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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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9 Jan—1 Feb 2025

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16 Jan—1 Feb 2025

Masters of Australian Photography: 1935-1994

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7 Feb—8 Mar 2025

Kuṉpu – Strength

Vicki Yatjiki Cullinan

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The Flower Duet

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Stockroom

Snowflake Flowers in Vase, 2022

Orchid/ White Background, 2022

Isca Greenfield-Sanders

Sailboat, 2021

Isca Greenfield-Sanders

White Tree, 2022

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ON VIEW: ‘Masters of Australian Photography’ |

ON VIEW: ‘Masters of Australian Photography’ | Until 1 February | Michael Reid Sydney

Spanning six decades of cultural and artistic evolution, ‘Masters of Australian Photography’ offers a revealing portrait of the country's shifting narrative via 20 iconic images.

From Sydney’s earliest brushes with modernity and the promise of new social freedoms bound up in its salubrious leisure-time pursuits to watershed moments in the struggle for First Nations land rights, this collection of photographs reveals Australia’s ever-changing social and environmental narrative through the eye of our most celebrated image-makers.

Unfolding across two folios of ten masterworks each, this richly varied collection includes JON LEWIS’s famous Bondi pictures, GREG WEIGHT’s portrait of Emily Kame Kngwarreye, OLIVE COTTON’s elegant ‘Teacup Ballet’ and MAX DUPAIN’s groundbreaking nudes.

Capturing the nation’s diverse creative vision and much of our core photographic history, ‘Masters of Australian Photography’ continues this week at Michael Reid Sydney and is available to explore online.

To discuss acquisitions, please email colinesoria@michaelreid.com.au

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NOW OPEN: Sydney Edit – The Next Wave | Until 1

NOW OPEN: Sydney Edit – The Next Wave | Until 1 February | Michael Reid Northern Beaches

A dynamic assembly of the most acclaimed and influential names in Australian contemporary art is making a splash on the Northern Beaches throughout January with the first in an ongoing series of group exhibitions co-curated by our flagship Eora/Sydney gallery.

Sprawling across all three exhibition spaces at Michael Reid Northern Beaches, our first Sydney Edit is titled ‘The Next Wave’ and commences a rotating display of bold, beautiful and highly collectable pieces from the brilliant minds lighting up the Michael Reid stable and setting the pace for Australian visual culture.

Conceptually striking, optically charged and brimming with colour, verve and a vivid sense of storytelling, works featured in ‘The Next Wave’ promise to bring pace, panache and a bold point of focus to the interior spaces they inhabit.

From fringed sculptural creatures conjured by Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Troy Emery – fresh from his Hermès Art Windows commission – to exquisite new paintings by Caroline Walls, Michelle Gearin, John Honeywill and Lucy Vader, as well as sculptures by Fliss Dodd and photographs by Narelle Autio, Petrina Hicks, Gerwyn Davies and Tamara Dean, ‘The Next Wave’ presents a museum-level collection of contemporary art now available to view and acquire.

Our Sydney Edit has been specially conceived to complement the creative visions of the most evocative and innovative space-makers in Australia and beyond: from passionate private collectors to the architects and designers whose bold and directional interiors are reshaping luxury and the way we live now.

Please visit Michael Reid Northern Beaches in Newport or online to explore the exhibition or contact northernbeaches@michaelreid.com.au

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COMING SOON: TAMARA DEAN | ‘The Flower Duet’ |

COMING SOON: TAMARA DEAN | ‘The Flower Duet’ | 7 February–8 March | Michael Reid Sydney

Today, we are delighted to share a very special preview of ‘Rose Bathing’ – a magnificent new work that will form a fabulous hyper-floral centrepiece of leading contemporary artist TAMARA DEAN’s forthcoming series, ‘The Flower Duet’ – now available to preview and acquire by request.

With its ethereal flame-haired subject dancing through a dazzling profusion of wild roses that tangle and cascade in abundance beneath a peachy sky, this sublime piece beautifully distils the sumptuous mood of Dean’s new series, invoking romantic painterly tradition while sitting at the forefront of photographic innovation.

For her new series, Dean drew inspiration from the Léo Delibes tragic opera Lakmé and its famous duet, which loomed large during her work’s creation and now gives the series its title. Delighting in wildly overgrown forms and an operatic sense of drama, ‘The Flower Duet’ brings the artist’s enmeshments of human and natural worlds to a spectacular crescendo.

“While they might at first appear like digitally conjured dreamscapes, the artist’s fantasias are, in fact, an extraordinary feat of practical effects as she immerses her subjects in actual landscapes and elaborately constructed underwater sets,” notes a recent Belle magazine story, which offered a first look at ‘The Flower Duet’ with a full-page detail of ‘Rose Bathing’.

