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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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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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NOW OPEN: PETRINA HICKS | ‘Snakes and mirrors’

NOW OPEN: PETRINA HICKS | ‘Snakes and mirrors’ | Until 30 March | Michael Reid Berlin

After an acclaimed, four-month run at the Museum of Australian Photography, ‘Snakes and mirrors’ – a sublime new body of work from internationally celebrated contemporary artist PETRINA HICKS – is now making its European debut with her show’s opening today at Michael Reid Berlin.

Works from ‘Snakes and mirrors’ – including the Korea-Australia Arts Foundation Prize-winning ‘Mnemosyne IV’ – are now on view at our Berlin gallery and available to acquire online or by contacting our Berlin gallery manager, Coline Soria.

Hicks has honed her singular style and cemented her place at the forefront of her field over an extraordinary career spanning more than two decades. Her meticulously choreographed images are lensed with a heightened, hyperreal precision, subverting the coolly seductive visual language of advertising while drawing motifs from classical myths, folklore and art history to re-frame the contemporary female experience.

Hovering in porous spaces between different states of being, Hicks’s subjects project a beguiling equipoise against crisp, ambiguous backdrops, their outward polish, stillness and quietude appealingly undercut by tension, eroticism or disquiet.

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’s arrival in Berlin comes after a remarkable year. In addition to her Museum of Australian Photography show, it follows the record-breaking auction sales of her works ‘Shenae and Jade’, 2005, and ‘Venus’, 2013.

“In Hicks’s work, we are drawn to the tiniest gesture or detail amplified beyond mundane reality into a zone of the imaginary,” writes Isobel Crombie in the book accompanying Hicks’s 2019 retrospective at the National Gallery of Victoria.

To acquire works from ‘Snakes and mirrors’, please visit Michael Reid Berlin online or contact colinesoria@michaelreid.com.au

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COMING SOON: KATHY LIU | ‘If you wait for long’ | 13 March–12 April | Michael Reid Sydney

Paintings from Eora/Sydney-based artist KATHY LIU’s upcoming show, ‘If you wait for long’ – her first solo presentation at our flagship exhibition space – have now arrived at the gallery and can be previewed virtually or in person by request.

Suggesting hazy memories, nocturnal musings or half-remembered dreams, Liu’s paintings pulse with emotion, poeticism, magic and effervescent movement.

“My approach is highly intuitive”, she says. “I begin a painting without a pre-set concept, letting the colours and shapes emerge themselves. Sometimes, it feels like I’m there to help the artworks find their own storylines.”

Casting the canvas as a conduit for fabulous adventures through imaginative worlds, the artist’s open-ended process invites delightfully unexpected turns as amorphous painterly pools begin to coalesce and playfully enigmatic, inchoate figures emerge through diaphanous wafts of colour.

“Perhaps there is this vast field, and when the wind rises, the clouds are changing fast,” writes Liu in a poetic reflection on the amorphous elements that begin to crystallise on the canvas shown here, which is also the title work of her forthcoming series. ”If you wait for long, magical things may happen, but I’d like to go home.”

Throughout this new series, the ephemerality of childhood amusements is echoed by a gossamer quality that sees fragmentary images on the cusp of emerging or just fading away. It’s another compelling ambiguity that rhymes with Liu’s fluid, freeform approach and the serendipitous possibilities of her abstract practice.

To receive a preview catalogue, book a private viewing or secure acquisitions prior to the opening of ‘If you wait for long’ by Kathy Liu, please email dean@michaelreid.com.au

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We are delighted to announce that the next exhibit

We are delighted to announce that the next exhibition in our main gallery space at Michael Reid Sydney will be a significant solo presentation from leading contemporary painter ANDREA HUELIN, the winner of the 2023 Archibald Packing Room Prize and one of the bright stars in our stable of represented artists.

Seeking to capture the elusive qualities of light and lustre with an economy of loose painterly gestures, Huelin is widely celebrated for her vibrant, evocative, gently expressive still-life paintings. Her tablescapes heave with fabulously eclectic objects and coloured glass vessels that glisten like jewels right to the edge of her canvas.

Last year, Huelin moved her practice from Cairns's tropical climes to an ex-industrial space amid the grittier, bohemian hubbub of Naarm/Melbourne’s inner west. For an artist so attuned to the nuances of light and whose subject matter is gleaned from local op-shop trawling, this change of scenery can be felt in her work. The light feels moodier, the tones richer, and the atmosphere more Melburnian than before.

