Steve Tyerman paints the places with which he is most familiar – the landscapes surrounding his home in the  hinterland of the Gold Coast, as well as the coastal areas of SE Queensland and far northern NSW. Using rich impasto technique, his paintings are an attempt to create a synthesis of his visual sensations and lived experiences, and reflect the artist’s emotional responses to these places tempered by his keen interest in gardening, wildlife, literature and the natural world.

As a means of countering the ubiquity of the cropped and filtered digital image, Tyerman seeks to portray the perspective of viewing with ‘two eyes’ – looking up and down,  adjusting the focus to near and far, and peripheral vision. The human experience of the brain combining all our other senses, memories, expectations, fears, preferences, preconceived ideas and other thought processes to create every lived moment is what he hopes to render in his paintings.

“I’m interested in the passage of time through the landscape, the changing light conditions, the journey of water, the flora and fauna that are so crucial to the environment, the life cycle of plants, our human presence, symbiotic relationships and the connectedness of all these elements in a beautiful and complex ecosystem”.

In Australia, the only nation that is an island continent, the coastline plays a highly symbolic cultural role. Coast to Coast reveals profoundly different understandings of that space where land and sky meets the sea.

Now into our fourth year, we are thrilled to announce our annual collaborative exhibition series with Country Style Magazine: COAST TO COAST

On view at Michael Reid Murrurundi AND Michael Reid Southern Highlands this March, with all associated events taking place in Berrima.

Come join us to celebrate the opening of Coast To Coast, Saturday 11 March from 3-5pm:
Michael Reid Southern Highlands, Berrima

Featuring:
Julianne Ross Allcorn, Julz Beresford, Yannick Blattner, Carly Le Cerf, Brooke Dalton, Leighton Edwards, Mim Fluhrer, Julie Lucht de Freibruch, Louise Frith, Joanna Gambotto, Anthony Guerrera, Melissa Kenihan, Chantel de Latour, Rosie Kemarre Morton, Anh Nguyen, Mike Staniford, Steve Tyerman, Daisy Kemarre Turner, Lucy Vader, Hannah Van der Wal, Ben Waters, Sally West, Jo White, Dino Wilson, Bo Wong, Nicola Woodcock, Bonita Kemarre Woodman & Djirrirra Wunuŋmurra Yukuwa

See below some images from our 2022 iteration at Michael Reid Murrurundi: ‘The Art of the Garden’

For her latest body of work FARMS, Neridah Stockley introduces us to her new world and the surrounding landscapes of her home and studio in lutruwita/Tasmania.

Of the assemblage of nine works included in FARMS Stockley says “My work is essentially about relationship to place.  I recently moved to a regional area in lutruwita (Tasmania) where my home is surrounded by farms, coast and hills.”

Stockley trained at the National Art School in Sydney graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2001.  Her work is held in the collections of Artbank, Parliament House Canberra, Macquarie Group, Newcastle Art Gallery and Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory.  Neridah has been represented in numerous Art Awards including; Gurguis New Art Prize, Hazelhurst Works on Paper, The Glover Prize, The Alice Prize and Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize.   ‘A Secular View’ a solo survey exhibition toured nationally in 2021 and 2022.

In Australia, the only nation that is an island continent, the coastline plays a highly symbolic cultural role. Coast to Coast reveals profoundly different understandings of that space where land and sky meets the sea.

Now into our fourth year, we are thrilled to announce our annual collaborative exhibition series with Country Style Magazine: COAST TO COAST

On view at Michael Reid Murrurundi AND Michael Reid Southern Highlands this March, with all associated events taking place in Berrima.

Come join us to celebrate the opening of Coast To Coast, Saturday 11 March from 3-5pm:
Michael Reid Southern Highlands, Berrima

Featuring:
Julianne Ross Allcorn, Julz Beresford, Yannick Blattner, Carly Le Cerf, Brooke Dalton, Leighton Edwards, Mim Fluhrer, Julie Lucht de Freibruch, Louise Frith, Joanna Gambotto, Anthony Guerrera, Melissa Kenihan, Chantel de Latour, Rosie Kemarre Morton, Anh Nguyen, Mike Staniford, Steve Tyerman, Daisy Kemarre Turner, Lucy Vader, Hannah Van der Wal, Ben Waters, Sally West, Jo White, Dino Wilson, Bo Wong, Nicola Woodcock, Bonita Kemarre Woodman & Djirrirra Wunuŋmurra Yukuwa

See below some images from our 2022 iteration at Michael Reid Murrurundi: ‘The Art of the Garden’

In Australia, the only nation that is an island continent, the coastline plays a highly symbolic cultural role. Coast to Coast reveals profoundly different understandings of that space where land and sky meets the sea.

Now into our fourth year, we are thrilled to announce our annual collaborative exhibition series with Country Style Magazine: COAST TO COAST

On view at Michael Reid Murrurundi AND Michael Reid Southern Highlands this March, with all associated events taking place in Berrima.

