Andy Davey: Golden Rough

27 September – 21 October 2000

Andy Davey is a Sydney based artists whose primary artistic medium is gold. Using both 24 carat precious gold leaf, and the discarded wrappers of ‘Golden Rough’ chocolates, Davey invokes the age-old desire for gold as well as our related contemporary desire to consume it. In this Olympic Year, Davey’s installation at Gallery 4A, is timely, making comment on the “Going for Gold” desire for success, sports, winning, and the gold medals of the Olympic Games.

4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art is an initiative of the Asian Australian Artists Association Inc. We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the Commonwealth Government through the Visual Art & Craft Strategy and the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body; the NSW Government through Arts NSW and the City of Sydney. CHAMPIONS; The Neilson Foundation. CHAMPIONS: The Neilson Foundation. PRINCIPAL PATRONS: Sue Acret & James Roth; Oranges and Sardines Foundation; The Sky Foundation; Ah Xian & Ma Li. PATRONS: Geoff Ainsworth AM; Edmund Capon OBE; AM; Daniel & Lyndell Droga; Richard Funston & Kiong Lee; Johnson Pilton Walker; The Keir Foundation; John Lam-Po-Tang Vicki Olsson Adrian Williams BENEFACTORS: Brooke & Stephen Aitken; AMP Foundation; Andrew Cameron; Julia Champtaloup and Andrew Rothery; CHROFI; Konfir Kabo; Lisa Paulsen; Penelope Seidler; AM; Lucy Hughes Turnbull AO; Dr Dick Quan; Dr John Yu AC. FRIENDS: Michael Alvisse; Professor Ien Ang; Michael Boston; Simon Chan Art Atrium; Dakota Managment; Maree and Andrew Di Pasquale; Barbara Flynn; Andrea Fraser; Michael Hobbs; Mabel Lee; Andrea Larkin; Susan Nathan; James Roland; Dr Gene R. Sherman AM; Brian Sherman AM; James Roland; Aaron Seeto and Jane Somerville; Becky Sparks; Maisy Stapleton; Ursula Sullivan + Joanna Strumpf; Abdullah M I Syed; Victoria Taylor; Rosie Wagstaff; Anna Waldmann; Sean Woon; Fung Yeh Lee and Ngar-yi Ho; John Young and Kate Mizrahi. PARTNERS: CAOA - Contemporary Arts Organisations Australia; AEGEUS; Art Monthly Australasia; D.A.M; Vault Magazine. 4A would like to acknowledge the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation, the traditional custodians of the land on which our Sydney gallery is situated. 4A pays respects to Elders past and present.