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Brummels Gallery in [[South Yarra]], [[Melbourne]] was a commercial gallery established in the mid-1950s to exhibit contemporary Australian painting, sculpture, prints, but after a period of dormancy became best known in the 1970s as the first in Australia to specialise in photography at a time when the medium was becoming accepted as an art form.
'''Brummels Galler'''y in [[South Yarra]], [[Melbourne]] was a commercial gallery established in the mid-1950s to exhibit contemporary Australian painting, sculpture, prints, but after a period of dormancy became best known in the 1970s as the first in Australia to specialise in photography at a time when the medium was becoming accepted as an art form.


==Foundation of a gallery for Australian art==
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David Yencken (1931- ) Chairman and Joint Managing Director Merchant Builders Pty Ltd., and later to be University of Melbourne Elisabeth Murdoch Chair of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning 1988-1997 established Brummels on the 1st floor, 95 Toorak Rd., South Yarra, above Brummels espresso bar whose proprietor Pat Collins, joined in the venture. It was the second gallery in Melbourne to exclusively show Australian art.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Germaine, Max | title=Artists and galleries of Australia and New Zealand | publication-date=1979 | publisher=Lansdowne Editions | isbn=978-0-86832-019-9 }}</ref><ref>“...my attention was focused on a small art gallery called Brummels Gallery in Toorak Road, South Yarra. I opened the gallery in 1956 in partnership with Pat Collins, the owner of the coffee shop below the gallery. The gallery was devoted to Australian painting and at the time of its opening was one of only two with this focus in Melbourne. Although I didn’t run the gallery for long, it was for me a significant experience…” David Yencken ‘A Tale of Two Motels: the times, the architecture and the architects’ {{Citation | author1=Yencken, D. G. D. (David George Druce) | title=A tale of two motels : the times, the architecture and the architects | publication-date=2014 | publisher=[Albert Park, Victoria] Future Leaders | isbn=978-0-9874807-3-6 }}</ref> The gallery opened on 7th October 1956 with a show of artists from both Sydney and Melbourne<ref> {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71768072 |title=BANK EXHIBITION PAYS AN ART DIVIDEND. |newspaper=[[The_Argus_(Australia)|The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)]] |location=Melbourne, Vic. |date=27 November 1956 |accessdate=10 January 2016 |page=15 |publisher=National Library of Australia}};</ref> that included Jewish migrants Sali Herman, whose Two Soldiers Sleeping on a Train was bought by a Melbourne family, and Judy Cassab (a future Archibald Prize winner), George Bell, Elaine Haxton who showed works made on a visit to Communist China with an Australian cultural delegation, a landscape by Charles Bush, a wood carving by sculptor Clifford Last.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71772088 |title=Varied art styles. |newspaper=[[The_Argus_(Australia)|The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)]] |location=Melbourne, Vic. |date=18 December 1956 |accessdate=10 January 2016 |page=13 |publisher=National Library of Australia}},</ref> The gallery continued to promote significant Australian artists including a one-man exhibition by Sali Herman <ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article84394139 |title=Contrasts in new art show. |newspaper=[[The_Argus_(Australia)|The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)]] |location=Melbourne, Vic. |date=30 October 1956 |accessdate=10 January 2016 |page=11 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>; abstract paintings, drawings and sketches for ceramic murals, by John Howley, Donald Laycock and Laurence Daws with pottery by Tom Sanders <ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71770808 |title=Painters team with potter. |newspaper=[[The_Argus_(Australia)|The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)]] |location=Melbourne, Vic. |date=11 December 1956 |accessdate=10 January 2016 |page=10 |publisher=National Library of Australia}</ref>; Neil Clerehan sculpture (1957)<ref> https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19570923&id=DVIRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UZUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5098,3089662&hl=en</ref>; sketches, costumes, and designs for the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust by Barry Kay, April 20 - May 2, 1959<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71766736 |title=FESTIVAL ART IS A WINNER. |newspaper=[[The_Argus_(Australia)|The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)]] |location=Melbourne, Vic. |date=20 November 1956 |accessdate=10 January 2016 |page=8 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>; Antonio Rodrigues wooden sculpture (1959)<ref>The Age - Apr 7, 1959 p 2 https://news.google.com/newspapers nid=1300&dat=19590407&id=J55VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GawDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3054,945763&hl=en</ref> and others including Desiderus Orban, John Brack and Dorothy Baker. It closed in 1962<ref>McCulloch Encyclopaedia of Australian Art 1994 p.826</ref> when Pat Collins moved to Hobart to open Tasmania’s first liquor-licensed restaurant. Through the 60s occasional exhibitions in the space were held, and as late as 1968 Ojars Biseniek’s abstractions were reviewed (unfavourably) by Patrick McCaughey in The Age March 13 1968 <ref>https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19680313&id=HP5UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=f5MDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1582,2145070&hl=en</ref>


