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Hugo Michell Gallery invites you to the opening of Sally Bourke’s ‘The Quick Brown Fox’ and Narelle Autio’s ‘around a golden sun’.

Sally Bourke is a Newcastle-based artist with a firm footing in painting. An obsessive maker, Bourke has a rigorous approach to her day-to-day studio practice. These habitual processes are evident in her paintings, which often depict an image archive reconciling experiences from the past. Though abstract, Bourke’s paintings are curiously recognisable, a celebration of personal encounter and memory.

Of ‘The Quick Brown Fox’, Bourke states: “Travelling in remote areas as a child taught me to look carefully. The places I went felt isolating and, at times, dangerous. I used to tag along on hunting trips with my dad in order to be closer to him. Experiences in the Australian bush had a profound effect on my visual language and mark-making. The landscape in Western NSW is brutal and beautiful, soaked in deep human cultures that are precariously perched on top, at times not understanding the depth of what they are in.

I wanted to be in my dad’s company, but I knew the deal: It meant being captive to the environment, while simultaneously up against death. It’s one of the places that keeps drawing me back, to blind faith, and the human condition – the dark bargain of intimacy.

The portraits are different versions of the same protagonist. The huntress and her counterparts, a domestic interior, a room of one’s own.”

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Narelle Autio’s vibrant and award-winning images of Australian outback and coastal life have won her impressive national and international acclaim and captured the hearts and imaginations of viewers. One beauty of Autio’s work is its ability to speak to so many people about their own experience of being coastal dwellers. Another is the play of colour and light in the photographs, giving them a magic and painterly quality that transcends the usual depictions of the beach. Autio’s images g

A dynamic collective starring some of the most acclaimed and influential names in Australian contemporary art is making a splash on the Northern Beaches throughout January with the first in an ongoing series of group exhibitions co-curated by our flagship Eora/Sydney gallery.

Sprawling across all three exhibition spaces at Michael Reid Northern Beaches, our first Sydney Edit is titled The Next Wave and commences a rotating display of bold, beautiful and highly collectable pieces from the brilliant minds lighting up the Michael Reid stable and setting the pace for Australian visual culture.

Conceptually striking, optically charged and brimming with colour, verve and a vivid sense of storytelling, works featured in The Next Wave promise to bring pace, panache and a bold point of focus to the interior spaces they inhabit.

From fringed sculptural creatures conjured by Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Troy Emery – fresh from his commission for the most recent Hermès Art Windows project – to exquisite new paintings by Caroline Walls, Michelle Gearin, John Honeywill and Lucy Vader, as well as sculptures by Fliss Dodd and photographs by Narelle Autio, Petrina Hicks, Gerwyn Davies and Tamara Dean, The Next Wave presents a museum-level collection of contemporary art now available to view and acquire.

Our first Sydney Edit has been specially conceived to complement the creative visions of the most evocative and innovative space-makers in Australia and beyond: from passionate private collectors to the architects and designers whose bold and directional interiors are reshaping luxury and the way we live now.

For enquiries, please email northernbeaches@michaelreid.com.au

The 2022 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Art Prize finalists have been announced! 

Richard Lewer  has been announced as a finalist for the Archibald Prize; and Clara Adolphs is a finalist in the Wynne Prize. Congratulations to Richard and Clara!

Presented by Art Gallery of New South Wales, the exhibition will run from 14 May – 28 August 2022.

The Archibald Prize, first awarded in 1921, is Australia’s favourite art award, and one of its most prestigious. Awarded to the best portrait painting, a who’s who of Australian culture – from politicians to celebrities, sporting heroes to artists.

This is the fourth time that Richard Lewer has been represented in the Archibald Prize with a portrait of Elizabeth Laverty. “And I will keep painting her for as long as she’ll let me, or until we win!” says Lewer, whose practice has long explored the endurance, consistency and discipline that is required as an artist.

Laverty and her late husband, Sydney pathologist Colin Laverty, built one of Australia’s most significant collections of contemporary art, while supporting the Indigenous communities they visited.

“Liz is not just involved in the arts; she has many facets to her life. It is an honour to deepen my understanding of her past, present and future with each passing year. Nowadays, Liz is more vulnerable in many ways than when I first met her, yet she remains vibrant and open. She is well-informed on contemporary issues, socially adept and outward-looking. Liz continues to give back,” says Lewer.

“I have painted her daily morning ritual, sitting at the breakfast table surrounded by newspapers, planning her day in her heavily inscribed diary.”

As part of a major commissioning program to celebrate the opening of the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ new building in late 2022, Lewer has created portraits of the many people involved in the construction of the Sydney Modern Project.

About this work Clara Adolphs shares: “I began painting c