Sydney Contemporary 2023: Regina Pilawuk Wilson

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Sydney Contemporary 2023: Regina Pilawuk Wilson

Ever since Regina Pilawuk Wilson’s golden yellow Syaw (fishnet) won the General Painting Award at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards in 2003, her elegantly structured paintings have quietly but unequivocally fixed her name on the contemporary art map. Wilson is now one of Australia’s most senior contemporary artists and has exceeded at representing Australia on a global scale. In September, collectors of contemporary art will have access to new work by Wilson at Michael Reid Sydney + Berlin, booth F13.

In the last 12 months, Regina Wilson has delivered major exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne with Michael Reid Gallery. Wilson presented a major triptych painting at the 2023 TarraWarra Biennale: ua usiusi fa’ava’asavili and has recently been commissioned by The Powerhouse Museum for new work bound for a museum exhibition in 2024.

Sydney Contemporary 2023: Betty Chimney

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Sydney Contemporary 2023: Betty Chimney

To stare into the surface of a Betty Chimney artwork is to witness an adoration of Country, direct from the artist’s heart. Delicately choreographed and altogether mesmeric, every moment captured in a Betty Chimney painting is an autobiographical ode to a life wedded to Country.

At this year’s Sydney Contemporary art fair Michael Reid Sydney + Berlin will exhibit a collection of new Betty Chimney paintings, supplying collectors with an opportunity to acquire a work by one of Australia’s most coveted contemporary painters.

Earlier this year Betty Chimney presented a solo exhibition at Michael Reid Sydney in which all paintings were acquired prior to commencement. This was followed by her selection as a 2023 Wynne Prize finalist at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. More recently, Chimney was a finalist in the Hadley’s Prize in Hobart. Betty Chimney will participate in Sydney Contemporary for the first time in 2023.

For more information about paintings by Betty Chimney, please email danielsoma@michaelreid.com.au

Sydney Contemporary 2023: Dr Christian Thompson AO

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Sydney Contemporary 2023: Dr Christian Thompson AO

Anchoring our largest ever art fair presentation will be Dr Christian Thompson AO, an artist whose legacy has permeated local and international art conversations for over two decades. Thompson’s newest flower wall works will debut at the art fair in September and will once again demonstrate the artist’s exquisite artistic treatment of Australian cultural and social debates.

In the last 12 months alone, Christian Thompson has contributed to local and international art programs by presenting significant exhibitions of photography and performance, including a major outdoor survey in London’s Photographic Quarter in Soho. Thompson has represented Australia at the European Month of Photography 2023 in Berlin, and in March he debuted Recital at Phoenix Central Park.

In Recital, Thompson performs in Bidjara language, delivering a sensory experience powerfully connected to the present and past. On August 24, 2023 the Ballarat International Foto Biennale will officially open with a second performance of Recital.

For information about Christian Thompson artworks that will exhibit at Sydney Contemporary 2023, please email danielsoma@michaelreid.com.au 

 

Sydney Contemporary 2023: Petrina Hicks

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Sydney Contemporary 2023: Petrina Hicks

At Sydney Contemporary 2023 Petrina Hicks will present an arresting installation of photo-media from her precisely articulated Biophilia series, one which takes its narrative inspiration from the indistinct space between human and animal states.

Since making its debut at Michael Reid Sydney in June 2023, Biophilia has exhibited in Italy and will soon commence a cross-country tour from east coast to west. Sydney Contemporary 2023 will see highlights from this series displayed in an utterly compelling way.

Petrina Hicks’ work lives outside comprehensible time, supplying an entrancing state of engagement that is rarely encountered in still photographic art. Hicks’ command of symbolism, motif and metaphor connect wonderfully with her incomparable vision, offering alternative modes of learning about the nature of the human condition.

To discuss works of art by Petrina Hicks please be in touch with danielsoma@michaelreid.com.au

Sydney Contemporary 2023

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Sydney Contemporary 2023

  • Artist
    Dr Christian Thompson AO, Tamara Dean, Joseph McGlennon, Regina Pilawuk Wilson and more
  • Dates
    6—10 Sep 2023

Michael Reid Sydney + Berlin returns to Sydney Contemporary in 2023. On show will be new work by Dr Christian Thompson AO, Tamara Dean, Joseph McGlennon, Regina Pilawuk Wilson, Gaypalani Wanambi, Betty Chimney, Carly Le Cerf, Owen Yalandja, India Mark, Andrea Huelin, John Honeywill, Juan Ford and Petrina Hicks.

Sydney Contemporary 2023 is located at Carriageworks from September 7 – 10, 2023.

