Michael Reid Southern Highlands is delighted to present Billy Vanilli’s striking solo exhibition, Domestication Vacation. Vanilli is a Melbourne/Naarm based artist with a distinctive flair for sensual and incandescent imagery. His paintings are highly evocative, a sensory celebration of the tangible and emotional relationships we have with people, rituals and objects.

In his Southern Highlands debut, Vanilli focuses on the realm of dreams and nostalgia, embracing the fragile yet potent nature of our memories and sense of perception. His sensual, beguiling paintings celebrate seemingly insignificant moments; everyday observations captured to reveal hidden layers of meaning and other curious details.

Vanilli’s distinctive style incorporates the use of bold textures, sumptuous colour and rich tones. Imagery emerges from the subconscious, luscious and complex, lacquered with delicious sentimentality and a sense of playfulness.

The heightened version of reality can become warped with elements of uncertainty and even repulsion. We are both drawn in and held back, seeking to make sense of the boundary between the objective and subjective.

Sally West is a highly acclaimed contemporary artist from Australia who has garnered widespread recognition for her distinctive use of thick paint and bold, textural surfaces. Her captivating beach series, which draws inspiration from a range of Australian beaches, including Terrigal, Avoca, Freshwater, Manly, Coogee, Maroubra, Bondi, Camp Cove, Blueys, Lizzie and North Curl Curl, has garnered a significant following.

West has earned numerous art prizes throughout her career and has exhibited her work in many prestigious art competitions. These include the Portia Geach Art Prize at the SH Ervin Gallery, the New South Wales Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize, the Paddington Art Prize (2016), the KAAF Prize (2016), EMSLA (2016), Salon Des Refuses (Wynne) Prize, the Charlatan Ink Art Prize in Manhattan, New York City, the Pacific Palms Art Prize (winner 3 years), the Gosford Art Prize, the Mosman Art Prize (2019), the Hornsby Art Prize, and several others. Sally West’s work is highly sought after by collectors and art enthusiasts, and she is considered one of Australia’s most prominent contemporary artists.

Sally West is a highly acclaimed contemporary artist from Australia who has garnered widespread recognition for her distinctive use of thick paint and bold, textural surfaces. Her captivating beach series, which draws inspiration from a range of Australian beaches, including Terrigal, Avoca, Freshwater, Manly, Coogee, Maroubra, Bondi, Camp Cove, Blueys, Lizzie and North Curl Curl, has garnered a significant following.

West has earned numerous art prizes throughout her career and has exhibited her work in many prestigious art competitions. These include the Portia Geach Art Prize at the SH Ervin Gallery, the New South Wales Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize, the Paddington Art Prize (2016), the KAAF Prize (2016), EMSLA (2016), Salon Des Refuses (Wynne) Prize, the Charlatan Ink Art Prize in Manhattan, New York City, the Pacific Palms Art Prize (winner 3 years), the Gosford Art Prize, the Mosman Art Prize (2019), the Hornsby Art Prize, and several others. Sally West’s work is highly sought after by collectors and art enthusiasts, and she is considered one of Australia’s most prominent contemporary artists.

Michael Reid Southern Highlands is delighted to present Billy Vanilli’s striking solo exhibition, Domestication Vacation. Vanilli is a Melbourne/Naarm based artist with a distinctive flair for sensual and incandescent imagery. His paintings are highly evocative, a sensory celebration of the tangible and emotional relationships we have with people, rituals and objects.

In his Southern Highlands debut, Vanilli focuses on the realm of dreams and nostalgia, embracing the fragile yet potent nature of our memories and sense of perception. His sensual, beguiling paintings celebrate seemingly insignificant moments; everyday observations captured to reveal hidden layers of meaning and other curious details.

Vanilli’s distinctive style incorporates the use of bold textures, sumptuous colour and rich tones. Imagery emerges from the subconscious, luscious and complex, lacquered with delicious sentimentality and a sense of playfulness.

The heightened version of reality can become warped with elements of uncertainty and even repulsion. We are both drawn in and held back, seeking to make sense of the boundary between the objective and subjective.

