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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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11 Jul—10 Aug 2024

Nganampa Ngura (Our Country)

Vicki Yatjiki Cullinan, Emily Cullinan

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18 Jul—15 Aug 2024

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REGISTER YOUR INTEREST: Yawkyawk

16 Aug—27 Sep 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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OWEN YALANDJA | ‘Yawkyawk’ | Until 15 August |

OWEN YALANDJA | ‘Yawkyawk’ | Until 15 August | Michael Reid Sydney

‘Yawkyawk’ by OWEN YALANDJA continues this weekend at Michael Reid Sydney, taking visitors on a dazzling dive through stories of the titular water spirits who reside in a sacred billabong of which the Kuninjku artist is a custodian.

Yalandja depicts the Ancestral Yawkyawk figure through his paintings on bark and carved sculptural works that swim up the gallery walls. Mermaid-like with a human torso and fishtail, each is adorned with delicately cascading water droplets and shimmering scale effects achieved with breathtaking precision.

“Yawkyawk is my Dreaming,” says the artist and senior member of the Dangkorlo clan. “I love making these sculptures and I have invented a way to represent the fish scales on her body.”

These mesmerising surface details are expressed with an upsidedown v-chevron design, which Yalandja developed while also employing the dotting style taught to him by his father, renowned artist Crusoe Kuningbal.

Yalandja was awarded the top prize for bark painting at last year’s Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards. We are thrilled to present his latest collection of works, which are on view in the gallery and can be explored online.

To enquire about work by Owen Yalandja, please contact dean@michaelreid.com.au

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One of the most celebrated, enduring and instantly

One of the most celebrated, enduring and instantly recognisable works from the photographic archive of leading contemporary artist PETRINA HICKS graces the pages of the current issue of Belle magazine – beautifully captured inside the Sydney home of art advisor, advocate and head of Articulate agency Kym Elphinstone.

The 2003 work ‘Lauren’ is among the key images of Hicks’s storied career, arriving early in a creative partnership with the titular subject that still endures to this day. The work also features prominently in the lavishly illustrated, large-format monograph that accompanied Hicks’s 2018 retrospective, ‘Bleached Gothic’, at the National Gallery of Victoria.

We were thrilled to see ‘Lauren’ by Petrina Hicks alongside work by the roll-call of Australian art stars represented in Kym’s private collection. Swipe to preview the story and see more in Belle’s August/September issue.

Other landmark historical works by Hicks will soon be shown alongside four never-before-seen photographs in her upcoming exhibition ‘Mythologies’, opening in three weeks at Perth Council House in a co-presentation from the Perth Centre for Photography and our offsite projects platform, Michael Reid Beyond.

Pairing newly released and archival photographs alongside sculptures by Perth-based contemporary artist Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Hicks’s West Australian show arrives after an extraordinary 12 months that have seen her tour Australia and Italy and topple auction records with the secondary sale of her 2005 work ‘Shanae and Jade’.

To register interest in ‘Mythologies’ by Petrina Hicks and receive priority access to the artist’s new releases, please email dean@michaelreid.com.au

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Photography: Dave Wheeler | @dave_wheeler
Styling: Jack Milenkovic | @atelier_lab_

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EMILY CULLINAN and VICKI YATJIKI CULLINAN | Until

EMILY CULLINAN and VICKI YATJIKI CULLINAN | Until 10 August | Michael Reid Sydney

‘Nganampa Ngura (Our Country)’ by EMILY CULLINAN and VICKI YATJIKI CULLINAN continues in the gallery this week, pairing breathtaking paintings by two leading artists from Iwantja Arts in a richly compelling conversation.

Working at the Indigenous-owned and -governed art centre in the rocky desert country of Indulkana on the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands, Emily and her daughter, Vicki, have been at the forefront of Iwantja’s creative explosion for several decades.

Entwining forms of personal expression with cultural storytelling that reaches across generations, their new collection of paintings is alive with colour, exuberance and a sense of rhythmic movement. ‘Nganampa Ngura’ celebrates the two artists’ deep connection to Yankunytjatjara Country and the spectacular landscapes of Indulkana.

“Painting is a teaching tool,” says Vicki, who was awarded the prestigious Hadley’s Art Prize in 2023 and the Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize in 2020. “We use our paintings as a way of sharing stories, Country and Tjukurpa (ancestral stories), as well as what it was like here in the old days.”

‘Nganampa Ngura’ pairs Vicki’s sublime perspectives of Indulkana Country – conjured with dazzling sweeps of deep red tones and rippling striations of purple – alongside a collection of bright and brilliant paintings by Emily, a trailblazing artist who is one of the most senior members of her community.

