News and Press

Spectrum

No painter or sculptor is born successful. Creative types must develop their skills as well as their pitch to garner attention. » Click here to download PDF

the (sydney) magazine

Iain Dawson has a white penguin at the door, colour soaked paintings of giant insects atop cars and a bronze skull peering obliquely across his desk (the work, by Louis Pratt, won the 2006 Woollahra Small Sculpture prize). After a photomedia degree and a decade working in commercial galleries, Dawson set up his small corner space in mid 2008 to focus on new artists. » Click here to download PDF

S - THE SUN HERALD

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OPENING NIGHT

Further images from the launch of Anthony Whites exhibition Paris Paintings available as PDF. Photographs - Heath Bennett » Click here to download PDF

SCULPTURE & THE ENEMIES

"I create sculpture out of instinct, intuition and vision. It is not until the art work is completed that I have any idea of what my artistic intention was. The work itself has an open ended quality allowing the viewer to imbue their own poetry and imagination to it. The end result is often menacing and playful, dramatic and visceral, familiar and unpredictable." » Click here to download PDF

INSIDE OUT

In Hugh Ford's world, the backgrounds are blocks of abstract colour, the foregrounds are bold line work but, more than anything, the people are faceless, be they schoolgirls, business men or carnival workers. Maybe the odd beard here, pair of goggles there. » Click here to download PDF

HOME BEAUTIFUL

"The space is personalised by a pair of artworks by Simon Collins, which were commissioned by the couple, through Iain Dawson Gallery in Sydney's Paddington." » Click here to download PDF

Sydney Morning Herald

Sweaney's neat paintings of 1950s fibro and weatherboard cottages- with their striped window awnings and swathes of much loved lawn - are a nostalgic joy to behold. Summer trips up the Pacific Highway, the smell of roast lamb, and humbler lives and times seem to be captured inside each one (The House Painter's House, pictured). Sweaney, who is based in Mullumbimby, has a fine eye for detail and seems equally at home working with gouache, oil, watercolour or acrylic. » Click here to download PDF

TIME OUT Sydney

Filipino-born artist Mike Chavez who lives and works in Melbourne is concerned with notions of identity. On a recent visit back to his home country his imagination was gripped by those Filipino women known as 'bakla'. » Click here to download PDF

MONOCLE

Just over a year old, Iain Dawson's contemporary art space in Sydney presents the best of emerging Australian and Asian painters, sculptors, photographers and video-makers. "The art market in Australia on the whole is quite conservative, and I was convinced that there is room for support of less traditional and emerging artists," says Dawson who spent a decade on the gallery circuit in Sydney and has a degree in museum studies from the city's university. » Click here to download PDF

Architectural Digest En Espanol

"el sofá perfecto es… El que sea mejor que tu cama colecciona arte? Sí, compro lo que me gusta. Hace poco compré una serie de piezas del artista australiano Hugh Ford. Son gráficos, sin un estilo definido. " » Click here to download PDF

ARTIST PROFILE

Paintings for my forthcoming exhibition are first person investigations inspired by the simple visual appeal of ordinary moments in my life that cry out to be painted. » Click here to download PDF

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