Leading Australian gallerist Anna Schwartz has announced that she will cease commercial operations at her Sydney gallery at the Redfern-based Carriageworks multi-arts precinct at the end of 2015 and will hand over the space to Carriageworks as the location for a new five-year series of major visual arts projects by Australian and international artists.Schwartz has gifted $500,000 to Carriageworks to fund the series which will launch in January 2016 with an exhibition of works by renowned Ghana-based artist El Anatsui. “El Anatsui: Five Decades” will present works spanning the artist’s entire career around Carriageworks and in the Anna Schwartz Gallery space where a large-scale installation will be unveiled as part of Sydney Festival 2016.Anna Schwartz said: “I am thrilled to work with Lisa Havilah to develop the programme in the gallery space I created at Carriageworks to provide a major opportunity for Australian and International artists and their audiences. By combining forces, we will be able to deliver unprecedented experiences in a unique context which optimizes the attributes of a private and a public gallery.”Lisa Havilah, Director of Carriageworks, said that she is delighted to be working with Anna Schwartz. “This bequest will leave a lasting legacy and develop the international profile of visual art in this country. These new visual art projects will build upon Carriagework’s existing commitment with a series of large-scale installations and exhibitions that will sit at the leading edge of contemporary practice”Anna Schwartz Gallery will continue to represent its full stable of leading contemporary Australian and international artists out of the Melbourne gallery. The final exhibition at Anna Schwartz Gallery, which will change its name to Schwartz at Carriageworks following the transition, will showcase new works by influential Australian artist Shaun Gladwell from October 31 to December 19.
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