Armidale-based artist Jo White is hitting the road and living the dream with a joyous suite of paintings that immortalise pop-top camper vans Kombis and classic 1970s wagons.

Titled Grey Nomad, White’s latest series has been brought to life with vibrant colour, infectious wit and a sense of wistfulness for the halcyon days of endless Australian summers spent on rambling family beach trips and cruising on wide-open roads.

The exhibition follows White’s celebrated showing in our collaborative Country Style show, her selection for the Salon des Refusés at S.H. Ervin Gallery and a rapturously received, fabulously irreverent installation of small-scale paintings recently presented by Michael Reid Murrurundi.

We are excited to introduce the artist’s beautifully realised new body of work to her growing band of passionate fans and collectors who adore her inimitable spin on Australian cultural touchstones. For more, please email colinesoria@michaelreid.com.au

Beloved sculptor Fliss Dodd returns to Murrurundi with A Gathering of Sorts, bringing a delightful assembly of elegantly formed, intricately detailed and fabulously charismatic figures.

“This collection embodies that moment of convergence, celebrating the unity that binds us to nature, ourselves and each other,” says Dodd, describing her balletic bovine pieces as “independent characters” who slowly come to life as she meticulously shapes them from solid clay slabs.

We are excited to present our first exhibition from Shanghai-born, Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Yan Guo, whose vibrant and playfully constructed paintings can now be previewed by request.

Already garnering significant critical attention and excitement among collectors, Guo’s distinctive practice is propelled by a fascination with constructed environments and the interplay of people and buildings.

Reflecting on the idea that we inhabit spaces of our own creation, Guo skilfully conjures her bold architectural dreamscapes in striking, soft neon hues through mixed-media and airbrush techniques.

The artist’s Michael Reid debut will be a dazzling, conceptually driven collection of paintings whose lively palette makes them perfectly at home within contemporary spaces or as a jolt of electric energy in an otherwise classic abode.

We look forward to welcoming this tremendously talented artist to the gallery and invite collectors to register for an early preview and priority access to Yan Guo’s work by emailing: colinesoria@michaelreid.com.au

The table is set with abundance, eclecticism and free-spirited style in Bethany Saab’s delightful new series of interior scenes.

The Canberra-based artist’s latest release is her first in more than a year, making this a rare and exciting opportunity for collectors to experience and acquire her joyous, expressive and beautifully realised still-life paintings. From kitchen tables and benchtops that teem with produce, accoutrements and glittering glass bottles to shelves festooned with foliage and flowers, Saab’s windows onto the domestic world are enlivened by colour, decorative details and a dazzling interplay of light and shadow.

A fabulous layering of pattern on pattern brings exuberance and optical charge to each painting. In one, the shadow lines cast by a Venetian blind intersect with a tablecloth’s overscale florals, while another sees striped and spotted napery unfurl beside pretty blue-and-white Delftware as organic tangles of lilies, orchids and dahlias spill out of pitchers, pots and glass vessels.

The result is a fabulous paean to the everyday pleasures of cooking, painting and living in a space warmed by books, art, textiles, handmade objects and beautiful blooms.

We are thrilled to announce the return of one of the brightest and most beloved stars in our Eora/Sydney gallery’s stable of represented artists, Lucy Vader, who will present her latest suite of paintings next month.

The Northern Rivers-based artist will be back in Murrurundi next month with Good Stock – a dazzling series of bucolic landscapes dotted with farm animals and expressed through bold, gestural bursts of colour.

Works from Good Stock are available to view and acquire by request before the show’s opening. Please contact danielsoma@michaelreid.com.au to receive a preview catalogue and priority access to Lucy Vader’s new work.

Chelsea Gustafsson returns to Murrurundi with a new suite of small-scale, high-impact paintings. This exquisite new series from the Barwon Heads-based artist builds on the critical breakthrough and tremendous popular success of her most recent body of work, in which chairs salvaged from roadside cleanups were dazzlingly recast as the stars of hyper-detailed, highly cinematic still-life miniature paintings.

Gustafsson has amassed a passionate following with her singular mix of realist precision with playfully layered trompe l’oeil effects. Her previous series was immediately snapped up by collectors, and we are anticipating another enthusiastic response to this new release.

Please contact colinesoria@michaelreid.com.au to register interest in Chelsea Gustafsson’s exhibition and receive priority access to her new work.

Next week, Michael Reid Murrurundi will play host to a creative conversation between close friends, fellow West Australians and leaders in their respective fields, Carly Le Cerf and Rachel Falls Williams.

Both Le Cerf’s sweeping, panoramic landscape paintings and Falls Williams’s delicately formed ceramics delight in the tones and textures of the Australian outback. Throughout their joint show, a rich palette of ochre, pindan and a spectrum of reds plays out across surfaces enriched by thick applications of paint and ceramic glazes with gritty, rough-hewn effects.

Le Cerf’s new body of work plunges the viewer into rocky gorges and up against staggering escarpments that soar like primordial monuments over wide, sunburnt pains. We are thrilled to host this release in what has been a year of major career milestones for the artist, who recently followed her most expansive public project to date with a sell-out show at our Southern Highlands gallery.

Next week’s presentations will be a homecoming of sorts for Le Cerf, whose exhibition career took off at Michael Reid Murrurundi and has since entailed shows at major public art spaces and across the Michael Reid network. Her new series will be paired with ceramic pieces by Falls Williams, whose practice is similarly propelled by her immersion in the landscape and attention to its granular details.

Works from this joint exhibition from Carly Le Cerf and Rachel Falls Williams can be viewed and acquired on our website ahead of next week’s opening. Please contact colinesoria@michaelreid.com.au to discuss works from the show.

We are excited to welcome contemporary painter James Lai to Murrurundi with his spellbinding new series of vibrant and exuberantly expressed landscapes.

The Eora/Sydney-based artist conjures his scenes in a dazzling and distinctive style. Night and day appear to intertwine as Lai’s swooping brushstrokes break into bursts of abstract colour and dreamy, star-dusted skies crested by drifting clouds that melt like magic into tumbling, colour-soaked plains.

“The works are about seeing the landscape as theatre, with its natural and atmospheric elements,” says Lai of his art practice, which aims to convey a sense of movement and drama with a dynamic and upbeat application of paint. “I employ a naïve and inventive style to give character to the natural elements. They narrate the unique story of the landscape.”

Works from this highly anticipated release are currently at Michael Reid Sydney, where they can be viewed in person by appointment. For sales enquiries, please contact colinesoria@michaelreid.com.au