The Garden Gallery

Artist
Dates
14—29 Nov 2024
Gallery Location
The Garden Gallery, Beyond

Michael Reid Sydney + Berlin is delighted to present a collection of extraordinary new works by a dynamic assembly of ten leading Australian contemporary artists – showing throughout November at The Garden Gallery in Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens.

Working across sculpture, painting and photography, this creative cohort includes many of the most acclaimed and influential voices in Australian art today – now joining forces for a special Michael Reid Beyond presentation conceived alongside the National Emerging Art Prize Winners’ Exhibitions.

From a rhythmic, colour-soaked painting by internationally celebrated Ngan’gikurrungurr painter and master weaver Regina Pilawuk Wilson and the fecund floral dreamscapes of award-winning photographic fabulist Tamara Dean to a coterie of Troy Emery’s magnificent fringed sculptures, which slink, sashay and strike languorous poses on plinths and podiums throughout The Garden Gallery, this vibrant and diverse display celebrates the expansive possibilities sparked by a meeting of technical mastery and imaginative daring.

This alchemy is echoed throughout the solo exhibitions of the two major prizewinners from last year’s National Emerging Art Prize, painter Joe Whyte and ceramicist Annarie Hildebrand. We are pleased to complement their new bodies of work, Roma and Transience Cubed, with a buoyant group survey – a pairing that brings together two rising talents alongside some of the country’s most established names.

Reflecting the ambitions of our offsite projects platform to take contemporary art into spaces beyond Michael Reid’s five brick-and-mortar galleries, our installation at The Garden Gallery features spectacular, newly available work by Narelle Autio, Vicki Yatjiki Cullinan, Gerwyn Davies, Tamara Dean, Troy Emery, Michelle Gearin, Dr Christian Thompson AO, Lucy Vader, Regina Pilawuk Wilson and Djirrirra Wunuŋmurra Yukuwa.