When Carriageworks went into voluntary administration during the Covid-19 downturn last year, many artists lost work and Sydneysiders were robbed of one of their best venues. The rescue was protracted and involved both public and private funds.
The New South Wales governments Covid-19 rescue packages for artists were famously far smaller, and came far later, than support from other state governments: a double insult in view of the fact that Sydney rents are much higher. When Restart NSW was announced, Carriageworks jumped with No Show, a group exhibition of 11 artist-led initiatives. Featuring more than 50 mostly emerging and experimental artists, it is the ideal event to animate the cavernous foyer in the fallow period between the Sydn…
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