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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

BELLE

Beautiful they may be, but there's a slightly uneasy quality to Kirrily Hammond's evocative landscapes (Gippsland Twilight XXI pictured left). Perhaps because they're often depicted at night, "there's a delicious quality to them", says gallery director, Iain Dawson. "They take me somewhere". July 28 - August 8 » Click here to download PDF

BELLE

While he rubs shoulders with the world's wealthiest art collectors, Iain Dawson is much more interested in discovering the unknown than schmoozing with the rich and famous. The former sales and marketing manager of Sydney's prestigious Tim Olsen Gallery recently opened his own enterprise, the Iain Dawson Gallery, to showcase the work of emerging Australian and Asian artists. » Click here to download PDF

VOGUE Australia

As the fashion world buzzes about Thakoon Panichgul and his label Thakoon, could modern Thai culture turn the art world on its head? For the past couple of years, there's been well deserved hype about the Chinese art scene, but if Iain Dawson has his way it will soon be the turn of south-Asia. Dawson's eponymous new Sydney gallery focuses on work from Australasia and opened with a strong show from Melbourne-based Thai painter Bundit Puangthong. There were golden buddhas in there, but not as we know them - Puangthong started off as a graffiti artist and cites Jean-Michel Basquiat as as influence. Next up? A series of strangely super paper spaceman sculptures by Australian Hanna Hoyne, who alos has a Thai connection - she studied there. » Click here to download PDF

Grazia

Upcoming Thai artist Bundit Puangthong's unique East-meets-West works are the first exhibition in this new Paddington space. Worth a peek for aspiring art collectors. » Click here to download PDF

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