: The Brett Whiteley Studio is managed by the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Nestled among the cafés and laneways, warehouses and terrace houses of the inner-Sydney suburb of Surry Hills, the Brett Whiteley Studio  offers a rare and intimate insight into the art and life of one of the most celebrated and intensely creative artists of 20th-century Australia.

Passionate, charismatic, wild, gifted, troubled, prolific; Whiteley was a unique and extraordinary artistic spirit and his studio concentrates everything that made him so in one place. A converted T-shirt factory, it remained as Whiteley’s living, working and exhibition space until his death in June 1992.

Today, it houses changing exhibitions of the artist’s works and, upstairs, his living quarters with personal belongings such as old photographs, postcards, furniture, sketchbooks and his book and music collection. Upstairs also contains the studio itself, with brushes, a paint-splattered floor and an unfinished painting leaning against the wall. It’s as if he has just stepped out.

 

CURRENT EXHIBITION: Floating world: landscape, the figure & calligraphy in the art of Brett Whiteley
On view: 21 March – 6 September 2009

 

ART WORKSHOPS: Life drawing
Saturdays, 10:30AM - 12:30PM
Tutor: Jenny Hall

$348 - 12 weeks
$204 -  6 weeks
$144 -  4 weeks
$40 for one class

Bookings and pre-payment essential
T  (02) 9225 1740
F  (02) 9225 1842
E  pp@ag.nsw.gov.au

 

SUNDAYS @ 2PM: Poets Union poetry readings held at the Brett Whiteley Studio, 2pm on the fourth Sunday of the month. Free entry, featured guest poet and open mic.