April 1 - April 25, 2026
Installation view - front gallery
Installation view - sugar shaker & raver
Installation view - front gallery
Installation view - front gallery
Installation view - front gallery
Installation view - front gallery
Installation view - rear gallery
Installation view - rear gallery
There is joy in the room – and in Miranda Parkes’ new exhibition rewilder, an ambition to explore play and pleasure as protest against, or resistance to current orthodoxies.
Palette-wise, rewilder continues Parkes’ recent combination of fluoros with metallics. But there are hues of mustard and brown in livestreamer, for example, that compliment sweeter yellows, blues and pinks. Importantly, in livestreamer colour is brushed thinly with attention to edge, and the reveal of the canvas support – which is very different from the thick impastos and plummy reds and violets in board paintings like performer and shadow-worker.
The small paintings battle picker and gone burger, painted over found packaging, are also heavily loaded with paint. Parkes has painted directly onto industrial pallets in the past. (In fact one such painting, dreamchaser won Parkes the Zonta Ashburton Women’s Art Award last month.) This style of support demands a certain weight of paint – a challenge and strategy very different from that involved in making livestreamer.
Parkes enjoys the variety. One constant however are the crumple paintings, painted flat then compressed onto stretchers when almost dry. These pulse with energy and life. No stripes this time, but more texture and layering of paint. Copper, silver and gold metallics shimmer in shallow depths. The billows are sensate and intimate – a joyous bodily embrace.
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| anchor partner, 2026, 530 x 560 x 230mm |
livestreamer, 2026, 1800 x 1250mm
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| bloodmoon, 2026, 200mm diameter | shadow-worker, 2026, 400mm diameter |
Sam's Creek, 2026, 460 x 370mm framed
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| battle picker, 2026, 210 x 210 x 80mm | gone burger, 2026, 210 x 210 x 80mm |
rewilder, 2026, 800 x 840 x 300mm
starduster, 2025, 1770 x 1820mm
2026
acrylic, metallic leaf and varnish on canvas
450 x 460 x 240mm
Exhibited in
rewilder
2025
acrylic, metallic leaf and varnish on canvas with oak baton frame
1770 x 1820mm
Exhibited in
rewilder
2025
acrylic, metallic leaf and varnish on canvas with oak baton frame
1770 x 1820mm
Exhibited in
rewilder
2026
acrylic, metallic leaf and varnish on canvas
530 x 560 x 230mm
Exhibited in
rewilder
2026
acrylic, metallic leaf and varnish on board
500 x 500mm
Exhibited in
rewilder
2026
acrylic, metallic leaf and varnish on canvas
800 x 840 x 300mm
Exhibited in
rewilder
2026
acrylic, metallic leaf and varnish on canvas
500 x 535 x 230mm
Exhibited in
rewilder
2026
acrylic, metallic leaf and varnish on board
350 x 350mm
Exhibited in
rewilder
2026
acrylic, metallic leaf and varnish on board
400mm diameter
Exhibited in
rewilder
2026
acrylic, metallic leaf and varnish on board
200mm diameter
Exhibited in
rewilder
2026
acrylic, metallic leaf and varnish on board
400mm diameter
Exhibited in
rewilder
2026
acrylic, metallic leaf and varnish
200mm diameter
Exhibited in
rewilder
2026
acrylic, metallic leaf and varnish on found packaging
210 x 210 x 80mm
Exhibited in
rewilder
2026
acrylic, metallic leaf and varnish on stretched canvas
1800 x 1250mm
Exhibited in
rewilder
2026
acrylic, metallic leaf and varnish
460 x 370mm framed
Exhibited in
rewilder
2026
acrylic, metallic leaf and varnish on found packaging
210 x 210 x 80mm
Exhibited in
rewilder
2026
acrylic, metallic leaf and varnish
300mm diameter
Exhibited in
rewilder
2026
acrylic, metallic leaf and varnish on steel
460 x 380mm variable
Exhibited in
rewilder
2026
acrylic, metallic leaf and varnish on board
410mm long
Exhibited in
rewilder