2024 Man Made Mess,

digital composite, digital print on rag, 135 x 250cm, no edition

exhibited at Araluen Centre for the Alice Prize 2024,

Alice Springs Northern Territory, Australia

Acquired through the Art Acquisitions Fund 2024

Charles Darwin University Art Collection

Relationship to the natural environment and concerns for the proliferating global consumption of natural resources shattered by the relentless advance of industrialisation and urbanisation underpin the materiality and content of Reynolds practice.

The transformative lens of demolition sites allows Reynolds to build gritty anti human, anti landscape. The compacted perspective’s constructed by heavy handed layering of barriers and signs packing punch and marking humanities relentless pursuit of progress. Demolition sites, once symbols of renewal and transformation are haunting reminders of the environmental toll exacted by human endeavours

the alice prize 2024, catalogue