Five Bells: A Visual Ode to Sydney

Overview

Big, brash, boozy, beautiful — Sydney is many things, but it’s mainly its beauty that the Damien Minton Gallery is seeking to highlight in Five Bells. Using a passage from Kenneth Slessor's poem of the same name as a starting reference, this group exhibition hopes to raise discussion by visually exploring the elements that make up our harbour city.

Along with the photos, sketches and paintings there will be a range of readings and talks given by prominent local authors. To Gail Jones Sydney is a brilliant summer’s day around the on the iconic tourist hub of Circular Quay, which provides the introduction to her character-driven meditation on the city Five Bells. To Martin Edmond (Dark Night: Walking with McCahon) it’s the starting point of artist Colin McMahon’s mysterious midnight pilgrimage through the Sydney Botanic Gardens, and to Fiona McGregor the contrast between the affluent suburb of Mossman and a gritty Kings Cross tattoo parlour.

Whether it's blooming jacarandas or Oxford Street eccentrics, you'll rediscover something to add your own impressions of the city.