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Michael Reid Northern Beaches, 2/22 Chard Road, Sydney (2026)

14/10/2026

COMING SOON: NICOLE STEENHOF | ‘A Window to Swim Through’ | 5–26 November | Michael Reid Northern Beaches

Michael Reid Northern Beaches is pleased to announce our first solo exhibition by Boorloo/Perth artist NICOLE STEENHOF, who previously dazzled visitors to the gallery as one of three painterly interpreters of the sea in our 2025 show ‘Quiet Tide’. Steenhof returns with ‘A Window to Swim Through’, a sublime collection of abstracted, emotionally charged waterscapes – coming soon to our new Brookvale space and now available to preview by request.

“Swimming in the ocean through the seasons has given me an appreciation for all of the different qualities each day brings – the same ocean is new every time,” says Steenhof, whose undulating swells of colour are carved with prismatic, faceted forms to suggest reflected light on the ocean’s surface with shape-shifting worlds held below.

Since completing her postgraduate studies at Curtin University, Steenhof has had works acquired for public collections such as John Curtin Gallery and the City of Melville. She has been a finalist in the Mandorla Art Award and Castaways Sculpture Awards, and received the Emerging Artist award at the 2024 Royal Prize for Landscape.

“The paintings have ribbons not only of dark and light, but of shape formed by colour,” says the artist. “Oil paint is applied and removed, allowing the underpainting to gleam through … The paintings mimic the way the ocean shifts, disappears, reappears. You experience a sense of your own wateriness and a fading of boundaries between the depth beneath, the reflection of the sky and between bodies of water – you and the sea.”

While tapping into the universality of this submission to the elements, Steenhof’s series takes its title from the intimate: a dream her daughter had, “where the ocean filled our home and yet it didn’t matter to my daughter who said she found ‘a window to swim through’,” she says. “It’s my hope that these paintings … become a window to swim through, a portal of freedom.”

For previews, please email [email protected]

Nicole Stnhf

10/10/2026

NOW OPEN: CLARE DUBINA | ‘In Relation’ | Until 29 October | Michael Reid Northern Beaches

On view at Michael Reid Northern Beaches as one of two major presentations inaugurating our new space in Brookvale, ‘In Relation’ is our third solo exhibition by CLARE DUBINA, an artist for whom the human figure has been a constant presence as both subject and expressive conduit. Now, with ‘In Relation’, the Central Victoria-based painter brings this enduring preoccupation to a dazzling point of culmination, reflecting on the body as a means of exploring identity, feeling, vulnerability and the complexities of human connection.

Across Dubina’s new paintings, solitary and entwined figures emerge through sweeping contours and beautifully controlled linework, with their bodies pared back to sinuous fields of colour, negative space and softly modulated tone. Graphic yet tactile, intimate yet anonymous, these elegantly abstracted forms communicate through posture, proximity and gesture, moving between strength and vulnerability, enmeshment and separation.

“The figure is familiar, yet endlessly open to interpretation,” says Dubina, whose creative path encompassed fashion photography and visual merchandising before she returned to painting and ceramics in 2020. “A body can hold emotion without speaking. A gesture can suggest an entire inner world. And two bodies sharing space can say something about connection that words cannot.” While ‘In Relation’ considers the many ways we exist in relation to others and ourselves, it also turns inward to Dubina’s own evolving relationship with the figure after years spent returning to the human form.

“The figures reflect the many ways we move through relationships with one another and with ourselves: seeking connection, finding comfort, creating distance, offering support, or simply existing alongside another,” says Dubina. “But ‘In Relation’ is [also] an opportunity to reflect on what the figure has allowed me to express, discover and understand, while also making space for what comes next.”

For enquiries, please email [email protected]

clare dubina

08/10/2026

NOW OPEN: DREW TRUSLOVE | ‘Waterline’ | Until 29 October | Michael Reid Northern Beaches

Michael Reid Northern Beaches is delighted to present ‘Waterline’ – the latest solo exhibition by newly represented Eora/Sydney-based artist and 2024 National Emerging Art Prize Award of Excellence winner DREW TRUSLOVE. Arriving soon after the announcement of the artist’s joint representation by our Northern Beaches and Southern Highlands galleries, Truslove’s exhibition is one of two shows inaugurating our new space in Brookvale and will be toasted at the gallery’s opening party this Friday, 9 October, 4pm.

“This series looks at the human experience of beaches, with people playing in the shallows, strolling in the sand and walking towards the beach,” says Truslove. “To be clear, however, these are really landscape pictures and the humans are quite secondary. I like portraying people in landscapes in a fairly rudimentary and brief way, having them dwarfed by nature. They’re very much cameos against the backdrop of the main star of the show.”

