Country Always

Caring for Country

A Corner of the Empire

The Garden Palace

The Holding Pen

The Agricultural Hall

Regional Networks

Across New South Wales

A Museum of Doing

Technological Museum

Expanding Stories

Evolution of the Castle Hill site from botanical research station to Museum Discovery Centre

Transforming the Tramsheds

Powerhouse Stage 1 and the Harwood Building

A Symbol in Time

Sydney Observatory

Ongoing Transformations

Powerhouse Ultimo

Mr Rhodes

Generations Fellow

Applied Arts and Sciences

Defining the terms in the 21st century

Powerhouse Renewal

A transformative renewal program across four sites

We Rise

Blak Powerhouse

Powerhouse-1 Mission Launch to the ISS

An initiative of the Powerhouse: Future Space program

2024

Exoskeleton

Powerhouse Parramatta

Powerhouse Parramatta Topping Out

Major construction milestone achieved for the new museum

2021

Stories

Mr Rhodes

Generations Fellow

The best thing about the Fellowship for me was having the access to so many people in the industry who work at a much higher level than I did at the beginning, and to learn from them and build upon what I was already doing both creatively and business-wise. The Financial support was also amazing to have it really helped me with upgrades to my current studio setup & enabling me to be creative without the worries of where rent and food were going to come from next.

Bundjalung rapper, producer and composer Mr Rhodes creates electronic flavoured hip hop ranging from smoky smooth to intensely staunch. Armed with his trusty Roland SP-404 sampler and Push 2 controller, he’s composed and performed on stage and screen for the better part of a decade.

The Powerhouse Generations Fellowship connects artists with established industry experts and mentors, to pass on intergenerational knowledge and create pathways in the music industry. Between August 2020 and January 2021, Mr Rhodes was in residence at Powerhouse to develop his music and explore instruments in the collection.

What a weird first month of this experience, but in a good way COVID has really thrown me for a loop. Due to challenges with traveling and flying, I’ve continued working in my home studio set-up and had my first meeting with Astral People online. I’ve been collaborating a lot this past month with artists from different genres and trying to challenge what I feel is “my style” and looking at it from a different perspective and it has been really helpful and humbling. I also released a new single with my friend Thomas Shaw titled Doing It Well which deals with my mental state in response to the death of George Floyd and the BLM protests all over the world.

September has up and gone and I am just starting to get me head around all this creative energy that’s has come with it. I spent a week of September working on an upcoming theatre show called “FLOW” that I am both scoring and performing in. The following week I ran workshops with a group of young people and collaborated on 8 incredibly fun songs with them. I also spent a week finishing songs I’ve been sitting on for a long time and am really excited about.