Sydney

Sydney - We Need to Talk! Vol.2 /  by Wendy Murray

We’ve published the second volume of Sydney - We Need to Talk!

Book Launch
6-8PM
Tuesday 8 October 2024
Damien Minton Presents
50 Buckingham Street, Surry Hills / Gadigal / Australia

This second volume of Sydney - We Need To Talk! is a production of the Urban Crew - a group of people who have been meeting together every week in the Madsen Building at the University of Sydney to talk about cities. We’re academic staff, postgraduate and undergraduate students, and occasionally interested others from a range of academic disciplines.

Vol.2 contributors: Sophia Maalsen, Laurence Troy, Sophie Webber, Alistair Sisson, Wendy Murray, Ellen Burke, Kurt Iveson, Elizabeth Duncan, Pratichi Chatterjee, Dallas Rogers and Chris Gibson.

Drawing along the train lines /  by Wendy Murray

Ecologies of Forgotten Urban Ecosystems

A collaborative project with Professor Dieter Hochuli and Associate Professor Kurt Iveson.
Focusing on active and abandoned railway corridors, and water storage and distribution infrastructures, this project will: document the animal and plant species that have found home in the city thanks to the fencing of these infrastructures; analyse the implications of these ecologies for the planning and management of existing and future urban infrastructure.

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Sydney OPERA HOUSE : Draw the House /  by Wendy Murray

Draw the House

With Todd Fuller, Antonia Pesenti, Wendy Murray and Shireen Taweel

Create a range of drawings inspired by one of the world's most iconic buildings.

Once a month join like-minded creative souls to explore the Opera House and its surroundings through the eyes of an artist. Working with a different artist each month, explore various drawing techniques, and perspectives inspired by one of the world's most iconic buildings. 

You will also learn from an expert Tour Guide about the influence of visual arts in the Opera House history, including the beautiful tapestries that grace our venues and foyer spaces. 

Drawing is practical as an architectural and engineering blueprint, but it is also a tool for creative expression and making meaning, visually documenting what we see or imagine on paper, for others to view, interpret and enjoy.

From the very beginning, drawings have played a significant role in the Opera House’s history – a global architectural competition saw entries from all over the world, where a relatively unknown Danish architect, Jorn Utzon, became the winner of a new National Opera House for Sydney. Utzon’s original and somewhat controversial design was an imaginative sculptural response that the judges were convinced would be ‘capable of becoming one of the great buildings of the world’. 

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