Carly Le Cerf and Rachel Falls Williams

Next week, Michael Reid Murrurundi will play host to a creative conversation between close friends, fellow West Australians and leaders in their respective fields, Carly Le Cerf and Rachel Falls Williams.

Both Le Cerf’s sweeping, panoramic landscape paintings and Falls Williams’s delicately formed ceramics delight in the tones and textures of the Australian outback. Throughout their joint show, a rich palette of ochre, pindan and a spectrum of reds plays out across surfaces enriched by thick applications of paint and ceramic glazes with gritty, rough-hewn effects.

Le Cerf’s new body of work plunges the viewer into rocky gorges and up against staggering escarpments that soar like primordial monuments over wide, sunburnt pains. We are thrilled to host this release in what has been a year of major career milestones for the artist, who recently followed her most expansive public project to date with a sell-out show at our Southern Highlands gallery.

Next week’s presentations will be a homecoming of sorts for Le Cerf, whose exhibition career took off at Michael Reid Murrurundi and has since entailed shows at major public art spaces and across the Michael Reid network. Her new series will be paired with ceramic pieces by Falls Williams, whose practice is similarly propelled by her immersion in the landscape and attention to its granular details.

Works from this joint exhibition from Carly Le Cerf and Rachel Falls Williams can be viewed and acquired on our website ahead of next week’s opening. Please contact colinesoria@michaelreid.com.au to discuss works from the show.