We are pleased to welcome back Jo White with a new series of 100 small-scale paintings, opening in September at Michael Reid Murrurundi.

Last year, White’s epic ‘Hottest 100’ installation at Sydney Contemporary saw all 100 works sell out in just five days.

Michael Reid Murrurundi is proud to present Art Station, a joint initiative with Graziher magazine supporting female artists working in regional and remote areas across Australia.

This vibrant celebration of life on the land brings together original artworks by Emily Cullinan, Anna Henderson, Lauren Kennedy, Sarah McDonald and Lori Pensini.

The program kicks off with the Art Station event at Michael Reid Murrurundi Saturday, 7 October. This will be a lively celebration where everyone is welcome to come along, meet the artists and experience their extraordinary work.

At 3pm, Graziher magazine’s editorial director, Victoria Carey, will lead a Q&A session with the artists. We look forward to welcoming visitors next Saturday!

We are thrilled to welcome Fiona Smith back to Murrurundi following her most recent sell-out with us late last year.  Smith will present twelve finely detailed paintings capturing some of Australia’s best birdlife across a variety of settings.

Smith is a writer, social commentator and rising contemporary painter whose charming works of art have in recent years attracted significant attention. Bright, nostalgic, and layered in complex pattern work, Smith’s paintings celebrate decoration and memory.

We are thrilled to welcome New England based artist Liz Priestley to Murrurundi!

Place of Repose assembles nine beautiful new pieces in what will be Priestleys’ debut showing with Michael Reid Murrurundi. In recent years, Priestley has garnered considerable attention across the country for her stunning encaustic landscape works.

By using encaustic as her primary medium, which involves the use of heated wax and oil paint, Priestley creates layers, adding texture and luminosity to her atmospheric landscape paintings. Her work explores the immediate physical landscape as well as that of the internal landscape of memory and emotional connections to place and time. The resulting image is the vehicle by which the viewer may experience their own epiphany of personal, binding memories.

Immersed is now upon us! Hannah van der Wal’s new solo exhibition beautifully captures the uncaptured, portraying life in the Northern Territory with a vibrant yet balanced palette.

The works showcase van der Wal’s deep appreciation of the land’s constant flux, movement and rebirth at the hands of the elements; fire, wind and the tides.

Van der Wal is a Northern Territory artist, living at Yirrkala, on Yolngu land.

“Hannah paints the abstracted elements, or mind grabs of the land she experiences in her travels. A single detail, within a vast landscape, will capture her attention and become the essence of the whole.

Hannah is in my not so humble opinion an important emerging talent and one we are proud to amplify to our audience.”

Michael Reid OAM

In what is Lily Platts’ Murra debut exhibition, Garage Sale captures the forgotten items of the everyday. Platts is drawn to highlighting objects in transitional environments, such as on the side of the road, at a garage sale, an op shop, or on an online marketplace.

The series focuses on the beauty and humanity found within these neglected objects. The finely balanced yet intriguing compositions showcase the unique stories within these scenes, environments that we are familiar with but still seem slightly surreal.

Platts is a visual artist living and working on Ngunnawal land. Through her subject matter she explores themes and nuances of the everyday. She is coming off the back of a highly successful 2022, including a solo show with Michael Reid Southern Highlands and Gaffa Gallery. Platts was a recipient of the 2020 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship after graduating with Honours from RMIT, Melbourne in 2019 and from ANU in 2017.