David Yencken (1931- ) Chairman and Joint Managing Director Merchant Builders Pty Ltd., and later to be University of Melbourne Elisabeth Murdoch Chair of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning 1988-1997 established Brummels on the 1st floor, 95 Toorak Rd., South Yarra, above Brummels espresso bar whose proprietor Pat Collins, joined in the venture. It was the second gallery in Melbourne to exclusively show Australian art.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Germaine, Max | title=Artists and galleries of Australia and New Zealand | publication-date=1979 | publisher=Lansdowne Editions | isbn=978-0-86832-019-9 }}</ref><ref>“...my attention was focused on a small art gallery called Brummels Gallery in Toorak Road, South Yarra. I opened the gallery in 1956 in partnership with Pat Collins, the owner of the coffee shop below the gallery. The gallery was devoted to Australian painting and at the time of its opening was one of only two with this focus in Melbourne. Although I didn’t run the gallery for long, it was for me a significant experience…” David Yencken ‘A Tale of Two Motels: the times, the architecture and the architects’ {{Citation | author1=Yencken, D. G. D. (David George Druce) | title=A tale of two motels : the times, the architecture and the architects | publication-date=2014 | publisher=[Albert Park, Victoria] Future Leaders | isbn=978-0-9874807-3-6 }}</ref>
In the early seventies advertising photographer and photojournalist [[Rennie Ellis]] and his assistant director Robert Ashton reopened the space as Brummel's Gallery of Photography. Assisted with two Arts Council grants, it was the first privately-run art gallery to be devoted specifically to photography and was particularly a showcase and outlet for Australian photographers<ref>MIDWEEK MAGAZINE Love of women and life inspires photos. (1990, April 11). The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), p. 29. Retrieved January 10, 2016, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122099453</ref>, though it also attracted shows form international photographic artists including Charles Gatewood (‘Sidetripping’ 1975) and Sarah Moon. On 14 December 1972 the gallery opened with, Two Views of Erotica: Henry Talbot/Carol Jerrems (14 December 1972 – 21 January 1973), launched by photographer and filmmaker, Paul Cox, who was soon to launch The Photographers Gallery around the corner in Punt Rd South Yarra. This period represented a reawakening to the photographic medium as an art form, and saw the [[National Gallery of Victoria]] open the first photography department in a government-run institution, under the curatorship of [[Jennie Boddington]]. From 1977 the gallery was sponsored by the camera manufacturer Pentax and was renamed Pentax Brummels Gallery of Photography (the terrace shopfront still bears this signage in faded letters across its upper facade). The gallery closed in January 1980, a month before the premature death of one of its inaugural exhibitors, Carol Jerrems. Having run 8 years, the gallery had advanced the standing of photography as an art medium and the careers of many Australian photographers including Warren Breninger, Godwin Bradbeer, Ponch Hawkes, David Moore, Wesley Stacey, Robert Ashton, Ian Dodd, Sue Ford, George Gittoes, John Williams and Jon Rhodes.

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The gallery opened on 7th October 1956 with a show of artists from both Sydney and Melbourne<ref> {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71768072 |title=BANK EXHIBITION PAYS AN ART DIVIDEND. |newspaper=[[The_Argus_(Australia)|The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)]] |location=Melbourne, Vic. |date=27 November 1956 |accessdate=10 January 2016 |page=15 |publisher=National Library of Australia}};</ref> that included Jewish migrants Sali Herman, whose Two Soldiers Sleeping on a Train was bought by a Melbourne family, and Judy Cassab (a future Archibald Prize winner), George Bell, Elaine Haxton who showed works made on a visit to Communist China with an Australian cultural delegation, a landscape by Charles Bush, a wood carving by sculptor Clifford Last.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71772088 |title=Varied art styles. |newspaper=[[The_Argus_(Australia)|The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)]] |location=Melbourne, Vic. |date=18 December 1956 |accessdate=10 January 2016 |page=13 |publisher=National Library of Australia}},</ref> The gallery continued to promote significant Australian artists including a one-man exhibition by Sali Herman <ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article84394139 |title=Contrasts in new art show. |newspaper=[[The_Argus_(Australia)|The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)]] |location=Melbourne, Vic. |date=30 October 1956 |accessdate=10 January 2016 |page=11 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>; abstract paintings, drawings and sketches for ceramic murals, by John Howley, Donald Laycock and Laurence Daws with pottery by Tom Sanders <ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71770808 |title=Painters team with potter. |newspaper=[[The_Argus_(Australia)|The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)]] |location=Melbourne, Vic. |date=11 December 1956 |accessdate=10 January 2016 |page=10 |publisher=National Library of Australia}</ref>; Neil Clerehan sculpture (1957)<ref> https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19570923&id=DVIRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UZUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5098,3089662&hl=en</ref>; sketches, costumes, and designs for the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust by Barry Kay, April 20 - May 2, 1959<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71766736 |title=FESTIVAL ART IS A WINNER. |newspaper=[[The_Argus_(Australia)|The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)]] |location=Melbourne, Vic. |date=20 November 1956 |accessdate=10 January 2016 |page=8 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>; Antonio Rodrigues wooden sculpture (1959)<ref>The Age - Apr 7, 1959 p 2 https://news.google.com/newspapers nid=1300&dat=19590407&id=J55VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GawDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3054,945763&hl=en</ref> and others including Desiderus Orban, John Brack and Dorothy Baker.

