ART REVIEW
By JAMES GLEESON

The Sunday Mail, 20th May 1970

The Bonython Gallery's current galaxy of exhibitions focuses attention on the paintings of Neville Matthews and Ian Chandler, the jewellery of David Dunne and, as a bonus, offers some first-rate work by Vasarely, Donald Friend, Charles Blackman, Robert Juniper, Ray Crooke and others.

Neville Matthews has made a prodigious step forward in these recent, structured paintings.

Working with coloured stripes and aluminium plates against a matt white or black ground he sometimes implies the structuring through a clever use of perspective, or actually creates it by fixing coloured wooden beading to the surface.

In both cases he achieves wonderfully intricate visual effects full of exciting contrasts and rich in implications of movement.

Ian Chandler's abstracts spring from a much more specific source - he is fascinated by space-age machinery.

Like Leger, he seeks to fashion bold and striking icons for the age of machines, and if he fails to integrate these elements with the skill of Leger, he nevertheless succeeds in devising some very striking symbols.

David Dunne's beautifully displayed and delightfully invented jewellery might best be described as intimate portable sculpture.

Many of the rings and pendants are quite monumental in conception, despite their tiny scale. The craftsmanship is exquisitely delicate and refined.