fiftyone is an art based social night held in venues across Sydney. We are a collective of local creatives who come together to make art and have some good old fashioned fun. We curate pop-up galleries featuring the best up and coming artists in the area, and we have an online gallery selling prints and merchandise. fiftyone began in 2012 with its first 'art-after-hours' night at the Pony Room in Manly. It was a drunken affair; 4 up and coming artists had the chance to show off their work, we drew on the tables, talked sh*t and sold prints. Since then the nights have really taken of. The premise is simple enough, we come up with a theme, get some artists in to exhibit their work in a bar, they invite their friends, you invite yours and we all have a good time. We've had art-offs, we've had a mariachi band, we've had Mexican Wrestler life drawing, an art auction and we even painted zombies on a van for the Manly arts festival.