To request a preview catalogue for ‘The Flower Duet’ by Tamara Dean and receive priority access to the artist’s new work – including ‘Rose Bathing’ – please email dean@michaelreid.com.au

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Slinking atop the baby grand piano like Michelle P

Slinking atop the baby grand piano like Michelle Pfeiffer’s lounge singer in The Fabulous Baker Boys, TROY EMERY’s fringed feline sculpture is a starring feature in this waterside Sydney home.

Designed by architect Blake Letnic and interior designer Lauren Mahoney of Studio Trio, the project was recently published in the February/March issue of style bible Belle magazine, which is now on newsstands.

Conjuring impossible creatures with a couturier’s precision and imaginative flourish, Emery’s practice reflects his enduring interest in the intersections of artifice and the natural world, threading each piece with nods to art history, science, decorative crafts, camp sensibilities and conventions of museum display.

Following his celebrated commission for the most recent Hermès Art Windows project, created in collaboration with the iconic French luxury house, Emery’s otherworldly pieces are currently on view at Michael Reid Northern Beaches in the first of a new series of group exhibitions co-curated by our flagship Eora/Sydney gallery.

This special Sydney Edit – titled The Next Wave – takes Australia’s most acclaimed and influential contemporary artists to our Newport gallery in a dynamic survey specially conceived to complement the creative visions of our most evocative and innovative space-makers: from passionate collectors to the architects and designers who are setting the pace with bold, beautiful, directional interiors.

Thank you to @bellemagazineau for featuring Troy Emery’s work, which can be explored on our website.

To enquire about the artist’s pieces – including those featured in our Sydney Edit at Michael Reid Northern Beaches – please email dean@michaelreid.com.au

Architecture: Blake Letnic | @blake_letnic_architects
Interior Design: @_studio_trio
Photography: @_pabloveiga
Styling: @atelier_lab_

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NOW OPEN: Masters of Australian Photography – 19

NOW OPEN: Masters of Australian Photography – 1935-1994 | Until 1 February | Michael Reid Sydney

This week at Michael Reid Sydney, we are delighted to welcome an exhibition of 20 significant Australian photographs from a remarkable roll call of this country’s most celebrated and significant 20th-century image makers.

Now on view in our upstairs gallery, Masters of Australian Photography traverses six decades of cultural and artistic evolution, presented across two folios of ten masterworks each. The exhibition offers a striking historical counterpoint to contemporary artist's new solo show, which continues this week in our main downstairs gallery space.

From legendary photographer MAX DUPAIN’s groundbreaking nudes and MERVYN BISHOP’s powerful portrayal of Indigenous land rights to GREG WEIGHT’s portrait of Emily Kame Kngwarreye, these images reflect Australia’s ever-changing social and environmental narrative.

Showcasing masterful storytelling and enduring legacies, these two folios are cornerstones of Australian photography.

We look forward to welcoming visitors to Masters of Photography throughout January. The exhibition can also be explored online, and we invite collectors to please send expressions of interest to colinesoria@michaelreid.com.au

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COMING SOON: MAI NGUYỄN-LONG | ‘Doba Nation’

COMING SOON: MAI NGUYỄN-LONG | ‘Doba Nation’ | 7 February–17 April | John Curtin Gallery, Perth

In three weeks, Dharawal/Bulli-based multidisciplinary artist MAI NGUYỄN-LONG will headline the artistic program of this year’s Perth Festival with her dazzling new sculptural installation, ‘Doba Nation’ at John Curtin Gallery.

Co-presented by our offsite projects platform, Michael Reid Beyond, this large-scale assemblage features hand-formed ceramic figures arranged on-site by the artist in a process akin to live storytelling.

Arriving soon after her landmark showing in the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art – which continues as Brisbane’s QAGOMA until 27 April – Nguyễn-Long’s new suite of sculptures is now travelling to Perth for its festival debut and can be previewed and acquired from Michael Reid Sydney by request.

‘Doba Nation’ is populated an assembly of the artist’s distinctive Vomit Girl sculptures – a recurring motif that emerged as a way to address feelings of voicelessness – accompanied by painted cylindrical ceramic forms, which Nguyễn-Long calls Doba.

“These clay Doba derive their appearance from metal bomb shell casings (post-Vietnam War) that some residents of rural Vietnam have repurposed for practical and spiritual use,” note the exhibition’s curators.

“In this new body of work, Mai pays particular attention to brushwork illustration on the surfaces of her ceramic objects, which borrow from the southern Vietnamese folk religious motifs of her father’s birthplace, merged with personalised symbology.”

To request a preview catalogue for ‘Doba Nation’ and priority access to newly available work by Mai Nguyễn-Long, please email danielsoma@michaelreid.com.au

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