Jay Miriam's inaugural Australian solo exhibition opens in Sydney

Three women come together across oceans and time zones: artist Jay Miriam from New York, 8 Wall director Sam Houben from Sydney, and Emerald Gruin of Gruin Gallery in Los Angeles. All are mothers. All carry parallel lives shaped by care, creativity, and quiet resilience. Their meeting at Sydney’s newest female-led gallery as Jay’s inaugural Australian solo show feels less like a coincidence than a constellation—an intuitive alignment of energies, histories, and futures. Jay Miriam’s paintings emerge from a place of daydreaming where fantasy and reality fold into one another. Scenes drift between domestic ritual and theatrical reverie: women in gardens, hands cutting fish, wine, swans waddling in courtyards, water pouring from jugs, figures moving like commedia dell’arte actors in The People Pleasers. These are not narratives in the traditional sense, but fragments—emotional snapshots suspended between memory and invention. Because it is painted, each momen