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23.01.2022 End of Year Drinks, this Friday night from 5-7pm

22.01.2022 RUTH JU-SHIH LI Represented artist Ruth Li will be in the Gallery tomorrow (Saturday) . If you missed our opening last Saturday, this is a great opportunity to chat to Ruth about her incredible ephemeral installation and ceramic works on display. @ruth.li.art Images of Ruth Ju-Shih Li installation 'Still Life of a Distant Memory - a Winter Study before Dawn'... #mayspace #mayspacesyd #ruthjushihli #inflorescence #emergingartist See more

21.01.2022 MAY PROGRAMMING Our latest Exhibition, Artist in Focus, and Project is now live via MAY SPACE Online. See the link in our bio to access the new website and view works, interviews and exclusive projects by our incredible artists. REMOTE CONTACT - Exhibition by Josh Raymond @joshraymond REBECCA HASTINGS - Artist in Focus @rebeccahastingsartist I AM FROM THE BEGINNING // Project by FRANK JACOB - extended until the end of May.... Until 31 May 2021 Every month a new curated program of exhibitions, projects, artist interviews and studio tours will be revealed. Images: Josh Raymond, ‘Circumnavigation’ detail. Rebecca Hastings in her studio. FRANK JACOB, Untitled; Port Valldemossa, Islas Baleares (2020) detail. @mariekajacobsphotography @jon_frank_ @rebeccahastingsartist @joshraymond @roh_smith_ #mayspace #mayspacesyd #onlinegallery #artiststudio #rebeccahasting #joshraymond #frankjacob See more

18.01.2022 DETAILS Remote Contact Online until 31 May Josh Raymond is an artist, photographer, and cinematographer who has been at the nexus of digital cinema and contemporary art for over 20 years. Josh’s newest series is brought together in 'Remote Contact' to explore intimate and suggestive moments which touch, meet and connect. Referencing our new modes of interaction after periods of isolation, the series of photographic prints and transparencies within light boxes move... between plant and human life exploring forms in a contested and organised space. Drawing on photography’s rich history of portraiture and still life, Josh explores the exposure of the human form in connection to the eroticism of plant life. Images of the male form are met with flowers, flowing and dancing together, as Josh's works to create a sense of unease, interest and arousal. Presented here, 'Bleeding heart' displays a transparent print illuminated within a backlit lightbox. 'Plants are this great Trojan horse', Josh tells us, thinking of life borne from seed, a transformative and astounding form of life on this planet. Remote Contact by Josh Raymond, online now until 31 May. See the whole exhibition from the link in our bio. @joshraymond Images: Detail from Josh Raymond, 'Bleeding heart' 2021, transparency in lightbox. #mayspace #mayspacesyd #remotecontact #photography #joshraymond #onlinegallery See more

16.01.2022 EXHIBITION Josh Raymond Online now "I’m interested in the corporeal, the decline of the body, the utterly desirable body. I want you to be interested and aroused. The portraits or the photographs of men are also about navigation, a cartography of ideas and trying to make sense of things. I love that idea of travelling with your eyes, over a figure, around a body to the past, the future." - Josh Raymond ... Remote Contact now live until 31 May See the link in our bio for the full exhibition @joshraymond Image: Josh Raymond, Circumnavigation 2021, archival pigment print on Hahnemühle cotton paper, ed. of 6. #mayspace #mayspacesyd #joshraymond #photography See more

14.01.2022 ARTIST IN FOCUS It all starts with an image in my head Online til 31 May "I feel like I never switch off. I’m always in my studio somehow. Even when I’m out and about I’m constantly imagining the world. There’s this process of osmosis playing out. Ideas, images and books I’ve read, and conversations I’ve had, they all get fed in and get tumbled around and mashed together.... And then one day I’ll be out running or watering my garden and this image will just pop into my head. It all feels really random and a bit nuts. But I think there’s a really logical process operating outside my perception. I don’t act on those images immediately and I’ve also learnt not to interrogate them too much either. They need time to just sit and breathe. Sometimes they fade away but there are others that continue to haunt me. These are the ones that need to be made into paintings." With new videos and content coming weekly for the month of May, see here - https://www.mayspaceonline.com.au/2021-artist-in-focus-rebe now to view the full Artist in Focus. With thanks to @roh_smith_ for filming. Episode I It all starts with an image in my head. Instagram: @rebeccahastingsartist @roh_smith_ Rebecca Hastings #mayspace #mayspacesyd #artistinfocus #rebeccahastings #artiststudio https://vimeo.com/543843328

12.01.2022 LAST DAYS Join us today and tomorrow for a final glimpse at our three current exhibitions. Solo shows by Ruth Ju-Shih Li, Waratah Lahy, and Carolyn Craig close tomorrow at 3pm, Saturday 19 December. To celebrate our final exhibitions for 2020 and at our George Street location, we are welcoming friends and artists to join us for a round of drinks this evening at the Gallery. Update: We are continuing with our End of Year Drinks this evening from 5-7pm. We ask that... anyone in the Northern Beaches local areas please not attend. If you cannot attend, you can still view our exhibitions online! See our link in bio. End of Year Drinks: 5-7pm Friday 18 December Images: Ruth Ju-Shih Li, Florilegia (Vermillion) II, Florilegia (Light Blue), Florilegia (Dark Cyan) III, and installation view of Inflorescence December 2020 #mayspace #mayspacesyd #ruthjushihli #inflorescence @ruth.li.art See more

