A Watercolour painting course dedicated to everyone who would like to learn how to paint and explore art or simply improve their art skills and level.
Every class will include artist demonstrations, discussions, painting time plus friendly discussions and feedback on your work.
Watercolour
Set up in a collaborative learning format, Matteo will combine theory, demonstrations, and individual projects, as well as give participants an opportunity to share and reflect on each other’s work each session. This aims to provide the participants with good fundamentals in both painting itself as well as observation.
Working across both still life painting and live figurative painting, each week will focus on a new topic, that will help build the participant’s toolkit for watercolour painting. By the end of the course, participants will have gained knowledge in watercolour fundamentals that can be applied across most painting styles.
10 spots only, maximum. We will keep the class small to keep a fun and intimate environment and to spend enough time with everyone individually
Every class will include artist demonstrations, discussions, painting time, friendly discussions, and feedback on your work.
Chinese history wasn’t always straight. While queerness may seem like a foreign import, its roots in China date back to ancient times.
Tender Comrade
Bisexuality was the norm among emperors—Emperor Ai of the Han dynasty, for instance, openly took a ‘male favourite’. This was part of a broader history of same-sex relationships, non-normative sexualities and transgender identities that have largely been forgotten. Queer pasts are actively erased so that queer futures may cease to exist.
Although homosexuality was decriminalised in China in 1997, it had previously been classified as a crime under the offence of ‘hooliganism’. Today, lesbian and gay spaces continue to face closures due to ‘official pressure’, queer activists and organisers are subjected to police questioning, LGBTQIA+ representation is censored across the media, and ‘lavender marriages’ between queer men and women persist due to familial expectations.
Despite these constraints, queer communities endure. They call themselves tongzhi (同志), or ‘comrade’. The term was first popularised in the early twentieth century by Sun Yat-sen, father of the Republic of China, to unify people in revolution. Later, the Communist Party adopted it as a genderless, classless form of address. In 1989, the gay and lesbian community adopted it as their own — and it has remained ever since.
White Rabbit Gallery
The White Rabbit Gallery was opened in 2009 to showcase what has become one of the world’s most significant collections of Chinese contemporary art.
WORLD PREMIERE, THURS. JUNE 5TH, 8PM at The Sneaky Possum
STREET/NIGHT is a film that explores the inter/play between what a space is, and where the soul, muse, past/present of space comes into being.
It uses the everyday experience, but then re-interprets this through the lens of different dimensions of experience. Does the past see us? How does a place acquire meaning, and what is that meaning? Are we in time, or just visualising an existential hurdy-gurdy of play?
Created after months of work by the team at GuniBina Films (GuniBina.com), STREET/NIGHT is an important film that lets Chippendale itself, become the subject and object of meaning.
GuniBina
GunBina make world class documentaries and create content with impact.
Join us at Goodspace Gallery in Chippendale for a vibrant celebration of sticker art! This one-of-a-kind event brings together local artists, showcasing their creativity through unique and limited-edition stickers. Whether you’re a collector, artist, or simply a fan of quirky designs, there’s something for all to enjoy.
The gallery is located above the iconic Lord Gladstone Hotel, offering you a full night of entertainment. Grab a drink, enjoy the lively atmosphere, and dive into a night of art, music, and community.
Redbase Art is excited to announce Chasing Dreams featuring the reminiscent works of Cheolyu Kim. This collection of works on paper draws upon the agglomeration of childhood mythology from the artist’s small rural village, nestled between the mountains that divide South and North Korea.
Growing up, the artist spent countless hours chasing these ephemeral visions, including balloons drifting in the sky from the North, often containing propaganda leaflets. This quest for flight—both literal and metaphorical—became a profound exploration of realities, memories and dreams. Despite these dreams, the artist grapples with the frustration of being unable to soar, a sentiment echoed throughout the works on display. In Chasing Dreams the artist invites viewers into a neo-surrealistic world with each piece reflecting the narratives that shaped the artist’s youth, where the sky was a canvas for imagination and longing.
Chasing Dreams is an exhibition depicting the artist’s emotional journey through imagination rooted in the myths of childhood and the complexities of reality. Join us for the opening reception to experience this captivating exploration of artistry and nostalgia.
The next presentation in the upstairs gallery at Michael Reid Sydney will be our first solo exhibition from Eora/Sydney-based painter Kathy Liu, who previously dazzled audiences as one of the stars of our annual survey show Painting Now.
“My approach is highly intuitive,” says Liu, speaking with Belle magazine for a profile published in the lead-up to Painting Now. “I begin a painting without a pre-set concept, letting the colours and shapes emerge. Sometimes, it feels like I’m there to help the artworks find their own storylines.”
This open-ended process makes the canvas a conduit for fabulous adventures through imaginative worlds, inviting delightfully unexpected turns as amorphous pools begin to coalesce and playfully enigmatic, inchoate figures appear through diaphanous wafts of colour.
Scott Perkins returns to Michael Reid Sydney in April 2025 with a new series of expertly crafted photographs and lightboxes. Located within photography and sculpture disciplines, Perkins’s treatment of the photographic medium is precisely engineered and refreshingly original.
Presented in three distinct modes, his images of unidentified landscapes have been captured in a state of balance, occupying a space between light and dark. Brooding, atmospheric and technically imposing, Scott Perkins’s images are a dynamic viewing experience.
In this exhibition, viewers will be treated to impeccably presented lightbox photographs of bespoke design that transform their surrounding spaces. The artist’s use of Hanhnemule metallic paper add a complementary lustre to the surface of his mysterious still photograph images.
Michael Reid Sydney is delighted to present Seeking a Silk Purse, the latest solo exhibition from leading contemporary painter Andrea Huelin. One of the bright stars in our stable of represented artists and the winner of the 2023 Archibald Packing Room Prize, Huelin seeks to capture the elusive qualities of light and lustre with an economy of loose and exuberant gestures.
Seeking a Silk Purse is a dazzling painterly ode to the pleasures of a collecting life and the thrill of trawling for treasures in op shops, antiques emporiums and Aladdin’s caves. Widely celebrated for her vibrant, evocative and gently expressive still-life paintings, Huelin has now completed some of her largest works to date, conjuring interiors and tablescapes that heave with wonderfully eclectic objects and coloured-glass vessels that glisten like jewels right to the edge of her newly expanded canvas.
Melbourne-born artist Lottie Consalvo’s journey is rooted in the exploration of the invisible world. She explores thought, imagination, dreams, and the possibilities that lie beyond the real. Her diverse practice spans painting, performance, video, and sculpture—consistently probing the limitations of the known world and striving to push beyond its veil.
Join Lottie and the Nanda Hobbs team in the gallery for a drink to celebrate the opening night of Lottie Consalvo’s ‘Long Dawn’ exhibition – 6:00 – 8:00PM.
