Sydney Exhibitions and Shows Events

Explore the fascinating history of the World Heritage listed Hyde Park Barracks where thousands of convicts lived between 1819 and 1848. Learn about the daily lives of convicts and how they built the colony, try on some leg-irons, lie in a convict...

Come along and experience art into the evening with the MCA's extended hours every Thursday. Each week enjoy the current exhibitions, hear informal talks by curators and other creative thinkers on curious, controversial and personal topics....

Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre is proud to host Sense of Place an AdLuxMediaArts exhibition toured by Museums and Galleries NSW.

Sense of Place is a screening program of contemporary Australian video art, showcasing the work of...

Get your hands on cracking contraptions at Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum from December 15. Step into the home of Wallace and Gromit and interact with their incredible inventions. Concoct smoothie...

A visit to the Art Gallery of New South Wales is a wonderful activity for kids of all ages. The Gallery holds a range of free programs for children from tots to teenagers, including free performances every second and last Sunday of the month and in...

For families with children 5 to 12 years old.

Rescue puts you in charge as you discover what it's like to be involved in land, sea and air rescues. Take control of a full-size helicopter simulator, navigate a jet ski to...

The face that stops a nation

From over 800 entries, 39 finalists are chosen, but ultimately there can be only one winner.

Awarded to the best painting of a notable Australian - from politicians to...

Take a satirical look at the year's best political highs and lows with a series of cartoons by Australia's leading cartoonists at Riverside Theatres.

The annual Behind the Lines exhibition showcases the...

In 2010 a team of explorers comprising wildlife photographers, filmmakers and scientists embarked on an expedition from the Antarctic Peninsula to South Georgia. This stunning visual record of the expedition captures life above and below the ice,...

Join the family fun every Sunday during school term at the Australian National Maritime Museum. Currently activities include making a pirates bandanna, a flag, a spyglass or a paper tall ship. There are also dress ups, books and interactive...

Benjamin Lowy is renowned for pushing creative boundaries and pioneering the use of mobile phone photography in the highest rungs of his profession.

iAfghanistan encapsulates five years of intermittent work in the country over...

This exhibition will display works by Gallery Members under the amusing title of Plates and Pitchas. The play on the word 'pitchas' allows for the double meaning of either pitchers (ceramic pouring jugs) or of course pictures...

An official part of the 2013 Reportage Festival Program

The Sydney Morning Herald Photos1440 Challenge is your chance to experience life as a photojournalist and win great prizes like a Canon EOS 5D Mark III Pro Kit (with...

In past exhibitions the Ludlites have explored Sydney and nature. In 2013, song lyrics are the latest to be examined through a plastic lens.

The Ludlites shoot exclusively on film using plastic lensed cameras in an ongoing quest...

An official part of the 2013 Reportage Festival Program Magnum photographer and one of the most important colour photographers of the last 40 years, Alex Webb (USA), is best known for his vibrant and complex colour work, particularly from Latin...

Photographers Holli Holitzer and Angela Robertson Buchanan have created It's a Dog's Life, an exquisite exhibition of photos of dogs and close ups of insects that will be hung among the trees on the dog walkers' path in Centennial...

This exhibition showcases the rich, large-scale photographs of documentary photographer Mine Konakci. The works reveal the connection between convict settlers, their direct descendants and the petty crimes that changes the course of their...

BACKYARD: Images from mobile phones will inhabit the Superintendents Residence from 17 May - 23 June 2013. Technology has come a long way in a short period of time allowing everyone with a mobile phone to snap a photo on whim and capture moments...

The Head On Photo Festival has opened entries to the prestigious 2013 Head On Portrait Prize and the newly established Head Off Landscape Prize and Head On Momento Photobook Awards. For the first time the Portrait Prize will be exhibited at the...

Head On Photo Festival, the creation of Moshe Rosenzveig and Head On Foundation, returns to Sydney for its fourth year from 17th May until the 23rd June. The Festival has grown significantly since launched in 2010 from 70 events to over 200 in 2013....