About Mike

All of my paintings start with drawings made on location, sometimes quick intuitive sketches, others longer, more observed studies. Whilst I may start by making quite figurative drawings, I’m looking for that dialogue with the landscape, refiguring the geographical elements and shifting the compositional structure.

I don’t want to give you a formal view but moreover to re-envision the shapes and forms I see before me; actions that are deliberately spontaneous and to make shape and colour paramount in my work. To distill down the complexity of a scene and abstractly express the unfolding landscape. To give you a sense of the emotion, as well as the topography of the land.

• Becker Minty, Sydney and Hobart, joint show, October 2023
• Michael Reid Murrurundi, ‘Hush,’ solo show, September 2023
• Michael Reid Murrurundi and Southern Highlands, ‘Coast To Coast, February 2023
• Becker Minty Sydney, ‘Radiance,’ solo show, October 2022
• Michael Reid Mururrundi, ‘Trees of Light,’ online solo show, August 2022
• ARO Gallery ‘Into The Light, a solo show, May 2022
• ME Gallery, ‘Moments in Time’ a solo show, August 2021
• Michael Reid Northern Beaches, three group shows, 2020/2021
• ME Gallery, ‘Headlands’ a solo show, July 2020
• ME Gallery, ‘A Song of Travel’ joint show with Debbie Mackinnon, December 2019
• ARO Gallery, Sydney, ‘Near and Far’ joint show with Debbie Mackinnon, July 2019
• Juniper Gallery, Perth, solo show, ‘Boundless Horizons’, March 2019
• ME Gallery, ‘Two Artists One Journey’ joint show with Debbie Mackinnon, March 2018
• Moochinside Gallery, Hardy’s Bay, ongoing work available

• Lethbridge Art Prize, Salon des Refuses 2024
• Mosman Art Prize selected finalist 2022
• Gosford Art Prize selected finalist 2022
• Muswellbrook Art Prize selected finalist 2022
• John Villiers Outback Art Prize selected finalist 2022
• Gosford Art Prize selected finalist 2021
• Little Things Art Prize, Saint Cloche Gallery selected finalist 2021
• The Inaugural WAMA Where Art Meets Nature Art Prize selected finalist 2021
• 20000 Small Artworks Prize selected finalist 2021
• Inaugural Lethbridge Landscape Prize Salon des Refuse finalist Lethbridge 2021
• Mosman Art Prize selected finalist 2020
• Pro Hart Outback Art Prize selected finalist 2020
• Lethbridge 20000 Art Prize selected finalist 2020
• Muswellbrook Art Prize selected finalist 2019
• Gosford Art Prize selected finalist 2018
• Fleurieu Biennale selected finalist 2018
• Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing selected finalist 2018
• Lethbridge 10000 Art Prize selected finalist 2017
• Hunters Hill Art Prize selected finalist 2017

• Police Point art residency in the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria. 2022
• Kelton Plain art residency in the Monaro Plains, NSW. 2022
• Selected for a residency at Joya AiR, Andalusia, Spain. October 2017

• Diploma in Design – Plymouth College of Art and Design