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Eora / Sydney

Michael Reid Sydney

Michael Reid Sydney has been established for over 20 years and operates as the headquarters for our network of six 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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18—27 Apr 2024

Hoppé’s Australia: Photographs from the Oroton Collection

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2 May—1 Jun 2024

Into The Distance

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2 May—1 Jun 2024

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Stockroom

Bananas with Bromeliad, 2023

Michelle Gearin

Opal mountain

90.5 x 120.5 cm

Michelle Gearin

90.5 x 120.5 cm

Snowflake Flowers in Vase, 2022

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COMING SOON: TROY EMERY | ‘Figurations’ | 2 Ma

COMING SOON: TROY EMERY | ‘Figurations’ | 2 May–1 June | Michael Reid Sydney

The first solo exhibition from TROY EMERY since joining our stable of represented artists, ‘Figurations’ will see our upstairs exhibition space dazzlingly transformed by a cast of wild and magnificent creatures sculpted with a couturier’s precision and imaginative flourish.

Fringed and fabulous in languorous repose, Emery’s impossible fauna reflects an enduring fascination with nature. Drawing on art history, science, decorative crafts and camp sensibilities, the artist explores complex entanglements of human and non-human worlds.

‘Figurations’ follows the recent announcement of Emery’s major commission, ‘Guardian Lion’, which will see him produce a spectacular, kaleidoscopic, illuminated sculptural landmark soaring high above Melbourne’s Southbank and serving as a bold visual gateway to the city.

To preview works from Emery's new show and for all acquisition enquiries, please contact dean@michaelreid.com.au

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NOW OPEN: E.O. Hoppé's Australia | Photographs fr

NOW OPEN: E.O. Hoppé's Australia | Photographs from the Oroton Collection | Until 27 April | Michael Reid Sydney

We are thrilled to present an exhibition of photographs of 1930s Australia from the archive of E. O. HOPPÉ, the legendary portrait, travel and topographic photographer (1878-1972).

These extraordinary pictures are drawn from the Oroton Collection – now shown for the first time at Michael Reid Sydney as part of a new program in partnership with the iconic Australian luxury house.

When Emil Otto Hoppé arrived in Australia from London in 1930, the German-born photographer was at the height of his powers. Commissioned to create a photographic portrait of Australia, he approached the subject with a thoroughness that still shines through.

There are no preconceptions controlling Hoppé’s portraits: each sitter is someone to discover from the start. He wanted the photographic technicalities to be as simple as possible so he could focus on his rapport with the sitter.

Widely considered the most famous photographer in the world, the dapper Hoppé was the celebrity portraitist of his time, snapping such luminaries as George Bernard Shaw, Rudyard Kipling, Albert Einstein, Anna Pavlova, Vaslav Nijinsky and Virginia Woolf. Cecil Beaton called him “the master”.

Hoppé’s brief, influential presence in Australia adds an important chapter to our nation's history. It is not recorded whether a talented 19-year-old apprentice in Cecil Bostock’s studio named Max Dupain ever met the energetic German from London, but Dupain’s rapid mastery of modern photography might suggest he did so – or, at least, knew of Hoppé’s work.

We look forward to welcoming visitors to our exhibition of photographs by E. O. Hoppé. In shining a light on this remarkable cache, the Oroton Collection's inaugural show reflects the ambitions of our collaborative program to tell Australian stories through rarely seen works of art.

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Congratulations to INDIA MARK, whose series ‘Nig

Congratulations to INDIA MARK, whose series ‘Night Music’ – her first full-scale body of work exhibited at Michael Reid Sydney – has been acquired in its entirety by collectors.

This is a fabulous result for Mark, who joined our stable of represented artists last year and has since been named a finalist in several major painting prizes – including the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship and the Lester Art Prize, for which she was named the Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize recipient.

“The paintings are a continuation of a work exploring working entirely from life,” says the artist, discussing ‘Night Music’. “Stylistically, they are consciously more natural than previous series of still-life paintings. This interest in working from life stems from my work teaching observational drawing at the University of Wollongong.”

Working from her studio in a 1920s warehouse in an industrial part of Wollongong, the artist found one of the challenges in painting the series was enduring the summer heat.

“I ended up working during the night hours when it was slightly cooler,” she says. “When I’d get in my car to go home in the early hours of the morning, the ABC Classic radio program ‘Night Music’ would be on.”

