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News and editorial for the Brenda May Gallery covering exhibitions and/or artist features. Please click on the links to view the full article.

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Open Gallery

Spectrum - The Sydney Morning Herald
26 March 2011

The sculptor, who likes a laugh, had tongue firmly in cheek naming the seven ceramic figures in her show 'The Importance of Being Ernest...No, Enid.' ...more

Humour will elicit a response from all ages and cultures although the actions to induce it will vary from person to person. Historically, comedy has had an important place within the arts, but currently receives very little critical attention in the contemporary visual arts. 'Art + Humour Me' contains a range of artworks from sculptures and paintings to an installation of a cardigan-wearing tree.
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With regard to Paris

Art Market Report
Issue 36
Todd Fuller

Up four rickety flights of old French stairs, behind a door marked '2030-Storrier Onslow National Art School Studio', sits a wearied black book...The next page of that book is reserved for 22 year old Honours graduate Todd Fuller, a sculptor, animator and drawer who exhibits with Brenda May Gallery, Sydney. ...more

Tanmaya Bingham: Winner in Mixed Media category at 'WIDE OPEN 2'

March 2011

Congratulations to Tanmaya Bingham whose work, 'Royal Kebab 1' (pictured left) won the mixed media category of the 'Wide Open 2' show at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition in NYC. The exhibition, whose jury included Nat Trotman the Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, received close to sixteen hundred entries from which only ten percent were accepted. 'Wide Open 2' is on view until 27 March 2011 at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition. ...more

Sydney's Amusing Art

National Geographic Traveler
17 March 2011
Karen Carmichael

Sydneysiders and visitors alike can get a taste of Australian humor at the third Art + Humour exhibition next month, hosted by Brenda May Gallery in Waterloo.
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Residency at La Cite International Des Arts

Nava Quarterly
March 2011
Todd Fuller

The Cite attendant opens the door, introducing me to an elegant fourth floor space. I glide open the French windows to reveal a landscape of rooftops and the vista of the spire and towers of Notre Dame Cathedral. Welcome to the Cite International Des Arts, welcome to Paris. ...more

Get creative for youth arts grants

Inner West Courier
15 March 2011

"Co-founder and director of Queens Street Studios Sam Chester (back) with artist in residence Todd Fuller." ...more

ARTIST INTERVIEW: JOEL BLISS

Australian Art Collector Website
14 March 2011
Stephanie Lau

Joel Bliss talks to Australian Art Collector ahead of his forthcoming exhibition 'Return of The Bigots', crediting two-minute punk songs, zines and DIY mechanics as the sources of inspiration behind his new sculptures. ...more

Wire Mesh Steel Dresses

Das Superpaper, Issue 17
February 2011
Megan Fizell

FEMINIST CONCERNS are at the forefront of Anna Eggert?s series of sculpted dresses. The life-size garments, moulded around invisible bodies, appear fragile in spite of the industrial materials used. Influenced by the aesthetic of ancient Greek sculpture, her dresses appear fluid and capture the movement and grace of the early statues. By using stainless steel mesh as her ?fabric?, Eggert seeks to re- appropriate a masculine material into a representation of femininity. ...more