Come join us to celebrate the opening of Coast To Coast, Saturday 11 March from 3-5pm:
Michael Reid Southern Highlands, Berrima

Featuring:
Julianne Ross Allcorn, Julz Beresford, Yannick Blattner, Carly Le Cerf, Brooke Dalton, Leighton Edwards, Mim Fluhrer, Julie Lucht de Freibruch, Louise Frith, Joanna Gambotto, Anthony Guerrera, Melissa Kenihan, Chantel de Latour, Rosie Kemarre Morton, Anh Nguyen, Mike Staniford, Steve Tyerman, Daisy Kemarre Turner, Lucy Vader, Hannah Van der Wal, Ben Waters, Sally West, Jo White, Dino Wilson, Bo Wong, Nicola Woodcock, Bonita Kemarre Woodman & Djirrirra Wunuŋmurra Yukuwa

See below some images from our 2022 iteration at Michael Reid Murrurundi: ‘The Art of the Garden’

Michael Reid Southern Highlands is delighted to welcome Ray Monde to the upstairs gallery with The River.

It’s the simple joy of a river in summer that Ray Monde captures in these new works which thread a connection along the Shoalhaven River between Riverbend, Ray Monde’s home and studio, to Riversdale, part of Arthur Boyd’s estate at Bundanon.

Ray Monde is renowned for his collage technique called ‘ghostworking’ where he overpaints paper from magazines allowing the print to ‘ghost’ through the paint, adding depth and complexity to his work.

This Special Release brings together four new still lifes by Angie de Latour, featuring hellebores, nasturtiums, violets and cactus. Each plant is placed in a vessel that respects its organic form, allowing the flowers and stems to settle into attitudes that echo their natural environments.

De Latour is a Melbourne-based painter whose practice now centres on the still life. “The process of choosing and arranging objects to paint has a pace of its own,” she notes. “It has become a ritual—constant, unpredictable, but increasingly synchronistic.” These works capture that rhythm with clarity and restraint, offering quiet studies of presence and poise.

In Australia, the only nation that is an island continent, the coastline plays a highly symbolic cultural role. Coast to Coast reveals profoundly different understandings of that space where land and sky meets the sea.

Now into our fourth year, we are thrilled to announce our annual collaborative exhibition series with Country Style Magazine: COAST TO COAST

On view at Michael Reid Murrurundi AND Michael Reid Southern Highlands this March, with all associated events taking place in Berrima.

Come join us to celebrate the opening of Coast To Coast, Saturday 11 March from 3-5pm:
Michael Reid Southern Highlands, Berrima

Featuring:
Julianne Ross Allcorn, Julz Beresford, Yannick Blattner, Carly Le Cerf, Brooke Dalton, Leighton Edwards, Mim Fluhrer, Julie Lucht de Freibruch, Louise Frith, Joanna Gambotto, Anthony Guerrera, Melissa Kenihan, Chantel de Latour, Rosie Kemarre Morton, Anh Nguyen, Mike Staniford, Steve Tyerman, Daisy Kemarre Turner, Lucy Vader, Hannah Van der Wal, Ben Waters, Sally West, Jo White, Dino Wilson, Bo Wong, Nicola Woodcock, Bonita Kemarre Woodman & Djirrirra Wunuŋmurra Yukuwa

See below some images from our 2022 iteration at Michael Reid Murrurundi: ‘The Art of the Garden’

In Australia, the only nation that is an island continent, the coastline plays a highly symbolic cultural role. Coast to Coast reveals profoundly different understandings of that space where land and sky meets the sea.

Now into our fourth year, we are thrilled to announce our annual collaborative exhibition series with Country Style Magazine: COAST TO COAST

On view at Michael Reid Murrurundi AND Michael Reid Southern Highlands this March, with all associated events taking place in Berrima.

Come join us to celebrate the opening of Coast To Coast, Saturday 11 March from 3-5pm:
Michael Reid Southern Highlands, Berrima

Featuring:
Julianne Ross Allcorn, Julz Beresford, Yannick Blattner, Carly Le Cerf, Brooke Dalton, Leighton Edwards, Mim Fluhrer, Julie Lucht de Freibruch, Louise Frith, Joanna Gambotto, Anthony Guerrera, Melissa Kenihan, Chantel de Latour, Rosie Kemarre Morton, Anh Nguyen, Mike Staniford, Steve Tyerman, Daisy Kemarre Turner, Lucy Vader, Hannah Van der Wal, Ben Waters, Sally West, Jo White, Dino Wilson, Bo Wong, Nicola Woodcock, Bonita Kemarre Woodman & Djirrirra Wunuŋmurra Yukuwa

See below some images from our 2022 iteration at Michael Reid Murrurundi: ‘The Art of the Garden’

Steve Tyerman paints the places with which he is most familiar – the landscapes surrounding his home in the  hinterland of the Gold Coast, as well as the coastal areas of SE Queensland and far northern NSW. Using rich impasto technique, his paintings are an attempt to create a synthesis of his visual sensations and lived experiences, and reflect the artist’s emotional responses to these places tempered by his keen interest in gardening, wildlife, literature and the natural world.

As a means of countering the ubiquity of the cropped and filtered digital image, Tyerman seeks to portray the perspective of viewing with ‘two eyes’ – looking up and down,  adjusting the focus to near and far, and peripheral vision. The human experience of the brain combining all our other senses, memories, expectations, fears, preferences, preconceived ideas and other thought processes to create every lived moment is what he hopes to render in his paintings.

“I’m interested in the passage of time through the landscape, the changing light conditions, the journey of water, the flora and fauna that are so crucial to the environment, the life cycle of plants, our human presence, symbiotic relationships and the connectedness of all these elements in a beautiful and complex ecosystem”.