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PARKER Contemporary will featured selected works at the upcoming Sydney Contemporary 11 – 14 September 2025 at Carriageworks in Sydney. These will include work from the 2025 Order from Ruins show [see examples below] and most recent works for a Simian Empire series

Details will be posted on the Gallery website: PARKER Contemporary [38 Hope Street, South Brisbane, Australia.] The show ran from Feb 13 to 8th March. 2025.

Shaped copper plates on the work bench at QCAD print studio at South Bank in Brisbane, Australia. The solvent bottle top centre gives an indication of the scale of each which is around 85 x 90 cm.

The Orders (Doric, Ionic and Corinthian) - triptych, shaped copper plates, etching on Hahnemühle 300gsm sheets c. 80 cm x 100 cm. Also printed as individual plates in different colour combinations on Hahnemühle and 300gsm Dutch Aquatint paper.

All etching and aquatint from shaped plates printed on Hahnemühle 300gsm sheets (dimensions variable c. 108 cm x 58 cm)

Parker Contemporary opening 15 Feb 25

Order from Ruins opening Feb 15 2025

Model for a new globe (Hercules and Ajax fix the world) shaped copper-plate etching and aquatint (c120 cm high) on Hahnemühle 300gsm. [first state of this print] **Not included in the Order from Ruins exhibition**

My long standing interest in comparisons between human and non-human animals reached a culmination point in 2024 with this etching Kingdom which also happens to be the largest single copper plate to be printed on the large press at Queensland College of Art and Design in Brisbane, Australia.

The plate on the bed of the press is the first state of the print which was substantially developed for the final print that was editioned on the large press at Covine Art by Master Printmaker Dr David Jones. The print from the final edition of 4 on Hahnemühle 350gsm paper is shown below. Sheet is c. 2 x 1.4 meters is scale. The framed version is behind shinkolite in gilded wooden frame box mounted with polished red spacer.

Work from related series Simian Empire will be featured in the Parker Contemporary booth at Sydney Contemporary 11 - 14 Sept. at Carriageworks.