Aotearoa Art Fair 2026

Michael Reid Sydney + Berlin will travel to Auckland in April for the 2026 edition of the Aotearoa Art Fair, taking visitors inside the atmospheric worlds of New Zealand-born, Australia-based contemporary photographer Scott Perkins.

Distilling the landscape into a kind of minimalist visual poetry, Perkins’s abstracted nature scenes are imbued with mood and luminosity. Brooding forests and sweeping seascapes are pared back to elemental gestures: graduated horizons, silhouetted escarpments and silvery skies that shimmer with the granular glint of celestial dust.

Housed within bespoke architectural timber frames and softly glowing light boxes, these works hover between object and image, functioning as much as sculptures in the round as photographs. Having joined our stable of represented artists in 2025, soon after his widely acclaimed solo exhibition Uncertain Truths, Perkins has refined a singular practice that opens meditative thresholds through which unknowable yet intimately compelling places emerge, at once familiar and strange.

To sign up for first access to works from Scott Perkins’s Aotearoa Art Fair presentation, please email dean@michaelreid.com.au