The Quarterly 3.2

T H E Q U A R T E R LY MAY

SPACE | 409b George S treet Water loo NSW 2017 | mayspace.com.au

AUTUMN 2017

VOLUME 3

NUMBER 2

M AY

SPACE

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(right and below) MAY SPACE March 2017 sculpture by Dion Horstmans painting by Robert Boynes

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS: MARCH - DECEMBER 2017 - MAY SPACE: FOURTEEN | 1 to 25 March - INTRODUCING V | 28 March to 22 April - Off Grid, curated by Al Munro | 26 April to 13 May - Waratah Lahy, Everyday | 16 May to 10 June - Kevin McKay, Pavilion: Cronulla Studies | 13 June to 8 July - Robert Boynes, Five Decades | 11 to 29 July - Mylyn Nguyen | 1 to 19 August - Nicole Welch, Wildēorness Land | 22 August to 16 September - Sydney Contemporary at Carriageworks | 7 to 10 September - In the backyard, curated by Waratah Lahy | 19 September to 8 October - Ashleigh Garwood | 10 October to 4 November - Out of Line, group exhibition | 7 to 25 November - Ceramic Revisions II, group exhibition | 28 November to 23 December

EXH IBIT ION C ALEND AR MAY SPACE: FOURTEEN 1 to 25 March 2017 To display the talent held by the Gallery upon opening its doors, we present MAY SPACE: FOURTEEN; an exhibition in which each represented artist presents a significant piece that displays their creativity and capabilities.

This inaugural exhibition will gives our audience, new and inherited, insight into the vision and orientation of this third incarnation.

Exhibition installation, MAY SPACE: FOURTEEN. Artists pictured left to right: Robert Boynes, Mylyn Nguyen, James Guppy, Al Munro, Leslie Oliver, Peter Tilley, Sybil Curtis, Nicole Welch, Catherine O’Donnell, Carol Murphy. (not pictured: Waratah Lahy, Melinda Le Guay, Ashleigh Garwood, Todd Fuller)

“I find waiting rooms interesting. They are like gathering places for strangers, each with different motives, emotions and moods, either excitement and/or trepidation of an unknown future. However they also share something in common, “waiting”. A place for a pause and reflection before next steps” - Dai Li

“Working from Sydney, Taipei and my open studio in Bermagui, I use a variety of media to make images of people and places.”

- Matt Chun Matt Chun Andrew 2016 coloured pencil on plywood 120 x 120cm

Dai Li, Wating Room series, 2017, stoneware, dimensions variable

INTRODUCING V 28 March to 22 April 2017 This is the fifth exhibition in our Introducing series. The show aims to showcase the work of a small group of artists who work across multiple platforms, genres and media and are new to the Gallery.

Shane Drinkwater Blue sleep 2017 acrylic and ink on paper on canvas 52 x 52cm

“I delve into the act of painting with a minimum repertoire of visual elements, using repetitive mark making, aiming for a maximum visual intensity.”

- Shane Drinkwater

Anna Glynn Above and Below 2016 1920 x 1080HD 2:45mins, ed of 5

“In Above and Below I express my curiosity and wonderment with the elegant, complex rhythms and patterns of the natural world, referencing the parallel between forms in nature above and below the sea.”

- Anna Glynn

“In this series of paintings I have begun to examine the fragility of the self and the perception of the image as timeless through the genre of the self-portrait.”

- Natasha Walsh

Natasha Walsh alchemical portrait 2 2016 oil on copper 6 x 3.7cm

Off Grid curated by Al Munro 26 April to 13 May 2017

Jay Kochel Karesansui 1 2016 machine drawing, pen on chalkboard paint on 300gsm Snowden - 15 panels, ed of 3 141 x 252.5cm

As the exemplar of high Modernism, the grid is ubiquitous within contemporary life in instances as varied as the structure of city buildings and streets, to the graphs of financial indexes and the organisational logic of museums, libraries and supermarkets. But just as the grid can be seen as a device implying control and rigidity, it can also been seen as an agent of movement and change. The artists in Off Grid respond to these ideas and more, some taking the history of the grid with modern art as a starting point, others exploring the potential for the grid to make sense of the richness and immensity of the natural world and others still, making use of the grid as a form of logic to structure visual material.

Waratah Lahy, Winter Garden 1 2017 watercolour and gouache on aquabord 10 x 10cm

Al Munro Diamond Logic 4 2017 acrylic and Japanese paper on birch panel 50 x 50cm

WARATAH LAHY Everyday 16 May to 10 June 2017

Everyday is a body of work that looks at the often unnoticed and unmarked moments of everyday life. In particular, the paintings focus on my immediate environment: my home, my garden, my suburb, my workplace.

With this work I continue to explore the enduring themes of my practice, namely, the ways in which we perceive the world, and how prosaic everyday moments reveal unexpected narratives and instances of revelation. Underpinning these themes is an ongoing fascination with the materiality of paint, with surface, and also with the scale of the painted object and how these elements have the ability to affect the perception of the depicted subject.

GA LL ERY NEWS NICOLE WELCH ▶ Wildēornes Land, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, 10 April to 7 May. ▶ Cementa17 Contemporary Arts Festival, Kandos NSW, 6 to 9 April.

Nicole Welch Wildēornes Body 2017 time-lapse film edition of 6

▶ (Highly Commended) Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Adelaide Perry Gallery, 25 February to 24 March. ▶ Close to Home: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial, curated by Anne Ryan, Western Plains Cultural Centre, 6 May to 2 July.

Catherine O’Donnell Urban perspective (detail) 2017, charcoal on paper, charcoal wall drawing 135 x 57cm (paper size)

MYLYN NGUYEN

AL MUNRO

▶ Found, Murray Art Museum Albury, 24 January to 2 May.

▶ Paper Work, Bann Tuck Art Center, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 27 January to 19 February.

Mylyn Nguyen pictured installing her work Found at Murray Art Museum Albury, January 2017.

Photo: Jules Boag

MAY SPACE

CATHERINE O’DONNELL

▶ Paper Work, 9 Art Gallery, Chiang Rai, Thailand, 4 February to 28 February.

Al Munro, Gold Diamond System (detail), 2016, acrylic on paper 76 x 100cm 409b George Street Wa t e r l o o N S W 2 0 1 7 www.mayspace.com.au info@mayspace.com.au t.+61 2 9318 1122 tues-fri 11-6 saturday 10-6

Cover: Waratah Lahy, In the Garden 9 2017, watercolour and gouache on aquabord, 10 x 10cm