The first manifestation of Brummels closed in 1962<ref>McCulloch Encyclopaedia of Australian Art 1994 p.826</ref> when Pat Collins moved to Hobart to open Tasmania’s first liquor-licensed restaurant. Through the 60s occasional exhibitions in the space were held, and as late as 1968 Ojars Biseniek’s abstractions were reviewed (unfavourably) by Patrick McCaughey in The Age March 13 1968 <ref>https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19680313&id=HP5UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=f5MDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1582,2145070&hl=en</ref>

==Australia's first gallery of photography==

In the early seventies advertising photographer and photojournalist [[Rennie Ellis]] and his assistant director Robert Ashton reopened the space as Brummel's Gallery of Photography. Assisted with two Arts Council grants, it was the first privately-run art gallery to be devoted specifically to photography and was particularly a showcase and outlet for Australian photographers<ref>MIDWEEK MAGAZINE Love of women and life inspires photos. (1990, April 11). The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), p. 29. Retrieved January 10, 2016, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122099453</ref>, though it also attracted shows form international photographic artists including Charles Gatewood (‘Sidetripping’ 1975) and Sarah Moon.

On 14 December 1972 the gallery opened with, Two Views of Erotica: Henry Talbot/Carol Jerrems (14 December 1972 – 21 January 1973), launched by photographer and filmmaker, Paul Cox, who was soon to launch The Photographers Gallery around the corner in Punt Rd South Yarra. This period represented a reawakening to the photographic medium as an art form, and saw the [[National Gallery of Victoria]] open the first photography department in a government-run institution, under the curatorship of [[Jennie Boddington]]. From 1977 the gallery was sponsored by the camera manufacturer Pentax and was renamed Pentax Brummels Gallery of Photography (the terrace shopfront still bears this signage in faded letters across its upper facade).

The gallery closed in January 1980, a month before the premature death of one of its inaugural exhibitors, Carol Jerrems. Having run 8 years, the gallery had advanced the standing of photography as an art medium and the careers of many Australian photographers including Warren Breninger, Godwin Bradbeer, Ponch Hawkes, David Moore, Wesley Stacey, Robert Ashton, Ian Dodd, Sue Ford, George Gittoes, John Williams and Jon Rhodes.

==Legacy==


In 2012 the importance of Brummels to photography was recognised in the [[Monash Gallery of Art]] retrospective exhibition Brummels: Australia's First Gallery of Photography 22 October 2011–22 January 2012.
In 2012 the importance of Brummels to photography was recognised in the [[Monash Gallery of Art]] retrospective exhibition Brummels: Australia's First Gallery of Photography 22 October 2011–22 January 2012.

Revision as of 11:23, 11 January 2016

Brummels Gallery in South Yarra, Melbourne was a commercial gallery established in the mid-1950s to exhibit contemporary Australian painting, sculpture, prints, but after a period of dormancy became best known in the 1970s as the first in Australia to specialise in photography at a time when the medium was becoming accepted as an art form.

Foundation of a gallery for Australian art

David Yencken (1931- ) Chairman and Joint Managing Director Merchant Builders Pty Ltd., and later to be University of Melbourne Elisabeth Murdoch Chair of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning 1988-1997 established Brummels on the 1st floor, 95 Toorak Rd., South Yarra, above Brummels espresso bar whose proprietor Pat Collins, joined in the venture. It was the second gallery in Melbourne to exclusively show Australian art.[1][2]

The gallery opened on 7th October 1956 with a show of artists from both Sydney and Melbourne[3] that included Jewish migrants Sali Herman, whose Two Soldiers Sleeping on a Train was bought by a Melbourne family, and Judy Cassab (a future Archibald Prize winner), George Bell, Elaine Haxton who showed works made on a visit to Communist China with an Australian cultural delegation, a landscape by Charles Bush, a wood carving by sculptor Clifford Last.[4] The gallery continued to promote significant Australian artists including a one-man exhibition by Sali Herman [5]; abstract paintings, drawings and sketches for ceramic murals, by John Howley, Donald Laycock and Laurence Daws with pottery by Tom Sanders [6]; Neil Clerehan sculpture (1957)[7]; sketches, costumes, and designs for the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust by Barry Kay, April 20 - May 2, 1959[8]; Antonio Rodrigues wooden sculpture (1959)[9] and others including Desiderus Orban, John Brack and Dorothy Baker.