Works from the show can be explored online. For more, please email dean@michaelreid.com.au

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ON VIEW: OWEN YALANDJA | ‘Yawkyawk’ | Until 15

ON VIEW: OWEN YALANDJA | ‘Yawkyawk’ | Until 15 August | Michael Reid Sydney

Dazzling carved figures and paintings on bark by OWEN YALANDJA can be explored online and in the gallery this week in the latest solo exhibition from the winner of the 2023 Telstra NATSIAA Bark Painting Award.

“Yawkyawk is my Dreaming,” says the artist and senior member of the Dangkorlo clan, a custodian of the sacred billabong where the mermaid-like Yawkyawk spirits reside near his outstation, Barrihdjowkkeng. “I love making these sculptures and I have invented a way to represent the fish scales on her body.”

Working at Maningrida Arts and Culture on Kunibídji country in Arnhem Land, Yalandja meticulously adorns his Yawkyawk figures with delicately cascading water droplets and shimmering scale effects.

These mesmerising details are represented with an upsidedown v-chevron design, which the artist developed while also applying the dotting style taught to him by his father, renowned artist Crusoe Kuningbal.

“The colours I use have particular meanings (not public) and I make them either red or black,” says Yalandja, speaking with Art Collector magazine after his NATSIAA win. “I am now teaching my kids to carve, just like my father did for us.”

To discuss available works from the artist’s latest show and register for interest in his upcoming releases, please email dean@michaelreid.com.au

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COMING SOON: JOSEPH McGLENNON | ‘The Hunt’ | 1

COMING SOON: JOSEPH McGLENNON | ‘The Hunt’ | 15–25 August | Michael Reid Beyond

Next month, our offsite projects platform, Michael Reid Beyond, will present the latest series from leading Australian contemporary artist JOSEPH McGLENNON.

Titled ‘The Hunt’, this spectacular new suite of sweeping, panoramic images will be a landmark entry in McGlennon's celebrated body of work and the culmination of well over a decade of photographic mastery.

To celebrate the release, Michael Reid Beyond will stage works from the series against the gracefully weathered grandeur of an original colonial homestead – a suitably handsome setting for the artist’s singular mix of old-world drama, heft and historicism with an utterly contemporary vision.

The 2015 Bowness Prize-winner's hybrid photographic practice is underpinned by extraordinary technical rigour, melding lavish beauty with a potent message about environmental fragility, colonial dislocation and the destructive folly of our attempts to dominate nature.

With his majestic recreations of animals in their habitats – from the first kangaroos seen by Europeans to the Tasmanian Tiger – the artist takes his subjects out of the realm of historical curiosity and pushes them, living and breathing, into today.

‘The Hunt’ draws on the primal tooth-and-claw drama of a 17th-century European deer hunt, reimagined in the New World of colonial Australia. Looking back across time to march contemporary art forward, McGlennon's homage to the great Flemish painter Frans Snyders marks a dazzling departure from the orthodoxies of his field.

These new works channel the emotional elements of Snyder’s style: attention to detail, dramatic lighting and rich textures. “McGlennon has conjured a photographic trojan horse clad in the vestiges of the master painters,” writes Michael Reid OAM.

The components of McGlennon's hunting scenes were captured on a trip through the rugged outback landscapes around Castle Rock, South Australia (pictured).

To receive a preview of ‘The Hunt’, please email dean@michaelreid.com.au

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Congratulations to TRENT PARKE, whose work ‘Huma

Congratulations to TRENT PARKE, whose work ‘Humankind’ (detail, pictured) has been shortlisted for this year’s William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize – Australia’s most prestigious award for photo-based media.

With its subject silhouetted against an epic sun while leaping into glinting waters turned molten gold, Parke’s mythic picture of a halcyon summer by the sea forms part of a body of work commissioned by Magnum Photo and Veuve Clicquot for their ‘Emotions of the Sun’ exhibition, which debuted at Milan Design Week and is currently touring the globe.

"The sun has always been a symbol of the great clock in the sky … the ultimate force of life,” says Parke, who, in 2007, became the first Australian inducted as a full member of the renowned Magnum Photo Agency – a distinction he holds to this day. Parke sees his solar portraits as a meeting of two “symbols of universal energy” – the sun and the ocean melting together in a dazzling pool of colour.

Parke was one of only eight Magnum photographers from around the world invited to produce new work for ‘Emotions of the Sun’, which recently followed up its Milan debut with a pop-up exhibition in New York City. “Parke’s photographs exude happiness, peace and serenity," note the project’s curators. “Against the sun’s fiery rays, silhouettes make striking motifs. The ocean becomes a sumptuous canvas.”

‘Humankind’ will be exhibited along with work by all of this year’s Bowness finalists in the Bowness Photography Prize exhibition at the Museum of Australian Photography from 12 September to 10 November. The winner of the prize will win $30,000 and their work will be acquired into MAPh’s collection.

Please contact Michael Reid Sydney to register interest in Trent Parke's work, including his Bowness-shortlisted ‘Humankind’ and other photographs featured in ‘Emotions of the Sun’.

Email: danielsoma@michaelreid.com.au

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