Last few days to catch ‘Placeheld’ at @michaelreid.southernhighlands 🌿
Lovely to show amoungst a great bunch of artists. Here are my two paintings hanging between @kate_vella_art and @libby__wakefield
Check out the show if you’re in the area. Or take a look at the catalogue via link in bio 🧡
This painting ‘The sun still shines here’ will be hanging in very good company as part of ‘Placeheld’ a group show at @michaelreid.southernhighlands open today!
If you’re in the area, go check it out. If not, hit the link in my bio to see the work 🧡
ANNOUNCING: Zoe Grey in “Placeheld” — a group exhibition | Opening April
Making her return to Michael Reid after nearly four years, lutruwita/Tasmania-based artist Zoe Grey will appear next month in ‘Placeheld’.
Grey lives and works in Marrawah, on the far northwest coast of lutruwita/Tasmania, on Peeraper Country—a remote township exposed to the force of the Southern Ocean and shaped by persistent wind and weather. Following a period away, these works emerge from her return to this rugged environment.
“I am relearning the shape of the rocky shore in the white-washed bay,” says the artist, “the feel of windy nights and the picture-perfect presence of an ever-present mountain under an uninterrupted moon.”
Working across painting, drawing and collage, Grey’s compositions move between figuration and abstraction. Gestural marks and layered surfaces evoke the shifting terrain of this place—rock, sea and sky compressed into a language both intuitive and deeply observed.
In 2024, Grey was awarded the prestigious Hadley’s Art Prize, a moment that marked a significant recognition of her practice. This was followed by her selection as a finalist in the 2025 Glover Prize.
To register your interest in priority access, follow the link in bio.
@zoe__makes
Photograph of artist: @edenmeure
“The process of painting is this beast of flow and intuition,” Tasmania-based surfer and artist Zoe Grey (@zoe__makes ) tells author Sean Doherty (@seano888 ) in our current issue, “a sort of call and response—calling on that familiarity or memory or feeling or whatever it is about that place, and then responding visually with a mark, a color. Surfing’s such a beautiful experience, and I find that can be reflected in the process of painting. There are these little moments where you aren’t thinking about anything else and you’re in this flow and you’re just responding, like drawing a line on a wave.”
Pick up TSJ 35.1 to read “The Lost Kids of Marrawah.” Photos by Nick Green (@nickgreenphoto ).
I’m feeling very honoured to be in the most recent issue of @surfersjournal , what a special magazine. If my 12 year old, pink-soft-top-riding self could see this, she’d be tripping!
Thanks for capturing my sense of place so beautifully @seano888 and @nickgreenphoto as always for getting the snaps that feel most like me.
This one feels particularly special 🧡 grab a copy where ya can!
I’ll be showing some new paintings and a big fun pot at the Despard gallery summer show opening this Friday the 12th of Dec ~~ so many great artists in this show, a pleasure to be a part of 🧡
Email the gallery for a catalogue x
Three little paintings from my show ‘that’s now, this is then’ last year at James Makin Gallery. I’m sad to see this beautiful gallery come to an end, such a good few years working together. Thanks @jamesmakingallery 🧡 let’s see what’s next.
It’s been a hard year and amongst it all me and my bruv have been turning up every day to get on the tools. There’s a long way to go on this project but as we put the final cladding boards on the front wall I’m having a moment to reflect on what we’ve done. It’s looking damn good and 9 months ago this was just a paddock (see pic 2). It’s mostly been a two person, brother/sister job, but along the way there’s been special moments of friends and loved ones lending a hand and I couldn’t be more grateful. Thanks for letting me be your apprentice @premiumjesus you’re a bloody good builder. This shit is hard and my dainty hands look forward to returning to a paint brush.
me and my work ‘of painting, of body, of it’ one of my favourites from my show at @jamesmakingallery 〰️
This painting was such a battle to make, it had so many iterations and nothing sat right. In the end I attacked it with my biggest brush and brightest orange and something happened.
There’s a few days left to see this work and the rest of my show ‘that’s now, this is then’ at @jamesmakingallery ~~ dm the gallery for catalogue 🧡
‘Of painting, of body, of it’
2025
Acrylic and oil on canvas’
198 x 153 cm
Last week to catch ‘That’s now, this is then’ at @jamesmakingallery 〰️ gallery open wed - sat, 12 - 5pm.
If you’d like to receive a catalogue and show essay you can email [email protected] 🧡
‘The last painting of the last tree’
2024
Oil on board
122 x 122 cm
Me and my painting ‘Another thread of a dreams edge’ showing at @jamesmakingallery . This is the biggest work I’ve ever made. It’s about many parts of my home, and many parts of my self. The mountain, the moon, the memories, my mum.
Swipe across to see some pictures and videos of the making.
You can see this painting, along with the rest of my show ‘That’s now, this is then’ at James Makin Gallery until the 21st of June 🧡
If you would like to see a catalogue you can email the gallery at [email protected]
‘Another thread of a dreams edge’
2025
Acrylic and oil on canvas
183 x 411 cm
