Chris Lego returns from Bundjalung Country after a crisp decade after leaving Gadigal land to show ‘n’ tell a gallery full of cheap magic and Mostly Stolen Property. He was gonna go study to be a teacher, but moving to the rainbow region to fit into a box was wildly optimistic – proving that you shouldn’t snort lines of Lismore flood silt residue as you make art to exorcize your demons like a body double for the Butthole Surfers. This Queercore agent of spicy chaos has a showbag that includes zines, screenprinted treasure and deliciously subversive art: think ominous postcards, a series of paintings that scaffold deep secrets, to lightboxes that deftly illuminate the blinding horizon of Australia’s housing crisis…

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Tortuga Studios
Opening Friday 19^th December 2025, 6-9pm

Gallery Hours: view by appointment.

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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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FRIDAY, 12^th April 2024 6pm-10pm

at
Tortuga Studios

Tractor snarls on the highways of Europe, pandemics, Palestine shattered into dust – dis\ruption shocks the system. It can create cataclysmic change, or whimper into obscurity, but it always elicits a reaction.

From turmoil to disarray, interruption, obstruction, and Kendall Jenner ending police brutality with a Pepsi, dis\ruption has an impact. To some it is ‘marketing innovation’; to others, it is the catalyst for solidarity and a call to arms. To many, it simply requires a hurried apology for ‘the inconvenience’. More often than not, it is a challenge to the status quo, a demand that you sit up and take note…

Featuring the work of over 20 artists, dis\ruption is a group show at Tortuga Studios for which you should expect to be challenged.

Bring your reactions…

WHERE: 31 Princess Hwy St Peters

WHEN: Friday 12^th April 2024
AT: 6:00pm-10:00pm

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Remembrance can be the act of showing respect for the dead: rosemary sprigs for the ANZACs; Day-of-the-Dead ceremonies to honour the spirits, a riot of candy-coloured skulls atop candle-strewn altars, and mesmeric death masks adorned with flowers and insects; warnings that Indigenous images, voices and names might be present.

But it is the simple act of remembering, too, as richly patterned as it is leveraged, causing jolts of recognition, or that warm glow of a happy childhood memory. It can be a flash of understanding between strangers, or hazy flecks of last-night’s fun, a shiver of déjà vu, or Pavlov’s-dog salivation in anticipation of the sharp tang of taste.

The smell of oil paint and cedar redolent of the warm wood of a grandmother’s studio, rich in endeavour and love; an old hurt bubbling to the surface like acid; the pride we feel in the face of valour – be it shadowed nostalgia or visceral recollection, remembrance is defined by its perspective and contextualised by experience.

It is unique.

In a show designed to evoke powerful emotion, over 20 artists exhibit what remembrance means to them. It will feature the work of Will Coles, Dillon MacEwan, Jasmine Poole, Andrea Davies, Christie Torrington, Pierre Cavalan, Terry Archer, Onur Ka, Azelia Maynard, Robert Maxwell, Chris Lego, Paul Irving, BUNKWAA, Gemma Lark, Andrew Jones, Nikki McLennan, Lu Campbell-Smith, Sasha Wild, Alli Sebastian Wolf, Victoria Waghorn, H Morgan-Harris and more to be announced.

Opening Night: 6pm 25th November 2022

[image credit: Seven Sisters Songline 1994, Josephine Mick, Ninuku Arts]

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TAKE A WALK IN THE NIGHT GARDEN…

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 MAYS, INDEX, Wundermite, Arcade Screenprinting and Sublitech, 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.

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 14th 2012.

Artists:
Garth Knight
Perran Costi
Francesca D’Amico
Pete Strong
Sarah Clunie
Punk Monk
Alex Wisser
Georgina Pollard
Sara Di Terlizzi
Justin and Azelia Maynard
Alien Proof Construction
Rachael Lafferty
Jess Pickford
Pirate Photography
Index
The Forge
Wundermite Studios
Pierre Cavalan
Claire Cavalan
MC Beats
Swerve Harris
Rob Kay
Ganbold Lundaa
Jacq Sherry
Andy Medina
Mary Flaskas
Becci Lampard
Connull Stevens
Tealia Scott
Sharky
Isaac Gallagher
Luz  CS
Cheungha Lim
WILDFIRE
Live art from: Andros and associates… (more TBC)

Corner Applebee and Hutchinson Streets, St Peters
Friday 14th September 2012 6pm

Check out the video from last year……..

In The Night Garden October 2011 from Peter Strong on Vimeo.

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Is it the ignominious slide from the never-to-be-replaced vinyl legends of your youth to that rainbow-hued upstart the CD? Is it the imminent death of the analog TV signal, the gentle ticking of clock hands or the seductive expectation of film?

Mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, electric or cheese, analog is a hybrid beast. Distorted, clipped, ultimately authentic, analog is doomed to fail in the face of the uniform perfection of digital, yet it captures our imagination like nothing else.

Featuring the work of over 30 artists across all disciplines the Analog group show is a timely investigation into a shifting world, a world in which concepts, terms and ideas die in the face of development.

Featuring the work of:
Hamish Ta-me,
Jacq Sherry,
Garth Knight,
Francesca D’Amico,
Will Coles,
Brian Paisley,
Charlotte Haywood,
Edward Horne,
Perran Costi,
Anastasia Liolio,
Michaela Davies,
Swerve Harris,
Shanta,
Jo Shand,
Martin Renaud,
Tasman Munroe,
Mark Bailey,
Andros,
Bafcat,
Clint,
Skulk,
Pete Strong,
Cameron Stanton,
Cheung Ha Lim,
Lu Campbell Smith,
Terry Archer,
Jess Bradford,
Mary Flaskas,
Nicole Holmewood,
Pirate Photography,
Raoul Manriquez,
Mark Swartz,

Sara di Terlizzi

Live music  from the old skool analog stalwart Rob Joyner plus guests to be announced…. plus Sunny Bin Roving D.J

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