Michael Reid Murrurundi x RM Williams – Land and People

Artist
Anita West, Carly Le Cerf, Gaypalani Wanambi, Jill Daniels and Lucy Vader
Dates
1 May—1 Jun 2025

Register Interest

Michael Reid Murrurundi is thrilled to announce our inaugural exhibition in collaboration with RM Williams. Speaking to an ongoing legacy of life on the land, images and objects on loan from the archive of the iconic Australian marque will form the scenographic backdrop to a specially curated presentation of new work by five leading female artists whose practice similarly – albeit in dazzlingly contemporary ways – reflects on intrinsic connections between people and the Australian landscape.

Navigating rural and First Nations interpretations of the show’s titular theme, Land and People assembles artists who explore how enduring connections to Country and immersive forays within the natural environment shape memory, identity and visual culture. Please register below for early previews.

Featuring sweeping and evocative landscapes by Carly Le Cerf and intricate, etched-metal road signs by Gaypalani Wanambi, the exhibition will be punctuated with historical images from the RM Williams archive. Also on view will be ambitious and expressive pastoral paintings by Lucy Vader and enchanting, enveloping scenes of tangled forests by Anita West, as well as paintings by first-time exhibitor Jill Daniels, whose dynamic rodeo-themed paintings illuminate a striking fusion between First Nations cultural practice and contemporary life in remote communities.

Select works by these five artists have begun to arrive in advance of the exhibition’s opening on Thursday, 1 May.

Please contact colinesoria@michaelreid.com.au to sign up for previews and priority access to works from our first RM Williams exhibition, Land and People.