Parramatta’s riverbank and CBD will be transformed into an outdoor art gallery this November with a three week, free sculptural exhibition of startling artworks by world renowned artists from Australia and overseas. 

The artists are well known for working outside traditional mediums and have been carefully chosen for this reason. The exhibition will mix new media, stencilled street art, video and sound art installations, cultural projects and conceptual art and sculptural installations. 

The Current exhibition is part of Riverbeats ’08. The city’s laneways, parks, and buildings will be animated with sophisticated, site-specific and innovative art projects ranging from new-media video and sound works to large-scale sculptures, including a bridge made from shopping trolleys 16 metres across Parramatta River.  

The installations will also feature perfume samples from river water, push bikes for hire to plant seeds, video installations in an empty shopping centre and a re-layering of Indigenous history into the cracks of old staircases around the riverbank. 

The larges-scale exhibition will run from Friday 7 November to Sunday 23 November. It provides a platform for local and international artists to interpret the changing natural and urban landscape in the Parramatta area. In turn, the artworks will provoke discussion and raise awareness about the environment, plus offer new opportunities for the local community to engage with art in their own backyard. It is very much focused on bringing art and community together in a new way.
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