New Artistic Director Barry Keldoulis unveils his inaugural season leading the annual festival of visual arts.

Art Month Sydney has just announced its 2016 programme, continuing the annual exploration into the vibrant creative and cultural industries of the NSW capital. This year a specially curated feature exhibition titled Green Eyed Monster Eating its Own Tail will also be presented, along with new openings to previously unseen corporate art collections. 2016 is the first Art Month to be curated by new Artistic Director Barry Keldoulis and the celebration of Sydney’s art scene will light up Sydney’s creative hubs and historic hotspots with a busy lineup of tours and talks alongside the popular Collectors’ Space and Art At Night events.

“It’s often said that artists aren’t artists because they want to be, but because they have to be,” says Keldoulis. “If it’s the artists’ creative juices that are the fuel, what are the pistons that fire, the drive shafts that crank, and the wheels that turn to get this engine of creativity moving?” Keldoulis will address these questions in a series of workshops curated as part of the seventh Art Month Sydney, held from 1-20 March this year.