Art Gallery of New South Wales launches 150th anniversary celebrations
The Opera House sails are lit with art works by six female Aboriginal artists as part of Badu Gilli: Wonder Women in Sydney on April 22, 2021. Saeed KHAN / AFP.
SYDNEY
.-The Art Gallery of New South Wales kicked off its 150th anniversary celebrations with a burst of color and light, collaborating for the first time with the Sydney Opera House to mark the annual Badu Gili festival of First Nations Culture by projecting artworks onto the iconic sails of the Opera House.
The work of six leading Aboriginal women artists represented in the Art Gallerys permanent collection will light up each evening in a six-minute animation on the sails, as the Gallery leads up to the completion in 2022 of its Sydney Modern expansion project, designed by SANAA.