Article by Sheryl Lynch
If you are visiting Sydney for a couple of days, there are many art galleries for you to enjoy the vibrant Australian arts and culture. The place is full of options for those who love buying art. For example, the Berkeley Editions, which holds a fine collection of limited edition prints by the most popular Australian contemporary artists for around thirty years. The place staff can provide you with clear and specific knowledge about the oeuvres and contemporary arts, but you are going to feel the astonishment looking at paints and prints made by excellent artists in collaboration with the gallery. In the corridors of the Berkeley Editions, you can find oeuvres by Jason Benjamin, Charles Blackman, Arthur Boyd, David Boyd, Criss Canning, Fred Cress, Ray Crooke, Melissa Egan and Frank Hodgkinson. Another art gallery in Sydney art lovers must visit is the Tim Olsen Gallery. One of the most important galleries in the city, the spacious place present clients with oeuvres by John Olsen, Tim’s father, and also a number of brightly wonderful landscapes paintings by Ian Grant and Philip Hunter, and abstract paintings by Melinda Harper and Matthew Johnson. Opened by Tim in 1993, the place quickly becomes one of Sydney’s leading galleries.Run by independent designers, the places present the clients with unique or rare items. That is why fashionable people from all over the country want to go for shopping and acquire something that nobody else is going to have. It has a varied range of artists and it is constantly changing the exhibition calendar, so you will always see different works by both emerging and established artists. The main objective of the gallery is focusing its attention on the work of Australian artists. The place aims to represent overseas-based artists and also start to make international exhibitions in order to promote an exchange of ideas between Australian art and international contemporary artists.Brenda May is also famous for supporting emerging Australian artists. Opened in 1985, the gallery represents a select group of some of the best contemporary Australian artists that use a huge range of media, such as Tanmaya Bingham, Jim Croke, Robert Boynes, Todd Fuller, Sybil Curtis, Melinda Le Guay, James Guppy, Marc Standing, Carol Murphy, Lezlie Tilley and Peter Tilley. It also supports non-represented artists through many solo and thematic exhibitions all over the year. The place is an active member of the National and State Board of the Australian Commercial Galleries Association since the 90′s.