To celebrate the launch of this refurbished website I am making a new blog post, the first for almost three years. It's been a long time coming but I am indebted to Cam McGuinness for his perseverance in bringing this old website up to current standards and performing as it should.
The real star of this post is Sabbia Gallery, its Director Anna Grigson and her dedicated team. What a stellar history the gallery can boast! After many years as Director of Quadrivium Gallery in Sydney's QVB, arguably one of the most beautiful galleries in Sydney, Sabbia was established in 2005 in a street level commercial suite fronting Campbell St Surry Hills.
The Gallery then relocated to a charming old building on the corner of Glenmore Rd & MacDonald St Paddington. This building had a terrific street presence, with a row of generous windows allowing after hours viewing of the work on display.
And then eventually to the current premises, a refurbished industrial site in Elizabeth St, Redfern, now with three levels of gallery space. I can't speak highly enough of Sabbia's exhibiting practice over the past 20 years. Their curatorial skills are par excellence, with every exhibition beautifully hung. The Twentieth Anniversay Show was no exception, and perhaps even eclipsed all previous shows the way ceramics and glass objects, normally held in quite distinct spaces, here played off each other throughout the exhibition.
Congratulations Anna and the team. Here is a small selection of the outstanding work on display during the show.
Honouring Klaus Moje, who passed away in 2016
Selinda Davidson foreground
Galia Amsell & Kunmanara Carroll
Giles Bettison
Kirstie Rae
Honouring Gerry King who died 2024
Pete de Verre by Emma Varga