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BELLE

Right Now ART
Belle Magazine
Author Mitchell Oakley Smith March 2013

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THE(SYDNEY)MAGAZINE

State of the Art
The Sydney Morning Herald
Author Elissa Blake March 2013

Sydney dealers Barry Keldoulis and Iain Dawson (formerly of Waterloo and Oxford Street respectively) have both given up their galleries to trade in pop-up shows and art fairs. » Click here to download PDF


TIME OUT SYDNEY

Buying Contemporary Art
Time Out Sydney
Author Lisa Omagari May 2012

Well-known gallerist Iain Dawson, who has recently closed the doors of his Oxford Street gallery to embrace the online and pop-up arena, is another oracle Time Out talked to. His advice? Buy on paper. “Many people make sensible decisions to buy limited edition prints, etchings or lithographs,” says Dawson. “Australians have also become more comfortable buying photography because we’ve stopped having that debate. We’ve accepted that photography is art and that there are many talented photographers out there.” » Click here to download PDF


Australian Financial Review

Art buying moves to virtual galleries
AFR
Author Katrina Stickland 26 April 2012

Bricks and mortar galleries are so last century. Or so it seems as yet another gallery owner, Iain Dawson, closes his physical space in favour of selling through pop-up shows, art fairs and online. » Click here to download PDF


VOGUE LIVING

Hong Kong City Guide
The Vogue Living Blog
24 April 2012

Three Australian movers and shakers with abundant insider knowledge share their Hong Kong hotspots – with some common favourites! » Click here to download PDF


BELLE

Right Now Art
Belle Magazine
Author Anne Maree Sargeant March 2012

Sydney’s Iain Dawson Gallery embarks on a 12-month pop-up project with a series of offsite showcases in Sydney’s Paddington. Works by the gallery’s stable of emerging Australian artists, including those by Chris Bellamy (right), will feature in events in Melbourne, Hong Kong, Singapore and London. “Given most of our clients now interact with us online, we wanted to put our artists in from of these developing markets,” says director Iain Dawson. The first pop up takes place from June 18 - July 1 at Mary Place Gallery, 12 Mary Place Paddington, NSW » Click here to download PDF


BELLE

Readers Dinner with Mike Chavez
October/November 2011

Join Belle editor-in-chief Neale Whitaker and art specialist Michael Reid at a readers' dinner with artist Mike Chavez at Iain Dawson Gallery. Tuesday September 6. » Click here to download PDF


ART MARKET REPORT

Generation X-Factor
Art Market Report
Author Iain Dawson June 2011

Iain Dawson is a dynamic, ambitious and dedicated young art dealer belonging to Generation X. The Art Market Report invited him to give his personal perspective on the Australian art market and the difficulties his generation faces in breaking through what appears to be an aging, conservative and elitist marketplace. » Click here to download PDF


(INSIDE)

Home of Art and Soul
(inside)
Author Anne-Maree Sargeant May 2011

Gallerist and Sydney art guru Iain Dawson talks about his own journey in art collecting, and shares his insight on the balance of art and space at home, and how to collect with your gut. Art is about understanding yourself as much as your own physical space. » Click here to download PDF


MONOCLE on BLOOMBERG

Breifing
13 February 2011

For this week's briefings, Monocle visits an art gallery in Sydney and a watchmaker in Zürich. Go to monocle.com to watch Episode Four of MONOCLE on BLOOMBERG featuring Iain Dawson Gallery. » Click here to download PDF


GRAND DESIGNS AUSTRALIA

The Small House
The Lifestyle Channel
aired Thursday 28th October 2010

The Lifestyle Channel aired Grand Designs Australia episode two on Thursday night, featuring the beautiful Surry Hills ‘small home’ of Dominic & Sue Alvaro. The episode featured the works of two Iain Dawson Gallery artists, Adelaide based painter Sam Songailo & the photographer Sam Ash who is currently based in New York City. » Click here to download PDF


THE MONOCLE WEEKLY

Edition 76
Monocle
24 October 2010

Tyler Brûlé heads Down Under this week for a special edition of the Monocle Weekly anchored from Sydney. Kicking off with a discussion on the state of Brand Australia, publishing guru and firm Monocle friend Robyn Holt joins Tyler in the studio before we review the country’s ambitious defence spending plans with Andrew Shearer of the Lowy Institute for International Policy. Next up, tailor Patrick Johnson gives us the pros and cons of starting a bespoke tailoring business in Sydney, before gallerist Iain Dawson reveals the latest emerging talent on the Aussie art scene. Last but not least our favourite chef, Bill Granger, explains what ingredients make the country’s food scene so irresistible. To listen to edition 76 of The Monocle Weekly, go to www.monocle.com » Click here to download PDF


Spectrum

The art of selling new ideas
The Sydney Morning Herald
Author Megan Johnston 27 February 2010

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

Moving Pictures
The Sydney Morning Herald
Author Dominic Rolfe Thursday 25 February 2010

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


MONOCLE

Well Hung
Author Robert Bound September 2009

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


BELLE

Right Now Who
Framing Youth
Author Becky Barker December/January 2008/2009

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

Framed
August 2008

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