Elizabeth Street Gallery in Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia | Photographer

Elizabeth Street Gallery

Locality: Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia

Phone: +61 409 490 711

Address: Elizabeth Street and Goulburn Street 2010 Surry Hills, NSW, Australia

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24.01.2022 The Dailytelegraph.com.au (unsurprisngly) published a total sham job about the City of Sydney's Creative Arts Grants of which ESG has been a recipient. Here is our response (they obvs didn't publish it). Dear the Editors of the Daily Telegraph, I am writing in response to the story you published on 11/06/15 Clover Splashes Cash to Pedal More Crazy Ideas. I am the recipient of the $30,000 grant for the Elizabeth Street Gallery alongside the Goulbourn Street carpark, I am ...also a City of Sydney rate-payer. Firstly, it is untrue to write that to that these sums of money go to Fairfax photographers - in fact, the $30,000 was distributed to 15 people. Financial beneficiaries included only one photographer who works for Fairfax, but also six independents, and two of who in fact do or have belonged to the News Ltd stable. Importantly the money got spread around to small rate-paying businesses printers, designers, restaurant owners, and installers. The project has also done a lot to enliven a dead space, and has won praise from News Ltd. journalists Elizabeth Fortesque and the Weekly Australian Magazine (pretty sure there were quite a few News photographers at the opening too who for the record didn’t think it was bizarre or crazy - and may have even arrived on a bicycle). Overwhelmingly, the response to the photographic exhibition has been incredibly positive with people from other cities like Brisbane to New York approaching us about how they might do something similar there. The mean-spirited and naïve story written by Matthew Bens makes getting a grant sound like a hand out or swindle, and I assure you that it is not. Applying for the grant takes time and effort. There are high levels of accountability in terms of where funds go and the outcomes of them being spent all of which are unanimously agreed to by all councillors, and expected to be reported on in detail once the work has been done. The creative grants program, rewards initiative and frankly, the City gets a pretty good deal from people who legitimately want to, and are willing to work hard to contribute to making this city a good place to live. So calm down on the Clover attack guys and think about how great it is to have a council financially prudent enough to be able to afford to redistribute the wealth to its local people in interesting ways. You don’t have to love them all, but if there is something you do love you know that if you are willing to show some initiative and get it happening at least there is some support. Jess Miller

20.01.2022 Nothing on tonight? Elizabeth Street Gallery Curator & Photographer Nic Walker,along with Mags King, Steven Siewart and Kate Geraghty will be giving a talk this evening at State Library as part of the Photos 1440. It's free to attend, but you have to book here https://www4.sl.nsw.gov.au//public-programs_photos1440_tal

15.01.2022 Some little morsels from out friends over at Flint Magazine http://www.flintmag.com/expressions_of_life/

11.01.2022 A quick but somewhat belated shout-out to Elizabeth St Gallery Curator Andrew Quilty for his The Walkley Foundation Walkley-award winning work http://walkleys.com//nikon-walkley-awards-excellence-phot/ - welcome home!

08.01.2022 Check out Elizabeth St Gallery photographer Lyndal Irons' Physie exhibition now on at the The State Library of New South Wales The Bjelke-Petersen School of Physical Culture has been around for 120 years. Thousands of women do it but physie remains difficult to define. It is a bit like a military drill. A bit like dance. A bit like gymnastics. A bit like synchronised swimming without water.... The State Library’s new exhibition Physie: Photographs by Lyndal Irons, on show from 27 June, offers a unique glimpse into the intriguing and dramatic world of Physical Culture through a striking series of contemporary and vintage prints from the Library’s collection. Physie: Photographs by Lyndal Irons is a free exhibition on show at the State Library of NSW, 27 June 2015 to 4 October 2015. www.sl.nsw.gov.au