Throughout ‘Waterline’, rocky oceanfront escarpments capped with Norfolk pines and covered in lacy thickets of bush soar above stretches of sand and crashing waves – all captured with Truslove’s trademark indigo blue ink and meandering linework that loops, pools, doubles back and dissipates into expanses of crisp white canvas. Often approaching a single site from multiple viewpoints, Truslove translates the forms and textures of the landscape into line, density, rhythm and space, exploring how a single colour can accommodate the extraordinary complexity of the natural world.

“This is a stunning beach that we’ve only recently heard about,” says Truslove of his show’s sprawling centrepiece, ‘Boneyard beach, second angle’. “The beauty of the place was quite striking. People tend to lose themselves in the environment, fossicking among the rocks and the shells.”

All works from ‘Waterline’ can be explored and acquired online, by request and at our new Brookvale home – officially opening Friday, 9 October, at 4pm. For more, please email [email protected]

Drew Truslove

07/10/2026

The new Michael Reid Northern Beaches in Brookvale will open with a public celebration this Friday, 9 October. Please join our Chairman and Director MICHAEL REID OAM and Associate Director SOPHIE NOLAN to warm our gallery’s new home and toast its two inaugural exhibitions: ‘Waterline’ by DREW TRUSLOVE and ‘In Relation’ by CLARE DUBINA.

Drinks and aperitivi will be served from 4pm, the deejay will be spinning into the evening and many of the artists from the gallery’s stable and wider exhibition program will be present for the occasion. And there’s more: one lucky guest will take home our Door Prize, a $500 Art Voucher to put towards their next fabulous art acquisition.

Joining Brookvale’s buzzy creative precinct and almost doubling the gallery’s exhibition space, our expansive new location is set within a converted industrial building now given a coastal spin. The move significantly broadens the gallery’s exhibition, stockroom and viewing capacities, with dedicated spaces for private art consultation, personalised curation and collaboration with architects and interior designers.

Established in 2020 as part of the Michael Reid gallery network, Michael Reid Northern Beaches presents an ever-evolving program of group and solo exhibitions by emerging and established Australian painters, photographers, sculptors and ceramicists. The gallery represents seven contemporary painters, several of whom will be present on Friday: BRENTON DRECHSLER, EMILY GORDON, MIRANDA JOY SUMMERS, DREW TRUSLOVE, MELANIE WAUGH, BEN WATERS and NICOLA WOODCOCK.

We have been delighted to collaborate with some of our new neighbours in bringing the Brookvale space to life, including leading furniture and lifestyle brand King Living, whose Balgowlah showroom is close by, and Avalon furniture maker Troffle. Drinks from Brookvale-based Nomad Brewing Co and morsels from Chard Road’s CAFE • COFFEE • FOOD SERVO ⛽️ will be among the offerings at Friday’s party. Everyone is welcome!

OPENING PARTY
Friday, 9 October, 4–7pm
Michael Reid Northern Beaches
2/22 Chard Road, Brookvale NSW 2100
Door Prize: $500 Art Voucher.
RSVP: [email protected]

06/10/2026

YOU’RE INVITED: CLARE DUBINA | ‘In Relation’ | Opening Drinks this Friday, 9 October, 4–7pm | Michael Reid Northern Beaches

Please join the Michael Reid Northern Beaches team this Friday, 9 October, at our new location in Brookvale to celebrate the opening of ‘In Relation’ by Central Victoria-based artist CLARE DUBINA – one of two solo presentations that will inaugurate the gallery’s expansive new premises. Drinks will be served from 4pm and everyone is welcome to join us as we welcome Dubina’s third solo show at our gallery – now available to preview online or by request – and warm the new home of Michael Reid Northern Beaches.

“The figures within these works exist in moments of occupying space together and alone,” says Dubina, whose paintings see entwined or solitary figures emerge through sweeping contours and beautifully controlled line work, with their bodies pared back into sinuous fields of colour, negative space and softly modulated tone. “They reflect the many ways we move through relationships with one another and with ourselves: seeking connection, finding comfort, creating distance, offering support, or simply existing alongside another.”

OPENING CELEBRATION
Clare Dubina | ‘In Relation’
Friday, 9 October, 4–7pm
Michael Reid Northern Beaches
2/22 Chard Road, Brookvale NSW 2100
RSVP: [email protected]

Graphic yet tactile, intimate yet deliberately anonymous, Dubina’s elegantly abstracted forms communicate through posture, proximity and gesture. “‘In Relation’ also speaks to my own relationship with the figure as an artist,” she says. “After years of returning to the human form, this body of work represents a culmination of that exploration. It is an opportunity to reflect on what the figure has allowed me to express, discover and understand, while also making space for what comes next.”