Collectors who would like to receive priority access to new releases from India Mark and updates on her future projects are encouraged to register their interest with the gallery.

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

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COMING SOON: NARELLE AUTIO | ‘Into the Distance’ | 2 May–1 June | Michael Reid Sydney

‘Into the Distance’ is an epic adventure through the archive of one of Australia’s most accomplished and acclaimed contemporary photographers, NARELLE AUTIO.

Featured in the new edition April–June 2024 edition of Art Collector magazine, the exhibition will present images drawn from two distinct bodies of work – ‘Outback’ and ‘Watercolours’ – both captured by the artist during a road trip across Australia between 2003 and 2004.

Shot on now-discontinued film, each frame is saturated in vivid oranges and blues that invite unlikely connections between disparate settings as Autio travels from the coast to the country’s red centre. “I love the hyperbole of the colours,” says the artist, whose intense palette lets her work drift from social documentary towards something more dreamlike and surreal.

Adding to this sense of the uncanny is the almost elemental masculinity pervading many of the ‘Outback’ pictures – and it was this quality that most surprised Autio during her reimmersion in the world of the images two decades after their creation. “Twenty years ago, this was a masculine landscape where men seemed to dominate the space,” she says.

Autio’s show will be anchored by ten key photographs shown as one body of work to encapsulate this important chapter in her career. These will be accompanied by an installation of smaller-scale prints that further sketch out the mood of the time.

“I find the landscape of the outback stunningly beautiful, but I see a harshness I don’t feel or experience on the coast,” says Autio of the extremes thrown into relief by the meeting of her two series.

We are now offering private previews of works from ‘Into the Distance’. For more, please email danielsoma@michaelreid.com.au

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THIS WEEK: E.O. Hoppé's Australia | Photographs f

THIS WEEK: E.O. Hoppé's Australia | Photographs from the Oroton Collection | 18–27 April | Michael Reid Sydney

We are delighted to partner with Oroton, the iconic Australian luxury house, to present an exciting new program that will see works from an important private collection receive a rare public display.

The series commences this week with an exhibition of extraordinary photographs of 1930s Australia by E. O. HOPPÉ (1878-1972), the legendary German-born British modernist.

Dubbed “The Master” by Cecil Beaton, Hoppé arrived in Australia from London at the height of his powers, widely considered the world’s most famous photographer.

Having lensed such luminaries as George Bernard Shaw, Rudyard Kipling, Albert Einstein, Anna Pavlova, Vaslav Nijinsky and Virginia Woolf, he was commissioned, in 1929, to take a photographic portrait of Australia – no simple feat, given the great expense and difficulty of travelling here at the time.

Always with an eye for the unconsidered, Hoppé was as drawn to inland Australia as to its coastal cities. In ‘Hoppé’s Australia: Photographs from the Oroton Collection’, his images of remote First Nations peoples and their communities offer unvarnished portraits of their lives almost 100 years ago.

Other photographs show Sydney’s burgeoning modernity, with his print of a surfer ranking as one of only a handful of images ever taken of that pastime in its earliest days.

Hoppé’s unsentimental humanity is a unifying theme in the exhibition, which was curated by Michael Reid OAM with more than 40 privately held archival works.

The photographer's brief, influential presence in Australia adds an important chapter to our nation's history. By shining a light on this remarkable cache, the Oroton Collection's inaugural exhibition reflects the program's broader ambition to tell distinctly Australian stories through rarely seen works of art.

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LUCY VADER | ‘Exaltation’ | Until 13 April | M

LUCY VADER | ‘Exaltation’ | Until 13 April | Michael Reid Sydney

This is the final weekend to view ‘Exaltation’ by LUCY VADER at Michael Reid Sydney, which is open today from 11 am to 3 pm.

The artist conceived this suite of nine paintings as one continuous sweep, threading together and wrapping the gallery walls to immerse the viewer in colour-soaked worlds.

Melding a deep and enduring affinity for rural life with an iconoclast’s approach to pastoral painting, Vader’s practice sees energetic swells of pinks, oranges and yellows burst across her richly layered canvas.

Far from placid country cliches, these bucolic scenes appear as if they might at any moment break open to undercurrents of pure colour that flow freely from one picture to the next.

“I never know what’s going to happen," says the artist of her process. “I know something good is going to happen, but I have to paint until it does.”

Works from the series are available to explore and acquire on our website.

For more, please contact danielsoma@michaelreid.com.au

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