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Eora / Sydney

Michael Reid Sydney

Michael Reid Sydney has been established for more than 20 years and operates as the headquarters for our network of five spaces and multiple online platforms. The gallery has an international reputation with particular expertise in contemporary photography, First Nations art, and painting.

Our Eora/Sydney gallery hosts a dynamic exhibition program presenting contemporary Australian and international art.

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24 Oct—23 Nov 2024

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28 Nov—20 Dec 2024

A Journey Through The Heart

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Snowflake Flowers in Vase, 2022

Orchid/ White Background, 2022

Isca Greenfield-Sanders

Sailboat, 2021

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White Tree, 2022

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The Eora / Sydney gallery is located in Chippendale, a 10 minute walk from Redfern Station. Click here for more directions.

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NEXT WEEK: JULZ BERESFORD | ‘A Journey Through t

NEXT WEEK: JULZ BERESFORD | ‘A Journey Through the Heart’ | 28 November–21 December | Michael Reid Sydney

This month, Michael Reid Sydney will present the first solo exhibition from Dyarubbin/Hawkesbury-based contemporary painter JULZ BERESFORD since she officially joined the gallery’s stable of represented artists.

As the final presentation to be hosted this year in our ground-floor gallery space, ‘A Journey Through the Heart’ will form a fabulous and fitting capstone to Michael Reid Sydney’s 2024 exhibition program, which commenced in January with Beresford’s widely celebrated show, ‘Breathe Deeply’.

Reflecting on her lifelong affinity for the Hawkesbury region of New South Wales, the moody, atmospheric and monumental landscapes of ‘Breathe Deeply’ were an immediate sell-out success, establishing Beresford as a rising art star whose work is closely watched and highly coveted in Australia and abroad.

An essential part of Beresford’s practice is being present in the landscape, closely observing natural rhythms and the vagaries of light and moody shadows through the day before transposing these elements onto her heroic canvases.

The resulting paintings are awash with moody romanticism, sending the viewer on a journey through glassy, rippling waterways that snake through a tangle of bush and tumbling sandstone bound by epic escarpments crested with spindly, ethereal wisps of eucalyptus.

Melding her adoration for the region and attention to its nuances with an expressive painterly approach that continues to go from strength to strength in its virtuosity and panache, Beresford has deftly translated her Hawkesbury pleasure cruise into something emotionally resonant and powerfully transportive with ‘A Journey Through the Heart’.

Almost all works from the series have already found homes with collectors, and we encourage those interested in Julz Beresford’s new work to please contact the gallery ahead of next week’s opening.

Please email danielsoma@michaelreid.com.au

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NOW OPEN: Michael Reid Beyond | Until 29 November

NOW OPEN: Michael Reid Beyond | Until 29 November | The Garden Gallery, Sydney

We are delighted to present a collection of extraordinary new works by a dynamic assembly of ten leading Australian contemporary artists – showing throughout November at The Garden Gallery in Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens.

Working across sculpture, painting and photography, this creative cohort includes many of the most acclaimed and influential voices in Australian art today – now joining forces for a special Michael Reid Beyond presentation conceived alongside the National Emerging Art Prize Winners’ Exhibitions.

From a rhythmic, colour-soaked painting by internationally celebrated Ngan’gikurrungurr painter and master weaver REGINA PILAWUK WILSON and the fecund floral dreamscapes of award-winning photographic fabulist TAMARA DEAN to a coterie of Troy Emery’s magnificent fringed sculptures, which slink, sashay and strike languorous poses on plinths and podiums throughout The Garden Gallery, this vibrant and diverse display celebrates the expansive possibilities sparked by a meeting of technical mastery and imaginative daring.

This alchemy is echoed throughout the solo exhibitions of the two major prizewinners from last year’s National Emerging Art Prize, painter JOE WHYTE and ceramicist ANNARIE HILDEBRAND. We are pleased to complement their new bodies of work, ‘Roma’ and ‘Transience Cubed’, with a buoyant group survey – a pairing that places two rising talents in conversation with some of the country’s most established names.

Reflecting the ambitions of our offsite projects platform to take contemporary art into spaces beyond Michael Reid’s five brick-and-mortar galleries, our installation at The Garden Gallery features spectacular, newly available work by Gerwyn Davies, Michelle Gearin, Dr Christian Thompson AO, Lucy Vader and more.

The Garden Gallery is open daily from 10am to 4pm. Entry via Mrs Macquaries Road, opposite the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

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

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COMING SOON: PETRINA HICKS | ‘Snakes and mirrors

COMING SOON: PETRINA HICKS | ‘Snakes and mirrors’ | 23 November–16 February | Museum of Australian Photography

We are thrilled to announce the arrival of an extraordinary new body of work from one of the country’s most acclaimed contemporary artists, PETRINA HICKS.

After a rapturously received preview – staged earlier this year in Perth by Michael Reid Beyond – the entire suite of works comprising ‘Snakes and mirrors’ will debut next week with an expansive solo presentation at the Museum of Australian Photography in Melbourne.

Works from ‘Snakes and mirrors’ – including ‘Memento mori II’ (detail, pictured) – can now be previewed and acquired by request by contacting Beyond program manager Dean Phillips-Andersen.

