Painting Now 2025

Michael Reid Sydney’s 2025 exhibition program will culminate this December with the next edition of Painting Now. Curated by Dean Phillips-Andersen, our annual group survey spotlights an exciting school of established contemporary painters from across Australia whose practices expand the creative possibilities of art’s most storied medium.

Painting Now 2025 presents significant new bodies of work by Columbiere Tipungwuti, Jo Chew, Heath Nock, Dhukumul Waṉambi and Brenton Drechsler. Each artist recasts painting as an expanded creative field; with their distinct approaches, perspectives and preoccupations, they push the medium into optically charged, technically dazzling and conceptually daring terrain.

The success of so many Painting Now alumni reflects the program’s ambition to identify, mentor and celebrate singular talents at a moment of creative breakthrough, presenting their work just as it ascends to a new level of collectability and acclaim. All works from Painting Now 2025 can be previewed and acquired by request in the lead-up to the opening on Thursday, 4 December.

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