The first manifestation of Brummels closed in 1962[10] when Pat Collins moved to Hobart to open Tasmania’s first liquor-licensed restaurant. Through the 60s occasional exhibitions in the space were held, and as late as 1968 Ojars Biseniek’s abstractions were reviewed (unfavourably) by Patrick McCaughey in The Age March 13 1968 [11]

Australia's first gallery of photography

In the early seventies advertising photographer and photojournalist Rennie Ellis and his assistant director Robert Ashton reopened the space as Brummel's Gallery of Photography. Assisted with two Arts Council grants, it was the first privately-run art gallery to be devoted specifically to photography and was particularly a showcase and outlet for Australian photographers[12], though it also attracted shows form international photographic artists including Charles Gatewood (‘Sidetripping’ 1975) and Sarah Moon.

On 14 December 1972 the gallery opened with, Two Views of Erotica: Henry Talbot/Carol Jerrems (14 December 1972 – 21 January 1973), launched by photographer and filmmaker, Paul Cox, who was soon to launch The Photographers Gallery around the corner in Punt Rd South Yarra. This period represented a reawakening to the photographic medium as an art form, and saw the National Gallery of Victoria open the first photography department in a government-run institution, under the curatorship of Jennie Boddington. From 1977 the gallery was sponsored by the camera manufacturer Pentax and was renamed Pentax Brummels Gallery of Photography (the terrace shopfront still bears this signage in faded letters across its upper facade).

The gallery closed in January 1980, a month before the premature death of one of its inaugural exhibitors, Carol Jerrems. Having run 8 years, the gallery had advanced the standing of photography as an art medium and the careers of many Australian photographers including Warren Breninger, Godwin Bradbeer, Ponch Hawkes, David Moore, Wesley Stacey, Robert Ashton, Ian Dodd, Sue Ford, George Gittoes, John Williams and Jon Rhodes.

Legacy

In 2012 the importance of Brummels to photography was recognised in the Monash Gallery of Art retrospective exhibition Brummels: Australia's First Gallery of Photography 22 October 2011–22 January 2012.

References

  1. ^ Germaine, Max (1979), Artists and galleries of Australia and New Zealand, Lansdowne Editions, ISBN 978-0-86832-019-9
  2. ^ “...my attention was focused on a small art gallery called Brummels Gallery in Toorak Road, South Yarra. I opened the gallery in 1956 in partnership with Pat Collins, the owner of the coffee shop below the gallery. The gallery was devoted to Australian painting and at the time of its opening was one of only two with this focus in Melbourne. Although I didn’t run the gallery for long, it was for me a significant experience…” David Yencken ‘A Tale of Two Motels: the times, the architecture and the architects’ Yencken, D. G. D. (David George Druce) (2014), A tale of two motels : the times, the architecture and the architects, [Albert Park, Victoria] Future Leaders, ISBN 978-0-9874807-3-6
  3. ^ "BANK EXHIBITION PAYS AN ART DIVIDEND". The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957). Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia. 27 November 1956. p. 15. Retrieved 10 January 2016.;
  4. ^ "Varied art styles". The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957). Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia. 18 December 1956. p. 13. Retrieved 10 January 2016.,
  5. ^ "Contrasts in new art show". The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957). Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia. 30 October 1956. p. 11. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  6. ^ {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71770808 |title=Painters team with potter. |newspaper=The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) |location=Melbourne, Vic. |date=11 December 1956 |accessdate=10 January 2016 |page=10 |publisher=National Library of Australia}
  7. ^ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19570923&id=DVIRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UZUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5098,3089662&hl=en
  8. ^ "FESTIVAL ART IS A WINNER". The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957). Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia. 20 November 1956. p. 8. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  9. ^ The Age - Apr 7, 1959 p 2 https://news.google.com/newspapers nid=1300&dat=19590407&id=J55VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GawDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3054,945763&hl=en
  10. ^ McCulloch Encyclopaedia of Australian Art 1994 p.826
  11. ^ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19680313&id=HP5UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=f5MDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1582,2145070&hl=en
  12. ^ MIDWEEK MAGAZINE Love of women and life inspires photos. (1990, April 11). The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), p. 29. Retrieved January 10, 2016, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122099453
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