Hicks’s large-scale photographs draw from mythology, fables and art history to re-frame contemporary female experience. Permeated with a sense of magical realism, animals and females often appear together to represent aspects of the psyche and allude to the complexities of female identity.

The porous boundaries between human and animal states and the affinities between females and animals are central. In ‘Snakes and mirrors’, Hicks contemplates the self-awareness of animals and our desire to understand the phenomenology of animal life from a human perspective. Underpinning this series is an exploration of animal consciousness: how do animals experience the universe?

Hicks was moved by Rainer Maria Rilke’s ‘Eighth Duino Elegy’, which portrays the mystical relationship between humans and animals and contemplates how they experience time and phenomena.

Within ‘Snakes and mirrors’, Hicks challenges the human-centred vision of the world to emphasise the interconnectedness of humans and animals – serpents, birds, monkeys and humans bind together, blurring the boundaries between the two in intimate vignettes that propose time in stasis.

To request a catalogue and priority access to works from ‘Snakes and mirrors’ by Petrina Hicks, please email dean@michaelreid.com.au

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THIS WEEK: TROY EMERY | ‘Spot the Difference’

THIS WEEK: TROY EMERY | ‘Spot the Difference’ | 15 November–16 February | Penrith Regional Gallery

This magnificent sculpture by Naarm/Melbourne-based artist TROY EMERY will be prowling through Penrith Regional Gallery all summer long with the opening of the group exhibition ‘Spot the Difference’, which will be celebrated with an opening party at 6pm this Friday, 16 February.

‘Spot the Difference’ brings together 16 leading contemporary artists from across Australia to reflect on the legend of The Big Black Cat, a foundational tale for the Penrith region.

Entwining two enduring aspects of Emery’s sculptural practice – his interest in how myths are made and his predilection for feline forms – this exhibition is a perfect habitat for his 2023 work ‘Volcano Lover’, which is available to acquire online from Michael Reid Sydney.

“Ask anyone in Penrith, and they will have heard of the myth of the panther. In fact, most have seen it or know someone who has,” note the exhibition’s curators. “With origins that span from circus escapees, World War II mascots and the trade of exotic animals from the 19th century, it’s a tale that has people sitting in one of two camps – fact or fiction.”

To enquire about ‘Volcano Lover’ or other works by Troy Emery, please visit our website or email dean@michaelreid.com.au

To RSVP for this Friday’s opening party, please email gallery@penrith.city

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“I never wanted to be a painter, it was never on

“I never wanted to be a painter, it was never on my radar,” says Sulman Prize-winning artist ANDREW SULLIVAN, speaking with us on the occasion of his showing in the 2024 edition of Painting Now – on view at Michael Reid Sydney until 23 November.

“I did not understand that painting could be a language the way I understood music to be. I went to The National Art School to meet musicians and get a band together, which I did. The band broke up eventually; by then, I had finished art school and I did not know what else to do but give painting a try.”

Available to read online via the link in our bio, the interview finds the Eora/Sydney-based artist reflecting on the ideas and influences that coalesced to form the extraordinary series of five new paintings now showing in our group exhibition.

“There is often a narrative to my paintings, usually one of thought and reflection,” he says. “These five paintings were a bit of a sideline that I wanted to experiment with. The Japanese woodblock prints make a very effective imaginary landscape setting. Rendering them in oil was a challenge and each one is a bit different in its approach. I am still using elements of the woodblock aesthetic in my current work. I constantly return to it as I do most of my symbols and motives.”

Please visit our website to explore works from Andrew Sullivan’s magnificent, masterful Painting Now series or view his work in person during the show’s remaining two weeks.

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

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TODAY: Newcastle Exhibition | Opening Celebration

TODAY: Newcastle Exhibition | Opening Celebration | Saturday, 9 November, 2–5pm | 14 Perkins Street, Newcastle

Please join us today from 2pm to celebrate our Newcastle Exhibition, which brings together a dynamic assembly of new works by many of this country’s most acclaimed contemporary artists:

Narelle Autio, Vicki Yatjiki Cullinan, Gerwyn Davies, Tamara Dean, Troy Emery, Michelle Gearin, Petrina Hicks, India Mark, Kathy Liu, Hubert Pareroultja, Trent Parke, Lucy Vader, Dr Christian Thompson AO, Gaypalani Wanambi, Jo White, Regina Pilawuk Wilson, Owen Yalandja and Djirrirra Wunuŋmurra Yukuwa.

Co-conceived by local projects specialists BEM Group with site-responsive curation by Dean Phillips-Andersen, this expansive group show reflects the ambitions of our offsite projects platform, Michael Reid Beyond, to take contemporary art into exciting, newly activated spaces beyond our five brick-and-mortar galleries.

Everyone is welcome to join us this afternoon as we toast the latest work of the fabulous creative cohort who have now converged at 14 Perkins Street, Newcastle.

Public Celebration
Saturday, 9 November, 2–5pm
14 Perkins Street,
Newcastle NSW 2300

All works from the exhibition can be explored and acquired online via the link in our bio.

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

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