November you can visit the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship exhibition finalists. Beryl Whiteley, the artist’s mother, funds the annual travelling scholarship, which includes $25,000 plus a three-month residency in Paris. Visit the Brett Whiteley Studio at 2 Raper Street, Surry Hills. Call 029225 1881.