Petrina Hicks: Aotearoa Art Fair 2026

This year’s Aotearoa Art Fair will see the debut of a luminous new work by globally lauded Australian photographer Petrina Hicks. Over more than two decades, Hicks has honed her singular style and cemented her place at the forefront of her field. The subject of several institutional surveys – including her 2018 NGV retrospective and, in late 2024, Snakes and Mirrors at the Museum of Australian Photography – her ultra-refined images are rendered with hyperreal precision, subverting the coolly seductive language of advertising while drawing motifs from classical myth and folklore. Projecting a beguiling equipoise against crisp, ambiguous backdrops, the outward polish and quietude of her subjects is undercut by tension, eroticism or disquiet – qualities dialled up to a spellbinding degree in her new work, Fate Spinner. Arriving after record auction results for her historical works, editions of Fate Spinner can now be acquired by request.

Please contact dean@michaelreid.com.au for acquisition enquiries.