New York based painter Isca Greenfield-Sanders will return to Michael Reid Sydney to present her third solo exhibition in 2025. Greenfield-Sanders’ photographically informed watercolour and oil paintings exemplify technical methods of astounding precision, represented by collections such as Solomon R. Guggenheim collection, The Brooklyn Museum collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

To register for pre-exhibition information please contact danielsoma@michaelreid.com.au

Michael Reid Sydney is delighted to present a spectacular exhibition of sweeping and sublime landscapes by celebrated West Australian painter Carly Le Cerf. Titled Wayfinding: A Painter’s Path, this new series is a towering achievement from Le Cerf and will be celebrated with an opening reception at the gallery on Thursday, 31 July, 6–8pm.

“The original idea was simple,” says Le Cerf, discussing the making of her Wayfinding series for what is her first Eora/Sydney solo show in more than two years. “Create pieces so immersive that when you stand in front of them, your whole body is held by the land – no sky, just earth – inviting a full-body experience. What I didn’t anticipate was just how much these works would ask of me in return.” Pushing horizon lines to the very edge of the canvas, the vast topographical paintings of Wayfinding envelop the viewer in the red centre’s tones and textures, emotional resonance and elemental heft.

“Le Cerf’s intention is to express awe – that powerful and universal emotion,” writes art adviser Sarah Hetherington in the exhibition catalogue. “To be overwhelmed with feelings of reverence, admiration, even fear, in response to that which is grand, sublime and powerful.” Wayfinding is the ultimate expression of this soulful intensity – an outback odyssey that charts not only landforms traversed but interior routes forged through experience and intuition.

The force of Le Cerf’s work lies partly in her masterful approach to materiality, managing to zoom out to the vast sweep of the landscape while zeroing in on its granular details. “The process of layering and excavation is central,” says the artist. “It is an ongoing negotiation between what is concealed and what is exposed – a push and pull between opacity and translucency, grit and sheen, density and light. The result is a surface that feels alive: a shifting interplay of materials that rewards close, sustained looking.”

Wayfinding: A Painter’s Path is a major accomplishment from one of the great epic poets of the Australian landscape – one who continues to beat her own singular track across the contemporary art field. To discuss works from the series, please email danielsoma@michaelreid.com.au

A magnificent series of new paintings by senior Yankunytjatjara artist Betty Chimney will be on view in September at Michael Reid Sydney. A three-time AGNSW Wynne Prize finalist, Chimney is at the forefront of the innovative, exuberant, globally acclaimed new wave of First Nations painters working at Iwantja Arts.

To discuss priority access to paintings in this exhibition please contact dean@michaelreid.com.au

Paintings by Australia’s most senior female contemporary First Nations artist, Regina Pilawuk Wilson will grace the Sydney Gallery in 2025. A senior Ngan’gikurrungurr artist, NATSIAA winner and cultural director of Durrmu Arts Aboriginal Corporation, Wilson is internationally celebrated, collected and is represented by important institutional collections across the world.

To discuss priority access to paintings in this exhibition please contact dean@michaelreid.com.au

Scott Perkins returns to Michael Reid Sydney in April 2025 with a new series of expertly crafted photographs and light boxes. Located within photography and sculpture disciplines, Perkins’s treatment of the photographic medium is precisely engineered and highly original.

Presented in three distinct modes, his images of unidentified landscapes have been captured in a state of balance, occupying a space between light and dark. Brooding, atmospheric and technically imposing, Perkins’s images are a dynamic viewing experience.

In this exhibition, viewers will be treated to impeccably presented light-box 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 photographic images.

For information, please email danielsoma@michaelreid.com.au