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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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