Art After Dark – Inner West Music Presents Body Type
White Bay Power Station
Fri, 17 Apr, 6-10PM
Hosted by
Biennale of Sydney
Host
Biennale of Sydney
The Biennale of Sydney acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country, in particular the Gadigal people on whose land the Biennale of Sydney is located. We recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture and pay our respect to Elders, past and present.
The Biennale of Sydney is one of the leading international contemporary art events. It plays an indispensable role in Australia’s engagement with the world, and a meaningful role in the life of the nation. The Biennale presents the most dynamic contemporary art from around the globe in venues across Sydney with exhibitions that ignite and surprise people, sparking dialogue, cultivating connections and inspiring action through meaningful, shared arts experiences. The Biennale of Sydney amplifies the voices of artists and tell the stories of our global communities, as they drive momentum for lasting cultural change.
Established in 1973, it is the third oldest biennial in the world after Venice and São Paulo and the largest exhibition of its kind in Australia. The Biennale of Sydney has commissioned and presented exceptional works of art by more than 2,400 national and international artists from more than 130 countries.
The Art After Dark program will transform White Bay Power Station on Friday evenings with music, art and outdoor food markets. Across three nights, the Inner West Council Music Series spotlights emerging voices from our own backyard, bringing the sounds, stories and diversity of our local music scene to Biennale’s global stage.
Body Type are an all-female rock group based in Sydney and the Illawarra, NSW made up of Sophie McComish, Annabel Blackman, Cecil Coleman and Georgia Wilkinson-Derums. Their unique post punk sound has been refined across two EPs and two albums and is characterised by an unfaltering intensity. And yet it is hard to define. Guitars spit and swell and slice through harmonies. Moments of elation and bizarre imagery are wrung from the monotony of every day. Vocals knot together, producing ecstatic, slanted melodies.
Following release of their second album, Expired Candy, Body Type toured the UK/EU extensively throughout 2023 including festival appearances at Roskilde and Rock Werchter to huge crowds. The band’s London show featured a cameo from esteemed punk musician Gina Birch (The Raincoats) affirming Body Type’s growing significance in a long lineage of women in punk music.
In 2025, the band visited Velveteen Laboratory Studios in Los Angeles to record their third full-length album with renowned musician and producer Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint, Courtney Barnett, Kim Gordon). The resulting body of work – engineered by Bonnie Knight (Amyl & The Sniffers), mixed by Omar Yakar (The War On Drugs, Perfume Genius) and mastered by Jonathan Boulet (Party Dozen, Arse) – represents a bold step forward for the band creatively and sonically.
New music is coming. You won’t want to miss this show.
The Inner West Music Series is curated by Niriko McLure.
