A LITTLE MORNING STROLL

We stayed in Sydney on Saturday night ...

I couldn't sleep in so I went for a nice early stroll on

 Sunday morning  .....

I love it when the streets are quite and calm ....

(although I did walk past quite a few bars and quite a few people who were still in full partying Saturday night mode !!!)

A corner cafe .....

a little fellow stroller .....

the perfect rusty fence ......

 

 

a very nice apartment block .....

 

 

through the window of a beautiful pop up florist on

 Darlinghurst Road ....

 

..... and a little Christmas Elf.

 

A very nice stroll indeed ....

Hope you had a good weekend

XXX

FRANCIS AFTER DARK

 We went to see the Francis Bacon exhibition on Wednesday night  .....

 .... just amazing, I was quite overwhelmed, so much to take in in one visit

luckily for me Meg bought us some season passes so we can go back as many times as we want .....

I love that the gallery is open on Wednesday nights until 9 ...

and the conversations in the entrance court,

we saw Paul Capsas (love him) and I cant wait to see the one with Wendy Whitely, Micheal Kirby and Anthony Lister ....

think there might be a lot of visits in the next few months !!!

SYDNEY BIENNALE

We finally got to the Sydney Biennale a couple of weeks ago ....

so enjoyed all the works at Cockatoo Island ....

 this paper work was definitely our favorite ....

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

(you may remember it from this post)

  just beautiful .....

 

 

 

  these sand doilies by Cal Lane

 were also amazing ....

 

 

 

 

and we really liked Oysters and Teacups .....

 

 

  

 

 

and here's Meg exploring this installation ..... 

 .... a very nice way to spend an afternoon indeed.

 

 

A SATURDAY WALK

I love this wall on a house in Redfern .....

we always walk by it on our way .....

 to here .....

.... for a bit of food shopping,
bought lots of bunches of kale (love that stuff at the moment) and some very, very good apples ....
 Saturday was the most perfect sunny winters day, gotta love
those days !!!!

Does anyone know anything about the wall ?

STRANGE INTERLUDE

So looking forward to seeing Strange Interlude

at Belvoir Theatre on Thursday night .....

my daughter saw it on preview night and loved it (so much so she is seeing it again with me) .....

 

I really love these photographs from rehearsals ....

 

 

 and these production shots ....


 

...... should be one interesting play !!!

you can read an interview with writer and director Simon Stone here 

MARIA'S PICS

So loving these Newtown shots by Maria 

she always captures Sydney so perfectly .....

I wrote about her a while back in this post

Elizabeth also did a post recently about Maria here

HOSSEIN VALAMANESH

We recently visited the newly renovated MCA  ......
 and now I think I may have a new favorite artwork, The Lover Circles his own Heart by Hossein Valaman would have to be one of the most beautiful works I have seen in a long time .....

  It's very hard to appreciate from a photograph but you can see and learn more about the work here

the above photograph is from it's first showing in Berlin ......

this is how we viewed it, not quite the Berlin space but still so beautiful on the polished concrete floor .....

Hossein Valamanesh

I WANT TO EAT HERE

 I think The Grounds is going to have to be our next cafe destination judging by these photos on What Katie Ate .......

 the coffee .....

 the outdoor area .....

  and this pizza .....

(wouldn't it make the most perfect brunch)

 ..... mmmmm, can't wait !!!