R.M.Williams x Michael Reid Murrurundi – Between Dust & Rain

Two of today’s most original, influential and acclaimed interpreters of the Australian landscape – Dyarubbin/Hawkesbury-based painter Julz Beresford and West Australian artist Carly Le Cerf – will join forces at Michael Reid Murrurundi in May for the gallery’s second large-scale exhibition presented in partnership with R.M.Williams.

Following the gallery’s 2025 partnership with the iconic Australian marque, Between Dust and Rain will place new bodies of work by Beresford and Le Cerf in a compelling conversation, with their distinct painterly preoccupations hewing to the vivid contrasts of our continent: the sunburnt red centre and the alpine sweeps that cling to the coast.

Speaking to an ongoing legacy of life on the land, images and material from the vast, near-century-old R.M.Williams archive will form an evocative scenographic backdrop to a cross-continental odyssey brought to life by Beresford and Le Cerf.

From Beresford’s monumental, atmospheric renderings of Snowy Mountains bluffs and the brooding Hawkesbury waterways that snake through the area’s tangled bushland to Le Cerf’s epic topographic portraits of endless, ochre-tinged plains, Between Dust and Rain is a celebration of the Australian landscape from two leading artists for whom immersion in nature is a grounding force for both their creative process and their emotional lives.

For early previews, please email amandamackinlay@michaelreid.com.au