Featuring works by Brooke Dalton, Emma Itzstein, Evie Adasal, Kaspar Kägi, Melissa Kenihan and Sarah McDonald, The Artist’s Garden is the second instalment in our ongoing series of specially curated collections from the Murrurundi stockroom.

From sweeping views of pastoral plots to quaint abodes wreathed by fecund plantings – wild and rebellious or clipped and romantic – this stylish edit celebrates open-air pursuits amid natural splendour.

We are delighted to welcome a new exhibition of exquisite interior studies brought to life by Melbourne artist Carla Tucker with sumptuous oils and a spirit of elegant insouciance.

A View in a Room delights in the biographical possibilities of still-life painting with a series of loose compositions that seem to spring gracefully from the happy accidents of the everyday.

“The objects in our spaces can be both ordinary and sentimental,” says the artist, whose delicate interplay of warm and cool light imbues her scenes with an evocative sense of depth and temporality.

Subtitled ‘Illuminating the Still Life Interior’, Tucker’s series is suffused with soft, gauzy tones and ethereal washes of light, inviting viewers to pause and consider the beauty in the often-overlooked corners of our domestic spaces.

Our 2024 program launches with Set Sail by Esther Eckley, a luminous new series of paintings that celebrate the salubrious pleasures of summer by the sea.

The highly anticipated sequel to the artist’s Sea Change series from last year, this new show takes viewers on a dazzling cruise through Sydney Harbour, with the city’s glittering landmarks and bobbing sailboats set against expressive textural sweeps of sky blue and aquamarine.

Arriving fresh from the holidays is a stunning new series by Jessie Feitosa.

Small Plates serves up a delightful summer banquet of simple morsels rendered with warm, bright tones and a graphic style that brings contemporary panache to the still-life genre.

With clean lines, washes of natural light and elegantly undone compositions, works in this series are redolent of languorous summer days, instilling their surroundings with colour, verve and flashes of happy memories.

The artist describes her paintings as a celebration of life’s simple pleasures. “This body of work carries you back to any moment spent enjoying seafood,” she says. “Whether sitting on warm sand or pondering a restaurant’s wine list as you catch up with old friends.”

The bold and ebullient world of artist Trevor Smith will soon be celebrated with a solo exhibition at The Riddoch Arts + Cultural Centre in Mount Gambier, South Australia, presenting a new collection of his much-adored crochet sculptures.

Spinning sea creatures, birds and other colourful critters from pure wool yarn and festooning them with vibrant embellishments, Smith’s series The Taxidermist offers a playful twist on our impulse to preserve and present the natural world.

Artist Jo White has distilled the essence of a classic Australian Christmas with a limited suite of 30 x 30-centimetre paintings produced for the annual Four Pillars Christmas Gin release.

This is the fourth year we have connected a Michael Reid artist with Four Pillars, following successful collaborations with Lucy Dyson, Andrea Huelin and Jane Reynolds.

From tangled fairy lights and teeming plates of prawns to a Christmas wreath on a fly-screen door, White’s witty series is like an art lover’s Advent calendar – infused with her signature wit, an eye for quirky Australianisms and a spirit of merry nostalgia.

The 2023 Christmas Gin release will be toasted with a soirée at Michael Reid Sydney taking place from 6 – 8pm Thursday 23 November. To join us at the launch event, please RSVP by contacting danielsoma@michaelreid.com.au.

Abstract pools the extraordinary talents of three contemporary painters whose work pulses with effervescent colour, energetic movement and boundless imagination.

This beautifully curated group show features new paintings by Kathy Liu, Ash Leslie and Douglas Schofield – three Australian artists whose work offers exciting new perspectives on abstraction.

From ethereal, amorphous, gossamer clouds of colour suggesting hazy memories or half-remembered dreams to expressive markings and rhythmic gestures that exude maximalist verve, each artist’s distinct practice embraces the expansive possibilities of painting beyond the figurative realm.