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Peter Bray Gallery (a commercial gallery) was established at 435 Bourke St., Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1951, and closed in 1957 (see Prints and Printmaking website).

Directors

The proprietors were Helen Ogilvie (from 1951 to 1955) and Ruth McNicoll (from Sept 1956 to close). The gallery was owned by Peter Bray^[1], whose interest was in exhibiting pictures and retailing contemporary furniture by Grant Featherston.

Artists

Originally Stanley Coe Gallery, established in 1950, and taken over by Peter Bray the following year, Peter Bray Gallery showed Australian paintings, sculpture and prints by significant contemporary artists.^[2] As the director of Peter Bray Gallery, Helen Ogilvie organised exhibitions for such avant-garde artists as Margo Lewers, John Brack (who first exhibited there),^[3] Ian Fairweather, Inge King, Arthur Boyd, Charles Blackman, Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack, Helen Maudsley, Sydney Nolan,^[4] Michael Shannon, David Dalgarno, Ian Armstrong and others.^[5] Ogilvie's own work was also very modern and she was engaged with the Crafts Revival of the 1950s and 60s, which allowed her to make a living designing cutting edge lampshades in London for a period.

References

^ see 'Design and Art Australia Online (governed by a Management Committee comprising representatives of the University of Sydney and University of NSW and Chief Investigators) [1]
^ Burstall, Tim & McPhee, Hilary, 1941- & Standish, Ann (2012). The memoirs of a young bastard : the diaries of Tim Burstall, November 1953 to December 1954. Melbourne University Publishing, Carlton, Vic., p.298
^ "In 1953, he had his first solo exhibition at Peter Bray's Gallery in Melbourne. Collins Street was exhibited at the same gallery in March 1956 and was immediately purchased by the NGV." McKiernan, M. (2010). John Brack Collins Street 5 pm, 1955. Occupational Medicine, 60(2), 88-89.
^ "In some cases, it is also the artist’s role to slice Australia open and show it bizarrely different, quite new in its antiquity. Half a century ago, Sidney Nolan did just this with his desert paintings and those of drought animal carcasses. I recall seeing some of these at the Peter Bray Gallery in 1953 and being bewildered by their aridity: a cruel dryness which made the familiar Ned Kelly paintings seem quite pastoral." Wallace-Crabbe, C. (2003). Gallery Notes. AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW AUGUST 2003, p.38
^ See newspaper articles on Peter Bray Gallery held in the National Library of Australia [2]

[1] see 'Design and Art Australia Online (governed by a Management Committee comprising representatives of the University of Sydney and University of NSW and Chief Investigators) [1]

[2] Burstall, Tim & McPhee, Hilary, 1941- & Standish, Ann (2012). The memoirs of a young bastard : the diaries of Tim Burstall, November 1953 to December 1954. Melbourne University Publishing, Carlton, Vic., p.298

[3] "In 1953, he had his first solo exhibition at Peter Bray's Gallery in Melbourne. Collins Street was exhibited at the same gallery in March 1956 and was immediately purchased by the NGV." McKiernan, M. (2010). John Brack Collins Street 5 pm, 1955. Occupational Medicine, 60(2), 88-89.

[4] "In some cases, it is also the artist’s role to slice Australia open and show it bizarrely different, quite new in its antiquity. Half a century ago, Sidney Nolan did just this with his desert paintings and those of drought animal carcasses. I recall seeing some of these at the Peter Bray Gallery in 1953 and being bewildered by their aridity: a cruel dryness which made the familiar Ned Kelly paintings seem quite pastoral." Wallace-Crabbe, C. (2003). Gallery Notes. AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW AUGUST 2003, p.38

[5] See newspaper articles on Peter Bray Gallery held in the National Library of Australia [2]

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-Originally Stanley Coe Gallery, established in 1950, and taken over by Peter Bray the following year, Peter Bray Gallery showed Australian paintings, sculpture and prints by significant contemporary artists.<ref>Burstall, Tim & McPhee, Hilary, 1941- & Standish, Ann (2012). The memoirs of a young bastard : the diaries of Tim Burstall, November 1953 to December 1954. Melbourne University Publishing, Carlton, Vic., p.298</ref> As the director of Peter Bray Gallery, Helen Ogilvie organised exhibitions for such avant-garde artists as Margo Lewers, [[John Brack]], [[Ian Fairweather]], [[Inge King]], [[Arthur Boyd]], [[Charles Blackman]], [[Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack]], [[Helen Maudsley]], [[Sydney Nolan]],<ref>"In some cases, it is also the artist’s role to slice Australia open and show it bizarrely different, quite new in its antiquity. Half a century ago, Sidney Nolan did just this with his desert paintings and those of drought animal carcasses. I recall seeing some of these at the Peter Bray Gallery in 1953 and being bewildered by their aridity: a cruel dryness which made the familiar Ned Kelly paintings seem quite pastoral."
+Originally Stanley Coe Gallery, established in 1950, and taken over by Peter Bray the following year, Peter Bray Gallery showed Australian paintings, sculpture and prints by significant contemporary artists.<ref>Burstall, Tim & McPhee, Hilary, 1941- & Standish, Ann (2012). The memoirs of a young bastard : the diaries of Tim Burstall, November 1953 to December 1954. Melbourne University Publishing, Carlton, Vic., p.298</ref> As the director of Peter Bray Gallery, Helen Ogilvie organised exhibitions for such avant-garde artists as Margo Lewers, [[John Brack]] (who first exhibited there),<ref>"In 1953, he had his first solo exhibition at Peter Bray's Gallery in Melbourne. Collins Street was exhibited at the same gallery in March 1956 and was immediately purchased by the NGV." McKiernan, M. (2010). John Brack Collins Street 5 pm, 1955. Occupational Medicine, 60(2), 88-89.</ref> [[Ian Fairweather]], [[Inge King]], [[Arthur Boyd]], [[Charles Blackman]], [[Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack]], [[Helen Maudsley]], [[Sydney Nolan]],<ref>"In some cases, it is also the artist’s role to slice Australia open and show it bizarrely different, quite new in its antiquity. Half a century ago, Sidney Nolan did just this with his desert paintings and those of drought animal carcasses. I recall seeing some of these at the Peter Bray Gallery in 1953 and being bewildered by their aridity: a cruel dryness which made the familiar Ned Kelly paintings seem quite pastoral."
 Wallace-Crabbe, C. (2003). Gallery Notes.  AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW AUGUST 2003, p.38</ref> Michael Shannon, [[David Dalgarno]], [[Ian Armstrong (Australian artist)|Ian Armstrong]] and others.<ref>See newspaper articles on Peter Bray Gallery held in the National Library of Australia [http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/tag?allTags=1&name=Peter+Bray+Gallery]</ref> Ogilvie's own work was also very modern and she was engaged with the Crafts Revival of the 1950s and 60s, which allowed her to make a living designing cutting edge lampshades in London for a period.