COMING SOON: Painting Now 2024 | 24 October–23 November | Michael Reid Sydney
This month, six incredible contemporary painters will present their extraordinary new work in the fourth edition of our annual curated survey show, Painting Now.
This program spotlights an exciting school of painters whose practice expands the creative possibilities of art’s most storied medium and pushes it into visually compelling, technically dazzling and conceptually daring terrain. Invited to show in Painting Now by curator and Michael Reid Beyond program manager Dean Phillips-Andersen, the class of 2024 features MAGGIE BRINK, KATHY LIU, BEN MAZEY, ANDREW SULLIVAN, CAROLINE WALLS and DARREN WARDLE.
The success of so many Painting Now alumni reflects the program’s ambitions to identify established talents at a moment of creative breakthrough and present their work just as it ascends to a new level of collectability and acclaim.
Works by this year’s artists – including Darren Wardle (pictured) – have already arrived at the gallery and can be previewed this weekend and acquired by request.
To book a private viewing, request a catalogue and receive priority access to works from Painting Now 2024, please email dean@michaelreid.com.au
Author Markus Zuzak takes us back to 2005, to a wintery day in Vienna where an artwork by a little known German/Austrian painter Werner Berg found and transported him. Micheal and Markus discuss art, writing and memoir - his latest book is Three Wild Dogs and The Truth.
Angelica Mesiti's arresting and monumental immersive piece The Rites of When startles and entrances Micheal Do at the Tank at the Art Gallery of NSW.
Poet, sculptor and painter Jason Phu presents one of his classic poetic Phu-isms
And we visit a very tidy studio in Western Melbourne where artist Darren Wardle divulges his obsession: ruination.
MAY 2024
Recent interview with Jack Rowland for his "In Too Deep" podcast.
Darren Wardle is a Melbourne based visual artist. He is best known for his bright, techni-colour paintings of modern architectural interiors and exteriors. His subjects are often dilapidated and abstracted, a critical examination of modernity and walking the fine line between Utopia and Dystopia. Instagram: @darren.wardle
OCTOBER 2024
