Carly Le Cerf

Michael Reid Murrurundi is thrilled to announce our inaugural exhibition in collaboration with RM Williams. Titled Land and People, this debut RM Williams + Michael Reid exhibition showcases a significant curation of contemporary artists who explore the intrinsic connection between life and land.

Among the star-studded line-up is a leading landscape painter from Western Australia, Carly Le Cerf. Working with oil paint and encaustic wax techniques to produce sublime portrayals of the Australian landscape, Le Cerf’s processes are highly attuned and are informed by regular excursions to regional and remote territories of WA.

Alive with colour and movement, Le Cerf’s pictures mirror the awesome spectacle of the sun-scorched West Australian landscapes, and have in recent years commanded a significant amount of collecting attention.

Land and People strives to explore how enduring connections to Country and immersive forays within the natural environment shape memory, identity and visual culture, and Le Cerf’s landscapes are no exception. She has long found inspiration in her rich local landscapes, such as the Pilbara, renowned for its indigenous histories, burnt red earth and dusty pink skies. Through spontaneous uses of texture, carvings into wax and layerings of paint pigment, she renders seductive and tactile depictions that speak to this ongoing legacy of life on the land.

Select works by the five artists have begun to arrive in advance of the exhibition’s opening on 1 May, and all will soon be available to preview and acquire by request. For more information, please email danielsoma@michaelreid.com.au