Event category: Experiences

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.

𝙃𝙖𝙡𝙛-𝙁𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙙 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙣 is a site-specific installation that transforms Puzzle Gallery into a space reminiscent of a domestic shed, where objects—car parts, light fittings, tools, granite, Perspex, and timber—are arranged on makeshift shelves.

Through light and careful placement, these objects take on new significance, shifting between moments of volume and quiet focus. Borrowing its title from a poem by Tomas Tranströmer, the work explores the mystery in everyday life and the blurred space between memory and material.

The debut solo presentation of Akil Ahamat’s practice, Extinguishing Hope draws from big and small screen cinematic languages to produce a non-narrative atmosphere described as ‘slow cinema for short attention spans.’

The exhibition, curated by Sebastian Henry-Jones, features a multi-screen and immersive installation that explores the aesthetics and psychosocial affects of ever-unfolding disaster.

Built in a gaming engine, Extinguishing Hope uses darkness as a motif to represent our age of hyper-rationality, producing an excess of truth that is impossible to make sense of. A key text for the exhibition is the canonical Javanese poem Kidung Rumeksa Ing Wengi (Song guarding in the night), attributed to Sunan Kalijaga, one of the nine saints of Javanese Islam. This prayer describes threats both earthly and spiritual and has journeyed from Java to Sri Lanka along with the exile of Malay peoples—Ahamat’s extended diasporic community—as an incantation for protection against the dangers of life in exile.