Storytelling by the artist from 7pm

Artist, storyteller, art alchemist, Yoanna Symbiosis uses art as a transformational
tool, drawing inspiration from nature, it’s flows, ornaments and textures, as well as
her dreams and intuitive insights. Exploring connection, communication and the
natural world, Yoanna considers the subtle dimensions, the ‘roots’ of what it means to be a human being, each symbol and motif building to a larger story.

Yoanna returns to Sydney after time spent living and working with First Nations
artists on Warumungu and Arrernte lands in Central Australia to tell the story of how she is learning from nature and the rich multidimensional life that exists between earth and cosmos.

Join us for a one-off exhibition of this powerful body of work and join Yoanna as she takes the time to tell the stories encoded in her art.

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Tortuga Studios
Opening Friday 28^th November 2025, 6-9pm

Exhibition For one night only – with Artist Yoanna storytelling session at 7pm.

Gallery Hours: view by appointment.

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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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