Artspace Visual Arts Centre
Artspace, officially Artspace Visual Arts Centre, is an independent, not-for-profit and non-collecting residency-based contemporary art centre. Artspace is housed in the historic Gunnery Building in Woolloomooloo, fronting Sydney Harbour in Sydney, Australia. Devoted to the development of certain new ideas and practices in contemporary art and culture, since the early 1980s Artspace has been building a critical context for Australian and international artists, curators and writers.
Artspace Visual Arts Centre
The Gunnery, 43-51 Cowper Wharf Road, Woolloomooloo
Installation view of the 21st Biennale of Sydney, 2018
Installation view of Just Not Australian at Artspace, 2019
Woolloomooloo is a harbourside, inner-city eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1.5 kilometres east of the central business district, in the local government area of the City of Sydney. It is in a low-lying, former docklands area at the head of Woolloomooloo Bay, on Sydney Harbour. The Domain sits to the west, the locality of East Sydney is near the south-west corner of the suburb and the locality of Kings Cross is near the south-east corner. Potts Point is immediately to the east.
Finger Wharf
Woolloomooloo Bay in 1855 (watercolour)
Overlooking Woolloomooloo from the Domain Park, with the Bells Hotel (red brick building) in the foreground
Aerial view