Shifting Sands - Botany Bay Today 21 August - 10 October A group of contemporary artists has been invited to respond to the social, cultural and environmental history of Botany Bay by immersing themselves directly in the site during an artist residency. Their responses illustrate the shifting terrain between their imaginings of the site and their actual physical experience of Botany Bay as a location. Artists include: Micky Allan & Steenus von Steensen, Julie Gough, Fiona MacDonald, Timothy Nohe, Kate Rohde, Sarah Smuts-Kennedy. Hardbodies - Garden Billboard Project 3 July - 10 October  The billboard is an all-pervasive and complex structure that displaces human desire into the theatrical 'screen' of consumption, and erects a type of one-way communication that trades on the irreducible logic of images, simulation and fetishism.  It is a deeply ambivalent site where dream and nightmare, seduction and repulsion, myth and reality, pleasure and its atrophy, merge into one. It is also a type of palimpsest where these same conflicting realities are inscribed and re-inscribed with the passage of time.  The exhibiting artists assembled in Hardbodies – Gary Carsley, Alex Gawronski, Angelica Mesiti, Peter Volich – explore this complex reality through a critical and playful engagement with the mechanics of the billboards representational logic. Images: Micky Allen & Steenus von Steensen, Girl, La Perouse (detail) 2010, digital pigment print, 20 x 25cm. Courtesy of the artists. Gary Carsley, The Black Laocoon, 2010. Courtesy the artist & BREENSPACE, Sydney.

Enrol in Spring School Holiday Classes Classes for 6 to 16 year old kids will run from 27 Sept to 8 Oct. Enrol from Mon 30 August. Be quick! Enrol in Term 4 Art Classes Get creative! Term 4 classes commence on Monday 11 October. Enrolments commence on Monday 13 September. Be photographed by our resident artist Artist-in-residence Emma Thomson is seeking Sutherland Shire couples to participate in her exhibition Masterclasses Hazelhurst offers a variety of Masterclasses in conjunction with our Regional Gallery exhibition program throughout 2010 Free tour and tea Every Saturday our volunteer guides are on hand to take you on a free tour of the Regional Gallery. Just meet in the foyer at 2pm 2010 Community Gallery Program The Hazelhurst Community Gallery presents a varied and diverse program throughout 2010 The Hazelhurst Gallery Shop The Hazelhurst Shop is full of funky gifts that will show your friends just how cool you really are! Hazelhurst is on Facebook Keep up to date with exhibitions, openings, classes and special events by becoming a fan of the Hazelhurst Facebook page Hazelhurst is on Twitter Follow @hazelhurst_art to receive regular announcements about Hazelhurst exhibitions, programs and events Hazelhurst is on Youtube Check out the Hazelhurst Youtube channel - all Hazelhurst, all the time! Check in to Hazelhurst at Foursquare Let your mates know when you're checking out some culture!