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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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13 Mar—12 Apr 2025

If you wait for long

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13 Mar—12 Apr 2025

Seeking a Silk Purse

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10 Apr—10 May 2025

Uncertain Truths

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

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THIS WEEK: TRENT PARKE in ‘Powerhouse: Contempor

THIS WEEK: TRENT PARKE in ‘Powerhouse: Contemporary Australian Photographers’ |25–30 March | Brisbane Powerhouse

Leading contemporary artist and Magnum photographer TRENT PARKE is among the exciting creative cohort joining forces at Brisbane Powerhouse this week for the latest presentation from our offsite projects platform, Michael Reid Beyond.

Parke arrives in the River City with a selection of sublime, halcyon waterside scenes from his recent ‘Species’ series, which garnered international acclaim with previews at Milan Design Week and in New York City as part of a touring exhibition spearheaded by Magnum Photos in collaboration with Champagne house Veuve Clicquot.

One of the highlights of the series and our Meanjin/Brisbane survey show, ‘Humankind’, was shortlisted for the 2024 edition of Australia’s most prestigious photography award, The William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize.

Captured through an extraordinary feat of endurance and precision, ‘Species’ represents a thrilling synthesis of Parke’s singular skill and aesthetic sensibilities. “Shooting directly into the sun is a challenge in itself,” says the artist, who lensed his subjects from a distance of 700 metres. “It was 1/2000th of a second, but three months in the making.”

The resulting pictures cast halcyon waterside scenes in a mythic light, with figures silhouetted against a monumental orb as they leap into glinting waters turned molten gold. “The sun has always been a symbol of the great clock in the sky … the ultimate force of life.”

An air of warm nostalgia breezes through his series, with the waning sun giving its final bursts of brilliance as swimmers seek ecstatic reprieve from the summer heat. Parke sees Species as a meeting of two “symbols of universal energy” – the sun and the ocean melting together in a sumptuous pool of colour.

To preview and acquire works by Trent Parke before the opening of our exhibition at Brisbane Powerhouse, please email dean@michaelreid.com.au

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The next evolution of the MICHAEL REID ART APP is

The next evolution of the MICHAEL REID ART APP is now live and free to download for iPhone and Android from the App Store and via the link in our bio.

Designed to take art collecting to a new level, this significantly updated version retains the app’s core functionality – offering collectors a streamlined and elegant platform to manage and view their private art collections – but with major enhancements.

More than a mood board, the Michael Reid Art App is a living image library, intuitive sourcing tool and dynamic archive for curating and safeguarding your collection.

The app continues to serve as a secure, private image showroom, allowing users to organise and showcase their art while protecting sensitive details such as purchase prices. Version Two introduces new features to keep your collection at your fingertips with even more precision, ease and endless scope for personalisation.

• Completely Confidential: Data remains private and no external parties – including galleries – have access to material stored in the app.
• Enhanced Organisational Tools: With improved filtering and categorisation, organising collections is effortless.
• Seamless Sharing: Create galleries in high-quality PDFs or share curated virtual exhibitions with fellow collectors.
• Smart Viewing: AI-driven tools suggest new works based on your collection and preferences.

“It was a good client who, while struggling to bring up his latest art acquisition through their phone, said to me, ‘You should build an art-collecting app for your clients, a simple one-stop showcase spot. It would be bloody helpful.’ And so we did,” says Michael Reid OAM.

Download the Michael Reid Art App Version Two from the app store or via the link in our bio.

Pictured: Artworks by Trent Parke (in a home by Tamsin Johnson; photo by Anson Smart), Petrina Hicks (in a home by Esoteriko), John Honeywill (in a home by Anna Carin Design; photo by Anson Smart), Gaypalani Wanambi (in a home by Thomas Hamel & Associates; photo by Anson Smart), Petrina Hicks (in the home of Kym Elphinstone; photo by Dave Wheeler) and Dr Christian Thompson AO (in a home by Jolson; photo by Lucas Allen).

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COMING SOON: SCOTT PERKINS | ‘Uncertain Truths’ | 10 April–10 May | Michael Reid Sydney

The next major presentation in our main gallery space is an exhibition of transportive, atmospheric landscapes by Eora/Sydney-based photographer SCOTT PERKINS. A singular voice whose extraordinary technical skills have propelled his ascending success, Perkins imbues his deceptively spare, elegantly abstracted scenes with captivating nuance, elemental drama and brooding poeticism.

Works from his ‘Uncertain Truths’ series have arrived at the gallery, illuminated within exquisite, architecturally constructed frames and light-box displays. They can be previewed and acquired by request before the opening on Thursday, 10 April.

“Scott Perkins was rare in emerging artist terms because he presented a complete, accomplished aesthetic,” says Michael Reid OAM, recalling his first encounter with the artist’s work, which came after an enthusiastic recommendation from the country's pre-eminent art printing specialist, Warren Macris.

“Perkins’s visual language was original. The quality of his presentation was decades beyond what you’d expect. In only a handful of artists, across nearly forty years in the arts industry, have I seen the beginning of an artist’s career crafted as though it were the pinnacle of a career.”

Reaching for the sublime with the grace and precision of his Sugimoto-like reductionist approach, the artist’s new suite of silvery, unidentified landscapes pare sinuous coastlines back to a near-abstract interplay of monochrome forms, minimalist lines and metallic grey washes. Horizon lines are blurred and roiling skies become shimmering gradations, highlighting the textural quality of his medium as hazy, granular details fizz like smatterings of celestial matter.