Sally West is a highly acclaimed contemporary artist from Australia who has garnered widespread recognition for her distinctive use of thick paint and bold, textural surfaces. Her captivating beach series, which draws inspiration from a range of Australian beaches, including Terrigal, Avoca, Freshwater, Manly, Coogee, Maroubra, Bondi, Camp Cove, Blueys, Lizzie and North Curl Curl, has garnered a significant following.

West has earned numerous art prizes throughout her career and has exhibited her work in many prestigious art competitions. These include the Portia Geach Art Prize at the SH Ervin Gallery, the New South Wales Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize, the Paddington Art Prize (2016), the KAAF Prize (2016), EMSLA (2016), Salon Des Refuses (Wynne) Prize, the Charlatan Ink Art Prize in Manhattan, New York City, the Pacific Palms Art Prize (winner 3 years), the Gosford Art Prize, the Mosman Art Prize (2019), the Hornsby Art Prize, and several others. Sally West’s work is highly sought after by collectors and art enthusiasts, and she is considered one of Australia’s most prominent contemporary artists.

Michael Reid Southern Highlands is delighted to present Billy Vanilli’s striking solo exhibition, Domestication Vacation. Vanilli is a Melbourne/Naarm based artist with a distinctive flair for sensual and incandescent imagery. His paintings are highly evocative, a sensory celebration of the tangible and emotional relationships we have with people, rituals and objects.

In his Southern Highlands debut, Vanilli focuses on the realm of dreams and nostalgia, embracing the fragile yet potent nature of our memories and sense of perception. His sensual, beguiling paintings celebrate seemingly insignificant moments; everyday observations captured to reveal hidden layers of meaning and other curious details.

Vanilli’s distinctive style incorporates the use of bold textures, sumptuous colour and rich tones. Imagery emerges from the subconscious, luscious and complex, lacquered with delicious sentimentality and a sense of playfulness.

The heightened version of reality can become warped with elements of uncertainty and even repulsion. We are both drawn in and held back, seeking to make sense of the boundary between the objective and subjective.

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”.

Michael Reid Southern Highlands is delighted to present Billy Vanilli’s striking solo exhibition, Domestication Vacation. Vanilli is a Melbourne/Naarm based artist with a distinctive flair for sensual and incandescent imagery. His paintings are highly evocative, a sensory celebration of the tangible and emotional relationships we have with people, rituals and objects.

In his Southern Highlands debut, Vanilli focuses on the realm of dreams and nostalgia, embracing the fragile yet potent nature of our memories and sense of perception. His sensual, beguiling paintings celebrate seemingly insignificant moments; everyday observations captured to reveal hidden layers of meaning and other curious details.

Vanilli’s distinctive style incorporates the use of bold textures, sumptuous colour and rich tones. Imagery emerges from the subconscious, luscious and complex, lacquered with delicious sentimentality and a sense of playfulness.

The heightened version of reality can become warped with elements of uncertainty and even repulsion. We are both drawn in and held back, seeking to make sense of the boundary between the objective and subjective.

Sally West is a highly acclaimed contemporary artist from Australia who has garnered widespread recognition for her distinctive use of thick paint and bold, textural surfaces. Her captivating beach series, which draws inspiration from a range of Australian beaches, including Terrigal, Avoca, Freshwater, Manly, Coogee, Maroubra, Bondi, Camp Cove, Blueys, Lizzie and North Curl Curl, has garnered a significant following.

West has earned numerous art prizes throughout her career and has exhibited her work in many prestigious art competitions. These include the Portia Geach Art Prize at the SH Ervin Gallery, the New South Wales Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize, the Paddington Art Prize (2016), the KAAF Prize (2016), EMSLA (2016), Salon Des Refuses (Wynne) Prize, the Charlatan Ink Art Prize in Manhattan, New York City, the Pacific Palms Art Prize (winner 3 years), the Gosford Art Prize, the Mosman Art Prize (2019), the Hornsby Art Prize, and several others. Sally West’s work is highly sought after by collectors and art enthusiasts, and she is considered one of Australia’s most prominent contemporary artists.