WATTERS GALLERY

Following the news that Sydney’s influential Watters Gallery is to close its doors at the end of the year, Reg Mombassa reflects on his own productive association with the Gallery since it started forty-three years ago, when he was a slightly angry young man.

I FIRST BECAME AWARE OF Gallery in 1970. I’d just moved into a share house in Paddington and one of the tenants was artist John Wilkinson. John’s friend Robert Williams was showing at Watters and they had staged a couple of happenings at the gallery with a group called Savart. (John made some great film clips for a variety of rock bands in the 1980s and 1990s).