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Lowell Ryan Projects fosters a contemporary art program that highlights idea-driven, but also highly material art practices.

13/06/2026

The paintings in A Quiet Turning of Flowers emerge from a daily rhythm of observation and repetition. Living and working on the coast of New South Wales, Australia, Nick Herd begins most mornings in the ocean before returning to the studio, where familiar bouquets become the starting point for paintings that evolve over days and weeks.

Working from life, Herd allows each composition to shift through sustained looking rather than fixed description. Flowers wilt, light changes, and memory gradually overtakes observation. Thick passages of oil paint, scraped surfaces, and unexpected color create works that feel as much about time and process as they do about still life.

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A Quiet Turning of Flowers
Online Exhibition
May 20 – June 24, 2026

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Nick Herd at home in New South Wales, Australia, 2026.

Images: Studio photographs and artist portraits by Alex Greaves.

08/06/2026

Nick Herd
Roses Afield, 2026
Oil on canvas
28 x 22 in (71 x 56 cm)

From the online exhibition A Quiet Turning of Flowers
May 20 – June 24, 2026

05/06/2026

Nick Herd
Roses on Tablecloth II, 2026
Oil on canvas
28 x 22 in (71 x 56 cm)

Online exhibition:
Nick Herd: A Quiet Turning of Flowers
May 20 – June 24, 2026

01/06/2026

Working from his sun-drenched studio along the coast of New South Wales, Nick Herd moves between painting and the ocean. Mornings spent surfing flow into afternoons in the studio, where bright light and prolonged observation shape each work. Attention and instinct become inseparable, carrying the rhythm of the sea into the paintings. Though gestural and immediate in approach, Herd’s still lifes arrive at a quiet sense of balance and calm.

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Online exhibition: A Quiet Turning of Flowers
On view through June 24, 2026.

31/05/2026

Nick Herd
Roses Afield III, 2026
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 in (76 x 61 cm)

In Roses Afield III, Nick Herd returns to a familiar subject and allows it to unfold through sustained observation. The painting emerges gradually, shaped by shifts in light, memory, and repeated engagement with the bouquet. Rather than capturing a single moment, the work gathers many moments into a single surface.

From A Quiet Turning of Flowers, an online exhibition on view through June 24, 2026.

27/05/2026

In Roses on Tablecloth (2026), flowers stand in a vase set on a checked tablecloth against a seafoam green background. The image is not so much painted as it is assembled. The tablecloth is composed of red paint squeezed directly from the tube and wiped with a wide paintbrush thickly loaded with white paint. Globs of brownish maroon, dark green, and orange paint are pushed, scraped, and wiped into an abstraction that is understood as blossoms. Thick swaths of pale green feel like they are swollen with the salt in the air. The image remains unstable, held in continuous adjustment rather than completion. There is a confidence in the handling of paint, where edges are pushed, softened, or lost entirely, allowing form to emerge through weight, color, and pressure.

Image:
Nick Herd
Roses on Tablecloth, 2026
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 in (76 x 61 cm)

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25/05/2026

In ’s studio, books of Frank Auerbach, Pablo Picasso, and Willem de Kooning’s Women paintings remain close at hand, along with a book of Japanese color combinations that Herd returns to for its clarity and subtle tonal shifts. These references function less as sources than as permissions, to let structure emerge through gesture and to allow color to carry form. The rhythm of the work reflects this approach, moving between buildup and release. Like waiting for the right wave, the painting is resolved through timing—arriving at a point where it holds, even as it remains open.

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online exhibition:
Nick Herd
A Quiet Turning of Flowers
May 20 - June 24, 2026

Images: studio shots and artist portraits by Alex Greaves

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22/05/2026

Nick Herd
Roses Afield IV, 2026
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 in (76 x 61 cm)

Part of A Quiet Turning of Flowers, online through June 24 at Lowell Ryan Projects. Herd’s paintings move between observation and instinct, where flowers shift over days and paint is pushed, scraped, and wiped into images that feel both fleeting and deeply grounded. The works hold together through gesture, pressure, and timing rather than fixed description.

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20/05/2026

online exhibition:
Nick Herd
A Quiet Turning of Flowers
May 20 - June 24, 2026

Lowell Ryan Projects is pleased to present A Quiet Turning of Flowers, an online exhibition by Sydney-based artist Nick Herd and his debut with the gallery. The exhibition features eight still-life oil paintings created from direct observation. Herd begins with simple arrangements; flowers cut from his garden or a few beautiful stems procured from a farmers’ market and set in a vase on a table. Responding to the bouquets as they shift over a few days—opening, leaning, and deepening in tone—the paintings follow. The resulting works are not fixed images but accumulations of time, with observation, memory, and revision becoming compressed into a single surface.

Nick Herd (b. 1989, New Zealand) is a painter based in New South Wales, Australia. His practice is grounded in direct observation, developing paintings over time through repeated engagement with still life. Herd has exhibited at galleries including Lindberg Galleries, Melbourne, Australia; Foenander Galleries, Auckland, New Zealand; Jerico Contemporary, Sydney, Australia; and Parlour Projects, New Zealand. His works and practice have been discussed in various publications such as GRAZIA International, homestyle, and Damaged Goods. Herd’s works are included in private and public collections, including the Wallace Arts Trust, the Art House Trust, the Citadel Capital Collection, and the Fortland Park Trust.

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Image: Nick Herd in his studio in New South Wales, Australia photographed by Alex Greaves

For more information, please write: [email protected]

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09/10/2025

LOWELL RYAN PROJECTS
presents
Carrie Mae Smith
If for Once We Could Do Nothing
Online exhibition: October 9 – November 1, 2025

“Perhaps the earth can teach us,
as when everything seems dead
and later proves to be alive.”

— Pablo Neruda, Keeping Quiet 🌿
In her new body of work, Carrie Mae Smith turns to still life as a radical act of attention. Peas gathered from the garden, a folded tablecloth, a bowl of fruit — quiet gestures that insist on care, patience, and presence.
To look closely, she reminds us, is itself a political act.

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