July 13 - August 12, 2023
installation view - front gallery
installation view - front gallery
installation view - front gallery
installation view - Tōtaranui
installation view - front through to back gallery
installation view - back gallery
installation view - open relationship (fresh)
In Baller, Miranda Parkes continues to extend the field of painting into three dimensions. There are new scrunched and billowed paintings, featuring gold and copper leaf folded in perpetuity. Ice princess and feverdreamer are the first substantially gilded paintings that Parkes has compressed into three dimensions. The very large open relationship (fresh) lights up the back gallery – a gently heaving mass that balances breath with tumult. It is a work consummately recycled from a 2015 installation at Tauranga Art Gallery.
There are also two paintings, the title work Baller, and jostler, where Parkes paints directly onto curiously contoured, commercial pallets mass produced in MDF. We watch the hand of the artist coming to grips with the industrial geography of an object. It is a testing relationship. Cavities are explored and embodied, with little paintings and other miniatures appearing within the larger painterly field. In this way, Miranda’s painting exists both independently of, but also as part of (or in honour of) its strange support. Sometimes colour and texture look wholemeal, like the support. More often however, Parkes’ joyful colour and strength of composition trump the repetition(s) of mass-produced industrial form.
So, visual and sensate experience do triumph here. The sparkling dynamism of a high summer’s day is captured in the diptych Tōtaranui. It is wonderful that experiential abstraction can so poetically describe landscape form. And in a rich suite of tabletop collages, human form is re-arranged with delight and vigour. Exploding the plates from a book of Modern Painting, these paperworks are surreal and fun and personal – with little details from the hand of Ollie, Miranda’s daughter. The intimacy of these collages feels very valuable to this exhibition.
JS
from exploded book: Modern Painting, 2023
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Titles, media & dimensions of the 19 collages from Exploded Book: Modern Painting are shown in the 'Details of works' section at the bottom of this page.
Baller, 2023 1200 x 1000 x 120mm
jostler, 2023 1200 x 1000 x 120mm
open relationship (fresh), 2022 2200 x 1900 x 380mm
feverdreamer, 2023 650 x 650 x 220mm
ice princess, 2023 450 x 450 x 150mm
Tōtaranui, 2022 diptych: each panel 1200 x 1200mm
Installing...
Miranda and Jonathan hanging jostler in the front gallery
Meg and Jonathan hanging the diptych Tōtaranui in the front galley
Jonathan, Miranda and Meg hanging open relationship (fresh) in the back gallery
2023
acrylic, metallic leaf & varnish on compressed wood pallet
1200 x 1000 x 120mm
Exhibited in
Baller
2023
acrylic, metallic leaf & varnish on compressed wood pallet
1200 x 1000 x 120mm
Exhibited in
Baller
2022
acrylic on canvas
2200 x 1900 x 380mm
Exhibited in
Baller
2023
acrylic, metallic leaf & varnish on canvas
650 x 650 x 220mm
Exhibited in
Baller
2023
acrylic, metallic leaf & varnish on canvas
450 x 450 x 150mm
Exhibited in
Baller
2022
acrylic, metallic leaf, 24 carat gold leaf & varnish on board
diptych, each panel 1200 x 1200mm
Exhibited in
Baller
2023
collage elements, gold & silver foil, acrylic and varnish on photogravure book plate
245 x 185mm unframed
Exhibited in
Baller
2023
collage elements, gold & silver foil, acrylic and varnish on photogravure book plate
245 x 185mm unframed
Exhibited in
Baller
2023
collage elements, acrylic and varnish on photogravure book plate
245 x 185mm unframed
Exhibited in
Baller
2023
collage elements, gold & silver foil, acrylic and varnish on photogravure book plate
245 x 185mm unframed
Exhibited in
Baller
2023
collage elements, acrylic and varnish on photogravure book plate
245 x 185mm unframed
Exhibited in
Baller
2023
collage elements, gold & silver foil, acrylic and varnish on photogravure book plate
245 x 185mm unframed
Exhibited in
Baller
2023
collage elements, gold & silver foil, acrylic and varnish on photogravure book plate
245 x 185mm unframed
Exhibited in
Baller
2023
collage elements, gold & silver foil, acrylic and varnish on photogravure book plate
245 x 185mm unframed
Exhibited in
Baller
2023
collage elements, gold & silver foil, acrylic and varnish on photogravure book plate
245 x 185mm unframed
Exhibited in
Baller
2023
collage elements, gold & silver foil, acrylic and varnish on photogravure book plate
245 x 185mm unframed
Exhibited in
Baller
2023
collage elements, gold & silver foil, acrylic and varnish on photogravure book plate
245 x 185mm unframed
Exhibited in
Baller
2023
collage elements, gold & silver foil, acrylic and varnish on photogravure book plate
245 x 185mm unframed
Exhibited in
Baller
2023
collage elements, gold & silver foil, acrylic and varnish on photogravure book plate
245 x 185mm unframed
Exhibited in
Baller
2023
collage elements, gold & silver foil, acrylic and varnish on photogravure book plate
245 x 185mm unframed
Exhibited in
Baller
2023
collage elements, gold & silver foil, acrylic and varnish on photogravure book plate
245 x 185mm unframed
Exhibited in
Baller
2023
collage elements, gold & silver foil, acrylic and varnish on photogravure book plate
245 x 185mm unframed
Exhibited in
Baller
2023
collage elements, gold & silver foil, acrylic and varnish on photogravure book plate
245 x 185mm unframed
Exhibited in
Baller
2023
collage elements, gold & silver foil, acrylic and varnish on photogravure book plate
245 x 185mm unframed
Exhibited in
Baller
2023
collage elements, gold & silver foil, acrylic and varnish on photogravure book plate
245 x 185mm unframed
Exhibited in
Baller