Readers of our monthly journal The Scrutineer will know the enormous role photographs play in the stories we tell. We’ve called on Southern Highlands local, Ashley Mackevicius on several occasions to shoot and supply our pieces with tasteful, elegant imagery.

For this special release, we present seven still lives from the seasoned photographer in the tradition of Dutch Vanitas. In a professional capacity, Ashley has been capturing culinary subjects and tableware arrangements for over thirty years.

The seven works in this special release are rustic in style – and speak to the humble and beautifully simple ethos of Australian country cooking.

“My creative output is slow” writes the photographer, “both in development and execution. Final images are often the result of months and sometimes years of experimenting, rephotographing, and ‘living’ with work prints”.

It is this considered approach that has earned Ashley the Kodak Australian Photographer of the Year award and placements in several significant collections, including the National Portrait Gallery and the New South Wales State Library.

Michael Reid Southern Highlands is proud to present Painting Now. Berrima is the third and final destination for this touring group exhibition, having first debuted at our Sydney and Art Bar galleries.

Painting Now gathers some of the most exciting new and established voices working with painted form. From Belem Lett‘s masterfully composed abstract works on aluminium, to the small but impactful paintings of Arash Chehelnabi (a recent NAS graduate and a feature artist in NAS’s Sydney Art Fair booth) Painting Now is a rich and impressive grouping.

It is the first time that many of those included have ever been exhibited in the ‘Highlands and regional NSW in general.

Painting Now includes works by Belem Lett, Jedda-Daisy Culley, Chris Dolman, Arash Chehelnabi, Bundit Puangthong, Gavin Lynch, Robert Malherbe, Marc Etherington and Sam Field.

Michael Reid Southern Highlands is proud to present Painting Now. Berrima is the third and final destination for this touring group exhibition, having first debuted at our Sydney and Art Bar galleries.

Painting Now gathers some of the most exciting new and established voices working with painted form. From Belem Lett‘s masterfully composed abstract works on aluminium, to the small but impactful paintings of Arash Chehelnabi (a recent NAS graduate and a feature artist in NAS’s Sydney Art Fair booth) Painting Now is a rich and impressive grouping.

It is the first time that many of those included have ever been exhibited in the ‘Highlands and regional NSW in general.

Painting Now includes works by Belem Lett, Jedda-Daisy Culley, Chris Dolman, Arash Chehelnabi, Bundit Puangthong, Gavin Lynch, Robert Malherbe, Marc Etherington and Sam Field.

Michael Reid Southern Highlands is proud to present Painting Now. Berrima is the third and final destination for this touring group exhibition, having first debuted at our Sydney and Art Bar galleries.

Painting Now gathers some of the most exciting new and established voices working with painted form. From Belem Lett‘s masterfully composed abstract works on aluminium, to the small but impactful paintings of Arash Chehelnabi (a recent NAS graduate and a feature artist in NAS’s Sydney Art Fair booth) Painting Now is a rich and impressive grouping.

It is the first time that many of those included have ever been exhibited in the ‘Highlands and regional NSW in general.

Painting Now includes works by Belem Lett, Jedda-Daisy Culley, Chris Dolman, Arash Chehelnabi, Bundit Puangthong, Gavin Lynch, Robert Malherbe, Marc Etherington and Sam Field.

Michael Reid Southern Highlands is proud to present Painting Now. Berrima is the third and final destination for this touring group exhibition, having first debuted at our Sydney and Art Bar galleries.

Painting Now gathers some of the most exciting new and established voices working with painted form. From Belem Lett‘s masterfully composed abstract works on aluminium, to the small but impactful paintings of Arash Chehelnabi (a recent NAS graduate and a feature artist in NAS’s Sydney Art Fair booth) Painting Now is a rich and impressive grouping.

It is the first time that many of those included have ever been exhibited in the ‘Highlands and regional NSW in general.

Painting Now includes works by Belem Lett, Jedda-Daisy Culley, Chris Dolman, Arash Chehelnabi, Bundit Puangthong, Gavin Lynch, Robert Malherbe, Marc Etherington and Sam Field.

Michael Reid Southern Highlands is proud to present Painting Now. Berrima is the third and final destination for this touring group exhibition, having first debuted at our Sydney and Art Bar galleries.

Painting Now gathers some of the most exciting new and established voices working with painted form. From Belem Lett‘s masterfully composed abstract works on aluminium, to the small but impactful paintings of Arash Chehelnabi (a recent NAS graduate and a feature artist in NAS’s Sydney Art Fair booth) Painting Now is a rich and impressive grouping.

It is the first time that many of those included have ever been exhibited in the ‘Highlands and regional NSW in general.

Painting Now includes works by Belem Lett, Jedda-Daisy Culley, Chris Dolman, Arash Chehelnabi, Bundit Puangthong, Gavin Lynch, Robert Malherbe, Marc Etherington and Sam Field.

FACES SPACES PLACES is an exhibition presenting the work of Bernie Greaves, Debbie Mackenzie and Andrea Wilson. From contemplative landscapes to gestural portraits, this collection of paintings displays a range  of possibilities within the scope of figurative painting.

Michael Reid Southern Highlands is pleased to present a group show by the Artists of Ampilatwatja. This exhibition showcases landscape paintings of the fertile yet scorched land of Ampilatwatja, which is located 320 km north-east of Alice Springs. The artists have predominantly painted Arreth, which translates to strong bush medicine, a flower that flourishes in the region and holds significant cultural meaning. The land has provided and sustained the Alyawarr people for generations and Akwerlp Alpeyt Artna Arntetyew is a poignant reminder of the interconnectedness between plant, land, animal and people.

The Artists of Ampilatwatja Art Centre was established in 1999 and the work of the artists is recognisably distinct to the centre.

Lily Platts is an artist based between Canberra and Bombala. Platts is fascinated with the everyday world around her and draws inspiration from rituals, objects and interactions that are often overlooked in our daily lives.
Platts has exhibited in various group and solo shows, and was recently the recipient of the 2020 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship from the Art Gallery of NSW after graduating with Honours from RMIT, Melbourne.

“My work explores themes of the everyday interactions we have with objects and the world around me. My recent work is inspired by scrolling through facebook marketplace in the hopes that something would catch my eye, I became fascinated with the way I use this platform and my need to consume. I was drawn to the objects in these images; chairs, tables and any other random possessions that were going at a cheap price. The more I looked, the more I enjoyed the incidental compositions that were taken when trying to sell unwanted or unused items. They were dynamic and straight to the point, but I was fascinated by the life that the furniture led and the way that it told a story of the people behind the lens.”