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Artnotes ACT - Waratah Lahy

Art Monthly Australia
April 2009
David Broker & Yolande Norris

Curious Cars & Miniature Movers also includes work from Simryn Gill, Anita Larkin and Hiraki Sawa. Until 10 May at Ipswich Art Gallery. www.ipswichartgallery.qld.gov.au ...more

My work investigates the patterns and codes used to represent and ?map? the natural world. It also draws on an interest in the relationship between prints - both traditional and digital - and scientific thought. I am particularly interested in how we construct our ideas and understanding of the natural world - how we understand ?nature? in the 21st Century. ...more

Metropicks - Animal Farm

Sydney Morning Herald (Metro), p.21
30 January - 5 February 2009,
Tracey Clement

Animal Farm

An eclectic range of artists take inspiration from furry critters and the beasties lurking within in Animal Farm: An Orwellian Homage or a Fun Romp Through the Farmyard. Cybelle Blakebrough's "Yeti Girl" seems to be channelling her inner wild woman.

Brenda May Gallery
2 Danks Street Waterloo ...more

Sculpture 2009 - Animal Farm

Art Gallery Guide
January / February 09
Tracey Clement

For many, artist is still spelled with a capital 'P' for painter. Despite having been declared dead more than once, painting remains perched fairly confidently at the top of the visual art hierarchy, while sculpture clings tenaciously several rungs down. Russian-American colour field painter Jules Olitski?s off hand comment, "Sculpture is the stuff you trip over when you are backing up trying to look at a painting" (made at the height of the Modernist cult of painter as hero, shaman and visionary) has been repeated so many times that it has become both cliché and doctrine. But whether or not you subscribe to the dogma of painting?s supremacy, this quote totally misses the point. ...more

High Court Challenge Looms Over Royalty Scheme

Australian Financial Review
20th November, 2008
Katrina Strickland

The cost of administering the resale royalty scheme could blow out beyond the standard 15 per cent of income if the federal government does not amend its proposed model. ...more

Inverted Drinking Glasses Tell a Detailed and Satisfying Tale - Waratah Lahy

CitySearch Sydney
7 October, 2008
Emma McGowan

At first glance this exhibition looks like a row of upside-down fine glass vestibules, black, with the occasional flash of colour, in a stark white room characteristic of the Brenda May Gallery. ...more

Metro Picks - James Guppy

Sydney Morning Herald (Metro), p.21
26 October, 2008
Tracey Clement

The surrealist painter celebrates the beauty of women of all ages and shapes in his solo exhibition Fay. ...more

Art Market - Stockroom - Waratah Lahy

Art World
Issue #5, October / November 2008, p.192

Stockroom: Our selection of available works from galleries around Australia and New Zealand. ...more

Backlash - James Guppy

The Byron Shire Echo
September 2, 2008

Guppy's latest exhibition 'Fay' is on at the Brenda May Gallery in Sydney September 9 to October 4. ...more

Visual Art - Robert Boynes

Sydney Morning Herald (Spectrum), p.18
26-27 July, 2008
Leesha McKenny

Boynes nails his canvases to the floor before he runs the silk screen over them, rubs them back with a scrubbing brush and gets the screen back out again. ...more

At Work and Home With Robert Boynes

Capital: Culture, Art, Society, pp.52-57
Issue #35, July-August 2008
Helen Musa

When I visited him recently at his Macquarie home and studio where he has lived since 1982, he was rushing to finish work for Beaver Galleries' exhibition at the Melbourne Art Fair and for a solo show at Brenda May Gallery in Waterloo from July 15 to August 9 as part of the Biennale of Sydney's "Parallel Program." ...more

Journey Through Urban Jungle - Robert Boynes

Canberra Times (Panorama), p.22
12 July, 2008
Philip O'Brien

When Robert Boynes retired as head of the Painting Workshop at the Australian National University School of Art in 2006, he decided he needed a larger home studio. Freed from the demands of teaching and administration, Boynes whose work is featured in major Australian and international galleries was now able to concentrate full-time on his own art. ...more