Slumper; Parkes, Miranda; 2006; 2006/17 on eHive

From

Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu

Name/Title

Slumper

About this object

Tethered lightly to the gallery walls, this twisting, voluminous canvas behaves more like a sculpture than a painting. What we might expect to be a flat surface erupts and expands, defying the limits of painting’s conventional two dimensions. Slumper is celebratory, exuberant and playful, but like all of Miranda Parkes’s works, also pointedly aware of its relationship to the history of modernist abstraction. By flirting with the decorative, it deliberately echoes and subverts that tradition. Parkes received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts in 2005. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions throughout New Zealand, including ‘Hummer, Crasher, Groover, Slacker’ (2006) and ‘Throw Your Arms Around Me Baby’ (2005) at 64zero3 in Christchurch, and Hullbreach at Enjoy Gallery, Wellington in 2004. Parkes is currently the William Hodges artist in residence at the Southland Museum and Art Gallery in Invercargill.

Maker

Parkes, Miranda

Date Made

2006

Credit Line

Collection Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu; purchased, 2006

Object Type

Acrylic on canvas

Object number

2006/17

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