A Season of Giving – The Christmas Gift Guide

Michael Reid Northern Beaches is pleased to present A Season of Giving, a curated Christmas gift guide highlighting beautiful, original paintings and ceramics from the gallery stockroom that capture the spirit of the season. From backyard barbecues to bush-side beach walks, summer surf and sunlit scenery, these works celebrate the pleasures and rituals that make Christmas truly special.

A Season of Giving is arranged into three curated collections, offering something to suit every budget and style while simplifying gift-giving for the aesthetes, art lovers and avid decorators in your life with a considered selection of unique pieces. Encompassing abstraction and landscape, still life and figuration, the guide celebrates the diversity of artworks at Michael Reid Northern Beaches.

A gift for a friend – Ceramics are among the most varied and characterful expressions of contemporary art-making. They bring beauty off the walls and into the home, creating sculptural moments that shape and enliven a space. Our first collection focuses on tactile, three-dimensional forms, presenting clay works alongside sculptural figures by First Nations artists working with Maningrida Arts & Culture. Thoughtfully selected pieces in this collection – priced at $500 or less – offer a spirited and accessible way to share your love of art this Christmas.

A gift for the family – Paintings distil stories into moments, capturing fragments of lived experience with intimacy and charm. Conor Knight’s Lamb Chop pays homage to the backyard barbecue; Jo White’s surf scenes honour the exhilaration of summer waves. This collection, with works priced at $1,000 or less, spotlights the imagination and vitality of emerging and mid-career painters – art that becomes part of family life and memory.

A gift for yourself – This final selection brings together smaller works by some of the gallery’s most beloved artists, including Emily Gordon, Nicola Woodcock and Melanie Waugh. These intimate paintings offer luminous impressions of the Australian landscape, their deft brushwork capturing the radiance and stillness of long summer days. Priced between $1,500 and $2,500, these pieces are ideal for collectors seeking a meaningful, collectable addition to their home or a seasonal moment of self-gifting.

To discuss works from A Season of Giving, please email northernbeaches@michaelreid.com.au