In Laura White‘s newest collection of exquisitely composed paintings, vibrant poppies and delicately cascading camellias coalesce with effortless elegance. White’s layered approach to oil painting imbues her work with tonal depth, beautiful lustre and textural nuance, lending an element of sumptuousness that sits in counterpoise with her subjects’ natural, unfettered forms.

We are excited to welcome back Laura White to Murrurundi for the first time since her sell out exhibition, Primavera in 2023.

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We are delighted to announce the return of Narrabri-based painter Brooke Dalton, whose richly expressive new suite of colour-soaked interior vignettes is now available to preview and require by request.

Conjured via gestural sweeps of impasto paint in lush garden pinks, greens and purples, Dalton’s gorgeous still-life paintings present a bounty of fresh-cut flowers arranged in a spirit of bohemian insouciance and whimsy on tables teeming with books and other curios.

The air of effortless, lived-in eclecticism and warm elegance that colours the spaces Dalton depicts is perfectly matched by her loose, energetic, exuberant painting style, which eschews overwrought detail in favour of movement, life, atmosphere and emotion.

From deep-magenta peonies and creamy dahlias to succulents spilling out of painted Chinoiserie vessels, the artfully undone arrangements at the centre of each painting feel like a perfect distillation of the mood and character of the libraries, living rooms and other uplifting spaces that surround them.

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The latest series of paintings by Eora/Sydney artist Fiona Smith breaks open an omnibus of classic fables and recasts familiar myths with a fabulous flock of feathered subjects.

Fractured Fairy Tales is a vibrant adventure through storybook favourites – from Sleeping Beauty to The Princess and the Pea – all brought to life with the artist’s signature flair, lavish decorative details and close observations of Australia’s charismatic birdlife.

Striking dramatic poses against backdrops layered with sumptuous patterns, Smith’s literary heroes and heroines flaunt lashings of charisma and instil tales as old as time with new life and Antipodean flavour.

Works from Fractured Fairy Tales can now be veiewd at our Murrurundi gallery.

After being thrust into major art collector conversations in 2022, when the Art Gallery of NSW selected her as a finalist in both the Archibald Prize and Wynne Prize, Julianne Ross Allcorn makes Michael Reid Murrurundi debut with an exhibition of paintings conjuring magical impressions of the Australian landscape. In these utterly original works, charismatic critters are glimpsed through overlapping flora and wispy layers of eucalyptus against smatterings of glitter and areas of exposed plywood.

“From top to bottom, left to right, Allcorn’s paintings read as if you are standing within a grove of native trees,” writes Michael Reid OAM of the exquisitely layered thickets of Australian bush brilliantly conjured by the artist with her fine, wisp-like strokes and smatterings of gold-flecked magic.

This exhibition immediately follows the artist’s sell-out show at Michael Reid Southern Highlands in April 2024.

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We are excited to announce the return of Jo White with a new series of small-scale paintings, opening this week at Michael Reid Murrurundi.

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Stacey McCall returns to Murrurundi with a quietly sublime new collection of still life paintings. Titled Breathwork, the artist’s new series assembles elegantly pared-back paintings that gesture towards abstraction.

“I love the idea that my work comes from a calm consciousness of breathing slowly” the artist recently told  arts writer Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen in a profile published in the latest issue if Art Guide Australia. “I approach painting with a fairly gentle touch”

Breathwork is paired with our latest Michael Reid Clay exhibition, Shelf Life by Cathy McMichael.

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Joseph McGlennon possesses an entirely original visual language. He trained, in his youth, at the National Art School before venturing into the creative world of international business. Back on his art tools, later if life, McGlennon came to each series with ideas and images fully formed and mature. There was no undergraduate angst. His inaugural solo exhibition, Strange Voyage, in 2011, established visual, aesthetic and curatorial benchmarks and parameters that have influenced every subsequent artwork and series. The consistent quality of his creative output is exceptional.

Strange Voyage delved into the historical reality of the 19th century when a mob of kangaroos were shipped to Kew Gardens in London. The royal family just loved wild animals besporting themselves in the gardens for their pleasure. The kangaroos froze to death. The underlying philosophical theme of the exhibition was the notion that some things simply cannot be uprooted and transplanted culturally.

McGlennon’s photographs are beautiful, their message subtly powerful. Upon winning the most prestigious photography prize in the country, the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, in 2015, artist and judge Bill Henson commented on McGlennon’s practice, stating, “The work has an almost anonymous perfection that reinforces the fact that culture is never outside nature.”

Numerous articles have been dedicated to the hundreds of individual images captured with McGlennon’s Hasselblad camera – to make a single artwork – which are skilfully woven together to narrate his poignant stories. The power of his unrivalled skills is without question. Many now blatantly copy McGlennon’s style. However, the flattery of imitation to one side, it is the ever-roving and evolving scope of McGlennon’s practice that simply defies his peers.

With his Murrurundi exhibition, McGlennon wanted his new kangaroos to find expression outside of a metropolitan space, for the work to ground its paws in the very soil of regional Australia. McGlennon’s new series, Leap, captures kangaroos mid-air, symbolising resilience against wild colonial hunting dogs. The dogs remain just out of frame, but their urgency and presence can be sensed through their dynamic leap of the kangaroo.

These creatures embody untamed beauty, reflecting the unwavering spirit of the Australian wilderness. Their sinuous form becomes a living poem of fluid motion. Inspired by the ecological dance between predator and prey, Leap explores the delicate balance within this unique ecosystem. It invites reflection on the human impact that is still needed for conservation in today’s fragile Australia.

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