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Brenda May established Access Contemporary Art Gallery in Sydney in 1985 to support emerging Australian artists. The Gallery moved to the Danks Street complex when it opened in 2001 and currently represents a select group of emerging to senior artists working in a wide range of medium, including Tanmaya Bingham, Senden Blackwood, Robert Boynes, Will Coles, Jim Croke, Sybil Curtis, Todd Fuller, James Guppy, Melinda Le Guay, Carol Murphy, Mylyn Nguyen, Leslie Oliver, Marc Standing, Lezlie Tilley and Peter Tilley.
I feel like everything I want to say is written in the lines and planes of each piece. The repetitive physical process of carving translates my decisions...
I found a stand of melaleuca clinging to the rocks along a wild stretch of beach on the north coast of NSW; branches twisted and deformed by an...
This popular annual event was established by Brenda May at Access Gallery in 1998 and continues to be an important platform for the promotion of...
When we consider objects, we identify them by their purpose. Having worked as a ceramicist for the last ten years, the making of objects for the everyday...
I continue to make work which references aspects of the human body.Using process as an end and a means, and allowing for elements of human error, vigilant...
This is a journey through the everyday in the hope of finding the little magic that I used to carry with me on the train, in my backpack and the reserved...
Somewhere in between the active and the still,the imagined and the real,between light and shade, truth and tale, and of coursehope and defeat...Between...
Somewhere in between the active and the still, the imagined and the real, between light and shade, truth and tale, and of course hope and defeat......
This body of work is a privately constructed environment that is a juxtaposition of unlikely objects; collectively a symbolic arrangement that both...
Scale is often disregarded as a consideration when making sculpture when it shouldn’t be, as it is just as vital as things like subject matter, materials...
This exhibition will consider the representation of food within the visual arts and beyond the standard still life tableaux.The consumption of food is a...
This exhibition will consider the representation of food within the visual arts and beyond the standard still life tableaux. The consumption of food is a...
Among the artists I most admire is Czanne. In his mature years, he attempted to give underlying structure to his landscapes by rendering them in terms of...
My work continues to explore the Still Life and its place in contemporary Australian painting. I focus in particular on the sort of objects that might be...
Among the artists I most admire is Cézanne. In his mature years, he attempted to give underlying structure to his landscapes by rendering them in terms of...
Like the Dadaists of their time, this exhibition will seek to define the undefinable — with prints, collages, artists’ books, zines, posters, typography...
I continue to use environmental textures and forms as the material of the body. The body is a transparent screen fabricated from steel, so the form is...
My work is still concerned with memory, preservation and both the psychological and physical aspects of the human condition. This new body of glass...
Chiaroscuro is the treatment of light and shade for dramatic effect in drawing, painting and printmaking. It is the effect of contrasted light and shadow...
My work evokes the sounds, sensations and body postures found in our urban spaces - the language of the street. Are we as viewers, simultaneously the...
In January 2012, marks and lines grew across the walls of Back to Back Galleries, Cooks Hill. The marks scratched and erased, changed, morphed and grew...
Metamorphosis' investigates ideas of perception, of known and unknown things that engage the forces of nature, of change and growth – and challenge our...
imago ɪˈmeɪgəʊ noun ( pl. imagos , imagoes or imagines ɪˈmeɪdʒɪniːz ) 1. Entomology the final and fully developed adult stage of an insect, typically...
For fifteen years, Sydney Film School teacher Leslie Oliver has been asking students to tell him about a time when they fell in love. What began as a...
This is an exhibition of three contemporary photographers new to the Gallery. The artists will create a small body of work that best represents their...
As a teacher of young filmmakers from around the world, I have recorded short interviews with over 1,000 students. The form of the interview has not...
This is the third exhibition in our Introducing... series. It is a small group show designed to provide artists who are new to the Gallery with a chance...
No one sees themselves the way the world sees them, as one’s reflection is, of course, seen in reverse. This show is an opportunity for the artists to...
Are we and our junk reaching critical mass? If all our junk is made in China, we will have nothing worth digging up in the future.The trivial and shallow...
The figures in these new works are dredged from James Guppy’s unconscious to throw light onto the cold darkness of rationality. Guppy has always been...
Nulla dies sine linea = never a day without a lineA constant image that has followed me throughout my career has been the ‘telephone doodle’ in all its...
'Major Artists, Major Works' will feature a significant artwork by each of the fourteen artists represented by the Gallery.Size is relative. For some,...
In an over stimulated world peace and quiet is a rare commodity. We have been forced to create internal conduits to another restorative world or void...
Things are not always what they seem to be. Through simple quirks of colour and composition, everyday scenes of people and places reveal themselves as...
There is an ethereal and dreamlike quality to this body of work with many references to the natural world and to our biological makeup. Sleep, dream and...
I guess there could be far worse things to be consumed by than carving abstract forms in stone. For me, the attraction and the meaning is in the...
Through gestures, posture and facial expression we communicate without words to the world around us.Body language is universal, as it crosses cultures and...
This work introduces images, objects, creatures and species that hover between multiple identities. They are open for the viewer to question if piece they...
This body of work shifts between still life tableau and compositions based around the figure. It could be seen as a dialogue with the self while...
Todd Fuller’s work is drawn from his own personal narrative as an untraditional Australian male, however his figures engage with the everyday pitfalls...
Desire. Longing. Craving. Lasciviousness.Lust for flesh. Lust for power. Lust for money. Lust for life. Lust for food. Lust for freedom. Lust for art.Lust...
This series of drawings explores the transition from childhood to adolescence and the dualism of integrating fantasy and reality. The work draws from the...
The linear and geometric forms of Lyndal Hargrave’s wall-mounted sculptures are constructed with found elements, objects of the everyday. The familiarity...
Crystallography is the field of science which studies the arrangement of atoms within a solid. Prior to the development of x-ray techniques in the early...
My research and work has become increasingly concerned with nurturing, healing and protecting the fragile and vulnerable.My work currently hinges on the...
... early memories from the movie, the gladstone bag under a glass dome, a book in the pram, the baby in the bag, my first contact with surrealism?...
This year we return with the third in the Art + Humour series following the inaugural show in 2005 and Art + Humour Too of 2007. The exhibition contains a...