Arts and Makers

Explore artists, makers, studios, exhibitions and galleries across the Inner West.

Worship B'day 2025, photo by Rhiannon Hopley - Cultural Connections

Attend cultural programs, visit exhibitions and galleries, and discover creative studios and operators across the Inner West. Scroll down to explore each area and find opportunities to experience creativity in your local community.

Attend cultural programs

Cultural Connections

Photo detail of fashion show artist wearing pink luminescent dress with frilly components

Worship B'day 2025, photo by Rhiannon Hopley - Cultural Connections

Inner West Council x Biennale of Sydney

A person wearing a red costume with leather boots and chains poses between some industrial equipment.

Photo credit: Red Rey, 2025. Photography: Daniel Boud.

Cultural Connections - Mooncake: one moon, many stories

Shadow puppet performance projected onto a circular illuminated screen, featuring silhouetted figures, crescent moon shapes, and miniature characters in a boat-like scene, while two puppeteers stand in shadow on either side manipulating the puppets.

Mooncake: one moon, many stories, photo credit: totally not october

Cultural Connections - Star Stories Creative Development with public Dress Rehearsal

Abstract artwork featuring colourful concentric circles, flowing dotted lines and clusters of dots in blue, pink, yellow and green on a black background.

Star Stories, holding image

Cultural Connections - An Introduction to Playwriting

Person wearing glasses and a knitted jumper lies on a bed, illuminated by the glow of a smartphone screen in a warmly lit room.

An Introduction to Playwriting, photo credit: Forgetting Tim Minchin, Clare Hawley, 2023 

Visit exhibitions and galleries

Chrissie Cotter Gallery

Black and White Photo of Chrissie Cotter Gallery Building

The Art of Becoming, Together - Joel Cunningham

Painting of dinosaur drinking

Between Us - Sandra Winkworth, Janet Parker-Smith and Lisa Woolfe

Abstract mixed‑media artwork with colorful hanging shapes suspended inside a loose oval of tangled black wire, surrounded by yellow and blue cords.

Artwork by Sandra Winkworth

GreenWay Art Prize

Jen Hsieh painting sun gleaming through trees

Discover creative studios

First Nations Screen Printing Experience

Screen printing with blue paint
First Nations Screen Printing Experience

1/87 Moore Street, Leichhardt

Light, Texture, Sound: An Introduction to Creative Videography

A low table displaying small white sculptural forms casts elongated, shrine-like shadows on the wall in a softly lit gallery space.

Monster Mouse Open Studio

People working at tables in an art studio, handling dyed textiles and materials, surrounded by tools, buckets, and hanging fabric pieces.

Annandale Ghost

Person in black hoodie and balaclava standing in profile outside in garden with abandoned monster models

Elijah Kinnavong Beyond the Studio Annandale Ghost

Potluck & Friends pop up illustration market

Headshots of Pei Kwang and Kim Siew

Christine Webb Open Studio in collab with One+2 Artist Studios

Headshot of Christine Webb surrounding by their paintings

Annandale Ghost - HUSH

two men standing in a park bathed in red lighting

HUSH Facilitator Ben Parangi (Ngāpuhi) and artist and academic Blake Lawrence. Beyond the Studio

Makers Frontyard Trail

Two people at a market looking a fabrics for sale
Makers Frontyard Trail

Multiple front yard locations throughout the Inner West LGA

Smith Street Ceramic Market

Three white clay artworks on a plank of wood

Sydney Street Fair 2026

Crowd of people at a fair lying down on grass
Sydney Street Fair 

Sydney Street, Marrickville

Aerial view of spiral artwork on path

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians the Gadigal and Wangal peoples of the Sydney Basin.

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Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays) 8:30am to 5pm

Phone

02 9392 5000

Mail

PO Box 14, Petersham NSW 2049

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