Introducing V

Overview

After 15 years as a major player on the Sydney art scene, Brenda May Gallery shut its doors last December. But the team quickly reopened in March with a new identity, May Space, and a fresh direction at a shiny new Waterloo address, not far from the previous Danks Street location.

Now showing in the new space is the fifth exhibition in their Introducing series, which presents the work of a small group of artists new to the gallery. This edition presents the work of five artists working across a range of mediums including painting, sculpture and video.

Anna Glynn's Above and Below celebrates the elegant, complex rhythms of the natural world. Shane Drinkwater's paintings use repetitive mark making to create visual intensity. Matt Chun uses a variety of media to capture people and places. Painter Natasha Walsh explores the fragility of the individual through self-portraiture. Dai Lai's stoneware Waiting Room series is also featured, which is inspired by his experience of waiting rooms, which he says "are like gathering places for strangers, each with different motives, emotions and moods, either excitement and/or trepidation of an unknown future". If you haven't seen the new and improved May Space yet, now's your chance.

Image: Dai Li, Waiting Room series (2017).