We look forward to welcoming artists, collectors, art lovers, friends, family and colleagues from the ‘Beaches and beyond to toast ‘In Relation’ by Clare Dubina and celebrate the opening of our gallery’s new location.

clare dubina

02/10/2026

NEXT WEEK: DREW TRUSLOVE | ‘Waterline’ | 8–29 October | Michael Reid Northern Beaches

Following the announcement of his representation by our Northern Beaches and Southern Highlands galleries, Eora/Sydney-based artist DREW TRUSLOVE will present his latest solo exhibition, ‘Waterline’, as one of two presentations inaugurating our new gallery in Brookvale. Available to preview and acquire online and by request, ‘Waterline’ will be officially welcomed at the launch party for the new home of Michael Reid Northern Beaches next Friday, 9 October, 4pm.

“This series looks at the human experience of beaches, with people playing in the shallows, strolling in the sand and walking towards the beach,” says Truslove, who has presented a stellar succession of solo shows across our two galleries since receiving the Award of Excellence in the 2024 National Emerging Art Prize. “To be clear, however, these are really landscape pictures and the humans are quite secondary. I like portraying people in landscapes in a fairly rudimentary and brief way, having them dwarfed by nature. They’re very much cameos against the backdrop of the main star of the show.”

Throughout ‘Waterline’, rocky oceanfront escarpments capped with Norfolk Pines and covered in lacy thickets of bush soar above stretches of sand and crashing waves – all captured with Truslove’s trademark indigo blue ink and linework that loops, pools and dissipates into the crisp canvas ground in finely drawn threads. Often approaching a single location from multiple viewpoints, Truslove translates the myriad forms and textures of the landscape into line, density, rhythm and space.

“They were all quite fun to paint, although I suppose if forced to pick one favourite, I’d go for the diptych,” he says of his show’s sprawling centrepiece, ‘Boneyard beach, second angle’. “This is a stunning beach that we’ve only recently heard about … a beautiful flat beach with stunning blue water. It’s almost a lake, and the beauty of the place was quite striking.”

For enquiries, please email [email protected]

Drew Truslove

01/10/2026

WIN A $500 ART VOUCHER! The new home of Michael Reid Northern Beaches will officially open with a public celebration next Friday, 9 October, 4pm – and one lucky guest will take home our Door Prize: a $500 art voucher to spend at our new gallery.

Everyone is welcome to join us as we warm our new home and toast our two inaugural exhibitions: ‘Waterline’ by DREW TRUSLOVE and ‘In Relation’ by CLARE DUBINA. Drinks and aperitivi will be served from 4pm, the deejay will be spinning into the evening and many of the artists represented in our stable and wider exhibition program will be present for the occasion.

OPENING PARTY
Friday, 9 October, 4–7pm
Michael Reid Northern Beaches
2/22 Chard Road, Brookvale NSW 2100
Door Prize: $500 Art Voucher
RSVP: [email protected]

Joining Brookvale’s burgeoning creative precinct and almost doubling the gallery’s exhibition space, the new home of Michael Reid Northern Beaches is set within a converted industrial building now given a suitably coastal spin.

Our move to more expansive premises significantly broadens the gallery’s exhibition, stockroom and viewing capacities, with dedicated spaces for private art consultation, personalised curation and collaboration with architects and interior designers.

We look forward to welcoming artists, art lovers, collectors, colleagues, family and friends from the ’Beaches and beyond to celebrate the all-new Michael Reid Northern Beaches at Brookvale and welcome the latest exhibitions by Clare Dubina and Drew Truslove.

30/09/2026

NEXT WEEK: CLARE DUBINA | ‘In Relation’ | 9–29 October | Michael Reid Northern Beaches

“The figures within these works exist in moments of occupying space together and alone,” says Victorian artist CLARE DUBINA, whose forthcoming solo exhibition, ‘In Relation’, is available to preview by request ahead of next week’s official opening at Michael Reid Northern Beaches’ new Brookvale gallery.

“They reflect the many ways we move through relationships with one another and with ourselves: seeking connection, finding comfort, creating distance, offering support, or simply existing alongside another. But ‘In Relation’ also speaks to my own relationship with the figure as an artist. After years of returning to the human form, this body of work represents a culmination of that exploration. It is an opportunity to reflect on what the figure has allowed me to express, discover and understand, while also making space for what comes next.”

Across Dubina’s new paintings, solitary and entwined figures emerge through sweeping contours and beautifully controlled line work, with their bodies pared back into sinuous fields of colour, negative space and softly modulated tone. Graphic yet tactile, intimate yet anonymous, these elegantly abstracted forms communicate through posture, proximity and gesture, moving between strength and vulnerability, enmeshment and distance.

“The figure is familiar, yet endlessly open to interpretation,” says Dubina, who has held two acclaimed solo shows at our Northern Beaches gallery. “A body can hold emotion without speaking. A gesture can suggest an entire inner world. And two bodies sharing space can say something about connection that words cannot.”

‘In Relation’ will be officially welcomed at the opening party for our new Brookvale gallery. To enquire about available work or RSVP to the event, please email [email protected]

clare dubina

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