For more information please contact danielsoma@michaelreid.com.au 

Vomit Girl Stories

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Vomit Girl Stories

  • Artist
    Mai Nguyễn-Long
  • Dates
    3 Aug—2 Sep 2023
  • Catalogue
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  • Gallery Location
    Eora / Sydney

Mai Nguyễn-Long is an artist, academic and storyteller whose mixed heritage informs the tapestry of narratives that live through her work. Born in Tasmania to a Vietnamese father and Australian mother, Nguyễn-Long’s formative years were spent living in Papua New Guinea as well as the Philippines. As an adult, Mai Nguyễn-Long has lived in Australia and China, however, it was her pilgrimage to Vietnam that has had the most profound influence on the aesthetic and theoretical direction of her art.

Since the early 2000’s, Nguyễn-Long’s practice has seen many iterations, consistent in narrative but materially diverse. Her work endeavours to crystallise her own identity, interrogating her migrations and acknowledging what was left behind. In 2017 Nguyễn-Long made her first Vomit Girl from clay, a moment that would direct the next six years of her art and education.

The story of Vomit Girl is one of family history and belonging, and is the subject of her PhD, recently acquired from the University of Wollongong. Vomit Girl is a symbol of what has been erased and speaks broadly to diasporic trauma following the atrocities of the Vietnam War. Through her Vomit Girl installations, Mai Nguyễn-Long collides cultural artefacts and personal histories, borrowing from Vietnamese rural aesthetics known as mộc mạc. Mai Nguyễn-Long’s armies of Vomit Girl sculptures have make-believe conversations and are artistic devices that attempt to mend what feels irreparably broken.

In recent years Mai Nguyễn-Long’s articulation through clay has seen her profile consistently rise within Australian art circles. In 2022 her work exhibited at the 12th Berlin Biennale, and she now joins Michael Reid Sydney + Berlin as a represented artist. Vomit Girl Stories is Nguyen-Long’s first exhibition with the Gallery, and will show in Sydney from August 3 – September 2, 2023.

The success of Mai Nguyễn-Long’s practice is firmly attributed to her universal vision, which reconciles personal loss whilst supplying her audience with agency to ponder what may be missing for themselves.

Works in this exhibition are now available to acquire. To begin a conversation please be in touch with danielsoma@michaelreid.com.au

Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vigit Moc Mac (Doba Urn 1) with Hot Orange Poo Balls, 2022
12 x 22 x 21 cm
SOLD
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vomit Girl: Vigit (Fish Morph), 2017-2022
74 x 26 x 26 cm
$4,500
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Dobakapi 2, 2023
46 x 22 x 22 cm
$2,800
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vomit Girl: Vigit (Laughing Bird), 2017-2023
43 x 21 x 19 cm
SOLD
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vomit Girl: Vigit (Doba 3), 2017–2022
24 x 12 x 9 cm
SOLD
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vomit Girl: Vigit (Lotus Phallus), 2017-2022
69 x 23 x 20 cm
SOLD
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vigit Moc Mac (Dispersal), 2022
44 x 27 x 18 cm
SOLD
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Foyot Cat 1 (Gray), 2023
28 x 15.5 x 12 cm
SOLD
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Possum Cat, 2023
38 x 20 x 14 cm
$2,100
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vomit Girl: Vigit (Marked Doba 3), 2017-2023
38 x 14 x 12 cm
SOLD
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vomit Girl: Vigit (Screaming Chicken), 2017-2022
62.5 x 25 x 18 cm
SOLD
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Dobakapi 1, 2023
56 x 31 x 28 cm
SOLD
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vigit Moc Mac (Cat 2), 2022
8 x 9.5 x 5.5 cm
SOLD
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Dobakapi 3, 2023
49 x 27 x 27 cm
SOLD
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vigit Moc Mac (Ward), 2022
44 x 18 x 18 cm
SOLD
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vigit (Gloss Ward 2), 2023
53.5 x 20 x 18 cm
$3,300
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vigit Moc Mac (Orange Urn), 2022
9.5 x 19 x 18 cm
$500
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vomit Girl: Vigit (Three), 2017–2022
17 x 15 x 8 cm
SOLD
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Foyot Cat 2 (With Tongue Out), 2023
28 x 16.5 x 13 cm
SOLD
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vomit Girl: Vigit (Double Face Fairy), 2017-2022
49 x 23 x 42 cm
SOLD
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vigit Moc Mac (Cat 1), 2022
11.5 x 14.5 x 9.5 cm
SOLD
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Foyot Cat 4, 2023
16 x 9 x 7 cm
SOLD
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vomit Girl: Vigit (Haunted Fairy), 2017-2022
82 x 26 x 24 cm
SOLD
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vigit Moc Mac (Gloss Ward 1), 2022
51.5 x 19.5 x 18 cm
$3,300
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vomit Girl: Vigit (Rider 2), 2017-2022
13.5 x 19 x 10 cm
SOLD
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Dance Parrot 3, 2023
12.5 x 13.5 x 11 cm
SOLD
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vigit Hefeco 2, 2023
32 x 18 x 12 cm
$2,800
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vigit Moc Mac (Cat group and Tiny Doba), 2022
dimensions variable
SOLD
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vigit Moc Mac (Ward 2), 2022
44 x 19.5 x 14 cm
$2,800
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vomit Girl: Vigit (Toad Fairy), 2022
82 x 37 x 37 cm
SOLD
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vigit (Flower Hand)
10 x 13 x 13 cm
$500
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vigit (Gloss Ward 3), 2023
42.5 x 15 x 13.5 cm
$2,800
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vigit Moc Mac (Doba Urn 2), 2022
22 x 20 x 20 cm
SOLD
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vomit Girl: Vigit (Hoe), 2017-2022
14 x 13 x 11 cm
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vigit Moc Mac (Face on Orange Dish), 2022
11 x 12.5 x 1 cm
$350
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vigit Moc Mac (Orange Black Urn), 2022
4.5 x 15 x 1 cm
$500
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vigit Hefeco 2, 2023
32 x 17 x 14 cm
SOLD
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vigit (Spirit Bird)
8 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm
$900
Mai Nguyễn-Long
Vomit Girl: Vigit (Worana 1), 2017-2022
18 x 16 x 17 cm
$900

