Vaucluse House

I braved the wet weather to visit and explore Vaucluse House. Vaucluse House is a heritage-listed 19th-century Gothic Revival residence in Sydney’s eastern suburb of Vaucluse, originally built as a small stone cottage in 1803–05 and expanded over subsequent decades into a picturesque harbourside estate. It was the home of explorer, barrister and politician William Charles Wentworth and his family from 1827, and retains much of its original gardens, outbuildings and harbour frontage. It was a very impressive place full of treasures and I loved it. I then walked to Watson's Bay to get the ferry home and had a gorgeous swim along the way.

Meat jelly moulds in the kitchen

Walk to Watson's Bay

Where I had my wonderful swim

Data Dreams: Art and AI exhibit at the Contemporary Art Museum

I spent a very enjoyable morning exploring the Data Dreams: Art and AI exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. The exhibit brings together ten international artists to investigate the creative, philosophical and societal implications of artificial intelligence. The show uses immersive installations, AI-generated films, hallucinatory imagery and sculptural works to explore how AI reshapes perception, identity, power and what it means to be human in the digital age. It was very good. I especially enjoyed the more sensory, hallucinatory art works. Some of them were very meditative.

Data Dreams: Art and AI

Other art on display

Back out in Circular Quay