Joseph McGlennon: Sydney Contemporary 2024

We are thrilled to present a hero-sized photograph from the latest series by leading contemporary Australian artist Joseph McGlennon at Sydney Contemporary 2024.

The Hunt recently debuted with a special presentation from our offsite projects platform, Michael Reid Beyond, where the works were staged against the gracefully weathered grandeur of the original colonial homestead at Throsby Park – a suitably handsome setting for the artist’s singular blend of old-world sumptuousness and bold contemporary vision.

The recipient of the 2015 Bowness Photography Prize – the country’s most prestigious award for photography – McGlennon’s work is held in numerous private and public art collections in Australia and abroad. His hybrid photographic practice is underpinned by an extraordinary technical rigour, producing images that meld lavish beauty with a powerful message about environmental fragility, colonial dislocation and the destructive folly of our attempts to dominate nature.

With his majestic recreations of animals in their habitats – from the first kangaroos seen by European eyes to the extinct Tasmanian Tiger fresh from killing its prey – the artist brings his subjects out of the realm of exotic specimen or historical curiosity and pushes them, living and breathing, into today.

Sign up now to be the first to receive exclusive previews and priority access to this upcoming release before the art fair launches at Carriageworks this September.

For acquisition enquiries, please email dean@michaelreid.com.au