These two Blue Mountains musicianswill create free-form melodic soundscapes using guitars, percussion, electronics and anything else they can find on the Island. 

Immersive and meditative performance-installations that articulate both instrument and architecture, led by Julian Day, Luke Janiste and Janet McKay

Matt McMahon, Jonathon Brown and Simon Barker, three of Sydney’s finest jazz musicians,  take  inspiration from the echoing warehouse space of Building 15.

The Diver is a sculpture by award-winning artist Tim Kyle

With his enormous helmet and cumbersome grey body, the deep sea diver is a surprising element in the gritty industrial landscape of the former shipyard. Almost four metres high, he looks across what were once the busy slipways where ships and destroyers were built.

The Diver was exhibited for six months at the Helen Lempriere Award at Werribee Park in Victoria. Tim Kyle also won the Wynne Prize for Sculpture at the Art Gallery of NSW in 2003. He has twice been invited to exhibit in Sculpture by the Sea and has also exhibited at the Defiance Gallery in Newtown where he won the Small Sculpture Prize. Tim is represented by the Ray Hughes Gallery.

We are excited to announce the return of TV Moore's Escape Carnival. Originally commissioned for the 16th Biennale of Sydney (2008), the artwork is a mixture of video and sound. Using the Dog Leg Tunnel on Cockatoo Island, the artist uses the space to consider ideas of journeying and transience, questioning whether there is a beginning and an end, and exploring the psychological space of the individual, at once within and estranged from society. The sound installation is a mix of psychedelia and high pop, obscure B-side references and free-form comment, providing points of departure and narrative while offering no direction. The sound accompanies a vision of a man endlessly running, trapped in an eternal ‘no place’ and progressing only through his own propulsion.

Sip delicious cocktails, graze share plates and enjoy views of Sydney Harbour at The Island Bar Cockatoo Island.

Headed up by renowned Sydney mixologist and 2010 Bartender of the Year Marco Faraone, The Island Bar Cockatoo Island will be serving drinks and food in a classic ‘aperitivo’ style, from the rustic base of four shipping containers reduxed as an al fresco waterfront bar.

Visit www.theislandbar.com.au, or Facebook