Andrew Hogg of Andrew Hogg Design sent these images of Cockatoo Island in Sydney during the Biennale of Sydney 2008.

As the host city of one of Australia’s most exciting festivals, the Biennale of Sydney positions Sydney as a centre for contemporary art in the region. The 16th Biennale of Sydney runs from 18 June to 7 September 2008 at venues and sites throughout Sydney, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Museum of Contemporary Art and Cockatoo Island. This is Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev’s (Artistic Director of Biennale) last Biennale which explores the theme Revolutions – forms that turn.

From the Biennale’s site

Artists whose practice emerged in the 1960s and 1970s will prepare new works for exhibition alongside seminal artworks by early twentieth century revolutionary artists such as Aleksandr Rodchenko and Kasimir Malevich. The exhibition will also feature major new projects by William Kentridge and Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, as well as new works by younger artists such as Qiu Anxiong, Gerard Byrne, Pierre Huyghe, Renata Lucas, Susan Philipsz and Michael Rakowitz. This edition of the Biennale of Sydney will also include more works by Australian artists than any previous one, including Vernon Ah Kee, Destiny Deacon, Simryn Gill, Shaun Gladwell, Rosemary Laing, Tracey Moffatt, TV Moore, Mike Parr, Stuart Ringholt, Julie Rrap and theweathergroup_U.

Cockatoo Island is the largest island in Sydney Harbour and a curious urban park. Formerly a prison and shipyard, the island is a time machine – it’s unique prison buildings have been nominated for World Heritage listing, its ship yard infrastructure stand as ghost like remains to our working past. A free Ferry runs on the hour from 9.45pm to 4.45, the last service departs at 5.15pm.

Thank you Andrew for these wonderful images. Visit Andrew Hogg Design, or the Biennale of Sydney here.