Samuel Leighton-Dore.... so fabulously piquant!

Michael Reid Sydney has invited guest artist Samuel Leighton-Dore to transform our mezzanine gallery space with a 220-piece wall-based ceramic installation. Unproduced Screenplay (excerpt) is a delightful collision of disciplines that playfully interrogates social behaviour in public art spaces. After recently being exhibited at Tweed Regional Gallery, Unproduced Screenplay (excerpt) will now be shown in a commercial gallery context for the first time, bringing a new dimension to the commentary threaded within the delicately constructed work. Each piece of this ambitious installation is a handmade ceramic form, collectively assembled to echo the typeface and layout of a film script. Here, the viewer becomes the protagonist, with the gallery acting as the setting for an art-themed micro-scene, inviting us to consider our role in imbuing art with meaning. A screenwriter, director, author and visual artist who lives and practices on the Gold Coast, Leighton-Dore works across multiple intersecting disciplines, bringing warmth and humour to complex themes of identity, sexuality and psychology.

Sammy Piquant is sponsoring the event with beautiful non-alcoholic aperitivos for all participants in the event.