Carriageworks invites eleven artist-led initiatives from across New South Wales for ‘No Show’. Including artist-run spaces, studios, cooperatives, digital platforms and online publications, each group presents an independent program that profiles early career and under-represented artists. Across three weeks, artists and writers work within the discrete but connected spaces designed by architects Youssofzay + Hart.

Image 1: Left to Right: Simon Lawrence, ‘Various ceramics’, 2020-21 for Our Neon Foe; Athena Thebus, ‘Bunny’, 2021 for Firstdraft; and Priscilla Bourne, ‘Horatio’ 2021 for Our Neon Foe. Installation view ‘No Show’, 2021, Carriageworks. Photo credit Zan Wimberley.
Image 2: Jodie Whalen, ‘A new and different sun’, 2021 for Prototype. Installation view ‘No Show’, 2021, Carriageworks. Photo credit Zan Wimberley.
Image 3: Ella Sutherland, ‘Becoming Cyclonic’ 2021 for Ankles. Installation view ‘No Show’, 2021, Carriageworks. Photo credit Zan Wimberley.
Image 4: Tom Blake, ‘holding on to the stream’, 2021 for Firstdraft. Installation view ‘No Show’, 2021, Carriageworks. Photo credit Zan Wimberley.

Wednesday to Sunday, 10am-5pm.

This is a free exhibition.

Our Neon Foe performance: Kate Brown, Echo Interna Ripetere
13 Feb, 11am
Public Space
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Running Dog book launch: Scenes (For a pilot about…)
27 Feb, 2pm
Running Dog Exhibition Space
Allocation exhausted

Our Neon Foe performance: Mark Brown, UNKNOWN PLEASURES DRONE # 2
6 Mar, 11am
Public Space
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Running Dog digital poetry workshop with Hannah Jenkins and Rory Green
6 Mar, 2pm
Running Dog Exhibition Space
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Studio A artists working onsite: Butterfly Universe. Rainbow Plait
Every Wed, Thurs & Fri: 11am – 2.30pm
Every Sat: 10am – 12.30pm
Studio A Exhibition Space

Runway Journal, Issue 43: Divine Call Out Q&A
Every Saturday, 11am – 3pm
Runway Journal Exhibition Space

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In line with recent regulations, all visitors are required to wear a mask in the public space, Bay 21 Exhibition and in the theatre spaces. Thank you for keeping our community safe.

Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and Create NSW, with Media Partner Broadsheet.

No Show, ARI, Artist Run Initiative, Independent Art, Independent Artists, Contemporary Art, Visual Art
ANKLES:  Presenting Whether the Weather by artist Ella Sutherland
No Show, ARI, Artist Run Initiative, Independent Art, Independent Artists, Contemporary Art, Visual Art
Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative:  Presenting Loom curated by Kyra Kum-Sing, including artists Rubyrose Bancroft, Chenaya Bancroft-Davis, Jamie Eastwood, Jenny Fraser and Maddison Gibbs
No Show, ARI, Artist Run Initiative, Independent Art, Independent Artists, Contemporary Art, Visual Art
Firstdraft:  Presenting Close Contact, including artists Tom Blake, Amy Claire Mills, Jazz Money, Athena Thebus and Leo Tsao
No Show, ARI, Artist Run Initiative, Independent Art, Independent Artists, Contemporary Art, Visual Art
KNULP  Presenting Good Will Hunting
No Show, ARI, Artist Run Initiative, Independent Art, Independent Artists, Contemporary Art, Visual Art
Our Neon Foe:  Presenting artists Priscilla Bourne, Kate Brown, Mark Brown, Chris Burton, Simon Lawrence, Nicola Morton
No Show, ARI, Artist Run Initiative, Independent Art, Independent Artists, Contemporary Art, Visual Art
Pari:  Presenting 5 from 5 curated by Kalanjay Dhir, Talitha Hanna and Tian Zhang, including artists Richmond Kobla Dido (Kobla Photography), Leila el Rayes, Kath Fries, Mehmet Mevlütoğlu and Feras Shaheen 
No Show, ARI, Artist Run Initiative, Independent Art, Independent Artists, Contemporary Art, Visual Art
Prototype:  Presenting Radical Ecologies curated by Lauren Carroll Harris, including artists Tiyan Baker, Hannah Brontë, Amelia Hine, Robert Nugent, Sam Smith and Jodie Whalen with essay by writer Phoebe Chen
No Show, ARI, Artist Run Initiative, Independent Art, Independent Artists, Contemporary Art, Visual Art
Running Dog:  Presenting a residency programincluding writers June Tang, Anne-Marie Te Whiu and Chloe Watfernalongside text by writers Sarinah Masukor and Naomi Riddle
No Show, ARI, Artist Run Initiative, Independent Art, Independent Artists, Contemporary Art, Visual Art
Runway Journal:  Presenting Issue 43: Divine curated by Nathan Beard, including artists and writers Aisyah Aaqil Sumito, Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson, Diego Ramirez and JD Reforma
No Show, ARI, Artist Run Initiative, Independent Art, Independent Artists, Contemporary Art, Visual Art
Studio A:  Presenting Butterfly Universe. Rainbow Plait by artists Mathew Calandra, Jaycee Kim and Skye Saxon
No Show, ARI, Artist Run Initiative, Independent Art, Independent Artists, Contemporary Art, Visual Art
WAYOUT Artspace:  Presenting the Bitter Crust, including artists Gus Armstrong, Leo Cremonese, Flavia Dujour, Karen Golland, Michael Petchkovsky, Georgina Pollard, Greg Pritchard, Julie Williams and Alex Wisser