Brand X – one of Sydney’s leading providers of affordable space for artists – will operate the five-storey City of Sydney Creative Studios on Bathurst Street when it opens early next year. Read more
A warm Brand X welcome to our New ProtoSHOP residents. Make sure to follow @ProtoSHOPbyBrandX for new products launching each week. Read more
Presented by practicing artists from our local community Artist-2-Artist Professional Development Program sessions are now available on-line. It’s peer-to-peer training for and by independent artists and offers joyful experiences in making and creating so we are all encouraged to keep “doing". Read more
Brand X are proud to announce the appointment of experienced arts manager Emmaly Langridge to the newly created position of General Manager; a role created to support the organisation’s transformative growth. Read more
A quick reference guide to the COVID-19 support packages that may be able to assist you and your organisation during the NSW Lockdown including income relief and business grants to meet expenses incurred during restricted trade. Read more
Stay At Home orders announced for the Greater Sydney area are in effect until October 4. Therefore our studios in Darlinghurst, St Leonards and Tempe will be temporarily closed until further notice. Read more
Brand X welcomes professional theatre director Dan Graham to the newly created position of Access Consultant. Dan will convene and lead an Access Panel of professional artists with a disability to audit Brand X and recommend accessibility improvements, guided by an Inclusion Action Plan which will set targets to ensure the organisation is inclusive for all professional artists in Sydney. Read more
Last year, our community generously rallied around Brand X to turn the lights back on after lockdown. With your support, we reopened our rehearsal and performance venues on 1 July 2020 under Covid safe guidelines. DONATE NOW to help Brand X continue our essential work of supporting artists to experiment, innovate and create. Read more
Brand X are calling for artists with fresh and innovative prototype concepts to access $2500 in seed-funding to make their idea a reality. Read more
In this workshop, students learn to listen to their bodies for creative inspiration and shape their impulses into rich, energetic, playful, and compelling characters. Read more
Lisa Shaunessy is a film and TV Producer at her production company THIS IS ARCADIA, they are long-time residents at our Incubator studios and we’re so excited to see so many socially relevant, enjoyable, and successful films coming out from them! Read our interview with Lisa where she discusses her recent sci-fi success, being bold and what’s up next – did she say 15 projects?! Oh yeah, and some tips on how she gets shit done. Read more
Sydney Olympic Park is Australia’s leading events precinct and is known for sporting, cultural, environmental, and recreational visitor experiences and major events. They are now keen to build on this rich legacy to illuminate, activate and build the identity of Sydney Olympic Park through the voices and vision of the people of Sydney and the Park’s fast-growing local community. Read more
Claire Conroy is a visual artist working in photography and installation who has a studio space in our Arts Incubator. Amoungst other things Claire constructs her own pinhole cameras and darkrooms from found objects, including a 1950s caravan, a water tank, and a three-tonne truck – very cool! Lately, she has been busy in the darkroom refining a series of sea monsters for her exhibition Monstrous at Rouge Pop-up Gallery in Redfern opening this Saturday 17th October. Read more
Live music in NSW is under threat. Unless there is immediate government intervention, we risk losing 85% of the state’s live music venues within the next 12 months. Read more
Travis’ work spans across a truly impressive range of areas, having a passion for the knowledge of how to create with different things he rebels against the idea that you need to specialise, and believes you can be a jack of all trades and still have mastery within that. Read more
Sydney Pemberton is a mixed media artist residing in Brand X’s TWT Artist Studios in St. Leonards. Sydney is currently working on a series about the ocean and what lies beneath and is exploring the possibilities of paper. Read more
Up until the 1980s, there was a government astronomer on-site conducting research, but in subsequent years the Observatory has played a more educational role. Now it is opening up its doors to the creative process too. Read more
Tina Fox is a visual artist and designer working in textiles and craft, her current work explores hand crafted techniques to reflect on digital printing, manufacturing and the future of craft in the modern age. Read more
An opportunity has arisen for performing artists and community members who are seeking playful development - the Poetry of Nonsense Virtual Clown Lab. Read more
Brand X are thrilled to welcome Jaz Lynch as our new Marketing Manager, taking the reins from Ricardo who is returning to his homeland of Spain. Jaz's interests lie in the arts, travel, fashion for expression, motion graphics, branding and e-commerce. Read more
Jim Denley is an artist working in experimental and improvised sound, he has a studio space at the old Tempe Jets club now managed by Brand X as an experimental music hub. Find out more about Jim Denley. Read more
David Clarkson is Artistic Director of physical theatre company, Stalker, who resides in Brand X creative offices in St. Leonards. David is also Artistic Director of Box of Birds, a company who integrates technology, audience interaction and physical performance into interactive experiences. Read more
Brand X is excited to announce the staggered re-opening of our rehearsal and performance spaces across Sydney. After three months of closure due to COVID-19, we are delighted to turn the lights back on at our studios to enable the creative community to return to their practice, following the easing of NSW Government restrictions on community spaces. Read more
Ahead to his new show "THEY TOOK ME TO A QUEER BAR", Tommy Misa writes about gentrification and queer nightlife through his own experience since he moved to Sydney from Canberra when he was 18 years old. Read more