12.01.2022 PROJECT I AM FROM THE BEGINNING Jon Frank and Marieka’s Jacob’s (FRANK JACOB) film ‘Scheveningen’ is presented as part of their series ‘I AM FROM THE BEGINNING’ for our Project space. The moving image work takes its name from the Dutch town north of The Hague. The artwork is accompanied by music composed by Sol Seppy. The piece shows thick and unabating sea foam. Forming more and more frequently as ocean temperatures rise and give way to algal blooms, the foam, while it can... be beautiful, is also a sign of ecological stress. See the full artwork on our website via the link in our bio. @jon_frank_ @mariekajacobsphotography Credit: FRANK JACOB, ‘Scheveningen’ 2020, digital video, 1920 x 1080 from 4K - 3:48min, edition of 3. Music by Sol Seppy. #mayspace #mayspacesyd #seafoam #solseppy #frankjacob #artistproject https://vimeo.com/429075042

11.01.2022 NEW IN THE STOCKROOM Kim Anderson We are delighted to welcome Victorian based visual artist Kim Anderson to MAY SPACE Online. Kim is fascinated by the physical manifestation of grief and other intense emotions. Recently, her work has focused on the widely-felt experience of ecological grief and anxiety associated with climate change and the loss of fragile ecosystems. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at the University of Ballarat in 2003,... and in 2007 was awarded a scholarship to study a Master of Fine Art at the University of Dundee in Scotland. She has since undertaken a number of residencies including an Australia Council Studio Residency at the British School at Rome, Australia House in Echigo-Tsumari, Japan, DRAWinternational in Caylus, France, and at Hill End and the Bundanon Trust in NSW. In 2019 she was awarded the Jon Schueler Scholarship, a three-month residency on the Isle of Skye in Scotland supported by the Jon Schueler Charitable Trust and the Scottish Arts Council. See the link in our bio to explore Kim's works. Images: Kim Anderson, 'The Burdened' 2020, ink, charcoal and pastel on paper, 'The Chasm' 2020, 'Teeth' 2020, 'Hair' 2020, all ink on paper. Details shown. @kim_anderson_artist #mayspace #mayspacesyd #kimanderson #charcoal #worksonpaper #ink #onlinegallery See more

08.01.2022 PROJECT I AM FROM THE BEGINNING Online until 31 May "Around 18 months ago we relocated from Australia to the north west corner of Mallorca with our two young children. We were only initially coming for 6 months for the project, but due to the COVID situation, we've now been sequestered on the island for nearly 18 months, unable to repatriate home. ... ... Ideally with the work we wanted to create representations of the human form that were unencumbered by time or space. To tease out this concept we shot many of the images at depth in the Mediterranean sea so we could use the weightlessness and ethereal quality of the water as our canvas." - Marieka Jacobs Image: FRANK JACOB, 'Untitled; Biniaraix, Islas Baleares' 2020, chromogenic c-type print, edition of 7 in two sizes. We exclusively use 35mm & medium format film for its colour palette, dimensionality and granular structure. These photographs have been captured in-camera as exposed on the original film negative. They have not been digitally manipulated in any way. @jon_frank_ @mariekajacobsphotography #mayspace #mayspacesyd #mediumformatphotography #onlinegallery #mallorca See more

05.01.2022 STOCKROOM Miriam Innes It's been a busy week here at MAY SPACE Online. New in our digital Stockroom again this week are two intricate charcoal drawings by Miriam Innes. Part of her ongoing fascination with the architecture and history of New York city, these works on paper are now available via our website. Images: Miriam Innes, 'Representing Tribeca' (detail and full image) 2021, charcoal on Arches paper. ... Miriam Innes, 'Contemplating Soho' (details and full image) 2021, charcoal on Arches paper. @miriaminnesart #mayspace #mayspacesyd #newyorkrambling #newyork #charcoal See more

04.01.2022 EVENT Join us this Friday evening from 5-7pm for our End of Year Drinks, to celebrate our final days for the year and located at our George Street premises! RSVP is not necessary, however all visitors will be required to register their attendance on arrival. End of Year Drinks,... 5-7pm, Friday 18 December 2020 MAY SPACE #mayspace #mayspacesyd See more

03.01.2022 SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY 2021 Announcement MAY SPACE Online is proud to announce that we will be exhibiting Graziela Guardino and Ruth Ju-Shih Li at Sydney Contemporary 2021. This year the Gallery will be presenting in Future, a platform open to young galleries presenting curated solo or duo artist exhibitions of new work or established galleries wishing to present the work of emerging artists or projects.... We are very excited about this project and look forward to bringing you news about the fair over the coming months. Be sure to sign up to our mailing list to hear about our SC2021 events, programs, and previews first! #mayspace #mayspacesyd #sydneycontemporary #sc2021 #onlinegallery #emergingartist Graziela Guardino Ruth Li Sydney Contemporary See more

02.01.2022 LAST WEEK Waratah Lahy's solo exhibition 'The Shape of Things' closes this Saturday 19 December. The exhibition, combining works of watercolour, collage, and painting, suggest the way things will come to be in the future. Waratah has 'taken this phrase as the starting point for [her] current body of work: observing the way changes are taking place in [her] immediate surroundings and thinking about how they reflect national and global trends in the environment and society. A...lthough these ‘shapes’ indicate change, I’m also looking at the ‘shapes’ that endure: moments of beauty, wonder and comfort essential in a fast-paced world.' Waratah Lahy, The Shape of Things Closing Saturday 19 December Instagram: @waratah_lahy #mayspace #mayspacesyd #waratahlahy #theshapeofthings #watercolour #collage Waratah Lahy See more