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PARKER Contemporary will be featuring selected works from the Gallery’s artists in the upcoming NZ showcase

Aotearoa Art Fair

Dates: Thursday 1 May 2025 11:00 am to Sunday 4 May 2025 12:00 pm

Location: Atearoa Art Fair 171 Halsey Street Auckland, Auckland, 1010 New Zealand (map)

Works from my last two solo exhibitions will be available along with examples of the latest project where I have returned to my long-term interest in human and animal physiognomy, experimenting with geometric framing devices, to recontextualize my hundred and eighty or so copper human/animal plates. Examples of the series titled the Geometry of Evolution are below.

I will also be continuing work on the large etching plates (see below) on the theme of the persistence of Classicism. Examples of these works were exhibited in Order from Ruins at 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.