A dazzling rebuke to the anaemic minimalism of an excessively decluttered post-Kondo world, her latest paintings play up the personality, emotional pull and totemic, transportive power of vintage objects amassed in a spirit of eclecticism, spontaneity and abundance. For Huelin, less is a bore.

Delighting in the happy accidents of the collecting impulse run gloriously amok, her more-is-more jumble of tchotchkes and accoutrements is painted with a tonal vibrancy, exuberance and pictorial density befitting the maximalist MO and historical ambience of their interior surrounds.

Her ode to the pleasures of collecting – of being enveloped by objects through which we might access past lives – remains grounded in close observations of light, its delicate effects and the ephemeral interplay of translucency and luminosity.

Huelin’s show opens on Thursday, 13 March, and her work will soon be available to preview. For first access, please email danielsoma@michaelreid.com.au

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ON VIEW: MAI NGUYỄN-LONG | ‘Doba Nation’ | U

ON VIEW: MAI NGUYỄN-LONG | ‘Doba Nation’ | Until 17 April | John Curtin Gallery, Perth

The spectacular sculptural installation ‘Doba Nation’ by Dharawal/Bulli-based multidisciplinary artist MAI NGUYỄN-LONG is a centrepiece of this year's Perth Festival artistic program and is showing this week at John Curtin Gallery.

Transporting the viewer to a dazzling archipelago of hand-formed clay figures that emerge spotlit against the moody scenography of a darkened gallery space, Nguyễn-Long’s latest institutional turn comes soon after her landmark commission for QAGOMA's Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, ‘The Vomit Girl Project’, also showing until 17.

In ‘Doba Nation’, Nguyễn-Long’s distinctive Vomit Girl figures – which first emerged through her artistic and scholarly practice in response to feelings of voicelessness – are set in conversation with the painted cylindrical forms she calls Doba. These derive their appearance from metal bombshell casings repurposed by rural Vietnamese people for practical and spiritual use.

“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,” says curator Lia McKnight.

“Drawing from early matriarchal and animist knowledge systems, the installation is tied together visually by scatterings of small organic shapes, subtly alluding to humanity’s earthy interconnectedness.”

‘Doba Nation’ by Mai Nguyễn-Long is co-presented by our offsite projects platform, Michael Reid Beyond, and the sculptures featured can be acquired online from our Eora/Sydney gallery.

Select works from the installation can be viewed and acquired online and additional works are available by request. For enquiries, please email danielsoma@michaelreid.com.au

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NOW OPEN: JULZ BERESFORD | ‘Floating Through Cal

NOW OPEN: JULZ BERESFORD | ‘Floating Through Calm Waters’ | Until 29 March | The Basil Sellers Exhibition Centre

Today, Dyarubbin/Hawkesbury-based contemporary painter JULZ BERESFORD celebrated the opening of her first solo exhibition at a regional institution with ‘Floating Through Calm Waters’ – now on view at The Basil Sellers Exhibition Centre in Moruya, New South Wales.

We are thrilled to share that a centrepiece of this sublime and atmospheric series of Hawkesbury riverscapes has been acquired by the museum for its permanent collection – another exciting career milestone for an artist who has emerged as one of the most celebrated and in-demand names in Australian contemporary landscape painting.

Awash with a moody, transportive and tranquil romanticism, ‘Floating Through Calm Waters’ is a visual odyssey across the Hawkesbury River, where rippling, shimmering channels snake through tumbling sandstone escarpments wreathed by ethereal wisps of eucalyptus.

“There is so much material for me to paint the Hawkesbury forever,” says Beresford, reflecting on the area that has been a lifelong inspiration. “It’s not just something to paint but a place I feel attached to. I absorb the place completely.”

Setting sail across the river, immersing herself in its brooding bush surrounds, and recording the area’s natural rhythms over long stretches, the artist seeks to translate these elements and the emotions they spark onto her heroic canvases.

‘Floating Through Calm Waters’ builds on the success of two rapturously received shows at Michael Reid Sydney, which bookended our 2024 program and accompanied the announcement of the artist’s representation by the gallery.

All works from the new series were acquired well ahead of today’s opening – a testament to the extraordinary resonance of her painterly vision. Visit The Basil Sellers Exhibition Centre to experience her work in person, and contact Michael Reid Sydney to be the first to receive updates on future releases.

Please email danielsoma@michaelreid.com.au

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