With their soft glow and impeccably constructed frames, these are as much works of sculpture as photography—architectural objects to be experienced in their entirety.

To request a preview catalogue, book an in-person viewing or secure an acquisition before the opening, please email danielsoma@michaelreid.com.au

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THIS WEEK: PETRINA HICKS in ‘Powerhouse: Contemp

THIS WEEK: PETRINA HICKS in ‘Powerhouse: Contemporary Australian Photographers’ | 25-30 March | Brisbane Powerhouse

An assembly of the most celebrated names in contemporary photography is coming to Brisbane Powerhouse this week in the latest presentation from our offsite projects platform, Michael Reid Beyond.

Among the highlights of Beyond's takeover of the sprawling riverside multi-arts precinct will be a curated offering of works by leading contemporary photographer PETRINA HICKS from her spectacular new series, ‘Snakes and Mirrors’, which recently debuted at the Museum of Australian Photography and is now touring Europe with a solo show at Michael Reid Berlin.

Over two decades of globally acclaimed practice, Hicks has honed her unique photographic style and crystallised her place at the forefront of her field. Her meticulously choreographed images are lensed with a 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 a space between different states of being, Hicks’s subjects are set against crisp, ambiguous backdrops – their outward polish and quietude unsettled by an underlying tension or eroticism. Permeated with magical realism, animals and females appear together to represent aspects of the psyche and evoke the complexities of female identity.

At the heart of Hicks's latest body of work is an enquiry into animal consciousness: how do animals experience the universe? Hicks challenges anthropocentric perspectives to highlight the interconnectedness of humans and animals. Snakes, sealife and humans bind together in intimate vignettes that propose time in stasis and invite us to contemplate how animals experience time.

To request a preview catalogue and priority access to works featured in our Meanjin/Brisbane exhibition, please email dean@michaelreid.com.au

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NEXT WEEK: Powerhouse – Contemporary Australian

NEXT WEEK: Powerhouse – Contemporary Australian Photographers | 25–30 March | Brisbane Powerhouse

In one week, a dynamic assembly of the most acclaimed photographic artists working in Australia today will join forces at Brisbane Powerhouse for an expansive exhibition presented by our offsite projects platform, Michael Reid Beyond.

Set within the Stores Studio space at the sprawling riverside multi-arts precinct, ‘Powerhouse: Contemporary Australian Photographers’ will be the first chance to experience works from leading contemporary photographer TAMARA DEAN’s landmark series ‘The Flower Duet’ after its celebrated debut at Michael Reid Sydney last month.

Dean will be joined in our Meanjin/Brisbane exhibition by some of the lauded and in-demand names in the Michael Reid stable and Australian contemporary photography more broadly, including Dr CHRISTIAN THOMPSON AO, NICI CUMPSTON OAM, LUKE SHADBOLT, NARELLE AUTIO and TRENT PARKE.

Another highlight of the exhibition will be an offering of works by PETRINA HICKS from her recent ‘Snakes and Mirrors’ series, which debuted at the Museum of Australian Photography in Melbourne and is currently touring Europe with her solo show at Michael Reid Berlin.

These artists, all represented in significant public and private collections in Australia and abroad, are some of the most important and influential image-makers working today. Their singular practice is at the forefront of one of contemporary art’s fastest-growing markets: photography.

Launched in 2024, Michael Reid Beyond acts as a moveable projects space, hosting temporary exhibitions in artists’ studios, empty buildings, outdoor settings, regional museums and other newly activated sites.

Michael Reid Beyond is thrilled to bring this unique platform to the dazzling industrial setting of Brisbane Powerhouse. We invite collectors to register their interest to receive priority access to works featured in the show.

Please email dean@michaelreid.com.au

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“I found this creature not long after I built up

“I found this creature not long after I built up the ground of my painting. I instantly fell in love with him and decided to keep him,” says KATHY LIU, discussing the curious figure emerging through clouds of colour in the painting pictured here.

“In my mind, he is peaceful, relaxed and loves flowers,” she says. “He lives under a mountain, which could be Mount Roland in Tasmania, where the kids and I have spent a few memorable holidays just doing nothing, being with the mountains.”

This work reveals the serendipitous possibilities of Liu's open-ended process and the enchanting enmeshment of abstraction and figuration that plays out on her canvas. “Sometimes, it feels like I’m there to help the artworks find their storylines,” says Liu, who subscribes to the Picasso idea that “everything you imagine is real”.

The piece forms part of Liu’s first solo exhibition at Michael Reid Sydney, ‘If you wait for long’, and we are thrilled to share that this series was acquired in its entirety just hours after our opening celebration.

Congratulations to Kathy Liu on this tremendous result. The exhibition continues until 12 April, and we look forward to welcoming visitors to the gallery to experience Liu's pieces and discover their hidden stories.

Throughout ‘If you wait for long’, Liu's work beautifully blurs the line between imagination and reality with hazy, apparition-like forms. Redolent of nocturnal musings or half-remembered dreams, her compositions are conjured with pools of colour that cascade across the canvas, enticing the viewer into whimsical worlds where illusionary elements could be on the cusp of emerging or dissolving.

Congratulations to Kathy Liu on this sublime body of work and the tremendous success of her first solo show at our Eora/Sydney gallery.

To sign up for early access to upcoming releases from the artist, please email dean@michaelreid.com.au

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