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30/05/2025

LAST DAY TODAY :
Botanical Inquiry: Super Nature
Michael Reid Northern Beaches

25/05/2025

What happens to the spiritual when the algorithmic plays such a big part of how we experience the world right now? I’ve lived long enough to observe how technology has changed the way our brains work, how we relate socially, and how human connection has been lost in an increasingly connected world.

Botanical Inquiry: Super Nature is my visual exploration of this idea. The plants are organic but they are manipulated in unnatural ways. If we reach a point when plants are so far removed from their natural state, what would the world beyond these images look like?

Western Flank Reaction, 2025

Michael Reid Northern Beaches until May 31st

22/05/2025

In early 2024, I committed time to research and development for the new work. I re-engineered the way I construct the images and experimented with expanding the world. I really played on the tension between beauty and darkness and enjoyed new ways of using light, colour and tones. I think when you get the balance right it feels elegant.

I pushed the plants into more extreme hybrids and unnatural behaviours, balancing this strangeness with a natural opulence and a real sense of life and joy. This manipulation of the natural world unsettles me—it mirrors my anxiety about where we might be headed.

I’ve published my full Q&A with the gallery on my website - link in my bio.

ALSO - I’ll be doing a walk through of my show at Michael Reid Northern Beaches this Sat 24th May 1-2pm. The format is loose and I’ll bring some materials for show and tell. All are welcome.

Collusion at Rear of Warehouse, 2024

Botanical Inquiry: Super Nature
Michael Reid Northern Beaches until May 31st

14/05/2025

CONSTRUCTION OF THE IMAGES
“The images you see are made entirely with my own hands and are essentially what comes out of the camera, but there’s an element of cinematic illusion that makes the storytelling possible. ‘The machine’ is what I call the visual system I’ve built in the studio. It’s a physical setup that allows me to construct the image in-camera, but I also think of it as a kind of illusion-making engine—something that collapses space, time, and perspective into a single frame.”

Western Flank Reaction, 2025
Michael Reid Northern Beaches until May 31st

09/05/2025

Botanical Inquiry: Super Nature continues this Sat 10-4pm at Michael Reid Northern Beaches.

Limited edition prints of my photographs available through the gallery, contact Sophie for details - links in bio.

In these images :
Extent of Eastern Ripple, 2024
Pigment print on cotton rag paper
120 x 155 cm

01/05/2025

If you’re available I’d love to see you this Saturday for the opening drinks of my latest exhibition. It’s a great chance to see the prints in person and ask me the hard questions.

Botanical Inquiry: Super Nature

OPENING DRINKS
Saturday 2 - 4 pm, 3rd May

ON VIEW
1st to 31st of May

Michael Reid Northern Beaches
2/358 Barrenjoey Road Newport 2106
[email protected]
www.michaelreidnorthernbeaches.com.au

25/11/2024

DAY 50. Found a nice surprise this morning.

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