Set to roar into life as the sun slinks over the horizon on Saturday 10th August, the garden will feature the work of over 40 artists, fire-based installations, interactive works, sculptures, projections, live music, DJs, campfires, food trucks and more beneath the jet trails at Sydenham Green.

“Fire’s real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences” Farenheit 451

— See you in The Fire Garden —

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Into the lucid translucency of the Night Garden stomps the carnie, pie juice and fag ash smeared indelicately through his aura. Beneath gossamer skeins of light, bathed in iridescence, the candy butcher picks his teeth with a rusted safety pin before contemplating and consuming his juicy find…

Burnishing the inky darkness for just one night the Night Garden is diaphanous, a light exhibition that fills the back alleys of St Peters. But this year it is held hostage by the dark carnival of the mud circus – sliding in sideways and splayed with satire – adorning a darker shawl, woven with ruinous hedonism and lit with the glint from the ringmaster’s silver snarl.

On Friday September 25th, join us for a stroll through the garden of light that blooms just once a year and only at night; bathe in the milky splay of the projectors as they fill the cracks of our industrial space; or sit in the stillness of the shadows as they shift and slink in guilty pleasure.

But beware the carnies in for the haul, the twisted clanging of fire and metal and tar, lot lice on the loose high on burnt sugar, and the cackling dirge of demented clowns…

In association with Arcade Screenprinting, Dirty Kitsch, The Forge, The Velvet Garage, Little Flowers and Trolly’d, for the fifth year running, Tortuga Studios is proud to present some of Sydney’s most intriguing artists as they tend to their garden beneath the shadows of the night.

Follow the carnie’s bawl as it echoes along Mays Lane, a tirade of frolicking filth sullying the night garden that blooms at Tortuga Studios, its tendrils lighting the sultry dusk of Applebee and Hutchinson Streets from 6.30-9.30pm on Friday September 25th 2015.

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Image credit: Garth Knight ‘Ava’

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In the crevices of a darkened world in the back streets of St Peters glow exotic urban flowers that bloom but once a year and only at night. In the night garden light sculptures, installations and projections burnish the inky darkness, creating a sensory, evocative world full of salacious suggestion, delicate beauty and an ominous shiver of fear.

In association with Arcade Screenprinting, Dirty Kitsch, The Forge, The Velvet Garage and Little Flowers, and for the fourth year in a row, Tortuga Studios is proud to present some of Sydney’s most intriguing artists as they tend to their garden beneath the shadows of the night.

Follow the glimmer along Mays Lane to visit the night garden that blooms at Tortuga Studios, its tendrils lighting the sultry dusk of Applebee and Hutchinson Streets from sunset on Friday September 26th 2014.

Corner Applebee and Hutchinson Streets
St Peters
Friday 26th September 2014 6.30pm
FREE

Image credit: Chthonic 4 (Bliss) by Garth Knight

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As the Gregorian cycle grinds through its shuddering revolutions, sparks cast into the gloaming, we entice you to explore a dark world that glimmers with life.

(please tuck your friggatriskaidekaphobia snuggly beneath your arm).

In the crevices of a darkened world in the back streets of St Peters glow exotic urban flowers that bloom but once a year and only at night. In the night garden light sculptures, installations and projections burnish the inky darkness, creating a sensory, evocative world, full of salacious suggestion, delicate beauty and an ominous shiver of fear.

In association with the Sydney Fringe Festival, MAYS, INDEX, Wundermite, The Forge, Dirty Kitsch, Arcade Screenprinting, Tabula Rasa and Natural Knots Dreadlocks, Tortuga Studios are proud to present some of Sydney’s most intriguing artists as they tend to their garden beneath the shadows of the night.

Tucked into corners, skirting the line between heresy and transgression, the night garden feeds on folklore and superstition, never more than tonight, Friday 13th…

So follow the glimmer along Mays Lane to visit the night garden that blooms at Tortuga Studios, its tendrils lighting the sultry dusk of Applebee and Hutchinson Streets from sunset on Friday September 13th 2013.

FEATURING THE WORK OF THE FOLLOWING ARTISTS (in no particular order):

Pirate Photography
Alien Proof Construction
Ed Horne & Charlotte Hayward
Chris Fox and NAIL IT!
Pete Strong
Alex Holver
Bunkwaa
Ivan Smith and Datascene
Terhor
Azelia Maynard
Justin Maynard
Will Coles
Damian Martin
Pete Manwaring
Circusworks
Justin Harvey
Reuben Alexander
Terra Incognita
Sarah Sharky + MILKCRATE EVENTS
The Workshop Chef (not to be missed)
Jasmin Poole + Mike Rossi
Val Schulte
Isaac Gallagher
Mark Swartz
Lu Lu Cat
Sarah Breen Lovett
Yvette Hamilton
Rogue Simian
Terry Archer
Kai Archer
Jo Shand
Sergio Abugattas Tenaud
Zoe Adler Bishop
Rob Anyone
Dan Nimmo
Chris Retallack
Andros
Raul Manriquez
Alessandro Berini
Ramie Moussa

wrangling and untangling words

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