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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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	Art Month Sydney 2010 November 2009 Kym Elphinstone Sydney’s art world unites with new annual visual arts festival - Inaugural Art Month Sydney launches March 2010 - The vibrancy and diversity of Sydney’s visual arts scene will be put under the spotlight with a new annual, month-long festival launching March 2010. ...more
	Seduction and Subversion: The Art of James Guppy 1989 - 2009 4 February to 21 March 2010 Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Seduction and Subversion: The Art of James Guppy 1989 - 2009 4 February to 21 March 2010 Bathurst Regional Art Gallery ...more
	Open Gallery Sydney Morning Herald 23-24 January, 2010 Lissa Christopher Sculpture 2010 This unthemed but curated exhibition featuring work by emerging artists is highly varied. Standouts include Corrigan Fairbairn's intriguing and elegant Transitional Curvature, which developed from the young artist's fascination with outer space; Amanda Stuart's Stalker, pictured, which is made from a farmer's old pyjamas; Morgan Shimeld's spare, architectural Abstract Construction and Gary Deirmendjian's hollow promise, a rusty shipping container unearthed. Is it trash or treasure? ...more
	Sculpture 2010 @ Brenda May Gallery ArtKritique Blog: http://artkritique.blogspot.com/ 16 January 2010 John Matthews New exhibitions are as common as snowflakes in Sydney during January. The gallerinas must know where their business comes from, and assume it's all gone to the beach for the month. It's a shame as a surfeit of leisure time could be nicely and slowly filled in gallery precincts. 'Sculpture 2010' at Brenda May Gallery is a pleasing, yet modest, start to the year. In this smallish space in Sydney's Danks Street this group show is both thoughtful and eclectic, bringing together some very different artists without the heavy hand of a curatorial theme. ...more
	New Year Sculpture Art Monthly Australia, #226, p.77 December 2009 - February 2010 Daniel Mudie Cunningham The arts complex at 2 Danks Street in Waterloo always begins the year with a sculpture extravaganza. Gallerist Brenda May established January as ‘sculpture month’ when she was director at Access Contemporary Art Gallery. Now with her own self-named gallery, May starts the year with a curated group show as a way of promoting new forms of sculpture with all the other galleries at 2 Danks Street participating by hosting something sculptural. ...more
	Seduction and Subversion: The Art of James Guppy 1989-2009 28 November 2009 to 17 January 2010 Ipswich Art Gallery, D'Arcy Doyle Place, Ipswich Central The Tweed River Art Gallery touring exhibition will be making its next stop in Ipswich from 28 November 2009 until 17 January 2010. ...more
	Relishing the Absurd The Courier-Mail Thursday 22 October 2009, p.53 Suzanna Clarke It's disconcerting, yet fascinating, to see a massive rhinoceros leaning over a fragile teacup; a disembodied hand floating in the air or fairies escaped from a peculiar fantasy world. ...more
	Seduction and Subversion: The Art of James Guppy 1989-2009 2 October to 15 November 2009 Tweed River Art Gallery, 2 Mistral Road Murwillumbah, NSW, 2484 You are warmly invited to attend the official exhibition opening of Seduction and Subversion: The Art of James Guppy 1989-2009 by writer and presenter Andrew Frost. ...more
	Open Gallery Sydney Morning Herald (Spectrum), p.14 5 September 2009 Lissa Christopher Fine copper wire and synthetic thread become both beautiful and dangerous in Melinda Le Guay's hands. ...more
	Metropicks - Marc Standing Sydney Morning Herald (Metro), p.14 4 September 2009 Tracey Clement Marc Standing In Terra Australis Incognita (the Unknown Land of the South), the Sydney painter explores the toxic legacy of colonialism. ...more
	Lowensteins Arts Management Press Release September 2009 MEDIA RELEASE ATO CONFIRMS INVESTMENT ALLOWANCE FOR ARTWORKS Lowensteins Arts Management CPAs has now received advice from the ATO confirming that small businesses (turnover <$2m) are eligible to receive an investment allowance of up to 50% on the purchase of artworks up to 31 December 2009*. ...more
	Profiles - Marc Standing Art Almanac September 2009, p.195 Terra Australis Incognita (the unknown land of the South) Brenda May Gallery August 25 to September 20 Sydney ‘Terra Australis Incognita’ is a continuation of ideas that were first developed in ‘Waking Dreams: An Australian Portrait’. In this recent work I have begun to explore issues concerning identity within an historically colonial context. This has come about through my interest in exploring different connotations of ‘colonialism’ from an African perspective, where I was born, as compared to the Australian experience. ...more
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