Artalicious in the Rain

Personally, I don't mind a little rain when I'm riding - I've become quite adept at riding with a brolly and the centre of gravity on an upright Velorbis helps no end.  But heavy rain does tend to put people off so our much anticipated Art Month ride last Saturday was somewhat small but nevertheless perfectly formed.....

We seemed to narrowly avoid storms all day and rode from Flinders St Gallery up to Charles Hewitt on South Dowling Street and down to First Draft on Chalmers Street with barely a rain drop falling on us.

        

Surry Hills is art nirvana and chock full of galleries, artist run spaces and street art so I know we'll be doing this again - keep an eye out for our upcoming art rides.

And if it rains next time, I'm getting Yves Montand to hold my brolly for me.

Still another week of Art Month left and don't forget the Paddington/Woollahra ARTcycle ride is next Saturday March 26 with Nell Schofield, details here.

Bicycles and Art[ists]

Warming up for our Art Month ride next week with some brilliant examples of bicycles and art.
Love this Picasso sculpture, Head of a Bull (1943).

Itty Bitty City - How Children See Our Cities

At yesterday's Art Adventure launch for Art Month Sydney, children were invited to create their own Itty Bitty City and the results were fantastic.

This particular scene caught my attention - just think, if children were in charge of our urban design what utopia there would be.  Roads with nothing but bicycles and ice cream vans and is that a small rooftop bar I see????

Brilliant!

Sydney Cycle Chic Does Art Month Sydney!

Now in it's second year, Art Month Sydney is a brilliant festival celebrating the city's thriving contemporary visual arts scene.
Each week during March the focus will be on a different one of Sydney's diverse arts precincts.  From Waterloo to Woollahra, Marrickville to Potts Point, some 80 or more galleries and venues will fling open their doors with exhibitions, artist talks and studio tours.

In a first this year, the festival is also introducing weekly curated bicycle tours of each precinct.  Brilliant idea.  Can't think of a better way to explore the city's galleries than by bike.  So we are very excited to be taking part as we join with Art Cycle for the Surry Hills ride on March 19.

In true Cycle Chic style, you can expect a slow ride through the back streets of Surry Hills as we wind our way from Charles Hewitt Gallery, via Flinders Street Gallery and First Draft up to Chalk Horse for a series of gallery talks.  With any luck we'll have time to explore some street art and stop for a quick coffee en route...

Rides are free but you do need to register - details here - and make sure you check out the rest of the festival too - a whole month of art events?  We call it artalicious!

We've had some fun doing some pre-festival filming - yep, we always ride our bikes in art galleries, we're crazy like that!