Stacey McCall | Winter Paintings

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Stacey McCall | Winter Paintings

Stacey McCall is an Australian artist working in the inner Melbourne suburb of Kensington.

Stacey’s detailed underpainting glows through transparent layers of colour, a muted palette reflecting her love of things earthen and handmade. Patterns and motifs evoke memories and nostalgia for the viewer. Shapes and light keenly observed and captured with gestural intuitive brushstrokes. There is a gentle yet robust quality to her marks, interpreting the ephemera that sits quietly while life whirls around, time passing, children growing older. 

After completing a Fine Art degree in Gold and Silversmithing, Stacey spent the next twelve years designing and making bespoke jewellery, eventually opening a small workshop and store. But after the birth of daughter number three her art practice was homeward bound and after daughter number five her creativity was nurtured by knitting, drawing and painting. Now that her daughters are in their teens and beyond, Stacey’s garden studio provides the perfect space to grow her art practice.

The Suspended Moment

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The Suspended Moment

Australian photographer Tamara Dean presents her newest exhibition of photographs, The Suspended Moment at Michael Reid Sydney, which furthers her employment of a purpose-built underwater studio. In this remarkably magic new series, Dean creates sumptuous still life compositions that contradict their genre, presenting animated scenes that appear to defy gravity.

Pulling from the rich symbolism found in 17th century Dutch Still life painting, Tamara Dean creates vignettes of distinct palettes, through which her carefully selected objects appear to perform. Aside from one delicately placed hand in Love and Desire, Dean allows her objects to narrate our story. By removing the figures that typically populate her photographs, Tamara Dean raises existential questions in beautifully tense ways.

The symbolism found in The Suspended Moment alludes to debates concerning the climate emergency as well as the omnipresent threat of increasing natural disasters. The gentle buoyancy of Tamara Dean’s fruit, fabrics, and flowers, imitate an increasing loss of control. The Suspended Moment brings a touch of poetry to an alarming environmental debate, and is one that is expertly directed by Dean.

For assistance with an acquisition from this exhibition, please contact dean@michaelreid.com.au

Understory

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Understory

  • Artist
    Scott Perkins
  • Dates
    14 Jul—20 Aug 2023
  • Gallery Location
    Southern Highlands

Presented in three distinct presentation modes, Scott Perkins’ images of unidentified landscapes have been captured in state of balance, occupying a space between light and dark. Brooding, atmospheric and technically imposing, Scott Perkins’ images thread a trio of presentation methods that add a dynamic viewing experience to each work of art. 

In his up-coming exhibition Understory, viewers will be treated to impeccably presented lightbox photographs of bespoke design that transform their surrounding spaces. The artist’s use of Hanhnemule metallic paper add a complementary lustre to the surface of his mysterious still photograph images.

Understory will exhibit at Michael Reid Southern Highlands in July 2023. For a preview of works in this exhibition please email willkollmorgen@michaelreid.com.au

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