| ‘In 2019 Gerwyn’s work was picked up by Australian art dealer Michael Reid for his Berlin gallery. “Photography now makes up 50 per cent of the international contemporary art market because it translates literally across smartphones so easily, there’s no need to contemplate painterly brushstrokes or texture,” says Reid. “It’s all about the emotional hit you receive.”‘
‘The gallery hosted Davies’s Utopia exhibition earlier this year, selling a manifold of prints. “We put a major work [Fountain] in the window and Berliners would to stop and stand around it like it was a heater that they were basking in its warmth,” says Reid, who has represented Australian contemporary photographers, including well-known figures Trent Parke and Tamara Dean, since the early 1990s.’ |
